Tales From The Hoop

Greetings, fellow earthlings, and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. In today’s episode, we’re continuing our first multi-part series, looking at the full history of the ABA. This time out, we’re taking a look at Wilt Chamberlain and the San […]

Greetings, fellow earthlings, and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. In today’s episode, we’re continuing our first multi-part series, looking at the full history of the ABA. Today, we’re looking back at the Oakland Oaks and seeing the long and […]

Greetings, fellow earthlings, and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. In today’s episode, we’re starting our first multi-part series, looking at the full history of the ABA. We start with the formation of the fledgling league and learn about guys […]

Greetings, fellow earthlings, and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. In today’s episode, we’re diving into the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 2025 championship and a quick retrospective for the 2025 season. Plus, some Sporcle shenanigan’s!

Greetings, fellow earthlings, and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. In today’s episode, we’re diving into the life of Cumberland Posey, the only person to make the basketball and baseball Hall of Fame.

Greetings, fellow earthlings, and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. In today’s episode, we’re looking back at the worst team to ever win an NBA Finals. The answer might surprise you.

Greetings, fellow earthlings, and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. In today’s episode, we’re exploring what happened to the Buffalo Braves that caused them to leave New York and move to California. Surprisingly, it involves KFC. Who knew?

Greetings, fellow earthlings, and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. In today’s episode, we’re dipping our feet into the world of street basketball by covering three short stories: Pablo Robertson, Pee Wee Kirkland, and Cal Ramsey.

Greetings, fellow earthlings, and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. In today’s episode, we’re diving into the 1951 point-shaving scandal that rocked the college basketball landscape.

Greetings, fellow earthlings, and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. In today’s episode, we’re living in the present and previewing the 2025 NBA playoffs a few days before they begin.

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. For the last episode of bracket season, we’ve thrown the 64 best names from the NBA into a bracket to decide the best one.

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. To celebrate the start of the NCAA Tournament, we’ve put all the mascots in a bracket and decided which one would win in a knock-down, drag-out brawl.

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. It’s bracket season, so we’re here with a special episode and guest star to pick a star from a bracket of unknown players. Check out Michael and Ricky’s video game […]

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales from the Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, wacky stories from basketball history. Today, we’re talking about Bison Dele, one of the most tragic stories in NBA history.

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales from the Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, wacky stories from basketball history. Today, we’re beginning what will likely be a long foray into the various point-shaving scandals in basketball history by looking at one of the more bittersweet stories, Connie Hawkins. The Hawk […]

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. Today, we have a very special episode discussing our picks for the 2025 All-Star game. Did the league and fans get it right? Let’s find out.

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales from the Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, wacky stories from basketball history. Today, we’re digging deep into the Boston Celtics’ history to discuss Tony Lavelli, the man who might be the most important Celtic of them all.

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales from the Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, wacky stories from basketball history. Unfortunately, the boys have COVID, so we’re going through our hottest NBA takes this week to see who is the most scorching. This podcast is not sponsored by Paxlovid.

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales from the Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, wacky stories from basketball history. Join two brothers as they look back on everything that’s happened on Christmas Day in the NBA.

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales From the Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. Join two brothers as they look back on the old fogies of the NBA.

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales From the Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. Join two brothers as they look back on the at-times distressing career of Detroit high school legend Reggie Harding.

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales From the Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. Join two brothers as they look back on the tumultuous career of Cleveland Cavaliers owner Ted Stepien.

In this very special Tales From the Hoop episode, we leave the weird world of basketball history behind and look to the future. Join two brothers as they dig deep into the 2024-25 season and tell you exactly what’s going to happen.

Greetings fellow Earthlings and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. Join two brothers as they look back at the odd connection between Mark Jackson and the Menendez Brothers.

Greetings fellow Earthlings and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. This week, Ricky and Dave look back at some of the silliest stories from Orlando Magic history.