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Ben Craw joins the pod this week for another On The Line DRAFT! This week we draft our favorite all-time NBA Nicknames—NO SPOILERS—below are the pick timestamps. ROUND 1 * #1- Team CW—Player 1 (4:00) #2- Team BC—Player 1 (12:15) ROUND 2 #3- Team CW—Player 2 (15:35) #4- Team BC—Player 2 (18:10) ROUND 3 #5- Team CW—Player 3 (20:10) #6- Team BC—Player 3 (24:20) ROUND 4 #7- Team CW—Player 4 (26:00) #8...

🚨🚨MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨🚨 (4:00) Ben Craw joins the pod this week for another On The Line DRAFT! This week we draft our favorite all-time NBA Trees—NO SPOILERS—below are the pick timestamps. ROUND 1 * #1- Team BC—Player 1 (13:10) #2- Team CW—Player 1 (26:30) ROUND 2 #3- Team CW—Player 2 (34:50) #4- Team BC—Player 2 (40:45) ROUND 3 #5- Team CW—Player 3 (45:15) #6- Team BC—Player 3 (51:30) ROUND 4...

Geoffrey James joins the pod this week to talk trouble in paradise with Kevin Durant (3:45), Tristan Thompson (8:50), Derrick Rose’s 50 point game (12:30), the sucky Houston Rockets (14:40), rooting for the Cavs and LeBron while living in Los Angeles (19:20), Kemba Walker’s 60 point effort (22:50), Luka Dončić (29:40), the Washington Wizards earned jersey (34:10), Indiana Pacers city edition jerse...

Daniel Rosen joins the pod this week to talk about the Toronto Raptors getting national media coverage (2:00), ranking Toronto’s professional sports teams in terms of fan importance (3:40), comparing the fanbases of the Maple Leafs and Raptors (5:00), Joe Carter (6:00), the excitement of Raptors expansion (7:15), the Vince Carter years (9:50), the 2000 NBA Slam Dunk Contest (10:15), Vinsanity (11:...

Lucas Kavner joins the pod this week to talk the competence of the LA Clippers (2:10), their lethal offense (3:00), Montrezl Harrell (6:00), Patrick Beverley (8:10), deconstructing the Clippers roster: morphing from disgruntled stars into a group of fun underdogs (9:55), CP3 trade (10:45), Blake Griffin trade (11:20), Doc Rivers (12:10), Tobias Harris (16:00), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (20:05), Mark...

Adam Lustick joins the pod this week to talk NBA excellence (3:45), reviewing the Western Conference (4:15), scoring and lack of defense (5:00), Adam Lustick’s most overrated NBA player (6:30) and underrated NBA player (7:40), Charlotte’s upcoming decision to extend or trade Kemba Walker (8:15), Kemba and Michael Jordan (10:00), NBA power-shifts from West to East (11:40), enjoying the struggles of...

Tony Hartman joins the pod this week to talk NBA nihilism vis-a-vis the Cleveland Cavs (1:50), the legacy of Carmelo Anthony (3:00), media perception/narrative of Melo (6:30), Melo never winning a ring (8:00), Carmelo rebuilding the Denver Nuggets (8:30), Melo making the playoffs with the Nuggets from 2004-2010 (10:00), Knicks & Melo Pt. 1—The Playoff Runs (11:00), Knicks & Melo Pt. 2—The...

Matt Hobby joins the pod this week to talk being happy for Jimmy Butler (4:15), GM Tom Thibodeau's head is in the sand (4:45), player empowerment and autonomy (5:40), the long, strange trip of Jimmy Butler's young career (7:25), Jimmy Buckets the teammate (8:15), Robert Covington and Dario Šarić place in the history of The Process (11:10), Covington's emergence (12:00), Dario's upside (13:25), PRO...

Nicknamed "The Answer," Allen Iverson was an eleven-time NBA All-Star, won the All-Star game MVP award in 2001 and 2005, and was the NBA's MVP in 2001. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. However, Iverson's rise to prodigious success and influence was a long, winding, complicated road with peaks and valleys. From Hampton, VA to Bethel HS; Circle Lanes Bowling Alley...

Jeremy Engdahl-Johnson and Ryder Schumacher join the pod this week to talk Ty Lue's firing (2:25), next coach fired (3:30), Houston's reported offer of four 1st round draft picks for Jimmy Butler (6:45), Nikola Jokić (12:10), Boston Celtics (16:05), Houston Rockets' sluggish start (18:20), Kawhi Leonard and the Toronto Raptors (21:30), the free wheeling Milwaukee Bucks (24:20), Philadelphia 76ers...

David Futernick joins the pod this week to talk growing up with the 90's/early 2000's Knicks (4:00), an atrocious 15 years of basketball in NY (6:00), Knicks 1st round draft pick blunders: an oral history (7:45), jerseys off the clearance rack (11:15), feeling excited about Cleanthony Early (12:10), keeping James Dolan away from the Knicks (14:20), recapping the last year of Knicks bulletpoints (1...

Curran Connor joins the pod this week to preview some of the heavy-hitters in the Western Conference: Houston Rockets (3:30), Golden State Warriors (9:50), Portland Trail Blazers (17:50), Oklahoma City Thunder (23:45), Utah Jazz (29:50), New Orleans Pelicans (34:15), San Antonio Spurs (40:05), Jimmy Butler and the Minnesota Timberwolves (46:12) and of course... the Los Angeles Lakers (57:30). Love...

Lucas Kavner joins the pod this week to preview some of the heavy-hitters in the Eastern Conference: Toronto Raptors (3:57), Boston Celtics (9:15), Philadelphia 76ers (13:30), Cleveland Cavaliers (19:35), Indiana Pacers (22:45), Miami Heat (24:45), Milwaukee Bucks (27:20), Washington Wizards (30:55)—plus Lucas' surprise dark-horse team (33:10)! Love the show? Got a fantasy hoops question? Lost all...

