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Mike Sielski (Full Episode)
The Best of The Super Facts Network
English - February 12, 2022 20:31 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBMusic nba basketball rap hip-hop mark waldo ward st. laz the super facts network Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Mike Sielski is a columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer and the author of The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality which is available everywhere. We discuss the book and how he came to write it, Kobe's father, if Kobe's attitude negatively impacted his teammates, the pressures he faced, and Mike ranks some of my hot takes about Kobe (such as he's not a top 15 player or that Dwayne Wade was better on his first 2 title teams than Kobe was on his.) We then talk about how he became a journalist, Villanova's 2016 NCAA championship team, the Eagles winning the Super Bowl, & Terrell Owens. The episode finishes with Mike telling us about his time covering Allen Iverson in Philadelphia. We discuss his amazing ability to perform at a high level despite often being fatigued, whether the media treated him fairly, whether Mike will ever write a book about A.I., how intelligent Allen is, who's a better rapper between him and Kobe, and a painful moment of triumph (for Mark) that Mike regards as an underrated A.I. performance and more.
Watch the episode HERE
Buy The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality HERE
Read Mike Sielski on The Philadelphia Inquirer HERE