Cookies: A Basketball Podcast

New eps drop first on our Patreon! Welcome to Monster Island (3:10), remote working forever (11:32), DJ Drama (27:01), Boomer trap music (34:20), Brookfield Place and Hudson Yards (46), the scourge of pickleball (1:00:31), Sixers start 0-3 and we know who to blame (1:14:33), do the Knicks have a timeline? (1:28:32) rookie watch: Keegan Murray and Paolo Banchero (1:40:02), Danny Ainge has masterful...

90s gamer nostalgia as a nationalist call to arms (5:23), Supreme x Duck Down Records (21:02), in praise of gatekeepers (30:05), Kanye might be buying Parlor (36:42), James Corden banned (and then unbanned) from Balthazar (47:35), best case and worst case scenarios for the Knicks (56:44) and Sixers (1:07:22), our full 30-team, 30-minute guide to watchability (1:24:34).

New eps drop on Patreon first! Barcelona Ben (1:30), tinned fish (7:34), the world's 50 best bars (14:43), a quick DJ Premier retrospective (22:43), Andrew declares camo "over" (31:43), the unpleasantness of the Dahmer show (35:32) and "Blonde" (37:24), Kanye is again the main character (42:23), has stalled culture out? (59:22), Draymond punches Poole (1:05:46), Wembanyana, Scoot and a season of t...

New eps drop first on Patreon! James Madison was scandalously short (2:30) French fry overdose (12:33) at Paris Fashion Week (14:17), Bella Hadid (26:43), performative fear of New York (34:21), the deferred dream of Mercer Street (39:34), Nets team-bonding at Lucali (47:33), take fouls (1:06:04), fandom 2023 (1:09:34), Tyler Herro secures the bag (1:20:16), Tobias Harris: good is the enemy of grea...

New eps drop first on Patreon! Welcome to tall fall (2:30), Detrick and Kuo share their hat inspo (9:32), was the crowd at the Jamie XX show "older and hot?" (14:33), pizza tech (22:04), Avatar vs Quibi (33:03), drug rugs (40:23), Udoka and the Celtics' opaqueness (1:04:34), Simmons interviewed by JJ Redick (1:28:44), can Embiid share the spotlight? (1:44:32), what are the Lakers planning? (1:56:3...

Where are thou, Quiznos? (2:37), zoomers rebuff cold cuts (8:23), Kanye is right about reading! (14:22), Adnan Syed, of "Serial" and murder fame, released (32:13), comforting crime shows (50:02), PNB rock 58:35, Doc Rivers: horny on main (1:05:43), the NBA's Robert Sarver problem (1:13:33), barely legal in the NBA (1:32:55), and Bron x Bronny collabo (1:46:28). 

New eps drop first on Patreon! The incredibly rare zero basketball episode! Inside NYFW, Armory, Collina Strada show, NY Noodletown reopening (2:34), Midtown is over, all hail the Seaport (13:33), the queen is dead, your majesty (26:12), scholastic scandals (39:52), did Russia blow a 3-1 lead in Ukraine? (1:06:33), Dick Wolves and "Law & Order" copaganda (1:20:43). 

New eps emerge from the primordial goo first on Patreon. Kuo explores Los Angeles for 90 minutes (1:30), the complex morality of panhandling decorum (8:32), "The Rehearsal" finale and figuring out who the joke is on (20:42), Eric Adams prowls the city after dark with a seedy cohort (42:33), finally, 3D menus and future suck (56:33), summer streetball season: Mobadanga, Rucker, Gersh, Drew League,...

New eps from on Patreon! Andrew's pizza conspiracy (1:25), we rank or at least list out the famiglia of parms (10:33), Spam security and a loss of dignity (15:33) climate criminals and their private planes (26:15), remote Americans in Mexico City (39:31), RIP Bill Russell and, finally, some accountability here at Cookies Hoops (53:44), did LeBron's 20 years of dominance flatten the modern era? (1:...

We go inside the fancy new hotel on Canal (4:33), the Lower East Side's tipping point (10:05) and the surprising rebirth of Piano's (13:03), Miles Bridges, lean-enjoyer denier (24:02), AI-generated art (32:44), DJ Honda (47:05), body-positive NBA players of yore (59:42), the Finals are transpiring exactly as we predicted, in every way (1:09:04), Draymond's multi-disciplinary dance (1:19:03), the e...

New eps hit Patreon first! Monkeypox is in the air (2:05), mukbang videos (6:25), Kardashian weddings and pasta portion size (11:43), Frieze Week (28:03), Balenciaga at the NYSE (36), 21 Savage, an elegant Londoner (42:33), Heat vs Celtics, a clash of mechanical and instinctual stars (55:12), the Bob Cousy consensus factory (1:12:44), Mavericks vs Warriors and the limits of heliocentrism (1:21:44)...

New eps drop first on Patreon! Caprese salad and steak lunch (1:00), Kendrick Lamar drops his new album (13:05) and YSL faces RICO charges (24:44), the horrors of the shooting in Buffalo (35:02), HBO's "We Own this City" (43:55), Le Dimes Square takes on Le Dive (50:21), Sixers crumble as history eerily repeats itself (55:04), what did we learn about the Celtics? (1:22:05), rising Luka dismantles...

