The Bench Dribble Podcast

There's no NBA for the foreseeable future due to the coronavirus epidemic. We run through everything that has happened, from the time the league stopped to future plans. Does Spencer's Dinwiddie have the answer? Who should win the awards if the season doesn't return? And we dribble on about how to decide a championship winner.

Out of nowhere the Brooklyn Nets have ousted Kenny Atkinson (1:00). The Nuggets and Rockets have dreadful weeks. Will coronavirus hold fans out from games? Lakers beat up Bucks. Brogdon tears his quad and other injuries (31:40). Dribble (36:48). What are the ceilings of Lonzo and Josh Jackson (36:48), 24 Caris Magic, Aron Baynes flamethrower, predicting first round playoff matchups. Anthony is trailing in this months tips already (59:20).

Are we witnessing Jason Tatum become king of the Celtic kingdom? How about that Rockets Celtics finish. Two machines not men went head to head twice this week, when Zion met LeBron. Sixers woes and glimmer of hope. Wherefore aut thou Kemba? Player of the week ends in a feud and Anthony couldn't tip a waiter at this point.

All-Star weekend delivered. We run through every event and dribble over a cracking All-Star game. Then focus shifts back to the NBA season. The buyout market has dried up, which contenders added pieces? Kyrie's season over and KAT banged up. We go bold and predict what will happen for the rest of the season. Finally, we finish up with some burning questions.

We've got ourselves a bunch of trades. We run through all the trades made at the deadline and how this leaves each team shaped. Who were the winners and losers of the deadline. Nikola Jokic is on fire leading the Nuggets. All-Star weekend predictions. Aaron Gordon isn't winning the dunk contest and if you want to get rich listen to our Rising Stars MVP prediction.

On today's show we discuss Lakers tribute to Kobe, Dame playing elite, Kyrie shooting lights out, donnybrook between the Grizzlies and the Knicks, All-star Benches, Rising stars rosters, Injuries across the league, Player of the week and we bid farewell to Toby.

We take a look at the league's response to the passing of Kobe Bryant before touching on the rest of the news, including the All-Star starters.

We look back on Kobe Bryant's life and career in the wake of his passing.

We hit the news including a couple of questionable trades, update our tips, name our player of the week and Aaron describes his adventures on Hawks Twitter.

We hit all the NBA news from the past week including Kyrie's predictable return (and questionable GM skills), Harden's inefficiency, Ja Morant's emergence and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's run. We (eventually) remember that the Jazz are on a 10-game streak while we crunch the numbers on the East and West playoff race and make our predictions as to where the teams will fall come the end of the season.

We hit the NBA news for the week.   Twitter and Facebook - @benchdribblepod Email - benchdribblepod@gmail.com

We are back after the Christmas-New Year break. We hit all the news including touching on David Stern's legacy, Melo-drama, Kevin Love and some trade rumours. Finally, we recap our tip situation and look ahead to trade season proper.

Aaron's had an absolute gutful of prawns at Christmas lunch so stopped by for a very quick news wrap. We hit the new season tournament proposals, Giannis on a tear and preview the Christmas Day games including a new slant to our tips. Merry Christmas all.

We hit the NBA news from the weekend and discuss a range of trade possibilities with 90% of players now eligible to be traded. Will we find a taker for Dion Waiters? Probably not but there's always a chance.  

We discuss the week in NBA news, which was topped by James Harden and Anthony Davis scoring 50. Devonte' Graham and Bam Adebayo get all the love. We start to preview next week's trade deadline, including an extensive list of forwards preferable over Kevin Love.

After another week of disorganisation, we hit the news including a passionate Chris Paul debate, decide on our player of the week and once again couldn't agree less in our tips segment. Find us on Facebook and Twitter @benchdribble pod Email us @ benchdribblepod@gmail.com Look for us on www.finder.com.au 

We hit the news including Harden's historic game, talk about the Mavs taking down the Lakers and debate the virtues of taking an upside big in the lottery. Facebook/Twitter @benchdribblepod benchdribblepod@gmail.com

An episode on the lighter side, we ruminate on NBA scheduling, discuss the plethora of return games from the past week including Kyrie's Instagram Story, Clips vs Mavs and make our picks for the final tips of the month of November.

On today's episode, we discuss trade ideas for Andre Iguodala in the wake of the confirmation that there will be no buyout. From there, we discuss the NBA's proposed changes to the regular season and playoffs including the in-season tournament and conference finals reseeding. We hate most of the city jerseys but talk at length about the Grizzlies effort. Finally, we crown a familiar face as Player of the Week.   benchdribblepod@gmail.com for questions @benchdribblepod on Twitter and Facebook

After a 2 week layoff, the Bench Dribble pod is back. Today we discuss the Clippers' new start with PG and Kawhi together, MVP buzz, check in with the standings to see who is contender and who is a pretender and see if we can't clear a few beds in the Hospital Ward.

NBA tips are back and oh how the tides have turned! Friend of the show Brett is back to run his eye over the Celtics Jokic back with another game winner, Raptors own half of LA, Boston manhandles Dallas. Our new hospital ward segment explores the injuries happening around the league. This includes Hayward, Middleton, Fox and more. NBA player of the week this time goes to a player whose team we'd been picking on.

