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Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Jeff Asher, former CIA officer, co-founder of AH Datalytics, and public safety analyst with the New Orleans City Council. He spoke about how bias affects perception, thinking about thinking, and job of managing our own biases in making choices. He shared the CIA’s bible to overcome them, and showed us a couple of puzzles. Then we discussed how to deploy better approaches in everything from the NBA draft to coronavirus. He also kindly answered Henry’s and David’s nerdiest questions about working for CIA—including which movie portrays the reality of CIA life most realistically. Here’s the archived video:RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES:* FRIDAY April 17, 2020 Seerat Sohi on ESPN’s Michael Jordan documentary The Last Dance and mental health in a pandemic.* THURSDAY April 16, 2020 Dana Smith returns to answer our new coronavirus questions.* WEDNESDAY April 15, 2020 Chad Ford tries to make Henry Abbott cry.* TUESDAY April 14, 2020 Adena Jones reports on what NBA players have been up to during the lock down.* MONDAY APRIL 13, 2020 Celtics head coach Brad Stevens talks X’s and O’s.* FRIDAY APRIL 10, 2020 Ben Aronson, on what basketball will look like in a post-COVID world. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.truehoop.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Seerat Sohi, NBA reporter for Yahoo Sports. She previously covered the league for SB Nation.She talks about ESPN’s Michael Jordan documentary The Last Dance coming out April 19, mental health in a pandemic, and then there’s much-needed discussion of White Claw hard seltzer. Here’s the archived video:RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES:* THURSDAY April 16, 2020 Dana Smith returns to answer our new coronavirus questions. * WEDNESDAY April 15, 2020 Chad Ford tries to make Henry Abbott cry.* TUESDAY April 14, 2020 Adena Jones reports on what NBA players have been up to during the lock down.* MONDAY APRIL 13, 2020 Celtics head coach Brad Stevens talks X’s and O’s.* FRIDAY APRIL 10, 2020 Ben Aronson, on what basketball will look like in a post-COVID world.* THURSDAY APRIL 9, 2020 Your NBA questions. They talked about the NBA’s upcoming H-O-R-S-E competition, what’s upside down about NBA media, and much more. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.truehoop.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe welcome back Dana Smith, senior writer for Elemental at Medium covering health, science, and the science of wellness. Can your pets get coronavirus? Are coronavirus survivors immune? What’s the latest on vaccines and treatments? How long might we need to keep social distancing? And more.Here’s the archived video:RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES:* WEDNESDAY April 15, 2020 Chad Ford tries to make Henry Abbott cry. * TUESDAY April 14, 2020 Adena Jones reports on what NBA players have been up to during the lock down.* MONDAY APRIL 13, 2020 Celtics head coach Brad Stevens talks X’s and O’s.* FRIDAY APRIL 10, 2020 Ben Aronson, on what basketball will look like in a post-COVID world.* THURSDAY APRIL 9, 2020 Your NBA questions. They talked about the NBA’s upcoming H-O-R-S-E competition, what’s upside down about NBA media, and much more.* WEDNESDAY APRIL 8, 2020 Chris Ballard on Steve Kerr’s and Bob Myers’ genius with the Warriors and the role humility plays in success. * TUESDAY APRIL 7, 2020 Steve Shenbaum on media training professional basketball players.* MONDAY APRIL 6, 2020 Oliver Bullough on his book “Moneyland”, and the hidden world of powerful people—including some NBA figures. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.truehoop.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is Part 2. Part 1 is here.Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Chad Ford, their longtime colleague at ESPN, a writer, analyst and NBA Draft expert, who is also a professor, an international conflict mediator, and an executive board member for PeacePlayers. His book “Dangerous Love,” about transforming conflict, made Henry cry and comes out in June.(Also, we think Chad might have hosted the first, or certainly one of the first, NBA podcasts, which launched at ESPN in 2006 if memory serves.)Chad’s message is amazing, brilliant, compassionate, and more applicable to quarantine life than you might think. Other topics that came up: the celebrity whose son was rebuffed by Chad’s daughter, the wild chickens of Hawaii, and Darko Milicic. It also seemed, for a time, like Chad was going to get Henry to cry on camera.Here’s the video:RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES:* TUESDAY April 14, 2020 Adena Jones reports on what NBA players have been up to during the lock down.* MONDAY APRIL 13, 2020 Celtics head coach Brad Stevens talks X’s and O’s.* FRIDAY APRIL 10, 2020 Ben Aronson, on what basketball will look like in a post-COVID world.* THURSDAY APRIL 9, 2020 Your NBA questions. They talked about the NBA’s upcoming H-O-R-S-E competition, what’s upside down about NBA media, and much more.* WEDNESDAY APRIL 8, 2020 Chris Ballard on Steve Kerr’s and Bob Myers’ genius with the Warriors and the role humility plays in success. * TUESDAY APRIL 7, 2020 Steve Shenbaum on media training professional basketball players.* MONDAY APRIL 6, 2020 Oliver Bullough on his book “Moneyland”, and the hidden world of powerful people—including some NBA figures. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.truehoop.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on BRING IT IN Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Chad Ford, their longtime colleague at ESPN, a writer, analyst and NBA Draft expert, who is also a professor, an international conflict mediator, and an executive board member for PeacePlayers. His book “Dangerous Love,” about transforming conflict, made Henry cry and comes out in June.