Listen to “209 – Trade Ideas for John Wall, Bradley Beal and Otto Porter” on Spreaker. The Washington Wizards are at long last open to breaking up their core of Bradley Beal, John Wall and Otto Porter. But, like, what does that mean? iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify
Listen to “204 – Chris Crouse on Philadelphia 76ers, Markelle Fultz, Joel Embiid's MVP Case” on Spreaker. The Philadelphia 76ers are off to an uneven start to their 2018-19 regular season. Should they be concerned about Markelle Fultz’s struggles? How about Dario Saric’s cold shooting?
Trade season is starting early this year, because we said so. But also because the NBA demands it. iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale The Wizards are playing like a steaming pile of you-know-what. The Rockets are struggling—badly. The Cavaliers seem on the verge of a teardown…or something.
Did anyone order some early-season NBA hot takes, with some extra HAWT sauce on the side? Hopefully, you did. Because Hardwood Knocks has got them. iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale First, though, we break down the grade-school beef brewing between Chris Paul and Rajon Rondo. After that,
NBA regular season, here we come! iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale Hardwood Knocks finishes up its season-preview train by diving into the immediate and long-term outlooks for the Raptors and Sixers before hunkering down and dropping their officially official awards predictions for Rookie of the Year, Most
Jimmy Butler and the Minnesota Timberwovles are in the headlines. Again. For the umpteenth time. Andy and Dan have many thoughtz and feelz about Minny’s cratering culture following Butler’s, ahem, tour de force. You should listen to them. iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale After that, it’s on
Let’s get back to journeying off the beaten path, shall we? In the second part of this two-podcast series, Bleacher Report’s Grant Hughes (@gt_hughes) is back with Dan to rap about ll their totally arbitrary, definitely fake, categorically awesome NBA awards prediction for the 2018-19 season.
Who needs those regular, run-of-the-mill, also-ran, officially official NBA awards, am I right? iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher | Google Play @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale Hardwood Knocks journeys off the beaten path for its latest trick. In Part I of this two-podcast series, Bleacher Report’s Grant Hughes (@gt_hughes) joins Dan to roll through a