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457 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAward-winning hard truths about the NBA since 2005.
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BRING IT IN: Carvell Wallace
March 24, 2020 17:08 - 56 minutesTrueHoop subscribers are welcome to join us every weekday at 11 a.m. ET for a TrueHoop TV Live video chat. For now: subscriptions are free! Today Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Carvell Wallace, a New York Times bestselling author, memoirist, and award-winning podcaster who covers race, arts, culture, film and music for a wide variety of news outlets. He co-wrote Andre Iguodala’s memoir The Sixth Man. He joined us on BRING IT IN to discuss emotional preparedness in a time of corona...
Bring It In: David Epstein, Noah Galuten
March 23, 2020 16:49 - 1 hourIn the last chapter of his brilliant book “Range,” David Epstein profiled Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD, and the chair of molecular microbiology and immunology at Johns Hopkins. It’s a book about the people and conditions that lead to extraordinary performance, and it’s coming to life right now: Dr. Casadevall has kicked off a major consortium of labs targeting a short-term COVID-19 therapy, made from the plasma of recovered COVID-19 patients, with the potential to be deployed quickly. David jo...
Bring It In: Christie Aschwanden
March 20, 2020 17:21 - 51 minutesTrueHoop subscribers are welcome to join us every weekday at 11 a.m. ET for a TrueHoop TV Live video chat. For now: subscriptions are free! Today Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with science writer and athlete Christie Aschwanden. She joined us on BRING IT IN (new name!) to talk about her book, “Good To Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery.” Her dogged research into performance applies as a must-read lesson for staying healthy in times of high...
TrueHoop TV Live: March 19, 2020
March 19, 2020 16:16 - 53 minutesTrueHoop subscribers are welcome to join us every weekday at 11 a.m. ET for a TrueHoop TV Live video chat. For now: subscriptions are free! Today Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Ethan Sherwood Strauss of The Athletic about his upcoming book “The Victory Machine.” Below is the archived video which almost included Ethan’s cute son. Join us tomorrow and every day this week at 11 a.m. ET, and bring your questions! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other s...
TrueHoop TV Live: March 18, 2020
March 18, 2020 17:03 - 54 minutesTrueHoop subscribers are welcome to join us every weekday at 11 a.m. ET for a TrueHoop TV Live video chat. For now: subscriptions are free! Today Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Ben Weber. He’s an actor best known for his roles in Sex and the City, Everwood, and Coach Carter. He also happens to have been Henry’s NYU college roommate. The theme: basketball as relief from anxiety. Ben, as it happens, is working on a live performance on this theme. He grew up with a difficult mom—th...
TrueHoop TV Live: March 17, 2020
March 17, 2020 16:02 - 52 minutesTrueHoop subscribers are welcome to join us every weekday at 11 a.m. ET for a TrueHoop TV Live video chat. And for the moment, subscriptions are free! Today Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Wall Street Journal’s Ben Cohen, author of “The Hot Hand.” Then there was a bit of a Stephen Curry lovefest. And here’s the archived video. Join us tomorrow and every day this week at 11 a.m. ET, and bring your questions! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscr...
TrueHoop Podcast: The cold war in a tub
February 11, 2020 17:02 - 31 minutesThis is the untold story of how ice baths moved from Moscow to the NBA. It was 1986. Geneva, Switzerland. Worried that the U.S. and the Soviet Union were close to World War III, Ronald Reagan announced a giant cultural exchange. Journalists, professors, and sports teams would board planes to make friends and, hopefully, bring peace. As a result, American Rich Dalatri, weeks from starting his new job as the first strength and conditioning coach in NBA history, joined a group of American c...