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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 gives 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 brings in a familiar guest to go over the shockingly unexpected drama that the Boston Celtics are facing during this offseason with the Coach Ime Udoka and the yearlong suspension he will serve this season. How will the Celtics respond to this adversity? We will give you our predictions on how we think things will unfold. Additionally, we will react to the newly released ESPN Top 100 NBA players list that is more controversial than ever!

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.

This week on the Dagger Basketball Podcast the crew will cover the hottest news from around the league from the Patrick Beverley move to the Los Angeles Lakers, to Kevin Durant's face off with the Brooklyn Nets' front office, and the Chet Holmgren foot injury durin the star-studded Pro-Am game in Seattle last week. Additionally, the crew will go over the remaining free agents while giving their opinion on where they will all end up before the new season starts in a couple months. At the end of the episode the guys will also go out of bounds with a very interesting musical topic.

This week on the Dagger Basketball the guys will go over the newly released Christmas Day schedule for the NBA, a few weird picks by the NBA but all-around solid slate of games. After that the main course of the episode will be the most famous "What If..." scenarios from the NBA history. We will cover the greatest players that go injured and what their career would have looked like. Then we will also cover the Chris Paul to the Lakers trade veto, the Michael Jordan retirement, ad much much more!

As everybody knows it is the off-season and with the off-season we all know that not much basketball is going on! However, it is still a wonderful time of the year as in this episode the crew will give their nominees for Hooper of The Year and Good Hustle of the year, and then decide who will take each award!! Notable nominees like Bethany College, Will Smith, Steph Curry, and Dick Vitale will be in the run for it all. Additionally, after the award ceremony, we will be playing start one, bench one, cut one, with some of the all-time greats and some of today's NBA players!!

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will start by giving out their usual Hooper of the Week and Good Hustle awards and then segway into free agency/trade talk! We will cover all of the Brooklyn Nets drama surrounding that organization, starting with the unrealistic trade demands by the Nets for KD and ending with the Kyrie Irving to the Los Angeles Lakers rumors. Then we will cover all the major trades that went down in the past two weeks, with the main ones being the Boston Celtics trading for Malcom Brogdon and the Minnesota Timberwolves giving up the farm to get Rudy Gobert. After that we will move to free agency signing and the madness that is going on in the big apple!

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast the boys are back with their draft reactions! Some big surprises on the top of the board especially with regards to the number one pick and the number 4 pick, did the Sacramento Kings mess up by passing on Jaden Ivey? Only time will tell, or if you cannot wait that long, TC will tell you right now in this episode. Which players are in the best and worst situation as of today? Which teams performed the best on draft night? Who will win the 2023 Rookie of the Year Race? All of that and more in this episode. The second part of the episode will feature our free agency preview where we will give our thoughts on the trades that already happened and predictions on where some of the top free agents in the market will end up!

It is a Hot "NBA" Summer everybody!!! The finals just ended, the Golden State Warriors are yet again the new NBA Champions after defeating the Boston Celtics in six games, Curry finally gets his first NBA Finals MVP and fourth ring. The crew is back to give you all their takes on what went wrong and what went right during these Finals and some takes on the repercussion that stemmed from the Warriors winning this championship. That is not all though because tomorrow the NBA Draft is already here and next week free agency opens so a lot of content for us to speak on. On this episode, after covering the Finals we will also give you our Pre-Draft analysis of all the top prospect and give you a few hidden gems and potentially great fits that we see from the players in the Draft this year.

We're Going Back To Cali!!! On Thursday the NBA Finals will start featuring the Golden State Warriors and the Boston Celtics. The series will start in California with a highly anticipated Game 1, and we are here to give you the full breakdown of how we see this matchup going, who are the X-Factors, and who in our eyes will come out on top at the end. Before this though, we will review the conference finals that saw the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat sent home! What went wrong and what went right in those series? We will give you all the answers to these questions in this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast!

