The Sheridan Show

As the semifinals of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics approached, Fran Fraschilla of ESPN and NBC Sports joined Chris Sheridan of BasketballNews.com to discuss the upcoming games: Australia-United States and France-Slovenia. Fraschilla, the foremost expert in the United States on international basketball, gave some special insight into what is driving the success that Slovenia, France and Australia have been having at the pandemic Olympics and what to expect now the field is down to four teams.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Suns are not the best NBA team despite being in the NBA Finals, rookies are not advised to play against veterans at the card table, and as a coach, the player formerly known as Ron Artest wants to teach youngsters to run, gun and dive on the floor. And that is not all. Metta World Peace, in this podcast with veteran NBA writer Chris Sheridan, says not only does he feel bad that he was left off the U.S. Olympics team at the peak of his career in 2004, he's still willing to play as a 12th man or even be the water boy for a U.S. Olympic team, something he will not get a chance to do again until the 2024 Games are contested in Paris in three years. In the meantime, we will all have this classic podcast to keep us entertained. Metta has teamed up with DraftKings for the NBA Finals where he'll be actively betting against the public on every game. Wherever most of the bets are going, Metta is going the other way, and DraftKings will even boost the public's bet. It's Metta Vs The World! Check it out at DraftKings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Giannis Antetokounmpo will play next in either Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals if a Game 7 is necessary, or in Game 3 of the NBA Finals against the Phoenix Suns. That is the inside scoop from the most famous basketball journalist in Greece, Tony Kalkavouras of ERT-TV (Greek National TV) and gazaeeta.gr, the top Sports Web site in Greece. Kalkavouras shared that information along with some backstories about Greece and Nigeria fighting to get Giannis to play for their respective national teams, along with some insight into Sofaklis Schortsianitis, the beefy Greek center who was drafted by the Clippers but never make it to the NBA, having his biggest moment of international glory in 2006 when Greece (currently competing in an Olympic qualifier in Canada) defeated Team USA in Saitama, Japan in one of the biggest upsets in international basketball history. Kalkavouras joined veteran NBA and Team USA journalist Chris Sheridan for the latest episode of The Sheridan Show for basketballnews.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What will happen with Ben Simmons? That remains the operative question when discussing the Philadelphia 76ers and their offseason plans, and beat writer Keith Pompey of the Philadelphia Inquirer joined senior NBA columnist Chris Sheridan of basketballnews.com to discuss the likelihood of Simmons beginning next season wearing the uniform of a different team. If the Sers "can get something," Pompey sees it as an 8 to 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. What team might that be? Give a listen.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Holman has been calling Atlanta Hawks basketball games on the radio since 1989 and has never missed a day of work in all those years. On Sunday he got to call Atlanta's Game 1 victory on the road against the Philadelphia 76ers, and it was a memorable one as Trae Young scored 35 points and Bogdan Bogdanovic shushed the crowd with a late dagger 3-pointer that helped the Hawks hold off a late Sixers rally before another hostile crowd -- something that Young seems to feed off, as Holman explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The man in charge of Canada Basketball is Glen Grunwald, and he and coach Nick Nurse have just released a roster that included no less than 14 NBA players including Kelly Olynyk, R.J. Barrett, Dwight Powell, Tristan Thompson, Brandon Clarke, Dillon Brooks and Cory Joseph. They should be a medal contender if they get there, but first they must get through a qualifying tournament in Victoria, B.C. that includes China and Greece. Grunwald discussed the roster, the qualifier, what he expects to see in Tokyo and some Canada Basketball history in this episode of The Sheridan Show with veteran NBA and international basketball writer Chris Sheridan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everyone remains quite surprised by the success of the New York Knicks this season as they finish the regular season as the Eastern Conference's biggest overachievers, but there is one person in particular who saw this coming. He is longtime beat writer Marc Berman of the New York Post, who has been on the road and at home in the eerily quiet Madison Square Garden chronicling the accomplishments of Tom Thibodeau's team. Berman gives a ton of credit to the coach but was effusive in his praise of Julius Randle, R.J. Barrett, Alec Burks and others in looking ahead to the 2020-21 NBA playoffs and trying to predict how far the 'Bockers can go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just when we thought the