Dan and Andy deliver Part 2 of their top-25 lineup series with Nos. 10 through 1. Be sure to check out Part I of these rankings, featuring Nos. 25 through 11, right here. Did your favorite team’s favorite lineup make either cut? iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale But
Andy Bailey and Dan Favale go around the NBA to riff on the latest hot-button issues, both real and of their own design and preference. iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale In addition to talking about the imminent returns of Jimmy Butler and Stephen Curry, they dig deep on Andrew
Tom Thibodeau’s willingness to expose his best players to unmerciful workloads has become a common punchline for basketball jokes. In his last five full seasons as a head coach, his teams have never finished higher than 25th in bench minutes. The bitter aftertaste of Thibodeau’s
iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher | Google Play (coming soon) @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale BREAKING: Hardwood Knocks is turning 100 (episodes old). You obviously care about this, so we’re celebrating the only way we can fathom how: riffing and rapping and jabbering and yapping about the 2017-18 Minnesota Timberwolves with The Ringer’s Haley O’Shaughnessy (@HaleyOSomething). Chances
iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher | Google Play (coming soon) @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale The Chicago Bulls are firing up the tank. Or rather, they’ve been firing up the tank. The Bulls leaned hard into the rebuild they’ve spent the past few years evading by trading Jimmy Butler, cutting ties with Dwyane Wade
As kids, we all practice hitting game-winning buckets in our driveway. “Three…two…one-and-a-half…one….ahhhhhh! He hits the shot at the buzzer! The crowd goes wild! [Enter your favorite team here] wins!” Unfortunately, this moment presents itself for very few of us in real-game situations. And if we
This summer started off with a bang for the Minnesota Timberwolves when they acquired Jimmy Butler and the No. 16 pick (Justin Patton) of the 2017 NBA draft for Kris Dunn, Zach LaVine and the No. 7 selection (Lauri Markkanen). In many ways, this is
Spoiler alert: Michael Jordan has the best peak of any shooting guard in the modern era. That’s not for a lack of effort from the other legendary figures who have consistently lined up next to point guards in NBA backcourts. Kobe Bryant and Dwyane Wade