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will analyze all of the series of the second round of the NBA Playoffs from the crazy seven game series that saw the two finals teams from last year get knocked out of the playoffs on the same day to the more "chill" series that saw the Miami Heat and the Golden State Warriors prevail. then the guys will preview the Conference Finals matchup, which are looking very promising and entertaining. At the beginning of the episode there will also be a segment on the Joker and his MVP Award and whether or not him receiving this honor back-to-back years brings down the value of the award itself.

What an amazing first couple of games we had in Round Two of the NBA Playoffs this past week in each of the four series. To help us cover the games we decided to bring in some reinforcements, Deon's brother Tristan Lord and Papa Franklin will join us and bring a fresh perspective on how they believe the playoffs have been going and where they will go from now. Will the Miami Heat Sweep the Philadelphia 76ers? Will Luka pull off some magic to turn this series around? Who will come out on top between Celtics and Bucks? And will the Warriors actually beat the Grizzlies? This is and much much more in this week's episode of the Dagger!

This week on the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will continue to review the 2022 NBA Playoffs! More and more shocking results coming from around the league, and we have our first eliminations. The Brooklyn Nets are sent packing by the Boston Celtics in four games. All the other series are still open in both sides of the playoff brackets. Timberwolves and Grizzlies are going at it and same goes for Suns and Pelicans. While on the other side we have a team that is rising from the dead, the Toronto Raptors who are trying to make it even when thy next play in Toronto. This and much more will be covered during this episode together with our weekly awards.

Off we go!!! The First Round of the 2022 NBA Playoffs started this past weekend with some amazing games, extraordinary individual and team performance, and with one huge surprise in Game 1 of one of the series. No shot anyone could have predicted that one. The crew will review all the first games for each series while reacting to some of the best and worst performances from the weekend. Additionally, the guys will also give their All-NBA Teams and All-Defense Teams in the second part of the episode.

It is NBA Playoffs time everybody and they are shaping up to be extra spicy this year with rivalries and epic first round matchups between superstars. But first there are the Play-In games to cover because we have some great games going on in these couple of days. These teams are fighting for a spot in the playoffs, and we will breakdown the different games and scenarios that come with this Play-In tournament. Additionally, we will preview the four Playoff matchups that we already know will happen starting this Saturday.

As we head into the final week of the NBA regular season the playoff picture is taking shape! The crew will take this opportunity to each give their full Power Rankings and end of season awards! The top remains unchanged but there are some new teams right behind the dominant Phoenix Suns. The MVP race is heating up but according to the guys there is one clear winner already.

We are in the home stretch everyone! With little over five games to go in the season teams are getting ready to shift focus to the post-season. Some teams are looking locked and loaded, others are on shaky grounds and are showing some weaknesses. The Miami Heat being one of the late season strugglers with locker room problems and court problems will be the focus of this episode. Additionally, the crew will give their full review of the upcoming March Madness Final Four, which features some legendary matchups.

It has been a crazy March indeed everyone! The first round of the NCAA Men's March Madness absolutely did not disappoint, from 15 seed St. Peter's knocking out 2 seed Kentucky to the almost routine 5-12 upsets. What games were the most fun? What payers have impressed you the most? Who is the favorite to win it going into the Sweet Sixteen? These questions and more will be answered during this episode!! The second half of the episode, however, will shift back to our bread and butter, which is the NBA. Chicago Bulls and Golden State Warriors are struggling late in the regular season fighting through injuries and slumps, is this cause to be concerned?

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the guys will go over the Philadelphia 76ers matchup with the Brooklyn Nets from last week, and how the rest of the season looks for these two organizations. Coach Greg Popovich broke the NBA wins record last week and the crew will reflect on his impact and rank him among NBA coaches al-time. The bulk of the episode, however, will focus on March Madness! Yes, it is that time of the year and we will breakdown the bracket for everyone at home. After listening to the episode go on ESPN and join our bracketology group "Dagger Bracketology 2022".