Nicknamed "The Answer," Allen Iverson was an eleven-time NBA All-Star, won the All-Star game MVP award in 2001 and 2005, and was the NBA's MVP in 2001. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. However, Iverson's rise to prodigious success and influence was a long, winding, complicated road with peaks and valleys. From Hampton, VA to Bethel HS; Circle Lanes Bowling Alley...

Nicknamed "The Answer," Allen Iverson was an eleven-time NBA All-Star, won the All-Star game MVP award in 2001 and 2005, and was the NBA's MVP in 2001. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. However, Iverson's rise to prodigious success and influence was a long, winding, complicated road with peaks and valleys. From Hampton, VA to Bethel HS; Circle Lanes Bowling Alley...

Ryder Schumacher join the pod this week to talk about the Sam Darnold era (2:10), spending time in the offseason (5:20), Maine Red Claws (7:15), Avery Bradley playing for Maine (8:35), Red Claws concession (9:45), origin of the 'Red Claws' nickname (10:30), Red Claws jerseys and logo (11:10), notable Red Claws player assignments (11:50), Avery Bradley vs. Cole Aldrich at the Portland Expo Center (...

Ben Craw joins the pod this week for another On The Line DRAFT! This week we draft our favorite all-time NBA Signature Moves—NO SPOILERS—below are the pick timestamps. ROUND 1 #1- Team BC—Player 1 (3:50) #2- Team CW—Player 1 (10:30) ROUND 2 #3- Team BC—Player 2 (17:45) #4- Team CW—Player 2 (21:35) ROUND 3 #5- Team BC—Player 3 (26:55) #6- Team CW—Player 3 (31:15) ROUND 4 #7- Team BC—Player 4 (38:25...

Ben Craw joins the pod this week for another On The Line DRAFT! This week we draft our favorite all-time NBA enforcers—NO SPOILERS—below are the pick timestamps. ROUND 1 #1- Team CW—Player 1 (4:00) #2- Team BC—Player 1 (10:15) ROUND 2 #3- Team CW—Player 2 (16:00) #4- Team BC—Player 2 (21:10) ROUND 3 #5- Team CW—Player 3 (28:50) #6- Team BC—Player 3 (36:30) ROUND 4 #7- Team CW—Player 4 (38:50) #8-...

Marty Michael joins the pod this week to talk about the Trail Blazers—the only professional sports team in Oregon [til the MLS] and the influence of Nike (2:00), Damon Stoudamire at the airport with marijuana (3:20), origins of the "Jail Blazers" nickname (5:00), Rasheed Wallace's record setting number of technical fouls (6:10), setting a "Jail Blazers" timeline: roughly 1999-2...

Ben Craw joins the pod this week for the INAUGURAL On The Line DRAFT! This week we draft our favorite all-time NBA haircuts—NO SPOILERS—below are the pick timestamps. ROUND 1 #1- Team BC—Player 1 (9:00) #2- Team CW—Player 1 (16:45) ROUND 2 #3- Team BC—Player 2 (25:05) #4- Team CW—Player 2 (29:00) ROUND 3 #5- Team BC—Player 3 (34:00) #6- Team CW—Player 3 (38:00) ROUND 4 #7- Team BC—Player 4 (42:10)...

Billy Scafuri joins the pod this week to talk expansion drafts (4:15), the era of fun early 90s NBA branding (6:00), Larry Johnson (7:00), LJ's physique- a new size and shape of NBA athlete (7:30), LJ's on-the-court game (9:50), October 6th, 1993: MJ retires, LJ signs for 12 years, $84m (13:00), Grandmama (13:30), Converse's initial pitch to LJ (14:00), Grandmama as the perfect commercial characte...

Tony Hartman joins the pod this week to talk Maron's whereabouts (2:40), El Cerrito (3:30), Windhorst v. Hartman for the Akron b-ball crown (5:00), LeBron opening a public school in Akron (6:00), LBJ's legacy of work in Akron (7:00), hearing LeBron rumors from your mom's boss (10:30), potentially wasting a year of LeBron's prime in 2018-19 (12:15), LeBron's reception in LA (12:50), Kobe-fan resist...

Ben Craw joins the pod this week to talk Kevin Knox (2:15), Kristaps Porzingis' debut in 2015 Vegas Summer League (3:00), Porzingis' size (6:00), Knox's rise on the scene (6:45), Kevin Knox's style of play (8:00), NBA fan investment in young players (10:00), future of the NBA / the eventual demise of the Warriors (11:30), Boogie Cousins (15:15), the Warriors and the housing crisis (18:00), Boogie...

Ben Craw joins the pod this week to talk about first learning of the DeRozan for Kawhi trade (3:50), Woj v. Shams (4:50), Kawhi/DeMar winners and losers (7:30), excitement for Kawhi and the city of Toronto (8:00), disgruntled Kawhi (9:45), Kawhi's resemblance to a Raptor/dinosaur (10:50), the likelihood of Kawhi reporting to training camp in Toronto (13:45), whether the DeRozan package was the bes...

Nate Williams, Lucas Kavner and Matt Hobby join the pod this week to talk about the city of Las Vegas (2:00), thoughts on the Knicks and Hawks Summer League rosters (3:20), Kevin Knox- The Fort (3:45), Trae Young (4:50), John Collins (6:30), Frank Ntilikina (7:00), the future NYK pairing of Frank & Knox (8:30), CW’s 4-team Summer League parlay (11:00), DeAndre Ayton looking out of place early...