{"id":8899,"date":"2017-08-05T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=8899"},"modified":"2017-10-02T23:39:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T03:39:16","slug":"coast-2-coast-podcast-episode-34-nba-africa-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2017\/08\/05\/coast-2-coast-podcast-episode-34-nba-africa-game-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #34: NBA Africa Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August is the slowest NBA month, meaning any semblance of basketball, whether it be Drew League or BIG3 basketball, provides us entertainment. That is why Saturday&#8217;s NBA Africa Game was so crucial to feeding our NBA addiction.\u00a0LWOPB Editor Matthew Cardenas and Austin were among the fans happy to enjoy the event.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #34: NBA Africa Game Recap<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Matthew joined Austin for this mini episode of the Coast 2 Coast Podcast to\u00a0recap Team World&#8217;s 108-97 win over Team Africa in the second NBA Africa Game. They broke down the meaning of this game for the NBA and basketball in Africa and who impressed each of them. Will <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/o\/oladivi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Oladipo<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mudiaem01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emmanuel Mudiay<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s performances translate into the upcoming season for the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/category\/pacers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/category\/nuggets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Denver Nuggets<\/a>? Other standouts include <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mccolcj01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">C.J. McCollum<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s improved ball-handling and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/couside01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DeMarcus Cousins<\/a><\/strong>&#8216; improved frame. Overall, it was a pretty successful event for the NBA. Outside of basketball, the players and coaches were able to tour Africa and build houses for the people.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/7vzta-6e42e9?from=yiiadmin\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Austin Cracraft and Dante Guarneri discuss everything from the wide world of the NBA, whether it be the latest update from a Banana Boat or a legend being thrown out of the Garden.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Follow the show on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Coast2CoastPod\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Coast2CoastPod<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Austin is a Staff Writer and Podcast Host\/Producer at\u00a0Last Word On Sports. He currently attends the\u00a0University of Oregon\u00a0and enjoys watching, talking about, and playing sports. He is a shameless Colorado Buffaloes\u00a0and\u00a0Oregon Ducks\u00a0fan.<\/p>\n<p>Dante studies Financial Economics at\u00a0Columbia University. For every statistic and analytic undertaking, he hopes to shed humorous light on the everyday parity of the sports world. A life-long sports fan, he\u2019s been blessed with championships from the\u00a0New York Yankees\u00a0and\u00a0New York Giants, but cursed by the turbulent history of the\u00a0Brooklyn (New Jersey) Nets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Cardenas is an associate editor for LastWordonProBasketball as well as a journalism student at Texas Tech University.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>BARCELONA, SPAIN &#8211; OCTOBER 05: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/o\/oladivi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Oladipo<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/nba-teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> looks on during the NBA Global Games Spain 2016 match between FC Barcelona Lassa and Oklahoma City Thunder at Palau Sant Jordi on October 5, 2016 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by David Ramos\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin is joined by Matthew Cardenas to provide an NBA Africa Game Recap including Victor Oladipo&#8217;s MVP performance and who&#8217;s stock rose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":2100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,61,62],"tags":[964,497,966,181,1146,1147,351],"class_list":["post-8899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-international-basketball","category-nba","tag-austin-cracraft","tag-basketball-podcasts","tag-coast-2-coast-podcast","tag-emmanuel-mudiay","tag-matthew-cardenas","tag-nba-africa-game","tag-victor-oladipo"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}