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Discussion in 'NBA Dish' started by BigMaloe, Mar 30, 2017.

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I really don't listen to podcasts that often being a SportsTalk790 kinda guy but ever since crap guy came over to 790 I decided to look into it.

I've listened to all of Zach Lowe's podcast. And know of the ringer pods. But that's about it.

What are some other really good listens I should check out?

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I like ESPN Lockdown and Truehoop TV Podcast

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locked on rockets w/ Ben.. i listen daily. Its great if you a die-hard fan!

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Nothing to do with the NBA, but check out "My Dad Wrote a Porno". It's hilarious.

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locked on rockets w/ Ben.. i listen daily. Its great if you a die-hard fan!
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Nice I knew of this one but forgot. Listened to a couple weeks ago. Definitely will go listen to more.

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for general NBA talk, Truehoop and Dunc'd On are good

for Rockets talk, Locked on Rockets is probably the best 1

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The Ringer has some really good podcasts. I like the NBA Show with Chris Vernon or the Bill Simmons Podcast

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Jalen & Jacoby, Locked on Rockets, Bill Burr for ***** and gigs

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My main go-tos are

Locked on Rockets from @The Cat
Dunc'd on NBA from Nate Duncan (he can be biased towards GSW and CHI. Overally though, very good info.)
Lowe Post from Zach Lowe
True Hoop - that can be hit or miss. I don't like when it is a chuckle hut.
Bill Simmons Podcast - When it is NBA related
Ringer NBA Show - hit or miss, but unfortunately more miss for me.
ESPN Lockdown - I tried this a few times and it didn't stick for me. Too many takes from Amin that I didn't like.

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Clutchfans Podcast by David Hardisty and David Weiner

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Yeah, it goes without saying the ClutchFans pod, with Hardisty and MK or Weiner are awesome.

Another Pod I forgot to mention is the general "Locked On NBA" by David Locke. He can have some great guests on, including coaches and scouts. Lots of analytics too. Some good info.

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Dunc'd on and Locked on are 100% bball analysis.
I suggest you also listen to the general NBA locked on and not just the Rockets one.
Most of the ESPN podcasts on the other hand like the ones with Windhorst Haberstrosh Amin are mostly jokes and a little rumours talk here and there.
Some nba players podcasts are also interesting from time to time. JJ Reddick had some good ones with great guests that give some perspective on the life of an NBA players and their views.
Road Trippin' with Frye and Jefferson I haven't listened to it yet but I plan to. They had Duncan as a guest.

As for WOJ even though he has good guests most of his podcasts are vanilla. He doesnt' make hard questions and zero bball analysis. But he can get guests others can't. So that's something.

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Bill Simmons except when he calls his dad or has celebs on.

Zach lowe and woj are great NBA podcasts.

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Dunc'd on is the best NBA podcast for sure.

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One of my favs to listen to, is the Tony Kornheiser show. It's pretty good. You can tell Tony loves being away from ESPN doing what he wants.

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Think everyone here sorts of thinks alike. I started with the grantland youtube Jalen and Simmons NBA teams rankings which lead me Grantland. This in turn lead me to podcasts and people like Jalen and Jacoby, Zach Lowe. When Simmons Split from ESPN, lead me to Ringer. Also Truehoop and Lockdown have people to regularly guests on the Lowe Post so started listening to those too.

Also the Vertical podcasts are great as well, especially close to the trade deadline or in general.

With ESPN possibly struggling financially and Yahoo maybe cutting back on The Vertical, we might see a big shakeup again. We will see how that goes.

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SI Open Floor is my go to NBA podcast. It is very good

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Most great ones have been mentioned already, but I'll add NBA A to Z with Sam Amick and the Red 94 podcast

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All the ones mentioned already are pretty good but I just started listening to "Road Trippin' with R.J. & Channing" after reading this article on The Ringer (Which I usually don't bother with since that site is pure trash compared to what Grantland was...but that's a topic for another thread)

he interview had barely begun when one of the Cavaliers ambled over and interrupted. This was at the team’s practice facility out in the Cleveland burbs on the morning before they burped up a bad loss in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals on Sunday. It seems that one of the players always wants to talk to Allie Clifton these days — or, more accurately, talk with her. The Cavs sideline reporter for Fox Sports Ohio moonlights as one-third of the Road Trippin’ With R.J. & Channing podcast, along with players and longtime friends Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye.

What started as an outgrowth of the conversations they’d have over long, wine-fueled dinners on the road has mushroomed into an increasingly popular podcast and the only regular in-season show hosted by active NBA players. (As of Tuesday, it was ranked 39th on the iTunes charts in the Sports & Recreation category.) They talk basketball, but mostly they have the sorts of discussions that friends and coworkers engage in all the time. Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love are frequent guests and have touched on everything from whether the moon landing was faked to Love’s fashion sense. Tim Duncan popped by to discuss Gregg Popovich and tongue rings (two independent topics). Bill Walton did his Bill Walton thing. It’s a fun show.

If they initially had any trouble persuading their peers to appear on the pod, they have the opposite problem now. They used to record on the team plane while flying from city to city, but that had to stop because too many Cavs would wander back while they were taping and try to insert themselves midstream. (It also messed with the only time the equipment managers and training staff could nap; they felt bad about that.) It’s easy to imagine. Just when Clifton and Jefferson were about to discuss the podcast with me, another player saw what was happening and crashed the party.

“Hi,” he said, extending his hand. “I’m LeBron James. What are y’all doing, an interview? She’s a big star, you know.”

