The Hoop Genius Podcast

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Free agency hadn't even opened yet, and the NBA was already on fire. Mo Mooncey and Coach Brendan Suhr sit down two hours before the market opens, and by the time they're done recording, a Kawhi Leonard trade breaks live on the show. Mo and Coach open with LeBron James informing the Lakers he won't be back, and make the case for why Golden State, not Cleveland, makes the most sense for his next mo...

The NBA offseason has been chaos from the jump and Mo and Coach Brendan Suhr are breaking down every major move: the full NBA draft, the Giannis trade to Miami, LaMelo Ball heading to Minnesota, the Jalen Brown media circus, and every other trade and free agency story worth your time. Listen or watch as two of the most credible voices in the game cut through the noise on a packed offseason. Who go...

For the first time since 1973 the New York Knicks are NBA champions, and they did it the hard way: down double digits in every single game and still standing alone on the mountain. Mo and two-time NBA championship coach Brendan Suhr break down a Finals that says something bigger about how you actually win in this league. Listen or watch as they make the case that the Knicks just buried the "you ne...

The Spurs were up 29 in an NBA Finals game and lost. We are still not sure we believe it. Mo Mooncey and 2x NBA champion coach Brendan Suhr break down the night the San Antonio Spurs handed the New York Knicks a 3-1 series lead, with OG Anunoby tipping in the winner and De'Aaron Fox unravelling down the stretch. This one is all about the collapse. We go possession by possession through the final t...

The Spurs stole one back in New York and we have a real NBA Finals on our hands. Victor Wembanyama came out of the tunnel like he remembered he was seven foot five, attacked the rim from the opening tip, and dragged San Antonio to a 115-111 road win to cut the series to 2-1.  Mo and two-time NBA champion coach Brendan Suhr break down the game that flipped the temperature of this series. They get i...

The Knicks went to San Antonio and didn't steal one, they stole both. New York is up 2-0 in the NBA Finals and Mo is calling the series over. Coach Brendan Suhr isn't ready to go that far. Listen or watch as a two-time NBA champion coach breaks down why he thinks the Spurs handed this game away in the final 40 seconds, why Wembanyama looked rattled for the first time all postseason, and how Karl-A...

The New York Knicks stole Game 1 of the NBA Finals on the road, 105-95, coming back from 14 points down in the second half to beat the San Antonio Spurs. Mo called the game live on Prime Video and jumped straight on the podcast with Coach Brendan Suhr to break it all down. They get into the De'Aaron Fox crunch-time disaster, why Dylan Harper should have been on the floor instead, how the Knicks ar...

The San Antonio Spurs are Western Conference champions. Wimby's going to the Finals. OKC - despite Shai Gilgeous-Alexander dropping 35 points - are heading home. We break down the game seven aftermath, why Chet Holmgren went missing with $240M coming his way, and what Dylan Harper's poise as a rookie tells you about where this Spurs team is headed. Then we get into the matchup breakdown for the NB...

The OKC Thunder just got pushed to a game seven by a San Antonio Spurs team built on three top-five picks. The NBA just voted 29-1 to make sure that never happens again. Mo and Coach Brendan Suhr break it all down and ask whether the new draft lottery rules actually fix anything, or whether they just punish teams that aren't tanking at all. Plus: is Wemby quietly doing something we've never seen b...

The New York Knicks have swept the Cleveland Cavaliers and are heading to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999. Mo and Coach Brendan Suhr are not holding back. Is this Knicks team actually capable of winning a championship? Is Kenny Atkinson finished in Cleveland? Plus, the OKC Thunder and San Antonio Spurs are locked in a brutal conference finals series tied at 2-2, Greg Popovich made a r...

The best game of the conference finals, the worst collapse in recent playoff memory, and a Dallas franchise blowing the whole thing up. Mo and Brendan break down everything. Wembanyama put up 41 points and 24 rebounds in a double-overtime road classic to open the West Conference Finals. OKC levelled it in Game 2, but now San Antonio is down two key guards and Brendan has serious concerns about wha...

Conference Finals are set, and we have takes. On tonight's show: Anthony Edwards congratulated the Spurs with eight minutes still on the clock, and Brendan Suhr - 47 years in the NBA - says he's never seen anything like it. We get into what that actually says about Minnesota. Brendan also went on record with a guarantee: Giannis will not be a Milwaukee Buck next season, but when you look around th...

