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The Second Arrangement

Kelly Dwyer

Kelly Dwyer"s NBA podcast. tsa.substack.com

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50:51

Never Too Much podcast

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2023/02/06

Hey howdy haven’t talked in a while. What’s the closest you’ve Kramer’d a car? This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tsa.substack.com/subscribe

37:44

Never Too Much podcast: Pat Riley time

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2022/12/22

Pat Riley is a little too much, sometimes.Listen on the app: This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tsa.substack.com/subscribe

29:47

Rain in Yorba Linda

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2022/11/09

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48:52

Never Too Much podcast: 2021-22

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2022/06/17

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40:35

Best of the trade deadline

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2022/02/11

(Never Too Much podcast: Blow Pop flavors, ranked.)Thank the Nets and Sixers for not being precious. Buncha babies before the trade deadline, afraid to hand the the other one a division title, a Finals berth, a championship. Isn’t that what they have games for? Isn’t that why we do trades? Babies!Morey and Sean Marks got past it, finally. James Harden to Philly. Seth Curry and the suddenly-available Ben Simmons to Brooklyn plus the Nets get a pair of first-round picks (2022 and 2027) and Andre

30:21

What if Tim Duncan left for Orlando?

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2021/11/24

Gregg Popovich took over the San Antonio Spurs at about this point in the season in 1996, replacing Bob Hill as head coach. The firing was a surprise, many expected Hill ousted after San Antonio’s unappealing playoff exit the spring before, stringing him along for 18 extra (David Robinson-less) games the next season felt a little off. The Spurs lost a lot, drafted Tim Duncan, and 25 years on Popovich is 21 wins away from supplanting Don Nelson (who first dragged Popovich onto an NBA bench) as the

26:39

James Harden misses that touch

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2021/10/25

(Never Too Much podcast: 2000-01 NBA League Pass, Monday’s games, soothing rain, occasional guitar.) Whingeing over “points of emphasis” in the NBA’s first weeks is an annual tradition. One year the emphasis was on upsetting Rasheed Wallace and it went wonderfully. Lots of points. The NBA cracks down on baited contact this year, they swear. You can’t feint into a cushion at the free throw line, can’t beguile your way toward a whistle. Lunging, out.If James Harden shot only nine free throws in the

29:17

Sixers can't just be normal

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2021/10/06

(Never Too Much podcast: Brooklyn and the best of Kyrie, Pau Gasol retires, Kelly brags about being flown to Orlando.)If you’re a Sixers fan, fine. Continue gnawing on your elbow.The rest of us? I think we’re supposed to leave Ben Simmons and those Sixers alone until they actually do something.Each side dropped its hand last month, thinking it would be enough to pull the pot and end the evening. Simmons’ reps, Rich Paul and co., are intent on playing by their own rules and for this, they rule. As

Funny Norm Macdonald

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2021/09/15

(Never Too Much podcast: what it was like to be a big ol’ fan of Norm MacDonald in 1996, why Tuesday was the only good day Twitter ever had, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to subscribe.)You got the feeling that Norm MacDonald’s favorite space on camera were the times he got to impersonate David Letterman on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ the show he wasn’t great at, performed live from the workplace MacDonald wasn’t liked at. Norm was not interested in what Monkey Boy was up to but he clearly liked the idea

Friendly NBA ideas for 2022

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2021/07/23

(Never Too Much podcast: Reasons why you should subscribe to an NBA newsletter in summer, something nice about every team, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to give us a spin!)Remember last summer when the bubble started and life was chaotic and ridden with anxiety and you weren’t sure if you felt up to get back into NBA basketball again and then acknowledged Irishman Michael Malone sent out this lineup …… and you were immediately all the way back in?Look at Hollinger’s timestamp, a full year ago. Which

21:24

The NBA is too good for its old numbers

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2021/05/04

(Never Too Much podcast: Sam Smith then and now, Cleveland cowers for Love, 2021 free agent primer, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to subscribe!)Races for crummy playoff seeds always existed. More importantly, very good basketball teams are often in races for crummy playoff seeds, either due to injury, intrigue, or repeated denied applications for entry into the Eastern Conference. Limping defending-champions are no strangers to these rungs, nor are top-heavy Western outfits hung with ill-fits

23:11

BTB: Nets on the air

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2021/03/02

(Never Too Much podcast: Hawks fire Pierce, 77 All-Stars, throw away that gold and silver, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to hear me on your phone!)Brooklyn 124, San Antonio 113 (overtime)The Nets, silly Butterfingers in Saturday’s defeat, turned the ball over five times all Monday, 53 minutes, five slipups, five-three, five. This is a brand new team that’s never trained at a camp together and yet it kept its eye on the thing, in San Antonio. The Spurs finished regulation on 10-0 run, admittedly far