Lillard, Russel, Siakam, Doncic and Wiggins drop some crazy stat lines. Game winners from Jokic and Bogdanovic Who's number 1 in the league in usage? Miami and Phoenix are rolling Injuries galore - Hayward breaks his hand as we record the podcast! Twitter: @benchdribblepod Facebook: @bench dribble NBA podcast Email: benchdribblepod@gmail.com

Embiid and KAT get suspended. A couple of game winners courtesy of Furkan Korkmaz and Jayson Tatum. Aaron's poor Mavs blow the game versus the Lakers. Our NBA player of the week award. Houston we have a problem, Northwest division struggles. Adidas buying out John Wall? Good guy Joe Ingles.   Toby whoops Aaron in Fantasy and NBA tipping.

We got ourselves an old fashioned scrap between Joel Embiid and Karl Anthony Towns. The Warriors look done now that Steph has broken his hand. We run through a whole lot of NBA action

The NBA is finally back under way! We give our extensive breakdown of the Lakers vs Clippers. Raptors ring night against the Pelicans, run through the rest of the first two days from the league before a news wrap. Hit us up at Twitter: benchdribblepod Facebook: The bench dribble NBA podcast Gmail: benchdribblepod@gmail.com

NBA is just three days away! It's our final news round up: Zion injury Beal and Siakam extension Brown, Sabonis and Hield extension talks fall through 2020 free agency outlook NBA tipping competition Best and worst league pass teams First coach fired Team that exceeds expectations and team that fails expectations.  

The Bench Dribble Pod wraps up the NBA preszn today. We point out things that stood out from NBA preszn The NBA China debacle Which rookies have impressed so far

On this episode we run through every single teams highlights and newsworthy mentions from training camp and media day. Tony is in as co-host this week to fill Toby's void. We run through teams via division. We start off with the Southwest (1:07), Central (20:35), Southeast (30:10), Pacific (43:38), Atlantic (58:39) and finish with the Northwest (70:11). Hit us up with some Q's on Twitter- benchdribblepod Facebook- benchdribblepod Email- benchdribblepod@gmail.com

Battle of the brains, as Aaron, Brett and Toby go head to head in NBA trivia. Brett must've got stuck in a time machine as he smashes the 90's. Spoiler alert there's a lot of wrong answers, but a lot of laughs.

We begin with the roller-coaster that was the Boomers World Cup campaign with a look ahead to Tokyo 2020, laugh about USA's 7th place finish (5:18), NBA news begins from (15:08), our first ever mailbag questions have been submitted (24:57). Twitter: benchdribblepod Email: benchdribblepod@gmail.com Facebook: bench dribble podcast Youtube: Bench Dribble

On this weeks episode we touch on Mike Scott throwing hands & talk about KD's interview. We are hyped for the Boomers rolling through France in the World Cup. The 9th wonder of the world Luis Scola eliminates Nikola Jokic and Serbia. Brett is back for another cameo with our new top 5 segment and we finish off with some trivia.... hint:Brett is a quizmaster. Twitter: benchdribblepod Facebook: The Bench Dribble NBA Podcast  Gmail: benchdribblepod@gmail.com

On this episode, a very quick round of NBA news, including Eric Gordons new deal. We go into the FIBA World Cup, looking at the strong play of the Boomers and Serbia, the struggles of USA and Greece and highlight who else has been balling. Then we call up some friends to grill them on their teams. Brett delivers a humorous interview on his Celtics and Tony, maybe the only true nets fan stumbles his way through his lofty expectations. Hit us with some questions for our next episode @ Twitter:benchdribblepod Facebook: The Bench Dribble NBA Podcast Email: benchdribblepod@gmail.com

The boomers notch their first ever win over the USA, snapping a 66 game win streak & first loss since 2006. We recap our experience of the USA vs Canada game in Sydney. Run through this weeks NBA news, Caris Levert's extension. Dwight Howard back in LA, Jeremy Lin, Devin Booker, Delonte West & the NBA rookie survey - will Zion break the streak? We finish up with some NBA guess who & trivia.

We take a look at the All-Decade teams, picking apart the criteria the teams were put together on, throw shade at AD & Melo, throw love to Dirk & Timmy D. Then, we discuss some new homes for CP3, Beal & Love, that nets which contender a new big 3? Finally, we go searching  high & low for the leagues next Siakam. Twitter:https://twitter.com/benchdribble Email:benchdribblepod@gmail.com

On todays ep we run through some early early pre-szn hot takes, who put the Raptors in their crosshairs to miss the playoffs & who has DLo leading the dubs in scoring. Who will earn their first All-Star birth? We throw out our pre preseason NBA award predictions, Zion isn't our consensus ROY, renaming the DPOY award the Gobert award, we stick with the European theme for MVP & although we think the Larry O'Brien trophy is as open as ever we both come up with the same two teams.

Welcome to the debut ep of the Bench Dribble Podcast! We talk some FIBA World Cup news, discuss the struggles of team USA & run through the over/under lines for each NBA team.