Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Raja Bell

👤 Speaker
6142 total appearances
Voice ID

Voice Profile Active

This person's voice can be automatically recognized across podcast episodes using AI voice matching.

Voice samples: 3
Confidence: High

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

I don't want to say impossible, but as close to impossible as you could probably get.

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

What I'd like to say is you need a behind the scenes campaign by your team.

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

Letting everyone know.

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

That this wasn't a Trey issue, although there's a lot of data to support that it was.

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

But that's what you have to have.

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

What do they call those press campaigns when people are out there just trying to save face?

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

But that's what you have to have.

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

behind the doors you have to be selling like hey look this was circumstantial here's what happened over the course of his career in Atlanta this is what he was being told as an organization here's where he's at now as a pro umpteenth years in like this is what he's willing to do here are the sacrifices he's willing to make winning is the priority now like that's what you would have to do um in my opinion because there's nothing that the player can do

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

Like the player's going to go to Washington, right?

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

The player's going to be in a situation in Washington where...

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

He's probably still the best option.

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

It's going to revert him right back to what he was doing in Atlanta because, quite frankly, there's not a whole lot there that can help him be the other version of himself that winning teams would want to see him in a role suggesting that he would do it with them.

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

So I don't have the answer.

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

It's almost impossible.

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

It would be a lot of back channeling, a lot of –

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

You know, a lot of calls to front offices gauging interest and trying to explain the situation and trying to let them know what type of soldier they'd be getting if they were willing to bring him in there.

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

No, to piggyback, it is the worst.

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

If you're saying we need to show the league something different, that situation is the antichrist.

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

Like, you don't want to put him in that.

The Ringer NBA Show
Trae Trading Places. Plus, What’s Going On With the Thunder? | Real Ones

I want to be clear.