Welcome back to the Taking The Charge Podcast. This week we have something different since I was at the Basketball Without Borders Europe camp. We have a quartet of interviews from the camp: with Taylor Jenkins, head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies; Denver Nuggets assistant coach David Adelman; Portland Trail Blazers assistant coach Edniesha Curry; and Atlanta Hawks’ Italian forward Danilo Gallinari.
Before that … let’s take a quick look around the world of basketball with the Big Three
3:30 - Story we are watching - Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade won the ABA Adriatic League meaning they will be in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague next season. It also leaves unanswered the other teams who will be play in the EuroLeague with Partizan NIS Belgrade and Valencia Basket seemingly the front-runners.
4:25 - Young player of the week - Mohamed Diawara of France was named MVP of the 2022 Basketball Without Borders Europe camp.
5:15 - Up-coming event we are watching - We are two days into the FIBA U18 Americas Championship 2022 and the action in Mexico has been great. On Friday (early Saturday in Europe) we will know the first four teams in the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 2023.
7:35 - Taylor Jenkins - head coach Memphis Grizzlies
11:05 - David Adelman - assistant coach Denver Nuggets
14:00 - Edniesha Curry - assistant coach Portland Trail Blazers
19:00 - Danilo Gallinari - Atlanta Hawks/Italian national team
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Taking The Charge podcast: Taylor Jenkins, David Adelman, Edniesha Curry, Danilo Gallinari