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Speaker 1: AYLOGI gives the Jordan of the circle puts the shot

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Speaker 1: of the air God.

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Speaker 2: The game's over and the balls.

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Speaker 1: Have won.

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Speaker 2: Basketball.

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Speaker 3: You may think of it as a game, but for

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Speaker 3: me it has been central to my life.

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Speaker 4: Doctor J, Doctor J.

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Speaker 5: Simply looking await for that cover.

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Speaker 2: I'm Hannah Storm today.

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Speaker 3: I'm a journalist and sportscaster, having spent decades covering the

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Speaker 3: biggest stories in basketball for ESPN, NBCCNN, you name it.

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Speaker 5: Now, let's get you up to speed on what else

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Speaker 5: happened around the NBA today. I grew up courtside surrounded

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Speaker 5: by legends of the game, alongside my dad, a longtime

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Speaker 5: basketball executive and former commissioner of the American Basketball Association.

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Speaker 6: Hannah was a precocious child, and she grew up in

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Speaker 6: a household where basketball players and coaches and people in

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Speaker 6: professional sports were there all the time.

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Speaker 3: I remember knowing the names of all the referees almost

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Speaker 3: better than the players.

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Speaker 2: This mom would yell at them right.

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Speaker 7: Mark, absolutely, and then we would just emulate them, so

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Speaker 7: as little punky kids, we'd all be like, you're terrible,

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Speaker 7: You're the worst rev ever, and pro basketball rest would

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Speaker 7: be looking over us like, well, someone shut those kids up.

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Speaker 2: As a young girl, I knew sports were fun.

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Speaker 3: That's why I decided to be a sportscaster, even though

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Speaker 3: there were almost no women doing that at the time.

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Speaker 3: It's been a career that has spanned the decades. From

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Speaker 3: the ABA.

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Speaker 1: Little foalcer go look at split by Barnes looks inside

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Speaker 1: for Gilmore, finds him in the lane with the.

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Speaker 2: Hook that has gone to the NBA.

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Speaker 7: Begodala, the curry packed Puck.

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Speaker 2: James and the w NBA ye so Leslie look the

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Speaker 2: dough and the goal.

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Speaker 3: Continuous decades of living and covering basketball with so many

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Speaker 3: great stories and people.

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Speaker 5: Let's send it back to Bob Costas Anna, thanks very much.

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Speaker 1: It was an ongoing soap opera. And you think of

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Speaker 1: how that the characters were Jackson and Jordan and hit

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Speaker 1: it and then the antagonists Isaiah and the Pistons stopped it.

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Speaker 4: And Melow it didn't matter to You're the only woman around,

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Speaker 4: because you didn't go into it like I'm a female sportscaster.

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Speaker 4: You went in into it like I'm a sportscaster, so

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Speaker 4: I deserve the same respect as anybody else.

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Speaker 2: It hasn't always been easy, you know.

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Speaker 5: That was something that was number one, that was second

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Speaker 5: and stupid, but it was something that was said and

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Speaker 5: Jess and I want to a person apologize to you

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Speaker 5: and all the other women out there.

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Speaker 3: That was Charles Barkley back in the day. Today he's

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Speaker 3: a good friend and one of the legends. So will

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Speaker 3: join me on this show to tell stories from a

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Speaker 3: lifetime in basketball, along with the likes of Bob Costas,

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Speaker 3: Ralph Samson, Del Curry, Rex Chapman, Isaiah Thomas, Rudy, Tom Jonovitch,

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Speaker 3: Rebecca Lobo, Doris Burke, and doctor j.

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Speaker 4: So that first year Philly Will Be Free was commuting

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Speaker 4: from Brooklyn that I was commuted to log allt so

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Speaker 4: I by and pick him up and let him drive.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, here.

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Speaker 1: We come, rolling into practice, rolling in the games.

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Speaker 3: I talk with the legends that I met along the

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Speaker 3: way as they tell stories both on.

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Speaker 2: And off the court, many I had never even.

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Speaker 3: Heard before, from the sixties to the game today. I'll

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Speaker 3: tell everybody, it's Steph's fault. It's my fault for teaching

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Speaker 3: how to shoot. It's his fault for changing it.

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Speaker 2: And ruining the game with a three points shot.

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Speaker 3: But I actually love the way the game is played

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Speaker 3: now with the threes and so much emphasis on scoring.

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Speaker 2: If you love the game, you'll love this.

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Speaker 3: NBA DNA with Me Hannah Storm begins April third on

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Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.