When we started our NFL podcast 220 episodes ago, Terez Paylor was supposed to be the point guard.
This was his favorite metaphor. He loved the NBA — loved his childhood team, the Detroit Pistons; loved the idea of being a distributor who controlled the floor and kicked topics to his teammate; loved thinking of himself as the Isiah Thomas to my Joe Dumars.
“I’ll set you up,” he liked to say. “And you can shoot it.”
This isn’t how it turned out, of course. We worked together for three years on our podcast and, if I’m being honest, a better metaphor would have been something celestial.