KUCI: The Do Post

Some of my fellow fantasy GM of the year candidates join me on the pod to talk some of the trades that occurred in our league. And Boris Tom comes on too (I wouldn’t consider Boris to be GM of the year this year). We talk 3 trades and why some may or may not have been lopsided. Sabonis for Booker, AD and Lowry for Tatum and Shai, and Morant for Lonzo. Follow me on Twitter: @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

Shields up trade alert! We finally have the first trade go through in our league - Luka Doncic and De’Aaron Fox for LeBron James and Mike Conley. We talk out the trade since it was considered pretty lopsided in the group chat. We also welcome back Boris Tom to the pod and remove his “Worst GM” title for this season and give it to Nathan Chan instead. Boris explains his genius fantasy drafting strategy and we talk some Lakers basketball at the end. Follow me on Twitter @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

First four-person pod for The Do Post! We talk about the tragedy of Ryan’s season losing Anthony Davis, D’Angelo Russell, and CJ McCollum. Nicky gives his rebuttal from last week’s episode about the infamous Giannis/Ingram, Holiday that I turned down. We do more trade talks, go over some of Ryan’s draft regrets, and we then realize Boris is making an underdog comeback in fantasy with a 3 week winning streak. Follow me on Twitter: @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

My friend and Clipper Fan Alan Fong comes on for the first time to talk about his fandom and his fantasy team. We talk about our fantasy progress up to week 6 and also about the Lakers, Brooklyn, Utah, and the Bucks at the end. Follow me on Twitter: @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

I review the science behind some of the scenes in the movie Gravity (for a class project!). Follow me on Twitter: @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

My friend Nathan Wu comes on the first time along with Nicky Cheung to talk week 4 of NBA Fantasy. We give our thoughts on the massive Harden trade to Brooklyn, go over our teams, and talk potential fantasy trades Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill Follow me on Twitter: @AdamTranDo

Nicky Cheung and Nathan join me to recap week 3 of NBA Fantasy. We go over the first place team in our league, I continue trade talks with Nicky about giving away Brandon Ingram for LeBron (not a good idea), and Nathan explains why he drafted Davis Bertans over players like Jaylen Brown and Khris Middleton. Follow me on Twitter: @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

Ethan Bang and Ryan Lau come on to talk about our fantasy teams this week and add/drops we did after the draft. We then talk potential trades with each other that hopefully get resolved by next week. Follow me on Twitter: @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

This is the first entry in the NBA Fantasy diary for me and friends’ league this year. We go over our draft picks, talk about our team strengths and weaknesses, and explain our regrets. Then we talk about the Lakers off-season acquisitions and our expectations for their season. Follow me on Twitter @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

Ryan Gentry makes his way onto the show to talk some Star Wars with me. He knows way more than I do, but we manage to go for almost an hour talking about the movies, Clone Wars, and The Mandalorian. Also whatever you call Episodes 7,8, and 9. Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill Follow me on Twitter: @AdamTranDo

Matt Hanniff is back to talk LA Dodgers. As a new fan to baseball, I ask Matt all my questions about baseball and also what it took for the Dodgers to win the World Series. My Twitter: @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

Ben Mullen is back to talk Election 2020. A new segment is introduced called Family Corner (sound familiar?) where I explain to Ben about the Do Family communications during the pandemic. We also talk about unplugging from Twitter overload and the incoming win from Joe Biden as he gains leads in Georgia and Pennsylvania. Follow me on Twitter: @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

In this episode of Asian Americans in Sports, I brought on my former boss at the LA Clippers, Stacey Yin, to talk about her life and career working in sports. We talk about her time growing up in Southern California, going to school at UC Riverside, and working for NBA teams across the league. Follow me on Twitter @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

The Lakers are champions again!!! I wanted to let it all out with my friend Corban on what the Lakers fanbase had to go through to get to this point in history. From Kobe, to Jordan Hill, Jeremy Lin, Carlos Boozer, and now LeBron James and Anthony Davis. Go Lakers. Twitter: @AdamTranDo @CorbanNBA Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

Cooper and I talk about the NBA Finals and the Lakers battling it out with the Heat. We also talk about other series in the playoffs and other NBA issues of concern including coaching fires and hires. Follow me on Twitter: @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

Clemson University’s own Cooper Hird joins Do Post. We compare fast food differences between the west coast and east coast for the United States. Then we talk about college sports for UC Irvine and Clemson. We end with some Orlando Bubble basketball talk* and Zion Williamson praise from Cooper. *this segment was recorded near the beginning of the Orlando bubble games Twitter: Follow me @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

Friend of the pod Ben Mullen returns to The Do Post. We geek out about American history, politics, presidents, and our favorite musical Hamilton. Follow me on Twitter: @AdamTranDo Do Post music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

UCI men’s basketball legend Tommy Rutherford joins the show. We talk about his roots in El Cajon, California, his love for math and science, his love for basketball, and comic books. Follow me on Twitter @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

To cap off what seemed to be a week of Stevie Cozens, here’s a conversation I had with the man about various things. I wanted to learn more about his home country of New Zealand, talk some Sports Business Classroom, Florida bubble basketball, and Los Angeles food. Follow me on Twitter @AdamTranDo Follow Stevie on Twitter @StevieCozens Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

Fellow SBC intern Sam Shin joins me to talk about the week that was: Sports Business Classroom 2019. Sam and I go from meeting Larry Coon at UC Irvine to receiving the honor of being selected as two of the top four students in the class. We were too exhausted after our week ended last year to have any meaningful conversations about SBC so this is that conversation.

