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This week on The Dagger Basketball Podcast the boys are going to talk about a team that has had an unexpectedly HOT couple of weeks beating big teams around the league, the Sacramento Kings are on a 5-game winning streak and we are here for it! Then we will move to "Laddergate" and bring you our take on the Giannis Antetokoumpo accident in Philadelphia after the game. We will also play a game for...

This week on The Dagger Basketball Podcast the guys will start the episode with the usual weekly awards with some extra ones since we skipped last week's episode! Then we will dive in and give our takes on the Brooklyn Nets drama that went down the last few weeks with Kyrie Irving and the "Checklist", the firing of Steve Nash, and the almost hiring of Ime Udoka. After that we will comment on the G...

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will continue to overreact to the start of the season as teams are continuing to surprise us with their performances whether they are positive or negative. One of the biggest surprises being the Brooklyn Nets starting the season 1-5, yep that is correct 1-5 record to start the season for Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and company. Will...

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will give out their usual weekly Hooper of the Week and Good Hustle awards! Then we will overreact to Week 1 of the NBA regular season with a long-awaited special guest, PAPA Franklin is back on the pod to give us the hottest takes from opening week!! We will cover the hot starts of the Boston Celtics and Portland Trail Blazers, and...

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, we will give out our weekly Hooper and Good Hustle awards and then dive into the Golden State Warriors situation regarding the two new contracts and the Draymond Green situation! After that we will each bring you guys our regular season awards predictions including who we think will win the MVP, DPOY, 6 Man of the Year, Rookie of the Year, a...

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will start by talking about all the consequences that arose after the Draymond Green punch to Jordan Poole during the Golden State Warriors preseason practice last week. After that we will move overseas to analyze the hottest commodity for teams in the bottom half of the standings this year that is Victor Wenbanyama from France. The...

In this episode of the Dager Basketball Podcast, the crew will start by going over all the news that came out of NBA Media Day 2022, from what is going on behind the scenes in Brooklyn, to a very fit looking Zion Williamson, and to the Suns struggles in the offseason. Additionally, we will go over the Vegas lines for each team's win totals that came out this week, some of these lines are very opti...

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew brings in a familiar guest to go over the shockingly unexpected drama that the Boston Celtics are facing during this offseason with the Coach Ime Udoka and the yearlong suspension he will serve this season. How will the Celtics respond to this adversity? We will give you our predictions on how we think things will unfold. Additional...

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast the crew will give out their usual weekly awards, with a rare repeated appearance on the Good Hustle Award category. Then the guys will move to the first segment which will be review the blockbuster trade that occurred last week between the Utah Jazz and the Cleveland Cavaliers, sending Donovan Mitchell to the Eastern Conference! And finally...

This week on the Dagger Basketball Podcast the crew will cover the hottest news from around the league from the Patrick Beverley move to the Los Angeles Lakers, to Kevin Durant's face off with the Brooklyn Nets' front office, and the Chet Holmgren foot injury durin the star-studded Pro-Am game in Seattle last week. Additionally, the crew will go over the remaining free agents while giving their op...

This week on the Dagger Basketball the guys will go over the newly released Christmas Day schedule for the NBA, a few weird picks by the NBA but all-around solid slate of games. After that the main course of the episode will be the most famous "What If..." scenarios from the NBA history. We will cover the greatest players that go injured and what their career would have looked like. Then we will a...

As everybody knows it is the off-season and with the off-season we all know that not much basketball is going on! However, it is still a wonderful time of the year as in this episode the crew will give their nominees for Hooper of The Year and Good Hustle of the year, and then decide who will take each award!! Notable nominees like Bethany College, Will Smith, Steph Curry, and Dick Vitale will be...

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will start by giving out their usual Hooper of the Week and Good Hustle awards and then segway into free agency/trade talk! We will cover all of the Brooklyn Nets drama surrounding that organization, starting with the unrealistic trade demands by the Nets for KD and ending with the Kyrie Irving to the Los Angeles Lakers rumors. Then...

