My Best Reply Guys with Emma Baccellieri

About this episode

Emma Baccellieri returns to discuss her new book and various topics related to women's basketball and listener questions.

Emma Baccellieri ( Sports Illustrated ) is back, and with a new book! Drew and Roth ask her about her writing process, and how she worked with co-author Jordan Robinson. Then, they talk Emma’s women’s Sweet Sixteen bracket and WNBA players’ collective bargaining. Finally, it’s Emma’s Soda Minute, and Drew and Roth open up the funbag to answer questions from Distraction listeners.  Go get Emma’s new book, Court Queens: Celebrate the Players, Teams, and History of Women's Basketball , out now!  Do you want to hear your question answered on the pod? Well, give us a call at 909-726-3720. That is 909-PANERA-0! Stuff We Talked About Opening day is opening night When Netflix had DVDs WNBA CBA marathon negotiations Emma’s new favorite sodas! Dr. Pepper’s medical credentials Mr. Pibb’s neck tattoo Historical one-sided relationships The good mustaches Bloop out, get hard (cheese) Credits - Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth - Producer: Brandon Grugle - Editor: Mischa Stanton - Production Services & Ads: Multitude Podcasts - Subscribe to Defector ! About The Show The Distraction is Defector's flagship podcast about sports (and movies, and art, and sandwiches, and certain…

People in this episode

Hosts: Drew Magary, David Roth

Guest: Emma Baccellieri

Topics covered

• women's basketball
• WNBA
• sports writing
• collective bargaining
• listener questions

Keywords

• Emma Baccellieri
• WNBA
• Court Queens
• sports writing
• collective bargaining
• listener questions
• Soda Minute

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sports Illustrated, Defector Media, Multitude Podcasts

Books & works: Court Queens: Celebrate the Players, Teams, and History of Women's Basketball

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