Posters Basketball Show

Lisa Leslie was unstoppable: four Olympic gold medals, two WNBA championships, and 3 WNBA MVPs. Yet, the specifics of her greatness sometimes get lost in the larger struggle to keep the league she helped built afloat. Episode 5 of Posters travels back to the late 90's and early 2000's, when Leslie was everywhere: The Simpsons, Moesha, the cover of every type of Sports Illustrated. The ep looks at...

Chris Paul has been the NBA's constant, brilliant, and divisive force through the cinematic universe era. From Lob City and the vetoed trade to the Lakers, to his MVP-esque run with the Hornets to his patented rip-through, this episode looks at everything that might be left out on Chris Paul's farewell tour.  Episode 4 of Posters connects the dots between his career-long competitive fire, his role...

NBA fans spent decades adoring the larger-than-life enigma that was Dikembe Mutombo. Mutombo spent his career dominating the paint and responding with one of the most iconic gestures in sports: the finger wag. But what fans often couldn't see was that the Finger Wag was one of Mutombo's tools for achieving a bigger vision. This episode explores the full legend of of Mutombo: the competitive fire t...

Jayson Tatum is the NBA's paradox. He's one of the league's most accomplished superstars, but fans often have the same take on him: he's boring.   In Episode 2 of Posters, we explore why we think that, what Tatum could do about it, and why we might be wrong.  Jayson Tatum grew up on YouTube. We can look back and see every success, failure, and thought process going back to a school project where h...

Anfernee 'Penny' Hardaway was a fixture in the golden era of the 90's NBA: a regular All-Star, a face of Nike, and the best pick to follow in Michael Jordan's footsteps. But how much our fandom was about basketball, and how much was just the product of exceptionally good marketing? This week on Posters, we explore Penny's short reign at the top of the league and how another golden era— of NBA mark...

Welcome to Posters: A Fans' History of Professional Basketball. Each episode of this new video podcast does a deep dive on a new player: their story, place in culture at the time they played and what they show us about our fandom to the game.    Posters is a show for the modern basketball fan. The one who loves a good sports documentary but also follows House of Highlights. The one whose social fe...