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast the boys are back with their draft reactions! Some big surprises on the top of the board especially with regards to the number one pick and the number 4 pick, did the Sacramento Kings mess up by passing on Jaden Ivey? Only time will tell, or if you cannot wait that long, TC will tell you right now in this episode. Which players are in the bes...

It is a Hot "NBA" Summer everybody!!! The finals just ended, the Golden State Warriors are yet again the new NBA Champions after defeating the Boston Celtics in six games, Curry finally gets his first NBA Finals MVP and fourth ring. The crew is back to give you all their takes on what went wrong and what went right during these Finals and some takes on the repercussion that stemmed from the Warrio...

We're Going Back To Cali!!! On Thursday the NBA Finals will start featuring the Golden State Warriors and the Boston Celtics. The series will start in California with a highly anticipated Game 1, and we are here to give you the full breakdown of how we see this matchup going, who are the X-Factors, and who in our eyes will come out on top at the end. Before this though, we will review the conferen...

What an amazing first couple of games we had in Round Two of the NBA Playoffs this past week in each of the four series. To help us cover the games we decided to bring in some reinforcements, Deon's brother Tristan Lord and Papa Franklin will join us and bring a fresh perspective on how they believe the playoffs have been going and where they will go from now. Will the Miami Heat Sweep the Philade...

This week on the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will continue to review the 2022 NBA Playoffs! More and more shocking results coming from around the league, and we have our first eliminations. The Brooklyn Nets are sent packing by the Boston Celtics in four games. All the other series are still open in both sides of the playoff brackets. Timberwolves and Grizzlies are going at it and same goe...

Off we go!!! The First Round of the 2022 NBA Playoffs started this past weekend with some amazing games, extraordinary individual and team performance, and with one huge surprise in Game 1 of one of the series. No shot anyone could have predicted that one. The crew will review all the first games for each series while reacting to some of the best and worst performances from the weekend. Additional...

It is NBA Playoffs time everybody and they are shaping up to be extra spicy this year with rivalries and epic first round matchups between superstars. But first there are the Play-In games to cover because we have some great games going on in these couple of days. These teams are fighting for a spot in the playoffs, and we will breakdown the different games and scenarios that come with this Play-I...

As we head into the final week of the NBA regular season the playoff picture is taking shape! The crew will take this opportunity to each give their full Power Rankings and end of season awards! The top remains unchanged but there are some new teams right behind the dominant Phoenix Suns. The MVP race is heating up but according to the guys there is one clear winner already.

We are in the home stretch everyone! With little over five games to go in the season teams are getting ready to shift focus to the post-season. Some teams are looking locked and loaded, others are on shaky grounds and are showing some weaknesses. The Miami Heat being one of the late season strugglers with locker room problems and court problems will be the focus of this episode. Additionally, the...

It has been a crazy March indeed everyone! The first round of the NCAA Men's March Madness absolutely did not disappoint, from 15 seed St. Peter's knocking out 2 seed Kentucky to the almost routine 5-12 upsets. What games were the most fun? What payers have impressed you the most? Who is the favorite to win it going into the Sweet Sixteen? These questions and more will be answered during this epis...

In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the guys will go over the Philadelphia 76ers matchup with the Brooklyn Nets from last week, and how the rest of the season looks for these two organizations. Coach Greg Popovich broke the NBA wins record last week and the crew will reflect on his impact and rank him among NBA coaches al-time. The bulk of the episode, however, will focus on M...

In this week's episode of the Dagger, we brought on our friend Karsten Bailey from the "Ball Is Law" podcast. We will start by covering the Golden State Warriors latest struggles without Draymond Green and with Klay Thompson's frustration as he tries to come back into his form. Then we will also go over a few teams that are making a late season run up the Western Conference standings and deciding...