Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe talk about the playoffs. David discusses three head-scratching coaching errors from the Mavericks and Clippers during last night’s game, and Luka Doncic’s impressive performance. They also talk about the step-back having a moment … RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * FRIDAY August 21, 2020 Jarod Hector on why LeBron’s performance appears a little off. * WEDNESDAY August 19, 2020 TrueHoop on body cam footage of Alan Strickland and Raptors President Ma...
Aug 24, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with our TrueHoop BRING IT IN Friday star Jarod Hector , multimedia journalist, voice, on-air personality and podcast host. They played NINE BY NINETY, where they get 90 seconds each to rapid-fire cover nine topics. They talked about reopening the league, asked why LeBron’s performance appears a little off, and how to fix the NBA’s viewership problem. RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * WEDNESDAY August 19, 2020 TrueHoop on body cam footage of ...
Aug 21, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Today on BRING IT IN TrueHoop Special Correspondent Adena Jones updated us on life in the NBA bubble. Then Henry Abbott and David Thorpe offer a speed tour of the eight series, and talked with TrueHoop’s Jarod Hector and Judy Goodwin about the latest body cam footage of Alameda County Deputy Sheriff Alan Strickland and Raptors President Masai Ujiri last June. RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * MONDAY August 17, 2020 David Thorpe and Henry Abbott preview the playoffs . * FRIDAY August 7, 2020 Adena J...
Aug 19, 2020•59 min
And we’re back! On our return to BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe gleefully talk shop about the playoffs. David makes his bets on which teams will win their matches, and Henry and David talk about the second wave of the NBA’s 3-point revolution, guarding Damian Lillard, and more. RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * FRIDAY August 7, 2020 Adena Jones on the WNBA and Jarod Hector plays NINE BY NINETY. * WEDNESDAY August 5, 2020 Mary Pilon and Louisa Thomas on their new book LOSERS: Dispatches F...
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Today on BRING IT IN we welcomed back TrueHoop Special Correspondent Adena Jones, who gave us a a glimpse of NBA and WNBA life. Then Henry Abbott, David Thorpe, and Jarod Hector played NINE BY NINETY, where they get 90 seconds each to rapid-fire cover nine topics. They talked about J. Cole’s chances of getting into the NBA, what science says about LeBron James icing his groin, and then Henry waxes poetic about his Trail Blazers’ bubble performance. RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * WEDNESDAY August...
Aug 07, 2020•59 min
Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Mary Pilon and Louisa Thomas about their new book LOSERS: Dispatches From the Other Side of the Scoreboard . Mary Pilon is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Monopolists and The Kevin Show . She contributes to The New Yorker, Esquire, MSNBC, Vice, and Politico. She has been a staff reporter for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and was an NBC sports producer at the the 2016 Olympics. Louisa Thomas is a staff wri...
Aug 05, 2020•55 min
Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott, Jarod Hector, and David Thorpe spoke with Travonne Edwards, NBA Analyst for The Athletic, co-founder of Count The Dings, and until a couple of weeks ago … a teacher! They talked about James Harden’s performance, how the Rockets’ tiny lineup hypnotized Brook Lopez into unconventional shooting, and what makes authentic Black Lives Matter progress vs. empty gestures. RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * FRIDAY July 31, 2020 Jarod Hector on return of NBA play . * WEDNESD...
Aug 03, 2020•59 min
Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with our TrueHoop BRING IT IN Friday star Jarod Hector , multimedia journalist, voice, on-air personality and podcast host. They played NINE BY NINETY, where they get 90 seconds each to rapid-fire cover nine topics. Palpably excited about about the return of NBA play, they talked pick and rolls, LeBron James’ performance last night, abuse in Chinese NBA academies, and kneeling during the national anthem. RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * WEDN...
Jul 31, 2020•58 min
Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Dr. Michael Mina, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and a core member of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD). He is additionally an Assistant Professor in Immunology and Infectious Diseases at HSPH and Associate Medical Director in Clinical Microbiology (molecular diagnostics) in the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical Sc...
Jul 29, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Catherine Belton, investigative correspondent for Reuters, former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times . She has previously reported on Russia for Moscow Times and Business Week . In 2009, she was shortlisted for Business Journalist of the year at the British Press Awards. They talked about her new book, Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West , Mikhail Prokhorov, money laundering, the mysterious...
