The Agee and Gates Podcast - What's your Hoop Dream?

We are droppin' a special episode this week as the guys welcome Will Gates Sr.'s sons to the show. Will Jr., Jalon and Marques Gates sit down and talk to Arthur and their Dad about the challenges they have faced chasing the first chapter of their own Hoop Dream, playing Division 1 basketball at Houston Baptist and the effect the original Hoop Dreams documentary had on them growing up. Don't miss t...

Our guy Dee Brown, a Chicago basketball legend, joins the guys on this episode. Dee reflects on his basketball journey, from growing up on the Westside of Chicago looking up to his brothers, who pushed him to be a better player and helped him stay on the right path, to his high school days at Proviso East where he was named McDonald's All American. Dee spent 4 years as a starting guard at the Univ...

Our guy Dee Brown, a Chicago basketball legend, joins the guys on this episode. Dee reflects on his basketball journey, from growing up on the Westside of Chicago looking up to his brothers, who pushed him to be a better player and helped him stay on the right path, to his high school days at Proviso East where he was named McDonald's All American. Dee spent 4 years as a starting guard at the Univ...

North Carolina Tar Heel alumni, NCAA champ and 12th overall pick in the 1993 NBA draft, George Lynch, joins Will Gates and Arthur Agee this week. The Virginia native takes us through his early days where he was part of the Virginia State championship squad at Patrick Henry High School and discusses his 1993 NCAA title with the Tar Heels against the Michigan Wolverines. The guys then dive into his...

Legendary NBA point guard, Mike Bibby, joins the guys. Will and Arthur dig into Bibby's origin story and hear some classic tales from his 14 year NBA career. From playing for a run and gun high school team, at Shadow mountain that averaged 98 points a game (ya in high school!!), to winning a national championship with the 1997 Arizona Wildcats and going on to be the 2nd overall pick in the NBA Dra...

Roger Powell Part 1: This week, Illinois native, University of Illinois alumni, and currently an assistant coach for the Gonzaga Bulldogs, Roger Powell aka "The Rev", joins the guys. Roger explains the influence his father had on him and his love for the game of basketball and how the documentary Hoop Dreams inspired him. He gives us the scoop on how he got his nickname and talks about how tough C...

Basketball legend, Tamecka Dixon, joins the guys this week. The Kansas Jayhawks alumna, 2x WNBA Champ with the LA Sparks and 3x WNBA All-Star gives us a little history lesson as she talks about being a member of the inaugural WNBA draft class and provides some background on how the league was launched. Tamecka also talks about growing up in New Jersey, playing in four NCAA Tournaments and having h...

This week, on Hoop Dreams The Podcast, De LaSalle High School, Kentucky Wildcat and Southern Illinois alumni, Aminu Timberlake, joins his fellow Chicago natives, Will Gates and Arthur Agee, to talk about his life in basketball and what he's been up to in the years since he retired. Aminu gives some insight into Rick Pitino and his college recruitment process, dishes some inside scoop on the famous...

Kansas City native and former NBA 1st Round Draft Pick, Kareem Rush, sits down with Will Gates and Arthur Agee. Kareem talks about his high school days at Pembroke Hill, university at Mizzou and his experience playing with Shaq and Kobe on the Lakers. He also discusses playing for Phil Jackson and the run to the NBA Finals. On halftime Kareem drops some smooth R&B vocals for the guys and talks abo...

Former Kansas Jayhawks star and NBA 1st Round Draft Pick, Rex Walters, joins Will Gates and Arthur Agee. The guys talk to Rex about his high school days growing up in San Jose and trying to make a name for himself, his college days at North Western and Kansas and his time in the league with the Nets, Sixers and Heat. They cover the Jayhawks run to the final four, his love for coaching, playing wit...

Sportswriter, Broadcaster, College Basketball Analyst and New York Times bestselling Author, Seth Davis, joins Will Gates and Arthur Agee. Seth talks about some of his greatest memories of working in basketball, about breaking into the business and offers his perspective on current issues in college basketball today. He gives us insight into some of the great games and players he got to watch and...

NBA Champion, NBA Defensive Player of the Year and NBA All-Star, Metta Sandiford-Artest, joins Will Gates and Arthur Agee. Metta talks about family, his early childhood, growing up in Queensbridge New York and watching hip hop explode onto the scene during his college years with the likes of Nas, Mobb Deep, Capone n Noreaga and others. He gets into his college years, his time in the NBA with the B...

Sneaker designer and Chicago native Dallas Stokes joins Will Gates and Arthur Agee. Dallas talks about his journey through the sneaker business from Reebok, to Adidas, Skechers, AND1 and more and some of the people who helped him along the way. He touches on the influence working with Shaq, Kobe and other pros like Stephen Jackson had on his career. Dallas also tells a great story about cold calli...

Indiana Hoosier Alumni and Illinois legend, AJ Guyton joins Will Gates and Arthur Agee. AJ was named first team All-American in 2000 and ranks 4th all time in scoring for the Hoosiers. While at Indiana he played for one of the greatest college coaches ever in Bobby Knight. AJ discusses his college experience and playing for coach Knight, getting drafted by his hometown team the Chicago Bulls, NBA...

Emmy Award winning producer, author and podcast host Jason Romano joins Will Gates and Arthur Agee. The guys talk about how he broke into the media industry, his time at ESPN as a producer of Sports Center, Sunday NFL Countdown, Mike and Mike in the Morning and many other classis sports shows and why he made the decision to leave after 17 years and launch his own successful podcast, Sports Spectru...

Chicago legend Maurice “Bo” Ellis, the 17th pick in the 1977 NBA Draft and one of the men who put Marquette Basketball on the map, joins Will Gates and Arthur Agee on this episode. Will’s former coach talks about growing up on Chicago’s Southside in the “real Inglewood”, appearing in the Hoop Dreams Documentary and playing in two NCAA National Championship games while winning one of them. Bo discu...

The guys sit down with Linnae to discuss the toughness growing up in Chicago instills in you. Playing with guys as a young female player, playing for the hometown team in the WNBA and the experience of running out on that court for the first time. They dive into her college days playing for two legendary universities, her high school days, walking the same halls as former first lady Michelle Obama...

Rafer "Skip to My Lou” Alston joins Will Gates and Arthur Agee. The guys chop it up with the streetball and NBA legend about coming up in Queens, New York, some of his high school alumni (a couple names might ring a bell), why LL Cool J is his favourite rapper and how he earned his nickname and how he kept it. They dive deep into the business of AND 1 and the birth of the AND 1 mix tape tour and h...