What's In Your Bag? With Andrew Robinson

Saroya Tinker is a defender for the Toronto Six of the Premier Hockey Federation, but her journey to becoming one of the few black players in professional hockey is one of perseverance, determination, and mental toughness. We sat down with Saroya to discuss her introduction to the game of hockey from a child growing up in Canada, getting called the N word by a teammate at the age of 12, and becomi...

What does it look like building a brand that has graced the runways of Paris Fashion Week, magazine covers, and of course. the NBA tunnel? We caught up with the man behind one of the fastest growing contemporary fashion brands in the world, Mamadou Bah of C'est Bon. We talked about the work behind building a brand from the ground as a designer, receiving advice from Virgil Abloh to scale a show fo...

"Use the game, don't let the game use you" Trey Phills exemplifies this phrase better than anybody I can think of. The Yale graduate turned tech startup founder, and content creator used the game of basketball, and a professional career that spanned through the G League, NBA Summer League, and overseas to propel himself into a position that not many athletes find themselves in at just 26...

Michelle Alozie is a star. To put it simply. The Yale graduate is currently a professional soccer player for the Houston Dash of the NWSL, a cancer researcher, as well as a member of the Nigerian Women's National Team, who will be competing in the 2023 World Cup! One might ask how she manages to do all of these things at such a high level? Well we dove into all of that and more on this episode of...

Ammar Multani is the fastest rising NBA photographer in the league. And his story of how he got his foot in the NBA door is one of betting on yourself, taking advantage of an opportunity, and not taking no for an answer! We chopped it up with Ammar about covering events such as New York Fashion Week, shooting athletes such as OBJ, Chris Paul, and Devin Booker, as well as who he feels are the best...

Kyle Allman Jr. (KJ) is a guard for Paris Basketball of the EuroCup and French Betclic elite league. He is undoubtedly one of the best guards in Europe, and after excelling this past summer with the Miami Heat summer league team, could be on the verge of an NBA opportunity very soon. But that wasn't always the case. After his senior year of high school, KJ had no division one offers, and had to pa...

Justin Robinson breaks down the ins and outs of the business of the NBA when it comes to trying to make a roster. After stints with the Washington Wizards, Milwaukee Bucks, and a few other NBA franchises, Robinson speaks on the mental toll it takes on a player trying to stick around in the league, dealing with the pressures of non-guaranteed contracts, constant trips to the G League, and getting t...

Kameron Taylor was playing on the Freshman team his first year at Dematha, before joining the varsity in his junior season. He went under the radar during his time their playing behind guys like Quinn Cook, Victor Oladipo, Jerian Grant, and many other future professionals! He winded up at a small division 2 school called Seton Hill, and from there Kameron blossomed into a player that today, many a...

Terance takes us back to the beginning of growing up in New York, moving to the Northeast, and attending the Tilton School and becoming one of the best high school players in the country. We discuss NEPSAC hoops, before moving onto his decision to play at Florida State alongside Dwayne Bacon and Malik Beasley and playing for legendary coach Leonard Hamilton. We discuss their runs to the sweet 16,...

Not too often do you see players make it from the Division Two ranks all the way to the bright lights of the NBA. But that's exactly what Haywood Highsmith has been able to do hailing from Wheeling University in West Virginia, and now earning a multiyear contract with the Miami Heat. We discuss his decision to go the G League route after winning the D2 player of the year award instead of going ove...

How does a 2,000 point scorer, 2nd team all ACC guard go undrafted and unsigned in the rookie free agent period? We chopped it up with PG County Maryland's own Marcquise Reed, who is currently having an exceptional season in Italy A1 after also spending time in France after leaving Clemson. We discuss his decision to go overseas right away, instead of chasing the NBA, and how that led him to playi...

Hamidou Diallo stops by the What's In Your Bag Podcast to discuss his journey from Lefrak City, Queens, getting his first division one offers at Putnam Science Academy, becoming a five star recruit, playing at Kentucky, and eventually carving out a role for himself in the NBA. We touch on his decision to leave prep school early, to join a UK team featuring Bam Adebayo, De'Aaron Fox, Malik Monk &am...