Jul 27, 2020•1 hr
Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with our TrueHoop BRING IT IN Friday star Jarod Hector , multimedia journalist, voice, on-air personality and podcast host. They played NINE BY NINETY, where they get 90 seconds each to rapid-fire cover nine topics. They talked about the Giannis as the MVP, the NBA’s unpublished and ever changing health policies, Bol Bol’s performance so far, and more. RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * WEDNESDAY July 22, 2020 Adena Jones on the return of bask...
Jul 24, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Today on BRING IT IN TrueHoop Special Correspondent Adena Jones takes us on a tour of activism and life in the NBA bubble. Then Jones, Henry Abbott, David Thorpe, and Jarod Hector talked about the return of basketball!! Well, scrimmages, anyway. They also talked about Hector’s TrueHoop piece on the G League’s new deep-pocketed new professional development program and corruption within the NBA. RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * MONDAY July 20, 2020 Jeff Asher on Louisiana’s COVID numbers . * FRIDAY ...
Jul 22, 2020•1 hr
Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with return guest Jeff Asher , former CIA officer, co-founder of AH Datalytics , and public safety analyst with the New Orleans City Council. He spoke about Louisiana’s COVID numbers, and then put on his professor hat to teach us about espionage and the story of KGB officer Valdimir Vetrov. RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * FRIDAY July 17, 2020 Jarod Hector on the NBA not making public the rules of play in the bubble. * WEDNESDAY July 15, 202...
Jul 20, 2020•56 min
Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with our TrueHoop BRING IT IN Friday star Jarod Hector , multimedia journalist, voice, on-air personality and podcast host. They played NINE BY NINETY, where they get 90 seconds each to rapid-fire cover nine topics. They talked about the NBA not making public the rules of play in the bubble, the economic realities of COVID-19, and seeking joy during the pandemic. RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * WEDNESDAY July 15, 2020 Adena Jones on life in...
Jul 17, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Today on BRING IT IN TrueHoop Special Correspondent Adena Jones takes us on a tour of life in the NBA bubble and WNBA wubble. Then Jones, Henry Abbott, and David Thorpe spoke with John Jervay, former producer at ESPN and Complex, member of the BOMM podcast, and sneaker enthusiast. They talked about Philadelphia shutting down all large gatherings, safety when kids go back to school, and parenting John’s toddler, Haven. Near the end, the Allen Iverson love fills the room. RECENT BRING IT IN EPISOD...
Jul 15, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Above is a eleven-minute podcast, part of a series telling the incredible story of Ann Kerr. You can read the script of it below. Part 1 is here . There is more to follow. Ann Kerr writes books, teaches courses, sits on boards, paints watercolors, coordinates Fulbright Scholars, and oversees four generations of family who are involved in everything from local British government to large-scale construction. But within her family, the thing that wins Ann off-the-charts praise is that, for a few mi...
Jul 15, 2020•12 min
Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Marcus Elliott, the founder and director of P3 Applied Sports Science. They talked about the work that P3 does, the increased risk of injury for players who have not had elite level conditioning during the pandemic and are now returning to intense gameplay, and whether Marcus worries about the players risking their lives. RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * FRIDAY July 10, 2020 Ben Aronson on DeSean Jackson's anti-Semitic posts . * WEDNESD...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with our TrueHoop BRING IT IN Friday star Jarod Hector , multimedia journalist, voice, on-air personality and podcast host. They played NINE BY NINETY, where they get 90 seconds each to rapid-fire cover nine topics. Then Ben Aronson, a marketing executive with a lot of experience in sports, joined BRING IT IN. They talked about DeSean Jackson's anti-Semitic posts, the NBA suiting up for the restart of play in the bubble, and what a Nike le...
Jul 10, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Today on BRING IT IN TrueHoop Special Correspondent Adena Jones takes us on a tour of WNBA player reaction to comments from Atlanta Dream investor Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who has called armed Black protesters in Atlanta “mob rule.” Then Jones, Henry Abbott, and David Thorpe spoke with Dr. Carl Suddler, a scholar of African American history and author of Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York . They discussed the history of the carceral state in the U.S. and how th...
Jul 08, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Today on BRING IT IN, Henry Abbott and David Thorpe welcomed back Jane McManus, Director of Marist College’s Center for Sports Communication and columnist for the New York Daily News. She has covered New York sports since 1998 and can say, with a smile, that “my outrage knows no limits.” (Some may know her as “Lesley E. Visserate” from the roller derby circuit.) They talked about a lack of frankness in reopening U.S. sports, player safety, and how gender might play a role in the decisions being ...
