Pick Three: Spring Sports News
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. It's a triple double for LeBron. There are few better ways in this life to escape.
some of the terrible burdens of life than to focus and focus for many, many hours on talented young men and women running around on a hardwood floor and throwing a large ball through a slightly larger hoop. It's early April, the climax of the college basketball season, and the heart of the regular season for the pros. The New Yorker writer who walks that beat is my friend Louisa Thomas. And the other day, Louisa and I sat down to speak of important things.
Louisa, let's start with something close to my heart. LeBron James, who is now, God love him, 41, and people talk about him as if he's, you know, 87. He's in his 23rd NBA season. I don't know how many games he's played, but he's got the record now by by a lot. How good or not is he at the age of 41?
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