In this week's episode of the Dagger, we brought on our friend Karsten Bailey from the "Ball Is Law" podcast. We will start by covering the Golden State Warriors latest struggles without Draymond Green and with Klay Thompson's frustration as he tries to come back into his form. Then we will also go over a few teams that are making a late season run up the Western Conference standings and deciding whether or not they can overcome the Warriors for the third spot in the West. The last topic will be teams that will have to make some coaching decisions this summer ranging from the Los Angeles Lakers to the Brooklyn Nets. All this and much more in this week's episode so make sure you catch it!

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, there will be quite a few hot takes and predictions as to how the last quarter of the season will wrap up! One of the guys already called their NBA 2022 Champions, another speculated on the Lakers' odds, and the other is betting on a very deep and unlikely playoff run by one of the teams out west! These and many other predictions were all given in this episode of the Dagger. Stick around until the end for one of the most hilarious "Out of Bounds" questions we have ever had on this podcast!

On this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball, the crew will give a full breakdown of the NBA All-Star Weekend. For all of those of you that watched the "Slam-Dunk Contest", we will give our thoughts and it will not be pretty at all! The 3 Point Contest ended with a huge surprise, which begs the question "Is Karl-Anthony Towns the best shooting center of all time?" The second part of the episode will cover the Boston Celtics and their newfound form before the All-Star Break, is this something that can keep up into the Playoffs or will they go back to their old ways? 

On this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball, the guys will cover last week's NBA Trade Deadline! There were so many moves so we will bring to you the most impactful and shocking, such as James Harden moving to the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for Ben Simmons, Sabonis moving to the Western Conference and teaming up with De'Aaron Fox, and Kristaps Porzingis saying goodbye to Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks for good! The crew will also give out their weekly awards as usual and go "Out of Bounds" with a non-basketball related question.

So much to unpack from this past week of NBA Basketball! The Dagger crew will bring it all to you in this episode from the Brooklyn Nets struggles in the past few weeks with the Kevin Durant Injury and the words he and Stephen A. Smith exchanged on Twitter, the return of Kyrie Irving, the James Harden trade rumors, and their 8-game losing streak. Moving on, the guys will also give their own trade deadline predictions while also giving their takes on the Blazers-Clippers & the Pacers-Cavaliers trades that already happened prior to the deadline. A short review on the All-Star Game rosters will be given covering the snubs and any surprises from the selections.

This week on The Dagger Basketball, the crew will honor the late Kobe Bryant as it was recently the anniversary of his passing, with questions like how did Kobe impact the game and us personally with his Mamba Mentality. Moving along the Atlanta Hawks recently went on a 7-game win streak thus catching our attention, are they for real or is it just a fluke? The main topic of the episode, however, will be the Mid-Season Power Ranking, which team is dominating, and which teams are sitting at the bottom of the league. The Suns are taking a commanding lead but there are teams that are surging the rankings that will challenge their dominance.

We have just passed the halfway point of the NBA season, and what a season it has been so far!! The race for the top spot in the East is still wide open as there are only 8 games separating the first spot and the twelfth. The Wild West is still an enigma with so many surprises already at the midseason mile marker. This week the crew will give out their all-star rosters and midseason NBA awards from Most Improved Player to Most Valuable Player the guys will bring to you their thoughts on who they believe should receive these awards if the season ended today. And as usual the weekly segments: Weekly Awards, Out of Bounds, and Games of the Week.

We are back with another episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast and this week there are a wide variety of topics that the crew covered. The guys will start by giving their thoughts on the second round of All-Star voting and trust us there are plenty of surprises in both the frontcourt and guards department. Then the crew will go over the news that came from North Korea and their basketball rules, there are some crazy rules, but one might be suitable for NBA basketball. Finally, the guys will share their thoughts on Klay Thompson's return to the league after two and a half years away from the game. The episode will also feature the usual segments, the weekly awards and the "Out of Bounds".

