Hoops and Heroin

AAU Basketball doesn’t have the best reputation. Sports Illustrated’s Pete Thamel goes in depth on a story he wrote called “Out of Power: How DC’s Most Prominent AAU Leader Landed in Jail.” As a coach, Curtis Malone handled notable players like Michael Beasley and Nolan Smith, but being a mentor to young men wasn’t all he was doing. Malone was sentenced to 100 months in prison after being convicted of drug trafficking. On the Give Me a Sense podcast Thamel goes into the story, his time visiting Malone in prison and how what people around Malone think of him.

You can find the show Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/give-me-a-sense/id1115211523?mt=2#episodeGuid=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogtalkradio.com%2Fgivemeasense%2F2016%2F06%2F07%2Fe4-sis-pete-thamel--drugs-and-basketball

on blogtalkradio.com http://www.blogtalkradio.com/givemeasense/2016/06/07/e4-sis-pete-thamel--drugs-and-basketball

Or on stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=92081

on Twitter @Mike_Yam or on Facebook.