NBA Most Valuable Player race was down to two contenders, Nikola Jokic and Joel Embiid -- we learn that Magic Johnson is pushing the candidacy of Golden State's Steph Curry, who has been averaging 39.9 points per game through the first half of April. Curry is on the board at 100-1 at Draft Kings, and head oddsmaker, Johnny Avello, joined Chris Sheridan of BasketballNews.com for an interesting podcast looking at various NBA markets and discussing when -- if ever -- legalized sports gambling may come to California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Harden is temporarily on the shelf with a hamstring injury with the Brooklyn Nets now in first place in the East, but he will get better soon and probably go deep into the playoffs. After that, will be playing for Team USA in the Olympics? Guest Brian Mahoney, a veteran NBA writer for The Associated Press, says "no" while Chris Sheridan disagrees. And neither writer knows whether LeBron James will suit up for the American national team this summer in Tokyo because there are just too many variables. Those topics, along with the extremely tight and contentious MVP debate, are among the many topics discussed on this latest episode of The Sheridan Show, hosted by bastketballnews.com Senior NBA Columnist Chris Sheridan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Sheridan thinks J.J. Redick is getting traded to the Celtics or the Knicks but will sign with the Brooklyn Nets after a buyout if he is not dealt in the next week. Brandon "Scoop B" Robinson believes the Lakers and Clippers will be "destination " and "Destination B" for veteran players who are bought out after the deadline, and he makes a strong case that Philadelphia is an interesting potential destination for Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry. All that plus a lot more trade talk one week ahead of the 2021 NBA trading deadline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nobody has been covering the Milwaukee Bucks longer than Gery Woelfel, and when Gery says he thinks a trade involving the Bucks is highly likely, you need to pay attention. In this podcast with veteran NBA writer Chris Sheridan, Woelfel cites intel from scouts and other league sources as saying the Bucks will be proactive in seeking an upgrade over Donte DiVincenzo at shooting guard as they try to return to the elite form they were showing a year ago before the pandemic shut down the NBA. Woelfel also talks about what teams he believes have a real chance to emerge from the Eastern Conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Prunty came up as a coach under Gregg Popovich with the San Antonio Spurs before moving on to a number of NBA stops that included assistant coaching toles with the Mavericks, Blazers, Cavs, Nets, Bucks and Suns (along with a 37-game stretch as head coach of Milwaukee.)  Most recently, he led an undefeated Team USA squad that went undefeated in a FIBA-Americas qualifier in San Juan, Puerto Rico and he joined veteran NBA journalist Chris Sheridan to discuss some of the NBA veterans he had on the Team USA team, including Joe Johnson, Brandon Bass, Isaiah Thomas, Ra'Shad James and Dakota Mathias. He shares his thought on whether any of those players could help NBA playoff teams this season as weell as his early post-college days as a beer salesman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever since the Brooklyn Nets came into being as the New Jersey Americans of the old ABA, Herb Turetzky has been their official scorekeeper. He was there for the franchise's lone championship in 1976 with Julius Erving the year before he was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers, he was there when Jason Kidd was a player and a coach, and he is at all of the home games nowadays as Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden try to bring the team its first NBA title. Turetzky shared a few of his favorite stories in this episode of the Sheridan Show with veteran NBA journalist Chris Sheridan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens if LeBron James wants to play in the Tokyo Olympics but is in the NBA Finals with the Los Angeles Lakers? He missed the Olympics, that's what. The same thing goes for a bunch of American players, but not so much for guys such as Nikola Jokic of Serbia and Rudy Gobert of France. Why? Fran Fraschilla, ESPN college basketball analyst and international basketball expert, explains while also previewing the ever-changing landscape of the 2021 NBA draft, which scouts must prepare for from afar.