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In this week's episode of The Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will hand out their weekly awards before diving into the hottest news from around the Association. First order of business will be "Chokegate" as the guys will give their takes on Draymond Green's UFC moment against the Minnesota Timberwolves and Rudy Gobert, exploring also the bigger issues for the Golden State Warriors. After that, the crew will breakdown both team's start of the season and prospect for the rest of the year. Are the T'Wolves contenders for the title or to win the West? Is the Warriors dynasty done? Is there anyone coming to save them?

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will give out their weekly awards and then dive right into the James Harden trade from the Philadelphia 76ers to the Los Angeles Clippers. Is this team still a top contender in the Western Conference? How will James "The System" Harden fit in a team with Kawhi, PG, and Russ? How will this impact the Philadelphia 76ers? After that, it is overreaction time for the boys, as they will give their piping hot takes from the start of the season.

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will give out their weekly awards and then dive right into the first week of action in the NBA. Thoughts on teams off to a slow start and those that are still undefeated, we will bring you our first impressions without overreacting much, that is for next episode! After that the Dagger will grade each NBA City Edition uniform from top to bottom and trust us there are not many that are worth buying this year. To finish off the episode the guys will give a quick take on the NBA In-season Tourney and then pick the 5 Games of the Week.

In this week's episode of The Dagger Basketball Podcast, the boys are BACK!!! The crew is back together for good after a period of absence. Today, we will bring you guys the annual season preview as the NBA restarts tonight with an amazing two-game slate. We will have our over/under segment covering each team's total wins. Will the Bucks go over their win total line? After that we will give their out way-too-early NBA awards, predicting who will be the Rookie of the Year, the Sixth Man of the Year, and the MVP. To finish of the first episode of our fourth season, we will start our weekly 5 Games of the Week segment.

The Dagger Basketball Podcast is back with a bang after a few weeks of hiatus because of Deon's wedding! The crew will start by covering the biggest news from the month of September. Damian "Dame Dolla" Lillard has finally left the Portland Trail Blazers after over a decade and moved East to land in Milwaukee to play alongside the Greak Freak Giannis Antetokounmpo! What an absolute blockbuster trade, and we will go over it in this episode with a very special guest! Does this move put the Milwaukee Bucks on top of the league again?

In this week's episode of The Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will give their takes on Team USA's downfall at FIBA World Cup where the guys failed to bring home any hardware for the trophy case. Who is to blame for this disaster of a team? Will this bring back some of the better players to the Team USA roster for next year's World Cup? All questions we will answer in this episode. Then we will move on and rate your favorite NBA podcasts, we will each rate the best NBA Podcasts rating them A to F, and in some instances F-.

In this week's episode of The Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will give out their usual weekly awards to start off and then dive right into some conspiracies about the NBA! The episode will feature some of the juiciest conspiracies like the alleged MJ and Jimmy Butler story, the draft lottery drama, and the Blake Griffin Dunk Contest backstory! Are these all true or is it just fiction made up by NBA fans? These and more will be answered by the boys together with a special guest returning for his favorite segment!!

On this week's episode of The Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will not be handing out one award... because they will hand out a whole plethora of them! It is the Annual Dagger's Hooper of the Week and Good Hustle Awards show!!!!! The guys will review the entire year and choose their favorite awards that have been handed out in the last year, so come stroll down memory lane with the boys! Bonus segment will cover Jaylen Brown's hypermax extension. The episode will conclude with a few trivia questions so stay tuned till the end!

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will catch up on the news from around the association in the past 2 weeks! After giving the weekly awards, we will dive into the NBA Summer League giving our takes about the rookies, the teams, and the whole format of this tournament. After that we then move to the awkward silence around the league after the Damian Lillard trade request. Will he be traded? Will he stay? What is actually going on in his head right now? If he does get traded, where will he end up? We will then briefly touch on a topic that we have not spoken on yet, in the Ja Morant suspension.

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew is finally all back together and will review everything that happened in the past two weeks! We will start with the weekly awards, which will feature some crazy contracts that have been handed out this past week. Next, we give our review of the NBA Draft identifying the winners and losers of the draft night, some reaches, and some diamonds! After that, we will break down each of the biggest trades and trade requests like CP3, Porzingis, Dame, and Harden.

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast the crew is finally back after a short period off! The usual weekly awards will be given and then we will jump right into giving a breakdown of the NBA Finals and the NBA Champions Denver Nuggets. Then we will switch gears and give our analysis of the Bradley Beal trade to the Phoenix Suns! The last part of the episode will give a full preview of the upcoming NBA Draft that will held this Thursday, with a Top 3 that will be remember for so time!