20:05

Pacific Division 2021

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2020/12/23

(Never Too Much podcast: also a Pacific Division preview, probably a subscription pitch, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to give it a spin!)PREVIOUSLY: NORTHWEST, CENTRAL, ATLANTICGOLDEN STATE WARRIORSThis cursed franchise somehow snuffed three seasons in a year and a half, between Klay Thompson’s two severe leg injuries and the dual shock of Kevin Durant’s Achilles tear and flight to Brooklyn. This whole thing is sudden and weird and most certainly not cool. The W’s made out with perhaps the most

17:47

Everybody wants some

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2020/12/02

(Never Too Much podcast: NBA media day blurbs you can believe, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to subscribe!)You were right, all of you. The 2019-20 regular season, pre-bubble, ran without charm. There was no reason to watch. The season felt like it began only weeks after the last one ended. After Houston bled into Golden State which bled into Toronto’s championship which bled into the draft which wasn’t done by the time Durant confirmed on a Sunday afternoon that he’d be in Brooklyn, now. Then the

30:52

All about Ew

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2020/09/20

(Never Too Much podcast: fun in 2001, Boston and Miami, freezer storage suggestions, hope for Denver, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to subscribe!)The roughest part is that it’s still a little too easy to see why the Knicks traded Patrick Ewing on this date, 20 years ago.He asked for a deal, and it was never sensible to say “no” to what a client of David Falk requests, especially if you’re in the year 2000.Also, that’s about the only reason. Dealing Ewing for various Suns, Lakers and SuperSonic

34:36

Six steps for the Last Dance to hit

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2020/04/17

(Never Too Much podcast: Defending Jerry Krause, October of 1997, talkin’ 1990s hoops with Maddy, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to subscribe!)NOVEMBER WAS BLEAKScottie Pippen hurt his foot in the 1997 Eastern finals but played through it, averaging 20 points, 8.3 rebounds and 3.5 combined steals/blocks in the 1997 NBA Finals. He was set to enter 1997-98 as the NBA’s 122nd-highest paid player, working off a long-term contract signed during the days when emerging NBA stars could re-negotiate contracts

16:47

Top 55 Knicks (Michael Jordan scored on)

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2020/04/02

(Never Too Much podcast: watching Jordan drop 55 on the Knicks in 1995, who was Biggie talking about, tanning tips and tricks, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to subscribe!)If you were in the arena when Michael scored, from 1984 through 1998, you’re eligible for this list. 55. Buck Williams — refused to shave his head for the 1997 playoffs and his teammates agreed with the decision: Chris Childs said if Buck “cut off his hair, his head would look like a toaster.”54. Chris Childs — never threw at MJ

20:58

New York gets busy with basketball

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2020/03/08

(Never Too Much podcast: Knicks vs. Spike Lee, the Andre Iguodala Game, click ‘Listen on podcast app’ to subscribe!)That the Knicks will celebrate the franchise’s 40th anniversary of New York’s 1970 NBA championship is no surprise, that Knick team was legendary, and the Knicks don’t have many title-winners.They won again, in 1973, and that’s been about it for the NBA’s hometown franchise. The globe’s spun enough to deliver championship revolutions to two different sun spots in Detroit and Golden

7:02

The All-Mensch Team

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2019/12/06

(Never Too Much podcast: LeBron’s travel, subscribe to these beautiful emails!)Ron Harper is my favorite basketball player, his style of selflessness is my ideal. A 6-6 non-shooter coming off two knee surgeries is not the prototype for Michael Jordan’s ideal triangle offense backcourt mate, yet Harper used his wits and clear and winsome love for the game to find daylight. He’s a mensch, Ron is.These performers? Also mensches. ALL-MENSCH TEAMC: Dwight Howard, Los Angeles LakersDwight hit a

11:16

2019-20 is here: Los Angeles Lakers

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2019/10/17

WHAT THEY TRIED IN 2018-19To win an NBA championship behind a preening, near-prime LeBron James and his palm-selected cast of journeyman. WHAT HAPPENED IN 2018-1937-45, tenth in the Western ConferenceLeBron turned 34 on Christmas Eve, and it all turned to s**t.An impressive victory over Golden State the next afternoon left the Lakers at 24-14 (No. 4 in the West), yet James sat 17 of the next 18 games with the first major injury (a groin pull) of his career. The Lakers were still three games over

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