(Also, we think Chad might have hosted the first, or certainly one of the first, NBA podcasts, which launched at ESPN in 2006 if memory serves.)Chad’s message is amazing, brilliant, compassionate, and more applicable to quarantine life than you might think. Other topics that came up: the celebrity whose son was rebuffed by Chad’s daughter, the wild chickens of Hawaii, and Darko Milicic. It also seemed, for a time, like Chad was going to get Henry to cry on camera.Above is Part 1. Part 2 is here.Here’s the archived video:RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES:* TUESDAY April 14, 2020 Adena Jones reports on what NBA players have been up to during the lock down.* MONDAY APRIL 13, 2020 Celtics head coach Brad Stevens talks X’s and O’s.* FRIDAY APRIL 10, 2020 Ben Aronson, on what basketball will look like in a post-COVID world.* THURSDAY APRIL 9, 2020 Your NBA questions. They talked about the NBA’s upcoming H-O-R-S-E competition, what’s upside down about NBA media, and much more.* WEDNESDAY APRIL 8, 2020 Chris Ballard on Steve Kerr’s and Bob Myers’ genius with the Warriors and the role humility plays in success. * TUESDAY APRIL 7, 2020 Steve Shenbaum on media training professional basketball players.* MONDAY APRIL 6, 2020 Oliver Bullough on his book “Moneyland”, and the hidden world of powerful people—including some NBA figures. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.truehoop.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on BRING IT IN TrueHoop special correspondent Adena Jones reports on what NBA players have been up to during the lock down. Then she joins David Thorpe and Henry Abbott as they trade theories with her about why the NBA HORSE game ended up being such a debacle, and pandemic innovations might outlast the coronavirus. Here’s the archived video:RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES:* MONDAY APRIL 13, 2020 Celtics head coach Brad Stevens talks X’s and O’s.* FRIDAY APRIL 10, 2020 Ben Aronson, on what basketball will look like in a post-COVID world.* THURSDAY APRIL 9, 2020 Your NBA questions. They talked about the NBA’s upcoming H-O-R-S-E competition, what’s upside down about NBA media, and much more.* WEDNESDAY APRIL 8, 2020 Chris Ballard on Steve Kerr’s and Bob Myers’ genius with the Warriors and the role humility plays in success. * TUESDAY APRIL 7, 2020 Steve Shenbaum on media training professional basketball players.* MONDAY APRIL 6, 2020 Oliver Bullough on his book “Moneyland”, and the hidden world of powerful people—including some NBA figures.* FRIDAY APRIL 3, 2020 What is the lesson in all of this? David Thorpe and Henry Abbott looked back at the experimental few weeks doing this remote show to discuss what we have learned so far from our guests and each other. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.truehoop.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on BRING IT IN David Thorpe speaks with Celtics head coach Brad Stevens. He talks about how he’s getting getting his hair cut, his expectations for his players during quarantine, X’s and O’s, and what’s he’s doing to scratch his competitive itch. Here’s the archived video:RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES:* FRIDAY APRIL 10, 2020 Ben Aronson, on what basketball will look like in a post-COVID world.* THURSDAY APRIL 9, 2020 Your NBA questions. They talked about the NBA’s upcoming H-O-R-S-E competition, what’s upside down about NBA media, and much more.* WEDNESDAY APRIL 8, 2020 Chris Ballard on Steve Kerr’s and Bob Myers’ genius with the Warriors and the role humility plays in success. * TUESDAY APRIL 7, 2020 Steve Shenbaum on media training professional basketball players.* MONDAY APRIL 6, 2020 Oliver Bullough on his book “Moneyland”, and the hidden world of powerful people—including some NBA figures.* FRIDAY APRIL 3, 2020 What is the lesson in all of this? David Thorpe and Henry Abbott looked back at the experimental few weeks doing this remote show to discuss what we have learned so far from our guests and each other. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.truehoop.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on BRING IT IN David Thorpe and Henry Abbott spoke with Ben Aronson, a sports media guru and managing partner at MediaCom. He joined us live from a frigid New York city street with his son Duke, and talked about the state of NBA media business and gave his thoughts on what basketball will look like in a post-COVID world. He also made a case for shortening the season.Here’s the archived video:RECENT BRING IT IN EPISODES:* THURSDAY APRIL 9, 2020 Your NBA questions. They talked about the NBA’s upcoming H-O-R-S-E competition, what’s upside down about NBA media, and much more.* WEDNESDAY APRIL 8, 2020 Chris Ballard on Steve Kerr’s and Bob Myers’ genius with the Warriors and the role humility plays in success. * TUESDAY APRIL 7, 2020 Steve Shenbaum on media training professional basketball players.* MONDAY APRIL 6, 2020 Oliver Bullough on his book “Moneyland”, and the hidden world of powerful people—including some NBA figures.* FRIDAY APRIL 3, 2020 What is the lesson in all of this? David Thorpe and Henry Abbott looked back at the experimental few weeks doing this remote show to discuss what we have learned so far from our guests and each other. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.truehoop.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on BRING IT IN David Thorpe and Henry Abbott fielded your questions about the NBA. They talked about the NBA’s upcoming H-O-R-S-E competition, what’s upside down about NBA media, and much more. Here’s the archived video: This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.truehoop.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on BRING IT IN David Thorpe and Henry Abbott spoke with Chris Ballard, author of four books (most recently “One Shot at Forever”) and longtime feature writer at Sports Illustrated. He’s written for The New York Times Magazine and his work has been anthologized in The Best American Magazine Writing and The Best American Sports Writing.He talked about Steve Kerr’s and Bob Myers’ genius with the Warriors and the role humility plays in success. He also reminisces about playing college ball with the Bucks’ head coach Mike Budenholzer and he breaks down what actually happened when the Warriors were considering hiring Coach Bud. Here’s the archived video: This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.truehoop.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices