NBA Storytime

Olympian and former NBA star, Richard Jefferson, talks about the last time he and LoLo surprisingly hung out together and you don't want to miss Richard's explanation on the prank he played on former teammate, LeBron James. Plus, Richard talks wine and why he (and others) became wine connoisseurs. The entire season of Gold Medal Loser is now available. Binge here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by Bleacher Report Producer Rachel Roderman to admire the tattoos gracing NBA players' bodies. Are tattoos the first NFTs? Where is the best place to get your ink? Y'all ever been to a tattoo party? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Basketball has a lot of important lines: free throw, 3-point, base. That's not even counting the ones on the players bodies. Modern hoopers have tattoos all over, but it wasn't always like that. NBA players needed to fight for their right to ink. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by Over and Back Podcast host and basketball history buff Jason Mann to finally give Jumpin' Jackie Jackson his flowers. Is pocket change still a thing? Which current NBA stars can touch the top of the backboard? How much would you pay to see Jamel do his signature "Just a Sick-Ass Windmill, Dog" dunk? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Globetrotter and Rucker Park legend “Jumpin' Jackie Jackson” blocked and dunked on Wilt Chamberlain in the same game...but that's not how he got his nickname. Instead, he bought it for a quarter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by comedian, actress, and podcast host Megan Gailey to marvel at how Nancy Lieberman beat the clock. Could Nancy stilly play in the big 3? The NBA? What the hell is a Cornet? Should Jamel and Megan start a women's basketball league as a tax haven? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nancy Lieberman dominated women's college basketball and the upstart women's basketball leagues that kept folding in the 80s and early 90s, but didn't really have a place to show her skills when she was in her prime. When the WNBA finally came around, she was 39 and only played one season…until 11 years later she took to the court one last time to show she still had it at age 50. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by sports podcaster and comedian Adam Weinrib to talk second chances. Why collect only good jerseys for good players? Do you want to go to Udonis Haslem's NYE party? Should all NBA moments - including the sad ones- be memorialized with an Antoine Walker shimmy? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2007 Heat C Shaquille O'Neal fouled out of a game against the Atlanta Hawks. Or DID he? The refs had accidentally assigned Shaq an extra foul, but the Big Diesel was forced to finish the game on the bench. When they realized their mistake, the NBA looked to make up for it by replaying the last minute of the game…3 months later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by comedian Mo Welch to hop in David Cowens taxi. Can you get weed on Postmates? Should bottom tier NBA players start a rideshare service? Does anybody know how to code? We just developed a turn-based NBA bench manager RPG. Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Celtics Center Dave Cowens was a weird dude (at least by 1970s standards). He drove a jeep, lived in an apartment above a toy store…oh, and one time he decided to drop out of the NBA to drive a taxicab. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by comedian, producer, podcaster and author Josh Gondelman to relive each of Kevin Burleson's 35 missed shots from "The Streak". Should there be a fantasy standup comedy league? Is German Art Haus ball the next big thing? Can Jamel name ANYBODY on the 2005-06 Charlotte Bobcats? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Kevin Burleson made a layup in the middle of a game against the Bucks, he probably thought he was heating up. What he couldn't have known is that he would not make another basket for more than two months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by comedy writer and Air Buds co-host Mike Benner to reminisce about the Sixers tragedy that was Poor Roy Rubin's coaching tenure. What kind of sex workers did Roy Rubin have access to? Was Rubin really Sonic the Hedgehog? Did pulling guns on the coach make the season better or worse? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1972, the 76ers looked to fill their Head Coaching vacancy by putting ads in the classified section of Philly newspapers. They got exactly what they paid for in “Poor Roy Rubin.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by comedian Rob Haze to reminisce about Kobe Bryant taking singer and actress Brandy to prom. What are Brandy's starting 5 best songs? Will we ever see Michael Jordan's prom pictures? Would Rob Haze have been pissed if Brandy and Kobe blew up his prom? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Before Kobe Bryant had his storybook NBA career he was just a kid playing high school ball outside of Philly. That was until, as if by magic, Kobe managed to take Grammy award winning singer and actress Brandy to the Ball…errr prom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by comedian Kenny DeForest to recount the career of Mr. Will Perdue. Do Bulls fans remember Perdue's bench-tastic career fondly? Is Jerry Krause every Chicago kid's boogeyman? Is the position of "Goofy White Center" dead in the NBA? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You probably don't know the name “Will Purdue,” but the big man quietly had one of the most wild and successful careers of all time while rarely leaving the bench. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by NBA twitter's very own NBA Paint to see how deep the Wiccan NBA conspiracy goes. Was this season's Suns-Bucks Final proof of Wiccan influence? Is Giannis' super-long free throw routine secretly a pagan ritual? Will the final spells be carried out so that the NBA can have a game on the moon? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You might not have noticed, but in the 90s the NBA was taken over by witches. The Orlando Magic joined the league, the Bullets rebranded themselves as the Wizards and nature imagery dominated jerseys across the NBA: Is it so impossible to believe that the global rise of basketball popularity was fueled by Wicca? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by Sports Illustrated Senior Writer Howard Beck who was THERE at the 2014 NBA Finals game where the air conditioning crapped out. How seriously did Beck consider stripping down to his boxers to cover the postgame press conferences? Was the malfunction a dastardly plot by the Spurs? Should Jamel stop his pre-game ritual of drinking La Croix to stay hydrated? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Home court advantage is real…and that's without the air conditioning crapping out in a 2014 NBA Finals game. Both teams sweated it out, but why did the Spurs stay hot while the Heat couldn't take the heat? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by Spinsters Co-host Haley O'Shaughnessy to discuss the Silna siblings fleecing the NBA. Do the Spirits' have the hottest jersey of all time? Are half the teams Marvin Barnes played for fake? Is Haley really a guh guh guh ghost? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Spirits of St. Louis were an unremarkable ABA basketball team that didn't get picked up by the NBA when the rival leagues merged….so how did the team's owners end up shaking down the NBA for nearly a BILLION dollars? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by Ringer basketball writer Seerat Sohi to discuss when NBA players should...and more importantly shouldn't rap. Is Shaq the best NBA rapper by default? What is the Hip-Hop Basketball Genie and why didn't it go triple-platinum? How many times listening through B-Ball's Best Kept Secret is too many? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Basketball and hip hop's rise are forever entwined. Rappers call out players in their songs while ballers like Damian Lillard spit lyrics on tracks of their own. In the early 90s however, there was an unholy union of hip-hop and hoops where some players showed their “hidden rap talent” should have remained secret. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by Stay Hot Podcast hosts Matthew Sponhour and Theo Ash to discuss Ricky Davis' attempted own-basket rebound. Was what Ricky Davis did wrong? How do you pad your stats in everyday life? Should NBA 2k30 just be an open world video game starring Cody Zeller? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There's selfish basketball and then there's what the Cavaliers' Ricky Davis did to earn him the nickname “Wrong Rim Ricky” back in 2003. Was a chance at a triple-double worth ruining a reputation? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by comedian and All Fantasy Everything podcast host David Gborie to discuss the best pro basketball TV sitcom performances of all time. Does Law and Order count as a sitcom? Which young NBA stars need some network TV shine? Can college ballers get in on the cameo game now and, if so, do y'all need an agent? Gborie says he can guarantee a bit part on an HBO Max show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Basketball stars entertain us every night on the hardwood, but who were the best to take their talents to prime time? I'll give you a hint, it wasn't Shaq. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by No Dunks' Trey Kerby to discuss basketball and accordion savant Tony Lavelli. What ever happened to the accordion? Should injury lawyers sponsor LA's NBA teams? What secret talents would Jamel and Trey perform at halftime? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Basketball phenom Tony Lavelli had 2 great skills: an unstoppable hook shot and playing the accordion. Lavelli loved music so much he nearly skipped out on the NBA until the Celtics allowed him to bust out his accordion and entertain the fans at halftime.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by WNBA superstar Angel McCoughtry to discuss Anchorage's Northern Knights. Who was really the star of Space Jam? Should the WNBA expand to London? What business did Jamel agree to fund this time? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What business did a regional basketball league based in Pennsylvania have starting a team in Anchorage Alaska? None, but that didn't stop the CBA from welcoming the Northern Knights into their ranks. Who's up for a road trip? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by basketball writer Andrew Sharp to discuss the time the Clippers locked DeAndre Jordan in his own house. Did the NBA accidentally popularize emojis? Did Mark Cuban just drive around random developments in Texas with a boombox looking for DeAndre Jordan? Was the DeAndre lock in the birth of NBA Twitter? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The NBA's legal tampering period is a lawless time before the start of free agency. Nobody knows that better than DeAndre Jordan after his Clipper teammates locked him in his house to get him to sign a contract.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by comedy writer C.J. Toledano to discuss the ghost of Dražen Petrović haunting NBA Jam cabinets. Are the white dudes in Jam all programed to nail their 3s? Does just kissing the shoot button help you nail that underhand half court shot? Is 2k Playgrounds just a modern NBA Jam even if you can't dunk on fools as Bill Clinton? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nets SG Dražen Petrović tragically passed away in the summer of 1993 right as NBA Jam hit arcades across the US and became a cultural phenomenon, but he still made it into the game. They say, if you're alone late at night, and Jam has been left on too long… Petrović's ghost may pay your game a visit.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by Spinsters Co-host Jordan Ligons to discuss Lisa Leslie becoming the first woman to dunk in a WNBA game. If you had the power to dunk would you be dunking 24/7? Should every player just be walking around in those weighted strength shoes all the time? And Jamel even tells the story of the time WNBA star Jonquel Jones flexed so hard on him that he had to lay low for a while. Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lisa Leslie is like a superhero, performing physical feats beyond us mere mortals. She was the first to dunk in a WNBA game. For a while Leslie was alone, but her dunk launched a fleet of women who could slam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by comedian and internet legend Myles Brown to discuss what it takes to win when you're playing man-down. Can Myles name the entire 2014 Lakers squad? If you were a great player could you handle being on a craptastic team? Is Minnesota summer as good as Myles thinks it is, or are we going to Mexico in the off season? Listen up and find out. 1. 2. 3. Cancún! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In hockey, the power play sends a skater off the ice. In soccer, there's the red card. But in the NBA you need 5 players at all times...unless you're the 2014 Lakers who managed to pull off a win with just four on the floor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by actor, writer and comedian Langston Kerman. Langston is known for his role as Jared on HBO's Insecure. Langston Kerman also appeared on Season 2 of 'The Boys' on Amazon Prime. We discuss the question you're all wondering: Did Wilt Chamberlain actually sleep with 20,000 women? Even though he's been retired for nearly 50 years and dead for 20, Wilt Chamberlain still looms large over the NBA. Nicknamed the record book, which admittedly isn't as whimsical as the big dipper or as lyrical as “Wilt The Stilt” Chamberlain has 72 NBA records that still stand to this day. But there is one of Wilt's records that Will never be touched no matter what rules come or go. In his memoir “view from above” Wilt Chamberlain claims to have slept with 20,000 different women from the ages of 15 to 55, but is that even possible? Could one man have really had 20,000 lovers? If yes, did he cum that many times as well? Or is it a tale as tall as Wilt the Stilt? Langston and Jamel break it down. ⏰ CHAPTERS ⏰  (00:00) Intro to 20,000 Lovers (01:26) Langston Kerman Doesn't Buy It (04:27) Mathematically Impossible (07:45) We've Never Met These Women (10:11) There's No Way It Was Enjoyable (12:31) No Diseases? (16:29) Wilt's Grotto  (20:10) We Feel Bad For Wilt (21:51) John Stockton's Body Count (24:06) Wilt Played Pro Volleyball After Retiring  (26:13) Which Insecure Character Would Bang Wilt? (29:19) Red Auerbach Hanging Out With Wilt (31:27) Closing Thoughts

In his autobiography Wilt Chamberlain claimed to have slept with 20,000 women. Is this even possible or is it a tale as tall as Wilt the Stilt?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel is joined by actor and comedian Blake Anderson to discuss Draymond Green's constant uh...ball busting. Did it cost the 2015-16 Warriors the NBA Championship? Why didn't players just start wearing cups? What was Blake Anderson's own worst personal nut-shot? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Draymond Green has a penchant for—how should we say—having his leg find opponent's groins in game, but did his nut-busting obsession cost the best regular season team in history their NBA Championship?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel is joined by podcaster and NBA twitter god Josiah Johnson to discuss Shaq and Hakeem's one-on-one battle for Taco Bell. Who'd be the two centers nowadays to pit against each other? Do you think Hakeem Olajuwon had bars like Shaq? What's the best Taco Bell order to play hoops on? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Shaquille O'Neal and Hakeem Olajuwon's big-man duel didn't end after the Rockets swept the Magic in the 1995 NBA Finals. Taco Bell sponsored a PPV showdown between the bigs for $1 Million Dollars to determine who was center supreme. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The NBA is serious basketball, but sometimes, things get silly. Comedian Jamel Johnson regales you with short tales of hornswoggled hoops, bonkers ball, and naughty NBA shenanigans, then discusses what we've learned with comedy and basketball folks who watched or were there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices