Welcome to Week 2 of NBA Desktop: Quarantine Edition. This week, the NBA had a lot of serious news, including Kevin Durant and a few other Brooklyn Nets players testing positive for COVID-19. The NBA also had a lot of players bored out of their minds practicing social distancing, including LeBron James drinking wine, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Patty Mills becoming guitar heroes, and Meyers Leonard going way too hard playing video games on Twitch. Plus, we check back in on Officer Alan Strickland and his lawsuit against Toronto Raptors GM Masai Ujiri.
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‘NBA Desktop’: LeBron James Needs a Drinking Buddy
Plus, we check back in on Officer Alan Strickland and his lawsuit against Toronto Raptors GM Masai Ujiri
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The guys explore what happened to the New Zealand team ahead of the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final in South Africa, with first-hand accounts from players, coaches, doctors, media managers and journalists
The Overturning of Roe v. Wade
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The Ethan Hawke Hall of Fame and ‘The Black Phone’
Sean and Chris discuss the essential performances from the beloved actor
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Chris, Rachel, and Wylie Dufresne are on a quest to redeem a neglected American classic: gelatin