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever since Kobe Bryant was a rookie for the Los Angeles Lakers, Broderick Turner covered him -- first for the Riverside Press-Enterprise, then for the Los Angeles Times, where he is now the Lakers beat writer. Turner had some great tales to tell, such as what motivated Kobe Bryant to get into the gym early every morning to shoot 1,000 shots, and he shared a bunch of those stories with podcast host Chris Sheridan, who also spent two decades covering Bryant, including a stop in Beijing with the 2008 version of Team USA. Have a listen and enjoy. We all miss Kobe a lot, which we were reminded of on the one-year anniversary of his death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will there be an Olympics this summer? And if so, who will play for Team USA? Jerry Colangelo, the managing director of USA Basketball, joined veteran NBA writer Chris Sheridan to discuss those possibilities exactly six months prior to July 23 -- the date athletes from around the world are scheduled to take part in the Opening Ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics. Colangelo also disclosed that there will be no pre-Olympic tour for Team USA, but other national teams will be invited to Las Vegas to play exhibitions in the gambling capital of the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How much would an NBA expansion team cost? And in which cities would two new expansion teams be located if NBA owners voted to expand from 30 to 32 teams? Scott Soshnick, founder and editor in chief of Sportico.com, had answers to those questions after hosting an online NBA valuations conference Tuesday, and he shared his insight with Chris Sheridan of BasketballNews.com in this podcast recorded Jan. 20, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ABC/ESPN broadcaster Jeff Van Gundy thinks the Houston Rockets are a playoff team if they keep James Harden, but he is not yet so convinced about the undefeated Atlanta Hawks ort Cleveland Cavaliers, both of which have gotten off to 3-0 starts in the 2020-21 NBA season. Van Gundy also discussed calling the Lakers-Mavericks Christmas game from an empty Staples Center, along with a great story about coaching Team USA and what he witnessed when the competition was from Cuba. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former NY Knick and VP of the NBAPA Charles Smith talks about James Harden and Chris Paul as well as the upcoming season including the Lakers and the Clippers, if New York is still a Knicks town despite the massive expectations being heaped upon the Brooklyn Nets, and what team he thinks can challenge the Lakers in the west. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will there be any NBA-imposed fines imposed on the Sacramento Kings and Milwaukee Bucks after the aborted Bogdan Bogdanovic sign-and-trade? Can anybody in the Western Conference beat a Los Angeles Lakers team that improved through free agency? And what to make of "the Pope is chill" quote that we heard from Anthony Tolliver following his visit to The Vatican? Veteran NBA writers Chris Sheridan and Howard Beck discuss on the latest episode of The Sheridan Show for BasketballNews.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why on earth does Russell Westbrook suddenly want to be traded away from the Houston Rockets? That is the biggest question around the NBA on Friday the 13th of November, and Houston Chronicle columnist Brian T. Smith weighs in not only with opinions on Westbrook, but some strong statements regarding the departure of Daryl Morey as the Rockets general manager, saying the cover story about Morey wanting to spend more time with his family was a fallacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of The Sheridan Show, Oklahoma City Thunder beat writer Joe Mussatto joins veteran NBA writer Chris Sheridan to discuss coaching candidates for the Thunder, whether Sam Presti might trade Chris Paul to the New York Knicks, if Steven Adams might be a trade candidate, and the story of the Skirvin Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City where NBA players have been spooked by ghosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doug Smith of the Toronto Star, who has been covering the Toronto Raptors since their inception, joins Chris Sheridan of BasketballNews.com to discuss to new head coach of the Indiana Pacers, and how he might be able to succeed better than the ousted Nate McMillan with a roster heavy on talent but short of superstars. Smith and Sheridan also discussed free agency issues that will impact the Raptors involving Fred Van Vleet, Serge Ibaka and Marc Gasol, along with Canada Basketball, USA Basketball and the prospects for basketball at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Veteran New York Post Knicks beat writer Marc Berman joined Chris Sheridan of BasketballNews.com the day after the NBA Finals ended to discuss, among other things, whether LeBron James or Michael Jordan was the better player, what the New York Knicks will do in the offseason, and whether trading for Chris Paul is a way to lure Giannis Antetokounmpo to New York.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his first podcast for BasketballNews.com, veteran NBA journalist Chris Sheridan is joined by former NBA coach Vinny Del Negro and sportswriter Alex Kennedy to discuss the 2020 NBA Finals and the various coaching vacancies around the league following the firing of Doc Rivers in Los Angeles and the breakup of Mike D'Antoni and the Houston Rockets, along with openings in Philadelphia, Indiana, New Orleans and Oklahoma City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Subscribe to BasketballNews.com (http://basketballnews.com/) 's newest podcast as veteran NBA writer Chris Sheridan brings his experience and insight as he talks about the league with current and former players. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices