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Solo show wrapping up the trade deadline and saying thanks for listening in the finale (for now?) of Callin shots Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Longtime listener Charlie Saturday joins to flip the script and make me talk about what he wants to. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
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"Bowser2Bowser" the curator of The Basketball Action Dictionary on Medium joins to help me understand why nobody can get a damn stop anymore. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Shamit Dua of Bourbon Street Shots joins to make sense of a rapidly spiraling New Orleans Pelicans season. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Sam Esfandiari of the Light Years pod joins to talk Warriors ahead of the trade deadline, Bob Myers, and out Playback collabs. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
The specter of NBA scorekeeping silliness has raised it's head again. I have thoughts. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
The Athletic's Sam Vecenie joins to talk NBA trade season and early impressions of the upcoming 2023 NBA Draft. After Wemby and Scoot, what's left? Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Sarah Todd of The Deseret News returns to take stock of the Utah Jazz heading into the trade deadline. Having bounced back from a 5-game losing streak right around New Year's Day, are they holding steady? Looking to retool around Lauri Markkanen? Adding to try and secure a playoff birth? Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Fred Katz of the Athletic joins to dish on the up and down New York Knicks ahead of the trade deadline. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Sean Highkin of Rose Garden Report joins to discuss to latest from Portlandia Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Adam Mares of DNVR joins to try and convince me the Nuggets' defense is good enough to win a title. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
The Wolves haven't lost since I wrote about Rudy Gobert's possible decline. Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic joins to tell me if we can read anything into that. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Eric Pincus of Bleacher Report joins for a behind the scenes vibes check around the league. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Jake Fisher (Yahoo Sports, Callin) joins to help kick off the NBA's unofficial but actually pretty official trade and transaction season. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
The Athletic's Kelsey Russo joins to discuss a very encouraging start to the Donovan Mitchell era in Cleveland. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Brad returns to discuss to on and off-floor goings on in Atlanta. Front office shake-ups! Rumored trade requests! Middling results! Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Frank Madden of Locked in Bucks joins you talk regular season Bud ball, level of confidence heading towards the playoffs, and what moves would be most beneficial heading towards the deadline. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
The Podium Bear himself Matt Moore of The Action Network pops by to talk stories of this NBA season and discuss some of the background challenges and issues facing the league. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Don't look now, but the former Team Turmoil in Brooklyn is up to 4th in the East. The Athletic's Alex Schiffer joins to help break down how they've done it and if they can keep it up. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Host of Nerder She Wrote and the Daily Ding, Dave DuFour joins to talk the NBA developments, the great booking of the World Cup Finals and finding joy in the long regular season. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Sam Esfandiari and Andy Liu of the Light Years podcast join to worry over where this Warriors' season is heading now that Steph Curry is on the shelf for several weeks. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
What's behind the Sacramento Kings feel good start to the season? Managing Editor of The Kings Herald Greg Wissinger joins to break it all down. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Derek Bodner of The Daily Sixer newsletter joins to break down what has been a turbulent season (or series of seasons) for the Philadelphia 76ers. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Kirk Henderson of Mavs Moneyball joins to discuss a confusing season from a confusing Dallas Mavericks team. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Nerder She Wrote's own and creator of “One Mo Thing” joins to breakdown the first month and a half of the NBA season as well as offering some World Cup banter. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Dunc'd On's Danny Leroux stops by to discuss the NBA season to this point. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Pacers expert and all around star analyst Caitlin Cooper rejoins the pod to break down the “can we call them good yet or still just frisky” Pacers. Hali! Myles Turner! Ben Mathurin! And more. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Bowser2Bowser returns to discuss some of the innovations and new strategies we've seen thus far in the 2022-23 NBA season. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
The infamous and eponymous PD Web joins to consider the pathways through which players improve, or don't. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Fred Katz of The Athletic joins to discuss the tumultuous start to the season for the New York Knicks Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Mike Prada, author of “Spaces Out” and Wizards aficionado joins to talk both his new book and Washington's surprising start. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Former Utah Jazz head of analytics and statistical expert on Portland Trail Blazers broadcast Cory Joins rejoins to talk the joys and challenges of communicating complex information in very short time windows. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Eric Nehm of The Athletic rejoins to discuss the seeming inevitability of Milwaukee's 10-1 start for the season. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Brad Rowland of Locked on Hawks returns to discuss what we've learned so far from Atlanta's 7-3 start. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Sean Highkin of the Rose Garden Report returns to the show to talk Portland's strong start to the season. Is it sustainable or not? What does the future hold for Shaedon Sharpe? Is there a move the team needs to make to solidify their playoff prospects? Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Sarah Todd of the Deseret News and Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic join to discuss the early impacts of Minnesota's offseason acquisition of Rudy Gobert from Utah Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Keandre Ashley (@HoopIntellect) rejoins to discuss the early season performance of the 2022 draft class and drop a few names of players to watch for 2023. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
The Ringer's Zach Kram stops by to talk the first week of the season and to consider the value of pick swaps in light of the likely Wobbling For Wemby race to be run this season. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Sports Illustrated senior NBA writer Howard Beck joins to discuss “The Greatest Show on Earth” the newly released anthology of SI's best historical Lakers' articles, what to make of the franchise's current state and his general view of this season's outlook across the league. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Creator of Inpredictable, Mike Beuoy to joins to vent about the ongoing “sometimes the predictions are wrong” discussions across sports. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Eric Nehm of The Athletic joins to discuss Milwaukee's tricky start to the season. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Jovan Buha of The Athletic joins to discuss the latest from Laker Land ahead of next week's regular season tip-off. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
ESPN soccer analyst Ryan O'Hanlon stops by to talk about his forthcoming book “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game's Analytics Revolution” Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Frequent guest Shamit Dua of Bourbon Street Shots rejoins to discuss the Pelicans' season prognosis. Zion! Herb! BI? Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Randy Sherman of Radius Athletics joins to discuss basketball coaching. How to balance X's and O's with the personnel touch, how to self scout and how to avoid missing the basketball forest for the specific trees. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Daniel Marks, head program strategist for Howard University Men's Basketball and former Milwaukee Bucks scout joins to discuss the multiple massive recent changes in the NCAA system that are leading to more “front office” type roles in major collegiate sports, how NBA teams scout prospects and his charitable organization Scouting and Scavenging Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Author of the forthcoming “The History of the NBA in Twelve Games: From 24 Seconds to 30,000 3-Pointers” Sean Deveney joins to discuss his look into the narrative arc of the league. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
From The Action Network, HPBasketball himself, Matt Moore joins to cover a range of topics. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com
Adam Mares joins to discuss the DNVR staff's recent European trip, the reception they got, differences in atmosphere in eurohoops and more. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com