E-commerce business owners Norman Chu and Nicky Cheung join the show and talk about their experience with being business owners in their twenties. I’ve known both since freshman year of high school so we start out with talking about high school memories. Then we talk about their motivations for starting their business, scalability, branding, and advertising. Follow me on Twitter: @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

I talk with my friend Isaac about networking in college, the meaning of it, how we came to learn about it, and our personal experiences. We also talk about LinkedIn and our pet peeves for LinkedIn posts. Follow me on Twitter: AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

Bryce Van Ross and I catch up and talk about the pandemic’s effects in college, specifically Bryce’s statistics class he taught this past term. We also talk about effective strategies when applying for opportunities in college and his time interning with NASA. My Twitter: @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

Hall of Fame Do Post guest Matt Hanniff returns to the show. We talk about the roster situation for the Lakers with the announcement yesterday that Avery Bradley was opting out of Orlando. Then we talk about the Lakers’ potential match ups in the western conference. Follow me on Twitter @AdamTranDo Do Post Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

Answering NBA Questions for Non-NBA Fans: Curry Man, Giannis, Jeremy Lin Jodee Ooi comes on the show with NBA questions ranging from why Stephen Curry is important to how to evaluate NBA players’ performances. I try my best and give her a quality NBA education. My Twitter: @AdamTranDo Music: Red Paper Lanterns - Maybeshewill

I talk with my friend Shivam Patel, host of the Pick and Roll Sports with Shivam podcast, about growing up in Texas, going to UT Austin, and working for Turner. It was nice to hear from another Asian American with a love for sports and also someone who could very well be the color commentator for the Spurs someday. We also talk a little about our experiences hosting a podcast and our shoe games. My Twitter: @AdamTranDo Shivam's Twitter: @shivam_texas, Podcast: Patel Pick and Roll Sports With Shivam Music: Help Myself - Jay Wile

I talk with my friend Buddy Scott about his time growing up in Hawaii and learning to love volleyball and basketball. We dive into his process for getting accepted into Harvard University and joining the men’s volleyball team. I ask him for verification on some Harvard stereotypes. Then we talk about our meeting at Sports Business Classroom, his salary cap geekdom, and his NBA GM aspirations. Follow me Adam Do on Twitter @AdamTranDo The Do Post Music: Help Myself - Jay Wile

My friend Boris and I talk about going to see Kobe Bryant’s last game four years ago with a little bit of a twist. We couldn't afford tickets so we instead stood outside with the rest of LA. Four years ago, Boris and I were only high school seniors, ready to graduate, and experience the real world. It was probably one of our first experiences as adults and something we’ll remember forever. We recall as best we can everything that happened from the time we made the decision to drive to LA to the end of the night with Kobe scoring 60 and winning the game. Follow me on Twitter @AdamTranDo The Do Post music: Help Myself - Jay Wile

In today's episode, my friend Dylan Chan and I talk about the popularity of podcasts nowadays with so many new listeners and hosts. We also talk about our journeys through community college and university and how we see the career searches going for us and our peers. Then we end on some NBA talk and talk a little on the Lakers and Kobe. Follow me on Twitter @AdamTranDo

In this episode I answer more NBA questions for my friend Sami, who is not an NBA fan. He is interested in what happens in NBA world though. We talk about how the pandemic might affect the suspended season, how the game has changed since its inception, and the relationship between offensive and defensive stats in basketball. Feel free to subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening and follow me on Twitter @AdamTranDo

In this episode of my new series Asian Americans in Sports I bring on my friend Rovee Vanderbilt Pruna to talk about our lives growing up as Asian American and how we came to discover sports. This is near and dear to my heart as someone who wants to work in sports but doesn't see a lot of Asian American representation in the industry. I'm hoping I can bring on many Asian Americans onto the pod to talk about their journeys in the sports industry. Rovee and I cap off the pod talking about Kobe Bryant and what he meant to us and the Asian American community.

My friend Ben Mullen from Sports Business Classroom and I do our catch up pod. We start with talking about Ben's football analytics job with Oakland High School in Tennessee (2:15) and the state of sports analytics in the world right now. Then, we talk about law school, undergrad, and the great teachers in our lives that stand out amongst the rest (8:57). Lastly, we talk about the passing of a great: Kobe Bryant and how he impacted our lives (23:33). Mamba Forever. 6/24/20: Adjusted Volume

It’s another segment of “Answering Sports Questions for Non-Sports Fans”. I felt it was time again for me to do the world a favor and educate another person on the world of sports. This time, I bring on my roommate Sami to discuss some of the new things that have changed in this NBA season. We mostly talk about star player movement with a LOT of follow up questions and end with a little bit about the three point revolution. Please leave a comment and subscribe to the pod! Music: Help Myself - Jay Wile

I decided to borrow an idea from the tech industry --- unboxing videos. That's right, if new phones can be unboxed and talked about by tech reviewers, new NBA teams should be able to do the same. Matt and I do an early overview of the Lakers so far this year 4 games in. AD LBJ dynamic? Stan or not stan Dwight Howard? KCP, Avery Bradley, Caruso, Cook, Danny Green. Please subscribe to The Do Post!