“He’s kidding,” Clifton replied.

Only a little. Road Trippin’ recently signed a deal with LeBron’s company, Uninterrupted. What ThePlayers’ Tribune has done for athletes and the written word, Uninterrupted hopes to do through video and podcasts. Draymond Green recently started a pod on Uninterrupted called Dray Day, but he’s less prolific than the Road Trippin’ gang. At present, Green has recorded eight episodes, while Road Trippin’ has banged out 28. They have more set to drop before the NBA Finals. Jefferson joked that Road Trippin’ was LeBron’s “biggest free agent” move in a while.

It seems so obvious, having the players pull back the NBA curtain to allow a peek inside their otherwise cloistered world. Who wouldn’t want to take a quick look — or, even better, a long one? J.J. Redick did a podcast for The Vertical for a while, but he stopped when the season started. His show also had an NPR-interview quality to it. Road Trippin’ is different in just about every way. They didn’t record the first episode until mid-January, during a flight on the longest road trip of the season. And where Redick’s pod often felt professional and polished, Road Trippin’ is, for the most part, unvarnished. It’s heavy on detours and long on laughs.

But if it’s such a fun pod, and such an obvious idea, why aren’t other players on other teams doing it? After all, Jefferson and Frye get feedback from listeners from all over, all the time. When they persuaded the notoriously reticent Duncan to sit down for an hour, Jefferson said, “Spurs fans lost their ****.”

“It’s not just Cavs fans,” Clifton said. “We’ll get people who send messages saying they love the pod, and at the end they’ll be like, ‘Go Raptors.’”

So why are they the only regular player podcast going at the moment? When you talk to Jefferson, you notice a certain habit after a while. When he thinks of something that amuses him, a grin will spread across his face in advance of sharing it with everyone else — like he wants to have the thought all to himself before letting the world in on it. When addressing the topic of why Road Trippin’ figured out something no one else seemed to, he beamed. “Look,” Jefferson said, “I’m sorry that we’re so smart and did it first.”

Mytake, which you should handle with insulated oven mitts due to the attendant hotness: Being an NBA player is hard. It requires supreme effort and a lot of time. They practice. They play. They watch film. They fly all over the place. It has to be exhausting. When and where do you fit in a podcast? NBA players have a lot going on.

“No. No we don’t,” Jefferson said when I told him my theory. He smiled and laughed again. Actually, from now on, I should probably just report the parts when Jefferson did not smile or laugh, because the man smiles and laughs an awful lot. If there’s an athlete having more fun than the soon-to-be 37-year-old, I’ve yet to meet them. Which is undoubtedly part of why this podcast thing is going so well for the lot of them. He enjoys it, and it eats away at the boredom.

“That’s what I try to tell people,” Jefferson continued. “We have so much downtime on the road that people don’t know. We land at 3 o’clock in Atlanta and coach says, ‘OK, shootaround is at 10:30 [a.m.] tomorrow.’ What are you doing? We’ll go to the long dinners. We’ll walk around the malls. Like, Kent Bazemore came on because Kent is a good friend of mine. We’d normally go to dinner. These are things that people don’t know. Like, ‘If you sit in a hotel all day, do you watch film?’ They don’t know. They don’t understand that it’s so much downtime.”

What began as a way to fill the day has become something else, something they work at and care about. They’re constantly talking about the show and how to make it better. After recording, they immediately listen back to figure out what went right and what didn’t, as though they’re breaking down game tape. They do a lot of preshow prep too. Jefferson and Clifton do, anyway.

“Channing is definitely the funniest, and he does the least amount of work,” Jefferson said. “He shows up. He does the podcast. He says whatever he wants. And he leaves. He doesn’t listen to the podcast. He doesn’t promote the podcast. He does nothing. And I love him for it. … Channing got into this because we asked him to.”

“He wants free stuff,” Clifton added.

“Yeah, we have to keep getting him free wine and free shirts,” Jefferson said. “We have to keep him happy, keep him liquored up.”

It’s a typical exchange. While Clifton often acts as the conductor, Jefferson and Frye are usually willing to drive the train off the tracks if they think there’s a good joke at the bottom of the ditch. That can irritate Clifton. “We annoy each other all the time,” Clifton said. “Like, I’m annoyed at Channing right now.”

(Frye was supposed to join us for the interview. He ducked out and sent Clifton a “sorry, LOL” text message instead. I saw Frye later that day after the Game 3 debacle, but he was busy spooning large gobs of guacamole and giant handfuls of tortilla chips from the locker-room buffet into a to-go container. It seemed like the wrong time to bother him.)

“We annoy the **** out of each other,” Jefferson agreed.

Jefferson and Frye have been annoying the **** out of each other since they were kids. They grew up about 10 minutes apart in Phoenix and met when they were teenagers. They’ve been tight ever since. They only recently started annoying the **** out of Clifton, whom they roped into doing the pod with them for several reasons. As Jefferson explained, the players are around her all the time and feel comfortable. More practically, they needed a professional host because, as Jefferson put it, he and Frye are good talkers but “we don’t know what we’re doing.”
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It's a really great podcast even though I never really cared for Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye.

Both are pretty funny with their stories and jokes about stuff that goes on with the Cavs, their teammates- the starters and the bench players.
The last episode I listened to had Deron Williams on.
I lost it when Jefferson was telling a story about how he and the rest of the bench players cuss a lot while pumping up their teammates on the court and after a big play one game, they're all yelling encouragement and cussing and they hear Kyle Korver yell out "Way to beeeeee"!

That had me cracking up!

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