The Sports Reporters - Episode 289 - Discussing the NBA Return. MLB Closer to a Deal? Who's Playing in the Tennis US Open?

The Sports Reporters

Compass Media Networks

Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

It's a new and crazy world but hey, it's still sports! The guys discuss the crazy sports calendar facing us in the month of August. Kyrie Irving continues to voice his concerns with re-starting the NBA season down in Orlando... When did he become the conscious of the NBA players? Plus, how will the coaching work out? Are you bullish on the MLB season getting started soon? Who's really in charge on the players side? Colin Kaepernick drawing some attention from NFL teams... Will it land him on a roster? And the US Open of tennis is on! Any of the sports super stars going to play? Would they miss a major?

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0:00.0	Award-winning journalists.
0:02.8	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.
0:16.6	I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.
0:19.8	I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.
0:21.8	Well, they say that's who they are.
0:23.4	I'm Michael Luke at MLB.com, NYDaily News.
0:26.1	And welcome to the Thursday edition of Sports Reporters podcast.
0:29.9	Guys, I've been wondering about this for a couple of days.
0:33.8	And I want you guys to help me out as we begin our NBA discussion today. And it is this,
0:39.5	when the hell did Kyrie Irving become the conscience of NBA players? Can somebody, was there a vote
0:46.2	taken that I missed? Was there a memo sent out? Where did this guy who has played so little
0:53.0	in the NBA taken upon himself to somehow become the voice
0:58.3	of the Players Association? Well, we had an exposure to Kyrie here in Boston, Massachusetts,
1:05.0	and my summation of the experience, aside from the fact that when healthy, he is a very highly talented
1:13.0	player, highly talented, and not going to be any way I'm going to decorate his game.
1:17.2	But he has a peculiar personality.
1:19.4	He is somewhere, he's intelligent.
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