The Basketball Hungry Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to the Basketball Hungry Podcast! Today, Jairo joins Drew to discuss the NBA Finals, where the Knicks lead the Spurs 3-1 going into game 5 in San Antonio. We breakdown the 2 catastrophic plays of the Spurs down the stretch, and the keys for success of the Knicks and Spurs going forward. We finish the pod with a special shoutout to the late Stacey King, and a mini...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to another episode of the Basketball Hungry podcast! Jairo and Drew hop on the mic to discuss the result of the Western Conference Finals heavyweight matchup between the Spurs and the Thunder. We dive into the after effects of the Spurs historical run to the Finals, and what's next for the Thunder. Then we explore the Knicks road to the finals, and preview t...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and Welcome to the Basketball Hungry Podcast! Recorded right after the instant classic WCF Game 1 Spurs vs Thunder matchup, friend of the Pod, Pepe Fructuoso hops on the mic with Drew to unpack maybe the game of the decade. In a double OT thriller, the Spurs came out victorious in OKC, led by 41 & 24 from Wemby.  Are we witnessing a change of the guard? Are we witnessing...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to the Basketball Hungry Podcast! Today, Jairo joins Drew to discuss the NBA Draft Lottery, the NBA Conference Semifinals, and the legacies of the Thunder, Wemby, LeBron, and more! Support the show Thanks for listening! Please leave a 5 star rating and a kind review if you like the pod! Follow us @basketballhungry or visit our website for more content and merch a...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to the Basketball Hungry Podcast! In this episode, Jairo and Drew discuss all the madness of the first round, and our major takeaways so far. We end on a discussion about the new biopic of the GOAT, Michael Joseph Jackson. Support the show Thanks for listening! Please leave a 5 star rating and a kind review if you like the pod! Follow us @basketballhungry or visi...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and Welcome to the Basketball Hungry Podcast! Jairo and Drew hop on the air to catch up on the latest NBA news, discuss this year's All-Rookie, All-Defense and All-NBA teams, and preview this year's playoff tournament.  Also, shoutout Justin Bieber for a Coachella we'll never forget! Hallelujah! Support the show Thanks for listening! Please leave a 5 star rati...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to the Basketball Hungry Podcast! Jairo and Drew hop on the mic to discuss this year's regular season awards. We begin with this year's historic MVP race, then dive into the rest of the awards: DPOY, ROY, COY, MIP, and Clutch Player of the Year. Then we get into some of our own fun made-up awards, and we close with a quick update on this year's Mar...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to the Basketball Hungry Podcast! Jairo and Drew hop on the air right after the Lakers defeated the Rockets 124-116 in a thriller and all time Luka performance. We discuss Luka's dominance in the clutch and the Lakers recent success overall. Next, we discuss the hottest teams in the League, including the Hawks, Thunder, Spurs and Celtics. For our main event,...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to the Basketball Hungry Podcast! Kuya Ren is back! He joins Jairo and Drew to discuss Bam's INSANE 83 point game. We also dive into the top 5 players in the Association, JT's return to the C's from his achilles injury, and of course, the Lakers and their potential LeBron problem. We close things out with an old segment, No Bull , hosted by Jairo,...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to the Basketball Hungry Podcast! On today's episode, Casie Santos joins Jairo and Drew to discuss Basketball Hungry's All-Star Weekend festivities. Next Jairo and Drew discuss the NBA's successful revamp of the All-Star Game, the "face of the league", and a look into the rest of the  All-Star Weekend events. Then they discuss their updat...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to the Basketball Hungry Podcast! Jairo and Drew take a Couple Minutes (Olivia Dean style) to review the NBA all-star selections and the current hot teams in the league. Jairo then teaches us The Art of Loving D. Rose as we celebrate his jersey retirement. Next, we Dive into the latest NBA trades, and we grade each active team at the deadline. We end on a quick v...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to another episode of the Basketball Hungry podcast! Jairo and Drew discuss the latest NBA news, trade deadline predictions, and the 2026 NBA All-Star selections! The NBA just announced the All-Star starters, so we set out to pick the reserves. We finish the episode by drafting our own All-Star teams from the players we selected: WEST: Luka, Shai, Steph, Joker, W...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to another episode of the Basketball Hungry Podcast! Jairo joins Drew to catch up on the latest NBA news (the Trae Young Trade, Injuries, Hot & Cold Teams & more), then they tier the current NBA teams based on their likelihood to win a title this year. We finish the show with a special tier list of the best Stranger Things characters (Spoiler Warning!). W...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to the Basketball Hungry Podcast! This week, Jairo and Drew catch up on the latest NBA news, including the NBA Cup, potential trades for Giannis, AD & more! We also apologize for some freezing cold takes from the first couple weeks of the season. Sorry! Hope you all enjoy this holiday episode! We'll catch y'all after Vegas! The Basketball Hungry Pod...

