0:00 Thanks Byrd Campbell for supporting the pod
0:25 Sam welcomes us to the podcast. Donald is in Utah and that isn’t even the craziest place we are broadcasting from this week.
1:40 Sam is in Durham, NC… his new home!
4:40 We have a special guest, Steve Pagliuca – owner of the Boston Celtics, a former Duke player, and the dad of two former Duke players!
6:55 Jason says hi to Steve and congratulates him on getting a NBA team full of Dukies.
8:00 Donald asks about Steve’s relationship with the basketball program as a player and as a parent.
10:20 Steve talks about his memories of the 2004 Final Four game where his son lost to UConn and reflects on how close Coach K is to the players, even the walk-ons.
12:20 Fast forward to 2015 and Steve discusses Nick and the guys winning the national title.
13:35 Donald wants to know which of the Pag brothers are better at basketball.
14:35 Steve talks about being on the Duke Board of Trustees and reflects on how much the school has changed since he attended in the mid-1970s.
17:00 Steve tells us about how he won the campus-wide 1-on-1 championship, which included a championship match at halftime of a game in Cameron.
18:40 Jason talks to Steve about how he happened to buy a NBA team.
22:00 Jason wants to know if Danny Ainge is an unfair advantage over the rest of the league which leads Steve to tell the story of how they hired him to run the team.
24:55 Steve talks about how the Celtics got Jayson Tatum.
26:50 Steve admits even he was shocked at how good Tatum was as a rookie.
28:20 Jason asks about how the league has changed over the years, especially the one and done rule.
30:53 Steve answers the “Best Coach K story” question with a tale of how K reacts to a poor practice session.
33:30 Jason has to ask, would Steve mind if Brad Stevens left the Celtics for Duke. Steve says “I bleed green and I bleed blue…”
35:20 We react to the interview with Steve Pagliuca.
37:02 We divert into a talk about playing sports with your children and Jason lays down the law!
39:50 Why doesn’t Duke still have a one-on-one campus wide tournament?!?!
41:30 We love that Pagliuca considers Semi to be part of the Celtics.
42:55 Again, we thank Byrd Campbell, our faithful sponsors.
43:15 The non-conference schedule is out. Jason says it is really tough and talks about how good Indiana’s Romeo Langford is going to be.
47:00 Donald has audio problems and, no, we are not editing it out.
48:10 Donald is back and he tells us about how excited he is for us to be playing Eastern Michigan.
52:35 Sam leads us on a look at Dukies in the NBA making news. We begin with Grayson Allen’s summer.
55:25 Jason talks about the Dukies on the Kings, Bagley and Giles.
58:25 Donald fills us in on Trevon Duval getting a 2-way deal with the Bucks.
1:00:55 Sam asks Jason about the Dukies on the Bulls and Jason raves about Carter’s play this summer.
1:05:40 Parting Shots – Donald on whether Lebron James has a chance to be a winner in LA.
1:12:50 Parting Shots – Jason on Duke’s recent NBA success and how it affects the Duke Hatred Tsunami.
1:16:45 Parting Shots – Sam talks about Jay Williams doing a great interview with Bill Simmons.
1:18:25 Goodbye and don’t miss our next episode when we interview another former Blue Devil superstar!!
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