Introducing: NBA DNA with Hannah Storm

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
The game's over and the balls.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Have won.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Basketball.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
You may think of it as a game, but for
me it has been central to my life.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
Doctor J, Doctor J.

Speaker 5 (00:17):
Simply looking await for that cover.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm Hannah Storm today.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
I'm a journalist and sportscaster, having spent decades covering the
biggest stories in basketball for ESPN, NBCCNN, you name it.

Speaker 5 (00:31):
Now, let's get you up to speed on what else
happened around the NBA today. I grew up courtside surrounded
by legends of the game, alongside my dad, a longtime
basketball executive and former commissioner of the American Basketball Association.

Speaker 6 (00:45):
Hannah was a precocious child, and she grew up in
a household where basketball players and coaches and people in
professional sports were there all the time.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
I remember knowing the names of all the referees almost
better than the players.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
This mom would yell at them right.

Speaker 7 (01:02):
Mark, absolutely, and then we would just emulate them, so
as little punky kids, we'd all be like, you're terrible,
You're the worst rev ever, and pro basketball rest would
be looking over us like, well, someone shut those kids up.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
As a young girl, I knew sports were fun.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
That's why I decided to be a sportscaster, even though
there were almost no women doing that at the time.
It's been a career that has spanned the decades. From
the ABA.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Little foalcer go look at split by Barnes looks inside
for Gilmore, finds him in the lane with the.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Hook that has gone to the NBA.

Speaker 7 (01:36):
Begodala, the curry packed Puck.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
James and the w NBA ye so Leslie look the
dough and the goal.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Continuous decades of living and covering basketball with so many
great stories and people.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
Let's send it back to Bob Costas Anna, thanks very much.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
It was an ongoing soap opera. And you think of
how that the characters were Jackson and Jordan and hit
it and then the antagonists Isaiah and the Pistons stopped it.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
And Melow it didn't matter to You're the only woman around,
because you didn't go into it like I'm a female sportscaster.
You went in into it like I'm a sportscaster, so
I deserve the same respect as anybody else.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
It hasn't always been easy, you know.

Speaker 5 (02:24):
That was something that was number one, that was second
and stupid, but it was something that was said and
Jess and I want to a person apologize to you
and all the other women out there.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
That was Charles Barkley back in the day. Today he's
a good friend and one of the legends. So will
join me on this show to tell stories from a
lifetime in basketball, along with the likes of Bob Costas,
Ralph Samson, Del Curry, Rex Chapman, Isaiah Thomas, Rudy, Tom Jonovitch,
Rebecca Lobo, Doris Burke, and doctor j.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
So that first year Philly Will Be Free was commuting
from Brooklyn that I was commuted to log allt so
I by and pick him up and let him drive.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh my goodness, here.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
We come, rolling into practice, rolling in the games.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
I talk with the legends that I met along the
way as they tell stories both on.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
And off the court, many I had never even.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Heard before, from the sixties to the game today. I'll
tell everybody, it's Steph's fault. It's my fault for teaching
how to shoot. It's his fault for changing it.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
And ruining the game with a three points shot.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
But I actually love the way the game is played
now with the threes and so much emphasis on scoring.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
If you love the game, you'll love this.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
NBA DNA with Me Hannah Storm begins April third on
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