Hot Takedown - Nadal's Decline, Every NBA Team Ranked, Do Stars Matter?

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Hot Takedown - Nadal's Decline, Every NBA Team Ranked, Do Stars Matter?

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May 26, 2015

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Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin discuss Rafael Nadal's rocky spring; our ELO rankings of every NBA team ever; and debate the question of whether star players always win championships.

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May 26, 2015

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Hot Takedown is the weekly sports podcast from FiveThirtyEight. On it, the crew uses numbers to dissect the week in sports, taking down some silly hot takes in the process.

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