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will have much to talk about as the NBA Playoffs Conference Finals have come to an end. The first part of the episode will cover the teams that have been eliminated, the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. What went wrong for these teams? Who is the most at fault in each team? What does the future hold for these two franchises? These questions will all be answered in this episode! In the second part of the episode, the crew will give a preview of the 2023 NBA Finals between the Denver Nuggets and the Miami Heat!

In this week's episode of The Dagger Basketball Podcast, after the crew hands out their weekly awards, we will dive in and breakdown the situation for each of the four eliminated teams in the second round of the NBA Playoffs! Covering the total cleanup in Phoenix, the meltdown in Philadelphia, the problems in New York, and the end of a dynasty in the west. After that we will preview the Conference finals featuring the keys for winning the series for each team and our predictions on who will book a spot in the 2023 NBA Finals!

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will give out their weekly Hooper of the Week and Good Hustle awards before diving right into the Second Round of the 2023 NBA Playoffs! From the explosive series in the East between the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers, to the fiery Denver Nuggets and Phoenix Suns series out West. The hoops on the floor, the drama between Nikola Jokic and the Suns owner, and the predictions for how the series will end are all going to be covered in this episode.

This week on the Dagger Basketball Podcast we will host a support group for all you devastated Milwaukee Bucks fans after their First-Round loss in this year's NBA Playoff to the 8-seed Miami Heat! We will bring in two very special guests to help us breakdown what went wrong for the Giannis and Co. We will also bring you our thoughts on what the future holds for this organization and specifically Coach Bud. After that we will also react to a couple other stories coming out of the First-Round with two teams that are in trouble after their poor performances.

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, we will be talking about what has been happening in the first round of the 2023 NBA Playoffs focusing mainly on two particular players that had a spotlight shined upon them. Draymond Green and Dillon Brooks the two NBA villains that have been the center of attention in a negative way in these first games of the playoffs both ejected once already in the first round. Additionally, we will go over two spicy series with the Heat taking a commanding lead and the Warriors tying it up.

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, we are having our annual end of the regular season award ceremony! Rookie of the Year, Most Improved Player, Coach of the Year, 6th Man of the Year, and the most anticipated MVP award will all be given in this episode! Additionally, we will form our All-NBA teams for the 2022-23 season with a lot of variety given that a lot of players deserved to be on these lists! We will also review the Game 1s from the past weekend and react to some of their outcomes.

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast we will start with the weekly awards with a great variety of recipients of Hooper of the Week awards. Then we will move on and start breaking down the play-in tournament games starting this Tuesday. Will Playoff Jimmy make an appearance? Will the Atlanta Hawks pull it together and make it on the playoff bracket? Do the Wolves have a chance without Gobert and McDaniels? Next, we will cover the first-round matchups that are actually set and give our predictions on who we think will make it to the next round.

This week the Dagger Basketball Podcast turns 100 episodes old!!! In our third season we have reached the century mark so we will celebrate going down memory lane in the out of bounds question for the week while also looking at the future and what it holds for the pod. However, we cannot go the week without talking some hoops so we will go over the Angel vs Caitlin drama that transpired from the Women's Championship game this past weekend! Additionally, there is trouble in paradise as the Dallas Mavericks are out of the playoffs as it currently stands.

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will give out their weekly awards which are very March Madness themed given the past weekend we just had in college basketball! Then a guest will join the show to go over two teams that are struggling after having a stellar season up until two weeks ago, the Boston Celtics and the Denver Nuggets. It is the wrong time to start slowing down and we will breakdown what we can expect going into the 2023 playoffs. The second part of the show will be a review of the first weekend of the NCAA Basketball Tournament and all the crazy games that happened.

This week on The Dagger Basketball Podcast the crew start the episode by handing out the weekly awards with the HOTW and GH awards, and will also choose the 5 Games of the Week winners. And that is it for NBA basketball this week because it is MARCH MADNESS BABYYYYYYYY!!! We will bring in our very special guest and college basketball specialist to help us breakdown the bracket as we head into the start of the tournament on Thursday! You can also join The Dagger Fam Bracketology group and add your bracket to compete with us during March Madness at the link below. https://fantasy.espn.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2023/en/group?redirect=tcmen%3A%2F%2Fx-callback-url%2FshowGroup%3FgroupID%3D5277440&ex_cid=tcmen2023_clipboard&groupID=5277440&inviteuser=e0Q0N0Y3QzFGLTE1MzItNDVDMy05MzRBLTY2RUQ5QzlFMEFBN30%3D&invitesource=clipboard

This week on the Dagger Basketball Podcast the crew is back together and will start the episode with the usual weekly awards! Then the main topics will be the Ja Morant saga bringing you all you need to know to get up to date with all that has happened and the impending 50 game suspension that could be imposed on him by the league. Then we will move on and talk about the scorching hot New York Knicks! Wait did I say that right? Yes, the Knicks are on a 9-game win streak, and we will tell you whether they are for real or not.