Send us Fan Mail Jairo and Drew hop on the mic to discuss 6 topics regarding their first impressions of the start of this year's NBA season. 1. (7:59) Best surprise team/player? Bulls & Austin Reaves 2. (23:22) Most disappointing team/player? Magic, Hawks, Celtics 3. (32:19) Predictions for 1st time all-stars, and potential leap guys?  4. (49:03) MVP Predictions? 5. (55:43) ROY Prediction...

Send us Fan Mail Jairo joins Drew for Part 2 of the NBA Season Preview! This episode focuses on the Western Conference, as we predict this year's West Standings and each team's over/under predictions.  Support the show Thanks for listening! Please leave a 5 star rating and a kind review if you like the pod! Follow us @basketballhungry or visit our website for more content and merch at ba...

Send us Fan Mail Jairo joins Drew to discuss the first week of the NBA season. They also provide some life updates since they last recorded. The rest of the episode consists of an Eastern Conference season preview for all 15 teams. Drew and Jairo come up with their predictions for this year's playoff seeding, as well as some betting advice for over/under win totals. Support the show Thanks fo...

Send us Fan Mail Yup. It's real. Jagie and Drew hop on the mic to process the craziness of the last 48 hours. How did this happen? We still don't know.  In this emergency episode, we explore the two biggest trades of the deadline so far, including the Spurs, Kings & Bulls trade that formed a scary duo for years to come.  Support the show Thanks for listening! Please leave a 5 star ra...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and Welcome to the Basketball Hungry Podcast. This week (recorded on Tuesday, December 3rd), Ren and Jairo join Drew to rank the 10 best bigs in the NBA. In our third installment of our "NBA, Ranked" series, we also include a quick recap of the NBA week, a quick segment of Invest in Your Intuition , and we bring back No Bull , hosted by Jairo!  We hope you enjoy ou...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and Welcome to another episode of the Basketball Hungry Podcast! This week, Ren and Jairo join Drew to rank the top 15 wing/forwards of the NBA. Before that, we catch up on some latest news, and we close with Invest in Your Intuition , and a Draft of the best wing/forwards of all time.  Support the show Thanks for listening! Please leave a 5 star rating and a kind review if...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and Welcome to another episode of the Basketball Hungry Podcast! In this episode, Ren and Jairo join Drew to rank the top 20 guards in the game today. We also catch up on some recent NBA news, and we close our episode out with a draft see who can build the best NBA team out of strictly guards from NBA history.  Recorded on Tuesday, November 12th. Support the show Thanks for...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Basketball Hungry Podcast! We know we’ve been MIA, but we’re so excited to kick off another NBA season with you all. We start things off this year with our usual crew, Ren and Jairo join Drew to catch y’all up on where we’ve been, what we missed, and our thoughts on this year’s NBA season so far. We close with a fun draft segment, so stay tuned and vote on our...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to another episode of the Basketball Hungry Podcast! On this episode, Ren and Jairo join Drew to discuss 10 burning questions we have heading into 2024. We hope you enjoy this jam packed episode! Happy New Year! 1. The Lakers won the IST. Do they still need to improve the roster? 2. Chet vs. Wemby ... Who is better? 3. Ja is back! Do the Grizz have a shot? 4. Cel...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and Welcome to the Basketball Hungry Podcast! Recorded on October 30th, Ren and Jairo join Drew to discuss Week 1 in the Association. We share our first thoughts about the season as we watch the Lakers close out the Magic at home (0:57). Next we take a deep dive into the world of Over/Unders and see which notable teams we like so far (13:57). Then, we introduce a new segment...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to another episode of the Basketball Hungry Podcast! Recorded just a day after the Dame to the Bucks trade, Jairo joins Drew to discuss Drew's favorite player finally in a winning situation!  Support the show Thanks for listening! Please leave a 5 star rating and a kind review if you like the pod! Follow us @basketballhungry or visit our website for more con...