Cookies: A Basketball Podcast

New episodes drop first on Patreon! The Bagel Community (2:09), New York indoor dining (8:12), friendships challenged by covid (28:01), "Trump knew!" and other Woodward revelations (43:11), what should the Bucks do about Giannis? (51:11), Kuo Big Board trailer teaser (1:06:33), sword of Damocles now hangs over Boston's controversial rebuild known as The Procedure (1:08:01), Danuel House, of ill re...

Listen to new episodes immediately on the Cookies Hoops Patreon! There are pies afoot (2:07), Ack! This this pod a "Cathy" comic now (10:56), Rochester and the murder of Daniel Prude (14:35), police dominance of progressive cities (23:35), IG stories and the rise of "close friends" during covid (38:21), Kuo is watching "Casino Royale" (48:06), Brooklyn hires Steve Nash and opens an uncomfortable c...

Storks and egrets are great birds! (5:25), escaping into your wealth bubble (9:02), New York City parasites (17:18), giving restaurants their...just desserts (21:05), RIP to Chadwick Boseman (36:33) and remembering Big East legend John Thompson (40:02), if basketball cities a credit to nature or nurture (49:21), the fraudulent Defensive Player of the Year gets exposed for all to see (58:20), inept...

We discuss the NBA's wildcat strike. 

New episodes of Cookies Hoops drop first for Patreon subscribers! Kuo is optimistic about September! (1:20), living upstate and, in 2023, realizing you live upstate (19:35), de-Williamsburg-ization or re-Williamsburg-ization in the age of covid (24:01), Kobe's birthday and how the sports world processes grief (30:12), Luka Doncic, whiteness and stardom (36:20), Knicks get the number 8 pick—and why...

New episodes debut on our Patreon channel! The pains of being Chris Webber (5:05), neither of us watched the virtual DNC convention, but we discuss it  (8:15), slop theory and the rise of non-design aesthetics (15:01), modernist vs neoclassicist basketball (23:05), vacation shaming (29:30), an attempt at fanship guidance counseling (46:22), Portland upsets Los Angeles in game one (58:20) and Ben s...

New episodes of Cookies Hoops drop first on Patreon! Kuo shares controversial sandwich thoughts (1:30), adulthood sherpas (10:11), Kamala Harris is Democratic veep nominee (18:01), they're messing with the...post office? (40:02), Sixers versus Celtics (45:05), Jimmy Butler and T.J Warren square off again (51:20), a shared theory on why shooters are thriving in the bubble (57:20), whether the Laker...

Episodes drop first on the Cookies Hoops Patreon! Kuo flexes his chilling muscle (2:11), Hudson Yards, befouled husk of a future that never was (5:20), suburban warriors: are we really leaving New York City? (13:45), wet ass provolone and aversion to sexy swears (25:03), boomers continue relentless attack on Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons' injury (36:02), dog days of summer league in the burger bubbl...

New episodes of Cookies Hoops drop first on Patreon! Tekashi69 saves New York City (4:10), the end of the Revel Era (9:25), Andrew has dumpling wist, Ben shares horrifying dumpling tales (16:05), Tik-Tok is jeopardized by the government (21:05), Rockets and Bucks: a land of contrasts (28:25), Coach of the Year Award nearly becomes hot threesome (44:12), Jonathan Isaac and his knees (55:21), can yo...

New episodes drop immediately on the Cookies Hoops Patreon page! On this episode: Spider bites and roach motels (7:35), RIP to Malik B of the Roots and the legacy of neo-soul (14:02), the wave of New York City covid-19 closures rolls onward (35:25), Trump's rising potential for November mayhem (43:33), the NBA returns: What do we want to see? What don't we want to see? (1:11:32).  

Get instant access to new Cookies Hoops episodes on Patreon! How do we feel about outdoor summer hoops? (3:30), Taylor Swift's "Folklore" and indie rock wist (11:03), Kanye tweetstorms some more (20:32), RIP to quiz god Regis Philbin and the dwindling boomers (28:14), LeBron versus Giannis (40:52), Knicks get their man: Tom Thibodeau—but why? (43:25), scrimmages begin inside the burger bubble (1:2...

Get early access to Cookies Hoops pod with a Patreon subscription! On this episode: Phase 4 is here, supposedly (2:01), the bewildering world of New York's outdoor dining scene (5:25), social contract violators (16:25), correction: assassins do not walk among us, unless they do (45:33), conspiracy theories and frozen envelopes (54:22), Shake and offseason optimism (1:04:10), is Burger Bubble life....

Get instant access to every new episode of Cookies Hoops on our Patreon page! Nothing is cake! (2:01), assassins walk among us (7:32), New York conversations (26:31), blue check mark apocalypse (32:01), Tatum, a promising young journeyman, is compared to Tobias Harris (38:32), Kinfolk, home to many of our friends, closes (51:20) and so does Odessa (53:30), Ben Simmons is, has been, and always will...