Stanton broke down his journey growing up in Baltimore and watching guys like Muggsy Bogues, Carmelo Anthony, and Rudy Gay come before him to set the table for the next generation of Baltimore hoopers. We touch on his time playing for Levelle Moton at North Carolina Central, one of the most prominent HBCU's in the country, as well as his time at South Plains Junior College where he won a National...

Quinn Cook walks us through his journey from playing big minutes in the NBA finals, to not being on a roster only two years later. We touch on his brief stint in Russia, the G League with the Stockton Kings, Coach K retiring, all time great Dematha teams and much more! Quinn also gives us exclusive insight into his new children's book that is set to come out, and what inspired him to become an aut...

The All Facts Media Family is growing and some changes are happening to the podcast! Tune in right here to find out what is next! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We sat down with Jahnathan Lamothe and Jamie Kaiser, who make up two of the three guards currently committed to play for Kevin Willard at the Univerity of Maryland. Lamothe and Kaiser are also two of the three Maryland natives to join the Terrapins, which has not happened in quite some time in College Park. We touched on this, plus who else could be joining this star-studded class going forward! H...

We sat down with one of the best players to come out of the DMV Area, and one of the best to ever put on a Virginia Tech uniform in Erick Green! How did he go from averaging 2.6 points per game as a freshman to 25.0 points per game as a senior, leading the nation in scoring? What was the wildest food that he ever tried while overseas? And what is the biggest difference between playing in the NBA a...

James Robinson graduated from the illustrious DeMatha high school as the winningest player in program history before embarking on a career at Pittsburgh that saw him graduate as the ACC all-time leader in assist-to-turnover ratio, while scoring over 1,100 points and dishing out over 600 assists. He then embarked on a six-year professional basketball career before transitioning into coaching as an...

Ricky Goings is an NIL consultant based in the DMV Area, and he has been a mainstay in the college hoops and recruiting landscape for years. We sat down with him to discuss the transfer portal and how it has evolved, this new era of NIL, and how coaches, players, and universities are navigating it. We also touched on the NBA Summer League and a new basketball league featuring some of your favorite...

Kim English scored over 1,500 points at Missouri before being drafted in the 2nd round of the 2012 NBA Draft by the Detroit Pistons! Just three years later he accepted his first coaching job under his former head coach Frank Haith at Tulsa. After stops at both Colorado and Tennesee, English took over the reins at George Mason just nine years after he officially retired from playing basketball. We...

Tom Espinosa is a native of Putnam, CT and he has been at the school since 2002 after accepting a job as a part-time P.E Teacher. How did he go from that to the head coach of the best prep school basketball program in America? Listen to this week's episode now to find out! We get some classic stories about NBA slam dunk champion Hamidou Diallo, Georgetown's Akok Akok, and many many more! This is a...

We were pleased to be joined by Will Jones, who is the head coach at North Carolina A&T. JOnes won MEAC Coach of the year in his innagural season as head coach in 2019-2020. He has since ushered the program in their one and only season in the Big South, and is preparing to make the jump to the CAA this season. We spoke to him about all of this, the current state of the MEAC, and how they can a...

Jao Ituka is the newest member of Steve Forbes' 2022 recruiting class at Wake Forest! We just finished up a season where he was the Rookie of the Year in the MAAC at Marist College where he was also a second-team All MAAC selection! How did he get here and what are his goals for next season and beyond? Click this link and tune in now to find out! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.a...

Marcus Hammond is a 2x First-Team All-MAAC selection, and a 1X Second-Team selection who has scored over 1,400 points in his college career. He averaged over 18 points per game this past season, and will graduate from Niagara in May! He just committed to Notre Dame for his last year of college hoops, and we sat down with him to discuss his decision, why Notre Dame, and of course to reflect on his...

We put a bow on the 2021-2022 season and give our final thoughts on the Final Four, the National Championship game, Coach K's final ride, and much more! Plus we go in-depth with the coaching carousel in each of the major conferences and give you our biggest winners on a national scale! Plus, there were two major openings here in the DMV. What are our thoughts on Kevin Willard and Chris Caputo and...