The Hasbeen Hoops Podcast

The boys are back for a big edition of the pod!  On the agenda this week:  - James Batemon's Historic Game - The Montrezl Harrell Roller Coaster - Dyson Daniels Levelling Up - Early NBA Surprises + MORE!

The boys are back and they got stuck straight into this one... On the agenda: - What are the SEM Phoenix doing? - What is happening to NBL offences? - Bryce Cotton's injury - Tasmania's scoring woes - Are Illawarra legit? + MORE!

The boys are back! On the agenda this week: - The good and bad of the first three rounds of the NBL season - Load management rears its head - KAT traded to the Knicks (at last! - What excites the boys most about the upcoming NBA season + Much more

Anstey and Wortho are back for Season 3 of The Hasbeen Hoops Podcast! The boys are back as the NBL season tips off at Hoops Fest. They give their knee jerk reactions to each teams' opening and go back to Paris to wrap up the Olympics. All that and much more in this season opening episode. 

Anstey and Wortho are back for the latest episode of the pod!   On the agenda: - Olympic selection shocks - NBA Finals, Draft and Trade reactions after the dust has settled - The boys caught up on a lot! + More!  

This week, on the agenda with Anstey and Wortho: - NBA Finals Preview - Michael Finley's steal - Caitlin Clark - NBL moves - Australia v USA v Europe basketball development - Some BIG personal news!

The NBA is down to 4! Anstey & Wortho discuss the latest results with a preview of the Conference Finals, plus where will Josh Giddey end up, and Caitlin Clark's WNBA debut.    All that plus more in this weeks edition of the show! 

Anstey and Wortho are back this week!   On the agenda: - NBA playoffs thoughts - NBL movement - WNBL relocating a team - The guys drop in on the Taranaki Airs! + MORE

Anstey and Wortho are back in business. This week on the show: - The best basketball team ever - NBA Playoff storylines - NBL offseason moves - Hall of Fame inductions - WNBA Draft - Some reminiscing about one of the best games of basketball the boys ever played! + MORE !

Anstey and Wortho are back with a massive episode. On the agenda:  - The historic JackJumpers NBL championship - Early free agency moves - Hall of Fame Aussies - NBL Next Stars and expansion. - Josh Giddey's resurrection - The NBA contenders we're not talking about - The boys start to put the Boomers Olympic team together

Hosts Chris Anstey & Mark Worthington break down an historic Game 3 of the NBL Championship and discuss what to expect in game 4 (and maybe 5)!

This week on the Hasbeen Hoops Podcast with hosts Mark Worthington & Chris Anstey: - NBL championship tips off - The WNBL crown their champions - NBA awards chat - Why is nobody talking about the New Orleans Pelicans? + MORE!

The boys are back! Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington bring you the latest jam-packed edition of The Hasbeen Hoops Podcast. On the agenda: - Aussie basketball legend's legendary night - A Basketball Australia travesty (or two) - NBL coaching merry go round - NBL semi-finals set - Patty Mills lands in Miami and how does that affect Australia's Olympic medal chances??

In a special edition of The Hasbeen Hoops podcast, hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are joined by South East Melbourne Poenix CEO, and former teammate of both Anstey and Wortho - Tommy Greer.  Tommy joins the boys to chat about his career, the challenges and rewards of heading up a new NBL franchise and the biggest impact the NBL can still make for its players.  All that plus more in an unmissable edition of the show.

Hosts Chris Anstey & Mark Worthington are back for a new edition of the show!   On the menu this week: - NBL Playoffs are set - NBL Awards winners - NBA All-Star weekend - NBA Trade Deadline - How many actual “#1 guys” are there in the NBA?

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington bring you Season 2, Episode 16 of the show!    On the menu:  - NBA All-Star team thoughts - Should the Lakers trade LeBron - Who is the most valuable King? - Closer to home, NZ lamb cooked - NBL playoffs set - Coaches comments - Damien Martin is an NBL legend + MORE

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are back for a big edition of the show. On the menu:  - Scott Roth extends - Illawarra roll and Sydney bounce back - A ‘hold my beer' week in the NBA - Split opinions on Doc Rivers - Why the boys are excited and disappointed in Fleur McIntyre + MORE!

Hosts Chris Anstey & Mark Worthington are back for the first episode of the podcast in 2024. On the agenda: - Josh Giddey is cleared - NBA trades - The Lakers are a mess - Is Immanuel Quickly a potential All-Star? - The NBL ladder is taking shape - Overrated and underrated thoughts - Where will Brian Goorjian end up?

