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Rachel Nichols 07/27/16

Wednesday, July 27, 20168 takes

The guys enter into their first ever Radio War with 97.5 the Fanatic's Anthony Garagano. Mt Rushmore of bad guys. ESPN's Rachel Nichols joins the show to talk NBA, famous Northwestern grads, and how we aren't very good journalists (but she still technically called us journalists, not to brag or anything). Segments include "PR 101", "Lebron James Free Agency Update", "Is Pat Riley Going To Die Soon", "Hurt or Injured", and new segment "Chip or Chump"

Mount Rushmore

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Take Slip·Jul 27, 2016·Mt. Rushmore
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God from the Old Testament is a top-tier bad guy

So I'll segue right from there into my number three which is God, God from the Old Testament. Kind of a bad guy. Threw a lot of stuff at people. People forget that. That God was kind of a hard ass.

This is a purely subjective interpretation of literature/theology used for a joke.
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Take Slip·Jul 27, 2016·Mt. Rushmore
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Tom Brady is a bad guy

Number four on my Mount Rushmore of bad guys. Tom Brady. [Belichick] never got suspended. True. He only got fined.

The concept of a 'bad guy' in sports is subjective.

Interview

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Take Slip·Jul 27, 2016
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NBA players should have the right to choose their super teams

I do believe that grownups should have the right to decide where they work. Kevin Durant was in Oklahoma City for almost 10 years. And if he wants to go play somewhere else, it doesn't really feel good for me as some random person sitting at home and saying, you know where I think you should live your life and work every day. I'm not a big fan of like the franchise tag.

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Take Slip·Jul 27, 2016
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The Warriors won't be good for the first half of the 2016 season

With Kevin [Durant] going out there, I have a theory that they're not going to be very good for the first half of the year next year. Only one ball.

The 2016-17 Warriors started 16-2 and cruised to the best record in the NBA. They were elite from the jump.
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Take Slip·Jul 27, 2016
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LeBron James is playing a leverage game with his free agency

I think LeBron's playing a leverage game. And wouldn't you? Dude, I mean, that letter in Comic Sans, you can forgive, babe, but you don't forget.

LeBron famously signed one-year deals to keep pressure on the Cavs front office to spend.
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Take Slip·Jul 27, 2016
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Women in sports media should know 'No' is a complete sentence

I always say like, here's my advice. No is a complete sentence. Like you don't have to justify to anybody why you're saying no to anything because I think young women sometimes feel like they have to.

Recaps

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Take Slip·Jul 27, 2016·Recaps
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Lionel Messi is bleaching his hair to hide from tax fraud investigators

So, well, he did have brown hair, and now he just bleached it totally blonde. This adds to my theory that maybe he's a relative of Nazi... that's how you get away from tax fraud or whatever he was doing with his dad.

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The claim that he bleached it for disguise is satirical; the tax conviction was real but the hair was just a style choice.

Is Pat Riley Dead Yet

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Take Slip·Jul 27, 2016·Is Pat Riley Dead Yet
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Pat Riley is building his next super team by 'hoodwinking' Dion Waiters

Pat Riley, he just took a step back down towards Earth on the stairway to heaven because this is how you build your empire back up. You hoodwink Dion Waiters a little bit. And the next thing you know, you got your next super team in place.

The Waiters/Whiteside/Johnson era in Miami was famously mediocre and did not lead to a super team.