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On this episode, Mike and Jason look back at the Western Conference preseason over/unders and discuss each West team as the NBA season approaches the halfway point. Visit our Sponsors! Give With Hoops Give With Hoops is a groundbreaking initiative that fuses basketball analytics with modern sponsorship. Built for teams who see data as opportunity, from AAU programs to college powerhouses. By tying...

Britt Moore is in his 9th season as the Men’s Basketball Head Coach at Elizabethtown College where he has the Blue Jays off to a 10-1 start this year. Before taking the head coaching position at Elizabethtown, Moore spent six seasons as the head coach at the University of Pittsburgh-Bradford, taking his Panther teams to the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Tournament each season. Pr...

Brad Stamps is in his 7th season as the Head Boys’ Basketball Coach at his alma mater, Fayetteville High School in Arkansas. Brad’s first job was coaching 8th grade basketball at Woodland Junior High where he worked alongside his mentor and former Fayetteville High School Head Coach Kyle Adams. Stamps later became the head coach at Shiloh Christian where he took a program that had won only one gam...

On this episode, Mike and Jason take turns asking each other, "You Buying?" when it comes to these NBA Questions. Are you buying... The Trae Young Trade? That a team other than the Thunder will win the West? That the Clippers will continue their ascent up the Western Conference? That the Warriors should make a win now trade? That Giannis will be a Buck after the trade deadline? That Cooper Flagg w...

Donny Lind is the Men’s Basketball Head Coach at Mount St. Mary’s University. In his first season, the 2024-25 team captured the university's first Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) championship with a victory over Iona in the conference title game. They would notch a NCAA Tournament victory - the program's third - by defeating American in the First Four. The 23 wins by the team set a Divi...

B. J. Dunne is in his first year as the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at MIT. He spent the past seven years at Gettysburg College, where he put together an 89-68 overall record (.567) and saw his teams advance to four straight Centennial Conference semifinals over the past four seasons. In 2024-25, he helped guide Gettysburg to the program's first 20-win season since 2007-08 and its highest national...

On this episode, Mike and Jason discuss the ramifications of Jokic's injury in Monday's loss to the Heat. Next, they dive into the Cavs lackluster season and the Laker's defensive issues. After that, Mike & Jason hit on the Spurs three wins over OKC in recent weeks and how those losses may have exposed some vulnerability in the Thunder. Finally, they try to figure out the Hawk's Trae Young iss...

Joe Stasyszyn is the director of Unleashed Potential, a basketball skill development company, based in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He is also a USA Basketball Player Development Coach, Speaker and Clinician at Coach Academies, Gold Camps, and Clinics around the United States and around the world. Joe was also formerly the National Director of Basketball and Youth Fitness at 24 Hour Fitness, where he m...

Tyler Whitcomb jumps on the Hoop Heads Podcast to discuss Give with Hoops, a groundbreaking initiative that fuses basketball analytics with modern sponsorship. Built for teams who see data as opportunity from AAU programs and high school programs to college powerhouses. By tying on-court performance directly to community and sponsor engagement, Give With Hoops helps programs raise more while deepe...

Ron King is the Head Boys’ Basketball Coach at Putnam Valley High School in New York. He is also the Founder of Kings Basketball, an AAU and player development program which he started in 2008. King previously coached at the collegiate level at Plattsburgh State and at Kennedy High School in New York. He is known for teaching the Triangle Offense originated by Tex Winter and used by Phil Jackson t...

Welcome to the 84th edition of the Coach’s Corner Round Table on the Hoop Heads Podcast. Each episode of the Coach’s Corner Round Table will feature our All-Star lineup of guests answering a single basketball question. A new Coach’s Corner Round Table will drop around the 15th of each month. December’s Round Table question is: How do you balance pushing players to improve while also keeping the ga...

Kevin Driscoll is currently the Director of Real Hoops and has spent the last 25 years coaching or playing basketball at the high school & college level including 10 years as a Division 1 assistant coach. In his role at Real Hoops Driscoll is a recruiting advisor, exposure camp operator & film study coach. Driscoll previously spent 4 years as a men’s basketball assistant coach at Marist Co...

Marshall Cho is the Founder of Meadow Park Basketball offering training, camps, and clinics in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Marshall began his career as an educator through the Teach For America program, teaching mathematics in the South Bronx and Harlem and serving as the boys basketball coach at Future Leaders Institute, where he led them to a New York City Charter School Championship. Fate then led him...