Get instant access to every new episode of Cookies on Patreon! Steve1989 shows proof of life (8:45), remembering China Chalet, covid casualty (12:35), Union Pool and the "worst places in New York" (29:15), wistful turtles (42:05), Burger Bubble menu revealed (55:33), Magic isn't composing tweets with his own oversize mitts and our innocence is shattered (1:02:22), Joel Embiid and the little green...

Finally some 4th of July fireworks! (1:30), air conditioning rules (11:45), Pop Smoke's debut album and the something-for-everyone album (14:05), Mike Fratello's Cavs and balancing entertainment with effectiveness (33:25), Ghislaine Maxwell is arrested (43:15), at long last, Redskins may change name, we suggest D.C. Extended Universe (1:01:15), seriously, the Checkers Challenge is real? (1:08:21)....

Still in snitchworld! (2:15), Virgil draws scrutiny for Pop Smoke's album cover (13:39), Kanye's "Wash Up in Your Blood" (26:19), finding a home for the "Delete Eight" relegation league (43:15), Adam Silver refuses to live in the Burger Bubble (47:22), what's up with...the...Cavs?!? (56:12), Detrick solves—or at least identifies—all the Sixers' problems (1:02:30), waxing and waning symbology (1:21...

Get instant access to all Cookies episodes on Patreon! On this Ep 231, we discuss Kuo's Grub Street Diet (2:30), caffeine before exercising (11:45), what's up with...Berlin? (18:13), phase 2 aura and the morality of al fresco dining (23:12), restaurant existentialism (44:15), Kanye and the Gap (56:22), Vince Carter quits on his teammates (1:10:43), Paul George gossips about why he left Indiana (1:...

Hiking with bears (2:17), rat kings and Ratking (12:22), Biggie, Jay-Z and Nas—and Gen X's infatuation with GOATs (15:22), Kenny Anderson's spin moves (22:05), has BLM changed the way we view players? (38:31), Trump's pitiful rally (48:15), how sustainable are the protests? (1:02:22), the little green hand strikes again (1:13:03), Ben Simmons = top 3!?!?! (1:22:32), Kuoluminati drops bombs on 'em...

Poison poopers (1:30), New Jack Swing (4:02), the covid shamers return, nature is healing, streets are the virus (15:45), police reform versus police abolition (31:18), does the NBA really want to create a Burger Dome? (51:22), mess with LeBron and see what happens (1:06:23), "Jazzmatazz" (1:12:05), defunding wist (1:22:02). 

Poet and writer Hanif Abdurraqib joins Cookies to discuss his hometown of Columbus  (8:18), removing police from schools (10:10), saving smaller American cities (18:26), protesting as social life (23:10), rewiring our brains about justice (31:20), balancing return of the NBA and life priorities (53:18), his love for the Timberwolves (1:01:54), Kuo is confronted about the Knicks (1:15:22), bad team...

Former Chicago Bull and NBA 3-Point champion Craig Hodges joins Cookies Hoops to discuss modern athletes and activism (8:22), his call for a boycott of the 1991 Finals (16:15), growing up in the civil rights movement (27:50), visiting the White House (36:22), if he played in the wrong era for 3-point shooters (47:57), being forced out of the NBA (52:22), whether Michael Jordan was a locker room mo...

Cookies is joined by Nikki Mayard to discuss Instagram black boxes (14:10), the freakout over shoplifting (21:44), the power of peer pressuring your famous pals (35:04), defunding the NYPD (41:25), global interest in American protests (56:01), James Dolan's leaked email (1:28:15), long wistful walks through New York (1:46:22).  

Civil unrest grips America, a covid-ravaged tinderbox (2:02), revolution is scary (20:18), the fog of war and competing visions of what change looks like (33:50), defund a police force, coward (40:10), the NBA responds, Michael Porter Jr. is told that it's not it, chief (51:02), is this...bad? (1:01:22), Hubie Brown's pizza party is plagued by medium pizzas (1:10:07). 

On episode 224, we discuss Kuo vs Lower East Side Bonobros (7:35), crippling Covid guilt (12:22), the murder of George Floyd (28:40), how the Bucks are playing dorkball with a blunt object (1:05:28), weighing excellence vs entertainment (1:18:33), Dame Dolla and the potential return of the NBA (1:28:03), and more!

Thanks to all our new Patreon subscribers! On Cookies Hoops Ep. 223, we discuss why Kuo hates beaches (1:45), incomprehensible evidence of parallel universes (10:45), Peter Luger steak delivery systems (18:22), New York's nightly clapping ritual (26:33), Cory Booker: rap genius (35:12), Bounty Killer vs Beenie Man (45:22), Mitchell Robinson = Point God (52:31), Knicks build new front office with o...