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are back with a big Christmas edition of the show! On the agenda: - Casey Prather returns - DJ Vasiljevic cramps - Is emotion dead in the NBL? - Post-IST blues - Embiid statement games, Bulls better without Lavine, Knicks miss out - The rebirth of bigs, and comparing the 1999 Bulls to today's Pistons

Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are back this week for another edition of The Hasbeen Hoops podcast! On the agenda: - Phoenix find their guy - NBA IST thoughts, including 3 standout players - Some potential NBA trades - Are the Warriors done? - Should the NBL discuss a trade period?

Welcome to a historic episode of The Hasbeen Hoops Podcast, as Wortho and Anstey record their first episode in the same room, with a live “studio audience” and cover the SEM Phoenix and possible replacements for Craig Moller, the Breakers and 36ers derailing, All-Star 5 and MVP thoughts and a look into the futures of Aron Baynes, Alex Sarr and Rocco Zikarsky.

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are back, with plenty on the agenda this week:  - The Josh Giddey allegations - An NBA rookie you need to start watching - NBA In-Season Tournament “disrespect” - The week in the WNBL - Some NCAA talk - Our thoughts on Victorian basketball retirees + MORE!

Wortho is back with Anstey for this weeks edition of the show! On the menu:   - Deep dive into Draymond Green - Opening Pandora's Box with an in-depth chat about concussion - Ben Simmons - NBA In Season Tournament floors - NBL Head Coaches - NBL update - Checking in on the boys preseason predictions + MORE!    

Host Chris Anstey is joined this week by fellow Hasbeen Andrew Parkinson, who subs in for Wortho to share some thoughts on this week's NBL stories, including Daniel Johnson and Bryce Cotton raising eyebrows. The guys also cover the NBA and Parky discusses how good a player has to be to score 50 points in a game! All that plus much more! 

Welcome to a bumper edition of The Hasbeen Hoops Podcast!   On the menu this week: - NBA and NBL winners and losers of the week - Indigenous Round teething problems - Are the referees or players at fault this week? - An impressive WNBL week 1 - In-depth chat with South East Melbourne Phoenix's inaugural Head Coach, Simon Mitchell

The guys are back for Episode 6 of Season 2 of The Hasbeen Hoops Podcast!   Anstey and Wortho dissect the opening week of the NBA, discussing who has performed best for their new club, who has stepped up and who left the boys scratching their heads?   The NBA All-Star weekend goes back to the future, the NBL cellar dwellers take a step out and Australian sports best kept secret starts this week! All that and more in this weeks edition of the show.

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington dissect the NBL penthouse and doghouse while taking an in-person look at United v Breakers. The guys discuss a tough day of cuts for Aussies in the NBA, and what the boys are most looking forward to as the NBA season tips off. 

Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are back, this week dissecting the NBL tribunal -, Bryce Cotton's standing, NBL x NBA games, the Sydney Kings' next star who isn't a Next Star, and a short dive into mental health in sport.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 3 of The Hasbeen Hoops Podcast. In this edition of the show, hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington cover all things NBL and touch on the NBA as the preseason heats up!   On the agenda: - Aron Baynes and Adam Forde confrontation - Milton Doyle lifts the Jackjumpers - What's wrong at the Phoenix - Anthony Lamb to the Breakers and Bobi Klintman is really good - Plus a little NBA as preseason games tip off!

Hosts Chris Anstey & Mark Worthington are back, recapping Week 1 of the NBL! The guys speak about Scottie Pippen in Australia, who won and lost in the Damian Lillard trade and two big names who nearly coached in the NBL! 

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are back for Season 2 of The Hasbeen Hoops Podcast! In this episode, the guys cover NBL Preseason Blitz and both ends of the Next Stars spectrum after evaluating the Next Stars in person. 

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are back with a World Cup recap including Germany are World Champions, Canada's ascension, what's next for the USA, the dust settling on the Boomers and is Luka Doncic basketball's biggest flopper and whiner?  

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are back to discuss the Boomers and dissect their defeat to Slovenia, as well as an overall discussion on the World Cup.  