What does Frank Ocean think of player movement in the NBA? What are our top 3 Frank Ocean songs? Is Endless really better than Blonde? Does Frank Ocean stare at the rim or ball when shooting? These are some of the questions that James and I tackle on this episode of The Do Post. Frank Ocean NBA questions at 40:50. Thanks to Jay Wile for providing this episode's (and possibly future episodes) intro and outro songs. Song used: "Help Myself" from Jay Wile's album Bloom Series.

The price is on the can though. Rob and I talk about one of our favorite tv shows of all time Atlanta on FX. From talking about funny scenes to going deep into the more profound scenes, we managed to talk for almost an hour about an episode only 21 minutes long. I even learned something life changing in this episode from Rob around the 37 minute mark.

And we back. I couldn't wait until the fall quarter to start recording again. After one week at Sports Business Classroom, I have a ton of things to say and I have a lot of new friends who have a ton of things to say as well. This episode contains heavy discussion on the slow decay of memes, the genius of Mark Cuban, and the cultural phenomenon Bibbity Bibbity Bop.

It's been awhile since my fellow transfer friend Jenn and I talked. I've wanted her on the show since it began this quarter and we finally found time to have her on. We mostly spend the episode catching up and talking about the highlights of our first year at UCI since transferring from the same community college and the challenges we face going forward to next year. Thanks for listening to the first "season" of The Do Post! I'm thinking about doing some solo episodes by myself while I'm in Irvine for June but we'll see. Other than that, see you in September!

After meeting Kevin at a Korean BBQ dinner this week, I decided to invite him on the show to talk about the NBA and other things as well. We go over game 1 of the NBA finals, the hot issue of one and done players, and the possibility of another Asian American making their debut in the NBA. All of this and more on The Do Post. 6/24/20: Adjusted Volume

On this episode of The Do Post, my friend Isaac and I talk about one of our favorite shows, Atlanta. Atlanta is created by Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino. It is a critically acclaimed show from FX, known for its variety in storytelling. We decided to talk about the episodes "Value" and "Teddy Perkins" as we felt that they provide a stark contrast and display the true "variety" of this show.

Too often do I come across friends who know nothing about sports or are unaware of what's happening, even if the greatest game of all time may have happened the night before. Today, I bring on my friend Cassandra to help solve this great crisis. For 30 min, I answer any question she has about basketball and a little football.

On this episode of The Do Post, my housemate Sami and I talk about the last movie in the Avengers trilogy, Endgame. We give our takes on the highlights as well as the lowlights of the movie. We finish with a discussion of the new Spiderman Far From Home trailer. 6/24/20: Adjusted Volume

The Do Post's very first guest Matt is back to talk more NBA playoffs and the crazy Damian Lillard 37 footer game sealing shot. We end with recapping how our transfer experience has been at UCI so far and how community college helped us in our lives.

From the mind of Jordan Peele comes his latest film titled "Us". Kristie and I talk the overarching themes of the movie and deeper meanings behind some key scenes. We also compare "Us" with Peele's first film "Get Out".

On this episode of The Do Post, my housemate Sami and I sit down to talk Avengers Endgame theories and predictions ahead of the movie's premiere this week. We give each theory a rating from 1-5 depending on how credible and interesting the theory is. It might be useful to give this a listen and warm up before going to see it in theaters. THIS POD CONTAINS NO SPOILERS.

This week my guests and I talk about our love for sports, how we got started in it, and what our career goals in sports are. We talk about how UCI's Sports Business Association brought us all together and the competition we face from other students around the country who also want to work in sports. Then, we shift to our recap of game 3 in the Warriors Clippers series, which we got to see live. We finish with a short talk on our favorite series in the playoffs so far.

I try to see how other fans around the league feel about the madness happening inside the Lakers organization this week with my guest Priyanka. We discuss Magic Johnson and Luke Walton as well as go over the first weekend of the playoffs.

Brandon and I talk about our experience attending USC's Sports Business Summit. We focus on what we learned from the basketball analytics panel, their tips on how to break into basketball, as well as their unique insight into the game from an analytics point of view. Then, we discuss Dr. Erkut Sogut, Mesut Ozil's agent from Europe, and what it takes to be an agent in sports. Lastly, we end with recapping Devin Johnson from Uninterrupted on giving athletes a place to share their story.

On the very first episode of The Do Post, my guest Matt and I give our 2019 NBA playoff predictions for the western conference. We reveal our predictions for how many games and who wins in each of the four western series. The main storylines of the NBA are discussed such as Jusuf Nurkic going down, the Nuggets' lack of playoff experience, the Warriors' soon to be free agents, and Harden's MVP play.