Jul 06, 2020•1 hr
Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with our TrueHoop BRING IT IN Friday star Jarod Hector , multimedia journalist, voice, on-air personality and podcast host. They played NINE BY NINETY, where they get 90 seconds each to rapid-fire cover nine topics. They talked about reaction to the NBA’s “losers bubble,” Hamilton, and Makur Maker choosing Howard University over UCLA. RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * WEDNESDAY July 1, 2020 Lloyd Pierce on the unprecedented move by the Hawks ...
Jul 03, 2020•58 min
BRING IT IN is now on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays! Subscribers can join us live to ask questions and join in the fun. Subscribe here for the invitation to join! Today on BRING IT IN, TrueHoop Special Correspondent Adena Jones leads off the show, and then Henry Abbott, David Thorpe, and Jarod Hector spoke with Hawks Head Coach Lloyd Pierce—and special guest Carl Suddler of Emory University. They talked about voter suppression and the unprecedented move by the Hawks to partner with Fulton Cou...
Jul 01, 2020•51 min
Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Zachary Binney, epidemiologist and Assistant Professor of Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University, Oxford College. His research currently sits at the intersection of sports and public health, focusing on sports injuries and athlete health. Zach assessed the NBA’s plan to reopen play, the risk to players and staff, and having a community “contact budget.” RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * FRIDAY June 26, 2020 Jarod Hector on V...
Jun 29, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with our TrueHoop BRING IT IN Friday star Jarod Hector , multimedia journalist, voice, on-air personality and podcast host. They played NINE BY NINETY, where they get 90 seconds each to rapid-fire cover nine topics. They talked about COVID outbreaks amongst the young, Vince Carter’s retirement, and they got deep into a discussion about reparations. The video is here: RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * WEDNESDAY June 24, 2020 Keith Reed on the ...
Jun 26, 2020•58 min
BRING IT IN is now on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays! Subscribers can join us live to ask questions and join in the fun. Subscribe here for the invitation to join! Today on BRING IT IN, TrueHoop Special Correspondent Adena Jones leads off the show, and then Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Keith Reed, a writer, editor and commentator. He formerly worked as senior editor at ESPN the Magazine and a staff writer at the Boston Globe and other publications he's a past board member of the Na...
Jun 24, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Today on BRING IT IN, Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Maria Konnikova , New York Times- bestselling author of the brand new The Biggest Bluff , which comes out Tuesday, as well as The Confidence Game and Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes . She is a regular contributing writer for The New Yorker, and has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times, Slate, the New Republic, the Paris Review, the Wall Street Journal, Salon, the Boston Globe, the Scientific American, WIRED, and...
Jun 22, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with our TrueHoop BRING IT IN Friday guest Jarod Hector , multimedia journalist, voice, on-air personality and podcast host. They played NINE BY NINETY, where they get 90 seconds each to rapid-fire cover nine topics. They talked about the NBA snitching hotline, NBA layoffs, the significance of Juneteenth, and more. The video is here: RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * THURSDAY June 18, 2020 Scott Eden, on his story "The Prosecution of Thabo Se...
Jun 19, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Today on BRING IT IN, Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Scott Eden, contributing writer for ESPN and the author of Touchdown Jesus . He has written for GQ , Wired , Men's Health , The Believer and many other publications, and his stories have won just about every award out there, and have been featured in the Best American Sports Writing . They talked about his story "The Prosecution of Thabo Sefolosha," which won a 2017 New York Press Club award and a 2017 National Association of Black J...
Jun 18, 2020•56 min
Today on BRING IT IN, Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with our return guest Brandon Grier, NBA and NFL agent and co-founder of the Athlete Management agency, which represents players like Georges Niang, Dewayne Dedmon, Ekpe Udoh, Quincy Acy, Kay Felder, and many others. They talked about what NBA players might achieve from the Black Lives Matter protests, how seriously to take an idea floated by Kyrie Irving that NBA players should consider life without billionaire team owners, and more. The...
Jun 17, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Today on BRING IT IN, TrueHoop Special Correspondent Adena Jones updated us on what the new world order has been looking like for NBA players. TrueHoop’s David Thorpe (and late arrival Henry Abbott) spoke with Tom Haberstroh, OG TrueHoop alum, NBA Insider for NBC Sports, and host of The Habershow podcast. Then they talked with Tom about the the optics of reopening the season in an enclosed bubble. The video is here: RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES: * MONDAY June 15, 2020 Christie Aschwanden on the c...
Jun 16, 2020•1 hr 3 min