Sam Vecenie covers the NBA Draft for The Athletic and hosts one of our favourite pods, The Game Theory Podcast. He's seen every basketball player in the world that's worth seeing, and sees the game through a different lens to us. American-born but living here in Australia, Sam is one of the best basketball brains going around. A fantastic episode covering: Ranking my skill, speed, size, shooting, strategy in NBA prospects NBL next stars- could we have multiple lottery picks playing in Australia this season? The NBL and Boomers global standing through an unbiased lens. The biggest thing Australian junior coaches get wrong Is Aussie Tyrese Proctor better than every one of this year's Next Star crop? All this and MUCH more!

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are back with a big edition of the show, discussing the Boomers culture and World Cup prep, the Matildas impact on basketball, Mad Rise 90s NBL doco, a huge NBA prediction, and are the Commonwealth Games important? All that and more. 

Arguably the best basketball historian in Australian basketball, Boti Nagy worked for News Ltd (now News Corp) covering basketball from 1974-2017, after two years of covering basketball for Messenger Press. He has seen every NBL and WNBL team and can recall Barry Barnes and Phil Smyth with hair, Andrew Gaze and Brett Maher pre-grey, Andrew Bogut as a boy... Multiple winner of the NBL's Basketball Writer of the Year and a five-time Hall of Fame nominee. "I have an opinion and am happy to share it. I'm not asking you to agree, just maybe to consider.” Sit back and enjoy this chat with Boti as he shares his opinions on the greatest players in Australian history, recency bias, Boomers and Opals culture and so much more..  

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are back for another big edition of the podcast. The guys discuss all the big moves in the NBA trade period, including who Portland should trade Damian Lillard to. Chris and Mark talk about the Aussies in the NBA and some of their big moves, understanding Ben Simmons, and Rocco Zikarsky - Australia's next star. 

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are back for this weeks show, analysing the NBA Draft and all the big trade news. The guys also provide an update on the NBL off-season. Plus - WNBA and Opals girls take centre stage. All that & much more.

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are back for a big episode of the show, wrapping up the Denver Nuggets' triumph in the NBA Finals!  The guys touch on some potential superstar trades, the NBL's Next Stars, a few “conversational eurosteps” and much more!

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are back for a big show, wrapping up the NBA Eastern Conference Finals. The guys discuss whether Miami or Boston are the bigger story, as well as some big NBL and WNBL news and Gold for the HasBeens in Cairns! All that plus much more. 

NBA star Jock Landale joins hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington in this bumper edition of The Hasbeen Hoops Podcast! Jock opens up about his experience with the Phoenix Suns, reflects on his basketball and mental health journey through Europe, shares his most underrated NBA players, explains his connection to Deniliquin and his plans to provide better opportunities for country kids. A must-listen episode of The Hasbeen Hoops Podcast.  

Welcome to episode 27 of The Hasbeen Hoops Podcast. Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are back for a big show, wrapping up the NBA Eastern Conference. Another Coach of the Year fired is on the agenda, as well as an in-depth discussion on who makes the Boomers World Cup team. Plus - another ring for a HasBeen. All that and much more! 

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are joined by NBA analyst and former Spurs, Clippers and Boomers Video Coordinator - Mo Dakhil, who shares his expert opinion on the NBA playoffs so far.  

In this edition of the show, hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington discuss: - Dante Exum's injury - NBA playoffs - Will the NBA award MVP to the wrong player? - Does Draymond Green deserve an extension? - NBL Free agency - An NBL star rumoured to be retiring - We might just have a female athlete that is ready to play in a professional men's league + MUCH MORE!

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are joined by NBL legend Sam Mackinnon - Olympian, 2x NBL Champion, NBL MVP, Grand Final MVP, to dissect his incredible journey in life and basketball. 

Hosts Mark Worthington and Chris Anstey are back, discussing NBL Free Agency, dissecting a crazy last day of the NBA regular season, as well as discussing a big boost for the NBLs Next Star Program, and an Aussie coach we'd love to see back here. All that plus much more. 

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are joined by former pro baller Anthony Susnjara to dissect his incredible journey.

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are back, providing a local update including what's next for Luke Travers, discussing Mike Kelly, Flynn Cameron, is Georgia Amoore Australia's best point guard plus more. As well as an NBA update on tanking in the NBA, Tatum V Brown and lots more. 

Hosts Chris Anstey and Mark Worthington are joined by former pro baller turned author Paul Shirley to discuss his incredible journey.

Hosts Chris Anstey & Mark Worthington dissect and analyse the Sydney Kings' triumph in the NBL Grand Final, WNBL semifinals discussion and an NBA update, with Anstey confirming who he believes is still in the hunt to win the championship.