The LeBron and Bronny Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on the first father-son teammates in NBA history. Plus, an interview with Wil Aaron about racism in baseball in the decades after Jackie Robinson.
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Episode Notes
Stefan Fatsis and Joel Anderson talk to the New Yorker’s Louisa Thomas about the 55th pick in last week’s NBA draft: LeBron James’ son, Bronny. Plus, Joel and Josh Levin interview Wil Aaron about racism in baseball in the decades after Jackie Robinson.
Read Louisa Thomas’s work in the New Yorker.
The Los Angeles Lakers picked 19-year-old Bronny James in the second round of the NBA Draft.
Before the draft, Thomas wrote that LeBron “has raised his son in his own image, as many parents do. And why not? It is quite the image.”
Chris Thompson in Defector: “Much Ado About a Worthless Pick in an Awful Draft”
In Yahoo Sports, Tom Haberstroh discovered that the sons of NBA players are often underrated.
Unlike James, Deion Sanders allowed his quarterback son, Shedeur, “to marinate, to grow, to develop,” William C. Rhoden wrote in Andscape.
Hank Aaron’s cousin Wil Aaron played minor-league baseball from 1971-76.
Aaron is one of more than a dozen Black ballplayers interviewed in Mitchell Nathanson’s new oral history, Under Jackie’s Shadow: Voices of Black Minor Leaguers Baseball Left Behind.
Hang Up and Listen’s weekly Dennis Johnson:
Stefan’s Dennis Johnson: Turkey wants to be known as Türkiye and sports broadcasters are complying.
Podcast production and edit by Emily Charash and Kevin Bendis.
You can email us at hangup@slate.com.