On this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will have a guest host to replace TC on his temporary leave of absence. The topics for this week will start by covering the NBA All-Star Weekend from the Friday events to the Sunday main event. This year did not disappoint, it did even worse. After that the boys will finally have a chance to react to LeBron James breaking the record and becoming the NBA's all-time leading scorer. What does this do for his legacy? Is he the best scorer all time? These questions and more will be answered on this week's episode.

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast the crew brings in a very special guest and friend of the podcast to talk about the 2023 NBA Trade Deadline and all the moves that occurred the past week. The focus will be on the Kevin Durant trade to the Phoenix Suns with a reflection on his time in Brooklyn, then we will also go over the Los Angeles Lakers activity at the deadline and how their prospects have changed going forward. We will conclude the segment by giving an overview of a few teams that needed to make moves but stayed silent during this extremely hot NBA market!

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will start of with the weekly Hooper of the Week and Good Hustle Awards with a lot of And-1s. Then we will move on to the first segment of the episode in which we will discuss the craziness surrounding the Kyrie Irving move to the Dallas Mavericks after his sudden trade request. Then we will give some predictions on who we think will move on the deadline and which teams will look to get active on Thursday as either buyers or sellers.

This week on the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the episode will start with the weekly awards and then the crew will host a very special guest, PAPA Franklin is back in the studio to bring us his latest takes about last weekend's events that transpired from the Los Angeles Lakers game at the TD Garden against the Boston Celtics. We will also address the refereeing problems in today's NBA and give our potential solutions. Additionally, we will go over the NBA All-Star starters selections and we will comment on the snubs from this year's votes.

This week on the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the Philadelphia 76ers have been on a streak for the past two weeks concluding their road trip out west in the best way possible. The crew will give their take on whether this team is for real or will they remain in the second tier of teams in the eastern conference. After that the guys will move on and give their 2023 NBA All-Star game roster predictions after the third and final round of votes came in this week! At the end of the episode we will have another OOB "Would you rather" segment!!

This week on the Dagger Basketball Podcast the guys will start by bringing you the weekly awards with some extra spicy good hustle awards from the past week around the world of sports. Then the episode will cover the Ja and the Memphis Grizzlies recent rise to the top of the western conference after their 11 game win streak, and then move on to the Milwaukee Bucks to see if there is cause to be concerned given their scoring struggles so far in the season. After covering those two teams the crew will move on and hand out team awards for the halfway point in the season, such as best team, biggest surprise, and more. Then the episode will end with a new type of OOB that you do not want to miss!

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, we will not be exclusively handing out our weekly awards because we have reached the halfway point of the season and as customary we will give out our mid-season awards. We will start by bringing you the player awards including the Most Improved Player, the Rookie of the Year, and the MVP with many more after that. We will then move to our mid-season power rankings where we will go through all 30 teams and rank them in order of strength at this point in the season.

This week on The Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will give out their usual weekly awards with a couple extra ones for good measure! Then we will dive right into the Christmas Day games which featured a lot of NBA stars but also a lot of injuries. The guys will breakdown each game in chronological order and give their takeaways from each of the game on the Christmas Day slate. Additionally, there will be more awards handed out in this episode, which include the Christmas Day MVP, Coach of the Day, the Grinch, and much more!

This week on the Dagger Basketball Podcast it is all bad news from around the league, after handing out the Hoopers of the Week the crew will cover a few teams that are having a nightmare couple of weeks heading into the Christmas Day games. Starting with the Boston Celtics recent slump including their back-to-back losses to the Orlando Magic, stopping by the Dallas Mavericks and their struggles so far in the season, and finishing with the new injuries of Steph Curry and Anthony Davis and how these will impact the playoff chances of the Warriors and the Lakers. Then we will choose our Christmas Day games winners as our 5 games of the week.

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will start off by bringing you their weekly Hooper of the Week and Good Hustle awards with a little extra sauce in there. Then the guys will dive in on the latest NBA action starting off with the recent slump of the Atlanta Hawks, what is their main problem and why are they on this downward spiral. The main course for this episode however is the new rivalry in the NBA starting out west. The New Orleans Pelicans and the Phoenix Suns had some words for each other during their back-to-back games this past week, and we are here for it! The crew will also give their takes on the "Dunk" by Zion Williamson!

