The Chronicles of Kevin Durant

The Chronicles of Kevin Durant

The Athletic’s national NBA writer Michael Lee joins the show to talk NBA, free-agency, and more.

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This week we talk about the NBA season that was with The Athletic’s NBA national correspondent Michael Lee. 

We also have ‘Choice Words’ about the politics of Megan Rapinoe and her decision to not sing the National Anthem at the World Cup. We got a ‘Just Stand Up’ Award to a first-time winner, Russell Wilson, for his comments about the nation’s immigration policy after a horrifying photo of a migrant father and daughter dead on the Mexican side of a river was leaked. We got a ‘Just Sit Down’ award for Kevin Keetzman, a Kansas City sports radio show host. All this and more on this week’s show!

Michael Lee
Twitter: @MrMichaelLee
The Athletic

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Dave ZirinDave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation. He is the author of 11 books on the politics of sports. He is the author of a new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn.


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