The NBA Draft Lottery just reshuffled the league. Washington wins the number one pick, the Pacers watch their selection land at five and walk away with nothing, and there is a legitimate argument that Indiana still got the better end of the Zubac trade. Mo and Coach Brendan Suhr go pick by pick from 1 through 14 and break down what it means for every franchise heading into the summer. Plus: the Gi...

The Celtics blew a 3-1 lead at home and nobody can explain the game seven starting line-up. The Sixers got blown out by the Knicks in game one. Wemby went 0-8 from three. De'Aaron Fox put up 10 points and six turnovers; and Coach Brendan Suhr dropped a medical opinion that will have doctors arguing for weeks: calf strains don't exist. Mo and Coach break down every first-round result, go series by...

The NBA playoffs have gone completely off the rails. Three teams down 3-1 have forced game sevens. A 24-point halftime lead disappeared inside 24 minutes. The Nuggets got bounced without Anthony Edwards, DiVincenzo, or Ayo Dosunmu even on the floor. And Cade Cunningham looked like the best player on any court in the fourth quarter when it mattered most. Mo Mooncey and coach Brendan Suhr break down...

The first round of the NBA playoffs is delivering chaos across the board, and Mo and Brendan Suhr are breaking down every series . Jalen Duren is being outplayed by the fifth option on the Orlando Magic while his max contract talks stall. The Toronto Raptors shot 4-30 from three and won a playoff game. Jaden McDaniels talked his way into a feud with the entire Nuggets roster and then dunked on Nik...

LeBron James is 41 years old and dropping playoff performances that are making the entire league uncomfortable. Without Luka Doncic and Austin Reeves, the Lakers have gone up 2-0 on the Rockets - and it's not even been close. Mo and Coach Brendan Suhr break down what JJ Redick has built and why Houston's identity has completely fallen apart. Plus: Victor Wembanyama is out with a concussion and De'...

The play-in is done, the bracket is set, and Mo and Coach Brendan Suhr are going through every single first-round series live, just minutes after the Warriors went down to the Phoenix Suns. Eight series. Eight predictions. Game counts and X-factors for all of them.  They also get into whether Steve Kerr's farewell embrace in the closing minutes was a goodbye, what Victor Wembanyama's first playoff...

The NBA play-in tournament is deliveringeverything you could ask for. The Golden State Warriors came back from double digits down in the fourth quarter to eliminate the Clippers, Al Horford hit three straight threes, and Draymond Green locked Kawhi Leonard out of the game. Portland upset Phoenix. The Sixers handled Orlando, and Charlotte ended Miami's season in overtime with a LaMelo Ball controve...

The NBA playoffs are finally here and we're breaking down every confirmed first-round matchup before a single ball is tipped. Mo and Coach Brendan Suhr run through the Knicks and Hawks, the Cavaliers and Raptors, the Nuggets and Timberwolves, and the Lakers and Rockets, with real picks, real takes and no hedging. Minnesota's numbers against winning teams don't lie. Denver is on a 12-game winning s...

Mo Mooncey and Brendan Suhr have inside information on Giannis Antetokounmpo, and they're not holding back. The Milwaukee Bucks situation is heading in one direction, and the "I just want to play" narrative is not fooling anyone on this show. Also in this episode: the Los Angeles Lakers lose Luka Doncic and Austin Reeves to injury in the same week, and with it, any realistic shot at a deep playoff...

Phil Beckner is one of the most respected player development coaches in the business, and this episode explains exactly why. He started as an unpaid director of operations at Weber State, working night shifts at Costco and refereeing men's league games for $17 a night, while coaching a freshman named Damian Lillard during the day. Twenty years later he's trained some of the best players in the NBA...

The NBA leaked three anti-tanking proposals this week. Mo and Brendan have a verdict: all three are wrong, and none of them touch the league's actual integrity problem. Mo was was commentating  the Clippers-Bucks game and what he witnessed on that broadcast should worry every fan far more than any team finishing last on purpose. Also: Victor Wembanyama made his MVP case publicly this week, and Bre...

Tony Ronzone has scouted basketball in over 100 countries. He found Dirk Nowitzki before the NBA knew his name. He motivated Kobe Bryant to restore glory to USA basketball, and he once flew into North Korea on a USA passport, trying to sign a 7'9" player with a wheat deal. This week Mo and Coach Brendan Suhr sit down with Tony Ronzone - former Dallas Mavericks international director, three-time Ol...