Kebab Juice On The Windowpane, With Rohan Nadkarni

There's a type of unearned pride that comes with watching your buddies do well, but it carries some anxiety with it. Of course we were happy that Rohan Nadkarni, our frequent guest and lunch correspondent, was doing such good work for NBC's Sports Desk newsletter from the Milan Cortina Olympics; of course things like him interviewing Alysa Liu gave us that feeling of accomplishment by association. But there was also a whisper of concern that wouldn't go away, the small voice in my head asking, "But is he eating okay over there?" Well, I have some good news: Rest assured that we do "get to that," but Rohan's return to the podcast after five excruciating weeks away also coincided with a very Rohan-specific turn in current sports news. And so, before we got to the carbohydrate content, we talked about Bam Adebayo's sublimely preposterous 83-point game and the noise surrounding it, how getting stunted on this hard might or might not help fix tanking, and the ways in which the NBA could but probably will not actually improve its product. The Kobe Discourse is considered; I briefly digress about Michael Porter Jr. speaking on these females. It's still a Rohan episode, but we were able to stay on topic for a while.