It is 2022 everybody so to start the year off right the crew will be sharing their NBA New Year's resolutions and their favorite moments from the year we left behind and what a year it was with records shattered and new NBA Champions. The NBA has brought so many surprises this season and two of them are the Memphis Grizzlies and the Chicago Bulls. The guys will cover the recent success and consistency of these two teams and what impressed us the most from them. Was it the new faces that are making the impact in the Windy City? Or was it the Grizzlies' development from year to year? The episode will finish with a very heroic "Out of Bounds" question that will spark a lively debate.

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will hand out their weekly awards, Hooper of the Week & Good Hustle Awards. The main course of this episode, however, will be a game by game review of this year's NBA Christmas Day slate. Starting from the Atlanta Hawks vs. New York Knicks and finishing with the Dallas Mavericks vs. Utah Jazz. From Superstars to G-League players this year's Christmas Day was a bit different and the guys will share their thoughts on the games. Additionally, the crew will also go over the rumors surrounding the NBA about the potential addition of a mis-season tournament. Concluding with the now routine 5 games of the week.

This week on the Dagger we have a bunch of topics to cover especially regarding the Omicron infestation taking over the NBA in the past two weeks. Players going missing in the health and safety protocols, players coming back from the dead, and many more moves and countermoves from the teams and the players. Who has been impacted the most from the new COVID-19 variant?Kyrie is coming back!!!!! Maybe. The crew will go over whether Kyrie's return is beneficial to the Brooklyn Nets or not. What's wrong with the New York Knicks? Should the Los Angeles Lakers move Anthony "Street Clothes" Davis? All these questions will be answered in this week's episode.

On this week's episode, there are some interesting questions that the guys will go over. Steph Curry or Kevin Durant? The Boston Celtics Dilemma on whether Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum can still co-exist on the same team? Cleveland Cavaliers, Memphis Grizzlies, and Washington Wizards, which team has been the most surprising thus far in the NBA season? All of this and more on this episode including also the usual weekly awards and the "Out of Bounds" question of the week.

Deon is drowning in law school finals so Vj and Taylor decide to bring back our friend Dustin to go over this week's topic! Multiple Good Hustle Awards will be handed out so do not miss out on that segment. However, the main topics of this episode will be the Los Angeles Lakers rocky start sitting sixth in the West. Then the crew will also go over the Battles for the West breaking down the two matchups between the Phoenix Suns and the Golden State Warriors. Finishing up with analyzing the teams that have been hit with the injury bug early in the season and how it will affect them moving forward.

It is LeBron's world and we are all living in it!! This past week the NBA has been taken by storm with Hurricane Bron. Copious amounts of news involving the King James have hit the headlines. Coming back from his abdominal injury, LeBron was able get suspended, fined, and eject fans all within a week. The crew will cover all of it and more in this week's episode. Weekly awards will be handed out as usual and the new "Games with the Dagger" segment will bring you the hottest games of the week together with our picks for who will win. To close out the episode, the guys will go "Out of Bounds" with a Christmas themed question.

This week on the Dagger, the crew will each give their own early season NBA power rankings and their own NBA MVP ladders. They are all different so be sure to listen to all of them because there are quite a few surprises. Suns are a the top of one of our rankings as of this point in the season. Additionally, a thanksgiving special "Out of Bounds" question that will leave you with a sweet tooth. 

On this week's episode we have a great segment for all the fans! Our first ever athlete interview, NMU star freshmen Brian Parzych joins the show to tell us about his experience winning the state championship and the transition to becoming a college hooper. The episode will also cover the NY City rivalry, the Hawks, the Blazers and so much more! Also included in this episode we have a small re-introduction of the hosts for all our new fans!

There was so much to talk about in this week's episode that we had to make it two hours long! From Boston Celtics drama to Scottie Pippen to Nikola Jokic, the league has not failed to delivery in drama this week. Two guests were brought in this week for the episode and it will be one that you should not miss.

This week on the Dagger we took a look around the league and selected a few tems and players to play our "Buy Low or Sell High" game. The crew evaluates hot teams and decide if they are legit or not, and viceversa for the teams off to a slow start.