Escape from Reality

Chris and Ben talk about the holidays with family, the NBA as a wartime distraction (7:00), basketball twitter vs. politics twitter (9:30), basketball as self-care (11:30), David Stern's death (15:00), legacy as a villain/heel (18:00), the globalization of the NBA under Stern (20:45), rigging the 1985 draft for the Knicks (24:30), Stern vs. Jim Rome (26:30), Stern and the NBA dress code (28:30), Stern and the SuperSonics (34:30)... plus an update on Mitchell Robinson (39:40), the Eastern Conference playoff picture (45:00), Karl-Anthony Towns trade speculation (51:15), homework assignments in the new year (56:00), All-Star voting (59:15) and previewing the All-OTL (midpoint) Awards (1:00:30).

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