The Secret Album

EPISODE 251: Finding Milk Money.

You don’t need to care about basketball in order to understand why I became so consumed by reporting this episode.

But if you are at least passingly familiar with the NBA, then maybe you already get why Sam Presti — the league’s highly secretive Executive of the Year, the general manager responsible for one of the two teams in these NBA Finals, the Oklahoma City Thunder — does not want you to hear this.

And I imagine it must be a bit of a nightmare, for the person trying to bury this artifact I hunted down, to see me do an in-studio reveal with our friend

Wyatt Cenac

(whose Substack, by the way, you should check out); a couple remote interviews from my hotel room in Los Angeles; and another from my apartment with a new PTFO correspondent (!).

But this is a very special episode about playing music; and team construction; and how everything we learn, we carry with us.

Welcome to the Jazz Rabbit Hole.

YOUTUBE SPOILER ALERT:

Comping,

Pablo