We Have A Talk with Sean Highkin of the Rose Garden Report

Sean Highkin (@highkin) joins the podcast and we covered lots of ground! From pandemic memories all wrapped up in the NBA, the infamous press conference introducing the new coach, chasing down (maybe?) Kevin Durant at a local gym, and what it is like covering the Chicago Bulls vs the Portland Trail Blazers. All this and more!

2:00 Pandemic memories of the NBA

10:45 Sean’s basketball origin story

17:00 Storytelling and the storytelling void

19:15 Remembering the new coach’s introductory press conference.

29:00 All the other stuff Sean has to know about to cover the NBA

33:00 When Kevin Durant was maybe in Portland

39:00 Chicago Bulls vs Portland Trail Blazers beat

44:00 Rebuilding: both sides of the coin

46:00 GMs want to keep their jobs

54:00 The cleanup (from the past decade) will likely continue

56:00 What about this version of the team is real and will last?

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