Cookies Hoops records live from the NADA art fair to talk New York's gala season, pickup ball injuries, hoops obsession as a midlife crisis, novelty restaurants, popular baby names, peaking with Linsanity, Knicks nihilism and more!

New episodes are published first on Patreon. Stunt foods (4:01), leg-lengthening surgery (10:15), characters on "Ozark" should be listening to Fabolous' fourth LP (27:22), NADA live pod (38:12), the Roots and authenticity (42:23) vs Future (46:19), Ja Morant and the haters (54:07), Boston exposed against Milwaukee, as day ones predicted (1:03:55), Golden State takes first game against Memphis (1:1...

New eps drop first on our Patreon. Sean Thor Conroe, author of "Fuccboi," joins Cookies Hoops to discuss pickup ball (2:55), Mayor Adams getting covid (10:52), dealing with literary criticism (15:01), having an imposter on the Red Scare Reddit (18:32), meeting Lil B and Jeremy Lin (26:44), the etymology of "fuccboi" (36:22), Ben Simmons mutual aid (43:58), Sixers vs Raptors (1:14:44), and playoff...

New eps drop first on our Patreon! Restaurant soundtracks (11:33), Deli-Core vs Redaelli-Core (17:02), erotic thrillers (23:05) including "Jennifer's Body" (30:22), Forlini's, Bamonte's and Rao's (40:03), the Wheel of Guys (53:44), Coach K leaves the sport of basketball in deep shame (59:02), the far-right apparently hates sports now? (1:08:12), MVP race and tribal cheerleading (1:15:03), Lakers a...

Eps drop first on our Patreon! Pouring out Russian dressing (3:22), empathy vs main character syndrome and the war in Ukraine (6:21), Warholian Orwellianism (22:15), Kuo takes on Wordle (27:04), the Enid's era (44:02), post-4AM beers (52:22), the MoMA stabbing (55:15), Essex Crossing (1:02:13), Embiid against Jokic, investigating Doc Rivers' rotations (1:22:15), Kyrie on the sidelines at Barclays...

The Cookies Hoops lads headed to Cleveland for All-Weekend! On this episode we talk about our book signing and live pod from The Land at Tower City Center (presented by Complex), NBA celebrity sightings, the local gastropub scene, and going hobgoblin mode. Then we're joined by contemporary artist Hank Willis Thomas to discuss how his work connects the Underground Railroad to modern hoop dreams, wh...

New eps drop first on Patreon! It's a new year in Swag City (3:33), if "Carlito's Way" was bad (13:21), fuccboi legacy media (18:08), Gen-X revenge (25:01), food forecasting lottery (35:23), the Uncle Murder / Red Cafe aesthetic (48:30), Philly gets big mad at Tobias Harris (55:05), Klay Thompson's imminent return (1:09:33), fearing the Jazz (1:16:16), Dame Lillard loses the right way (1:26:33). 

New episodes drop first on Patreon! Gambling on half-court shots (3:25), New Yorkers in Miami for Art Basel were on bad behavior (9:30), HBO's "Life of Crime, 1984-2020" (22:07), NYM's list of the best local movies ever (37:33), Dame Lillard, toxic environmentalist (48:08), Enes Freedom, activist for freedom (1:08:33), Pacers teardown (1:14:33), Zion gets body-shamed (1:22:43). 

New episodes drop first on the Cookies Hoops Patreon page! Winter coat readiness and Andrew's prized United Bamboo parka (2:20), "Curb" returns (12:32), Ben likes Westerns due to themes of retribution and patricide (21:44), Giannis doesn't like tunnel walk drip (32:22), Nets fans are mocked and scorned following a trouncing from the Warriors (36:33), then we're joined by rapper BabyTron (1:01:22)...

New eps drop first on Patreon! Halloween culture and the forgotten mummy (1:30), a China Chalet break-in (17:32), New York's mayoral races pits cops versus vigilantes (23:32), it's NFT week, whatever that means (34:02), "The Joy of Basketball" comes out in a week! (41:03), Celtics' rebuild falters (49:57), Lillard visits Philadelphia (1:10:23), the pipe-dream of NBA parity (1:25:32), the advanced...

New eps drop first on Patreon! Espresso martinis are everywhere (1:43), the strangeness of 2010s cocktail culture (8:34), "Succession" returns with a frantic opener to season three (14:05), the Catskills, Joshua Tree and realizations about rural life (38:23), Ben Simmons gets booted from Sixers' practice (49:23), the Warriors' ceiling and Curry versus the NBA's top scorer/distributors (101:32), wh...

New episodes drop first on Patreon! Alana Champion joins us to discuss trips to Paris (3:24), whether veganism should be about humble beans or magic tricks (13:44), pasta surface areas (18:05), being scammed on Craigslist (23:44), a lung doctor with a smoking fetish (30:02), intergenerational discourse and finsta accounts (39:05), Mamba mentality (47:35), Westbrook in Los Angeles (52:13), the Lake...

Kelefa Sanneh, author of Major Labels , joins us to discuss his new book (6:23), setting the record straight on "Rockism" (14:31), 1996 rap (23:04), Verzuz ideas (34:30), an update on Eleven Madison Park (37:45), pandemic dining (50:11), the Process in Philly (1:04:23), tanking and joyfulness (1:14:35), critical protectionism (1:21:44), NBA height limits (1:25:08).