On this episode, Mike and Jason answer 6 NBA questions with yes, no or maybe. What player who retired in the last 5 years would you want on your team? (hard to answer that with a yes, no, or maybe Jason!) The Knicks or Cavs will make the NBA Finals. Giannis will be a Buck in February. The Thunder will win 74 games. Shai will be the regular season MVP. The Clippers will give a top 5 pick to the Cli...

Jason Pruitt is the Women’s Basketball Associate Head Coach at Indiana State University joining Head Coach Marc Mitchell’s staff in June of 2024. Pruitt previously served as the Women’s Basketball Head Coach at Elmhurst, where he helped the Bluejays to a nine-win improvement from the previous season while securing a spot in the CCIW Tournament for the first time since the 2018-19 season. Pruitt’s...

Mike Grosodonia is the Men’s Basketball Head Coach at St. John Fisher University. Now in his 9th season, the Cardinals have won the Empire 8 championship and appeared in the NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Tournament twice under his direction. Fisher has won at least 15 games and posted a winning record in all but one of Grosodonia’s eight seasons. He served as Fisher’s top assistant under Rob...

On this episode, Mike and Jason discuss the Giannis social media deletion and potential trade destinations if he leaves the Bucks. Next they talk about the dysfunctional Clippers franchise and the awkward split with Chris Paul. They end the episode by lamenting the arc of Zion's career and reacting to LeBron joking around with Suns bench in a game the Lakers were losing by 20. Visit our Sponsors!...

Raphael Esparza is a Global Oddsmaker and Professional Sports Handicapper at Doc’s Sports. He has over 14 years of experience as a sportsbook manager at four of the biggest, most well-known sportsbooks on the Vegas Strip. Esparza has more than 18 years of sports handicapping experience and has spent the last seven years with Doc's Sports as The Vegas Sports Informer. Raphael's success stems from h...

The 22nd edition of “The Triple Double” with  Rob Brost, Bolingbrook (IL) High School Boys’ Basketball Head Coach . Rob, Mike, & Jason hit on three basketball topics in each episode of “The Triple Double”. Rob's favorite part of game day other than the game Something new Rob has added to his program this season Guarding ball screens Visit our Sponsors! Give With Hoops Give With Hoops is a...

On this episode, Mike and Jason each share 3 things they're thankful for when it comes to the NBA in 2025. Visit our Sponsors! Give With Hoops Give With Hoops is a groundbreaking initiative that fuses basketball analytics with modern sponsorship. Built for teams who see data as opportunity, from AAU programs to college powerhouses. By tying on-court performance directly to community and sponsor en...

Paul Knepper is the author of the new book, Moses Malone: The Life of a Basketball Prophet which tells the story of Moses Malone, the first modern-day player to jump from high school basketball to the pros, paving a path for future star players like Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, and LeBron James to follow. Paul’s first book was The Knicks of the Nineties: Ewing, Oakley, Starks, and the Brawlers That...

Byron Burt is an aspiring G-League/NBA Coach who has worked for the Windy City Bulls in Game Day Operations since September of 2024. He previously served as the Head Boys’ Basketball Coach at St. Laurence High School in Chicago, Illinois. Byron also spent two seasons as the Head Coach at his alma mater, Stephen T. Mather High School before landing the job at St. Laurence. Before taking over the Ma...

On this episode, Mike and Jason look back at their picks in the wins/losses draft to see which picks they still believe in and which ones are looking a little shaky. For Mike, Pistons, Hawks, and Spurs wins are looking solid while Clippers wins look shaky. Jason is feeling good about the Pelicans losses, but very shaky on Pacers wins. They wrap up the episode by discussing the outrageous stat line...

Rob Summers is in his first season as the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Cleveland State University. An Ohio native, Summers spent 2019-2022 with Cleveland State as an assistant coach, where he helped CSU win the Horizon League and make its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2009. CSU advanced to the postseason twice during his first stint with the Vikings. Most recently, Summers joined former...

Welcome to the 83rd edition of the Coach’s Corner Round Table on the Hoop Heads Podcast. Each episode of the Coach’s Corner Round Table will feature our All-Star lineup of guests answering a single basketball question. A new Coach’s Corner Round Table will drop around the 15th of each month. November’s Round Table question is: How do you introduce new players to your program’s expectations and cul...