Hero Ball Podcast

Ethan and Richard Discuss the Rookie extensions of Kyle Kuzma, Luke Kennard, OG Anunoby, Jonathan Isaac, Markelle Fultz, and Derrick White. Then they each give two hot takes after watching the first week of the regular season. 

Elkyn and Richard discuss the Rudy Gobert and Giannis Antetokounmpo extensions. Then they discuss some of the buzz around James Harden trade talks and come up with a blockbuster trade of their own. 

Elkyn, Ethan, Richard  determine the over under on win totals for the Eastern Conference. 

Elkyn, Ethan, and Richard determine the over under on win totals for the Western Conference. 

Elkyn, Ethan, & Richard run through their NBA Awards predictions for: All-NBA MVP Most Improved Player Defensive Player of Year Rookie of the Year Sixth Man of the Year Coach of the Year Executive of the Year Thanks for Listening Please Subscribe!

Elkyn & Ethan Discuss some of the major FA moves made by the Eastern conference teams thus far (12/1).

Ethan & Richard Discuss some of the major FA moves made by the western conference teams thus far (11/22). 

Ethan & Richard reactions to their favorite and least favorite pick Wednesday's draft.

Ethan and Richard make selections of all 30 picks in the first round with a few trades scattered about. This podcast was recorded before the Robert Covington and Jrue Holiday trades were announced. 

Elkyn assumes the role of GM for every NBA team picking in the 2020 NBA draft as Ethan & Richard pitch Elkyn on who to select!

Ethan & Richard reveal their big boards checking for the differences between each others' and consensus rank.  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q8hcU0xcA6sTS_ibbngvqI5-B0JGaTWgx_BPetBY_F4/edit?usp=sharing

Elkyn and Richard discuss Daryl Morey's time in Houston, his new situation in Philadelphia, and three unlikely, but potential trade ideas for him this offseason. Then we include a discussion that Ethan and Richard had back in August about Grant Riller and Malachi Flynn (32:00). 

Ethan and Richard discuss draft prospects that they are either higher or lower on than the consensus draft community.  Take a look at our 2020 NBA Draft Prospect Sheet to see the consensus rank and everything else you need to know about the draft. 

Elkyn and Richard console Ethan about Miami's finals loss. We discuss where things went wrong for Miami before celebrating Finals MVP LeBron James.  *No asterisks!

Ethan and Richard talk about Miami's sad state of affairs after Game 4, being down 3-1 to the Lakers. They discuss changes Miami could make to improve their slim chances, the LeBron vs. AD Finals MVP debate, and they share their hope for more Finals games. 

Ethan & Richard breakdown the NBA Final post game 3, review our question before the series and determine whats working and what can be altered as the series progresses. 

Elkyn, Ethan, and Richard connect to reviews key notes of the completed conference finals and deliver an outlook of the pending Finals matchup of the Los Angeles Lakers vs the Miami Heat. 

Richard & Ethan confer about the conference finals as the Heat take a 2-1 lead and Lakers take a 2-0 lead. 

Richard and Ethan convene to issue the formal apology to the Denver Nuggets 

Ethan, Elkyn, and Richard discuss the futures of recently eliminated Houston Rockets and Toronto Raptors. Then they talk about a potential Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers Western Conference Finals (Sorry, Nuggets Fans!) & then they talk about the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics Eastern Conference Finals Matchup. 

Elkyn & Ethan are back to discuss naming of DPOY/6th Man/ MIP  Also Update the Playoffs Picture while watching the first half of BOS vs TOR game 5. 

Ethan, Elkyn, and Richard talk about the Bucks leading the player protests, news from the concluded series, and the matchups still going on. Then Ethan and Richard discuss some of their favorite prospects this year in TCU's Desmond Bane and Kentucky's Immanuel Quickley. 

Elkyn and Richard give you a primer of the 2020 NBA Playoffs. They start out west by discussing each series: Lakers/Blazers (9:10), Clippers/Mavericks (14:30), Nuggets/Jazz (19:20), Rockets/Thunder (22:40), and then their West playoff predictions (28:45).  Then they go out east to discuss the Bucks/Magic (31:15), Raptors/Nets (33:15), Celtics/Sixers (35:55), Pacers/Heat (40:30), and then thei...

Ethan, Elkyn, and Richard Discuss the happenings in the NBA Bubble like Devin Booker and the Suns, if we are worried about the Lakers, Ethan's gambling successes and failures, and if we have any big opinion swings about a team since the restart. Then Ethan and Richard discuss and compare two projected first round bigs in Isaiah Stewart and Xavier Tillman (40:50).

Ethan and Richard discuss some of their favorite and least favorite things from the first couple of games of the NBA Restart (1:25). Then they talk about some of the other guards in the upcoming draft. They talk about Cole Anthony (18:35), Théo Maledon (29:45), Tyrell Terry (36:45), Jahmi'us Ramsey (43:40), Nico Mannion (52:50), and Tre Jones (1:01:00) before discussing how they rank and compare t...