In this week's episode of the Dagger, the guys will bring on a new guest to the show, Kendrick Hippler will join the pod for the first time to give us his takes on the recent developments around the league and a little closer look at his Miami Heat. The guys will go over Karl-Anthony Towns' injury and how it affects the Minnesota Timberwolves, the recent Brooklyn Nets rise to .500, and a new segment where we decide whether teams need to blow up their rosters or keep the current players and build around them. In the end, we will have another Christmas-themed OOB question since it is the Holiday SZN!

This week on The Dagger Basketball Podcast the guys will give the usual weekly awards with the Hoopers of the Week & the Good Hustle Awards! The first topic will focus on the Los Angeles Lakers starting with the Push by Patrick Beverley and then moving on to their hot streak. Next, the guys will cover the Indiana Pacers and their white-hot start to the season going 12-8 in the first 20 games of their 2022-23 campaign. Stick around after the 5-games of the week to listen to the Christmas Movies draft for this year's Xmas season!

This week on The Dagger Basketball Podcast the boys are going to talk about a team that has had an unexpectedly HOT couple of weeks beating big teams around the league, the Sacramento Kings are on a 5-game winning streak and we are here for it! Then we will move to "Laddergate" and bring you our take on the Giannis Antetokoumpo accident in Philadelphia after the game. We will also play a game for the first time in a while called "Shot or No Shot" you do not want to miss that one. We will end the episode on a more festive note with a Thanksgiving-themed OOB!!

This week on The Dagger Basketball Podcast the guys will start the episode with the usual weekly awards with some extra ones since we skipped last week's episode! Then we will dive in and give our takes on the Brooklyn Nets drama that went down the last few weeks with Kyrie Irving and the "Checklist", the firing of Steve Nash, and the almost hiring of Ime Udoka. After that we will comment on the Golden State Warriors and their slow start to the season, Championship hangover is real! We will also bring to you our rankings for the NBA City Edition jerseys for every team.

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will continue to overreact to the start of the season as teams are continuing to surprise us with their performances whether they are positive or negative. One of the biggest surprises being the Brooklyn Nets starting the season 1-5, yep that is correct 1-5 record to start the season for Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and company. Will they be able to get the season back on track? Will they be able to bring back old Ben Simmons? These questions and more will be answered on this week's episode. We will also continue the 5 Games of the Week segment with some spicy games!

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will give out their usual weekly Hooper of the Week and Good Hustle awards! Then we will overreact to Week 1 of the NBA regular season with a long-awaited special guest, PAPA Franklin is back on the pod to give us the hottest takes from opening week!! We will cover the hot starts of the Boston Celtics and Portland Trail Blazers, and the slow starts of the Los Angeles Lakers and Philadelphia 76ers. Additionally, we will restart the 5 games of the week segment and then end the episode with a spooky OOB!

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, we will give out our weekly Hooper and Good Hustle awards and then dive into the Golden State Warriors situation regarding the two new contracts and the Draymond Green situation! After that we will each bring you guys our regular season awards predictions including who we think will win the MVP, DPOY, 6 Man of the Year, Rookie of the Year, and more. We will also be giving you our thoughts on who we think will end up in each of the All-NBA teams at the end of the season, spoiler alert we all have different teams. We will conclude the episode with an OOB draft that you do not want to miss!

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will start by talking about all the consequences that arose after the Draymond Green punch to Jordan Poole during the Golden State Warriors preseason practice last week. After that we will move overseas to analyze the hottest commodity for teams in the bottom half of the standings this year that is Victor Wenbanyama from France. The kid has the whole league salivating over him already!! We will also analyze the other major prospect in the 2023 NBA Draft and that is Scoot Henderson. Additionally, we will give our thoughts to the NBA's impending rule change lowering the draft age to 18 in the 2024 draft.

In this episode of the Dager Basketball Podcast, the crew will start by going over all the news that came out of NBA Media Day 2022, from what is going on behind the scenes in Brooklyn, to a very fit-looking Zion Williamson, and to the Suns' struggles in the offseason. Additionally, we will go over the Vegas lines for each team's win totals that came out this week, some of these lines are very optimistic so there might be a few surprises. The crew will finish by going out of bounds with another draft, this time they will pick their favorite cereal!

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast the crew will give out their usual weekly awards, with a rare repeated appearance on the Good Hustle Award category. Then the guys will move to the first segment which will be review the blockbuster trade that occurred last week between the Utah Jazz and the Cleveland Cavaliers, sending Donovan Mitchell to the Eastern Conference! And finally the Division-By-Division season preview will start as the crew will analyze and predict how the Atlantic Division teams will perform in the upcoming 2022-23 NBA season.