Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana
25 Feb 2025
It is a far-fetched innovation floated by American hoops heads for years: the four-point shot. But as our far-flung correspondent Rafe Bartholomew reports, there is a real-life pilot program afoot — half a world away, in a galaxy-brained league with a half-century's worth of swag: the Philippine Basketball Association. And it's working. We meet the new king of long distance; watch film with a Filipino coaching legend; and then heat-check this cultural exchange with the NBA's preeminent philosopher of the four-pointer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out. I am Pablo Torre. And today, we're going to find out what this sound is.
Dancing against Ahan Nisi. Romeo goes to JT. Launches a four. Why not, Geron? Why not?
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With the Galaxy Watch 7 or the Galaxy Ring and the Samsung Health app.
What does your dad think of your expertise in Philippine basketball?
I think he's used to it now. He was pretty surprised. He came over early, end of 2006, so after I'd been there for a year. And he got a huge kick out of it because he just was like, what is going on here?
Well, he played ball.
Yeah.
So, like, that part, I think he understood.
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