Howdy, Hardwood Knocksers! Get ready to cover some serious ground in advance of the NBA’s robust Christmas Day slate. We have picks for every game, plus a mailbag, and then, yes, some LeBron James rumors to tackle! Tunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale Who will win the battle of the
The NBA will open its All-Star voting on Dec. 21, which basically means the league is begging Andy and Dan to build a 24-player pool for February’s showcase. Though the Association has tweaked the rules, allowing for captains who select their teammates irrespective of conference affiliation,
Paul George made an Association-altering decision to extract himself from the Indiana Pacers, which redefined the landscape of basketball in both Indiana and Oklahoma City. For me, the Indianapolis resident, the Pacers podcast host, the basketball writer and the advanced stats dork, writing this piece
iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale Now that the 2017-18 NBA season has eked pasts its quarter-pole mark, rumor has it we’re free to hand out report grades for every team. So, you know, let’s do that! Hardwood Knocks will begin with the Western Conference’s jumble of craziness. And
Welcome to the debut of Swishes with Sampson, where I’ll take a weekly look around the NBA and share five things I found, let’s say, interesting. Some of them may be good, and some may be bad. Some of them might be otherwise. I’ll let
iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale David Fizdale is out as head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies, as first reported by ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Assistant coach J.B. Bickerstaff is, for the meantime, in. Figuring out what this means for the Grizzlies’ future takes a couple leaps of faith. It
iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale Seventeen NBA teams. Seventeen bad, to weird, to uncertain starts. Seventeen head coaches. Sixty minutes. An unknown number of jobs in jeopardy. In the latest episode of Hardwood Knocks, Andy and Dan look at all 15 teams with records of .500 or worse, add
The new-look Oklahoma City Thunder have big aspirations. Russell Westbrook has transformed himself from a one-man band into a more distribution-focused point guard, while Paul George is getting comfortable working off the ball, slinking off pin-downs and nailing spot-ups. Carmelo Anthony is carrying the second