The Sports Reporters - Episode 285 - Drew Brees Comments Examined. Questions Remain About the NBA's Plan to Resume Play

The Sports Reporters

Compass Media Networks

Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The guys discuss the blow-back Drew Brees is receiving after his comments... Is his apology enough? And a deeper look into how the media and athletes are dealing with societal issues in our country currently. Plus, the NBA is set to approve a plan to return to play! Does it make sense? The guys lay it all out and discuss if it will work or not. And baseball continues to be worlds apart when comes to figuring out a plan to start its season... Is it really all about the money?

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0:00.0	Award-winning journalists, New York Times bestsellers.
0:04.9	No topic out of bounds.
0:06.6	No opinions left unsaid.
0:08.6	An institution for sports talk and information.
0:11.9	This is the sports reporters.
0:14.0	Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan.
0:16.4	I'm Mike Lupica at New York Daily News and MLB.com.
0:19.3	I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.
0:22.4	I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Pre Press.
0:24.9	And welcome to the sports reporters podcast, the podcast incarnation of the long-running TV show on Sunday mornings.
0:32.6	We are now in podcast world on Mondays and Thursdays.
0:36.4	And we said last Monday we'll see on Thursday, you know,
0:39.1	a lot happens in between, and a lot has happened. In a moment or a few moments, we'll get to the
0:45.0	NBA proposed plan to get back out on the court, a pretty interesting one that leaves out a number
0:52.5	of teams that did not make the playoffs.
0:54.6	22 teams would be involved and we'll get into all the details on that.
0:58.8	But what is making news right at this moment as we're speaking is a quarterback Drew Brees for
1:04.3	the Saints.
1:05.7	And in an interview where he was talking to Yahoo Finance of all places.
1:11.9	I'm not sure why.
1:13.7	He made a comment about not wanting to disrespect the flag ever.
1:20.2	In light of what's going on with George Floyd and whatever everybody else is dealing with,
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