Happy Thanksgiving—and a merry start to the holiday season—Hardwood Knocks listeners! To get you in the spirit, and to just make sure we never stop talking about basketball, Dan and Adam are rapid-firing off what they’re most thankful for with regards to EVERY. SINGLE. NBA.
To the NBA trade machine! Dan and Adam rank the likelihood of Bradley Beal, Jrue Holiday, Chris Paul and Victor Oladipo getting dealt (5:33). After that, they propose a crap ton of Holiday trades following the news that the New Orleans Pelicans are shopping him
Adam and Dan drop their bubble-award picks across 15 different categories. You read that correctly. Fifteen! We’re going through the usual hardware—Rookie of the Bubble, MVP, MIP, Coach of the Bubble, All-Bubble Teams—but we’re also journeying off the beaten path to discuss categories we created.
Regular-season NBA basketball is fast-approaching. Like, it actually seems as if it’s going to happen. Really, truly, actually going to happen. Which means it’s Disney World primer time. Over the next two podcasts, we’ll be asking and analyzing the biggest question facing every NBA team
Welcome to your one-stop shop for all of the Hardwood Knocks podcast’s NBA decade rankings. You’ll be glad you came. Promise. With your help, Dan Favale (@danfavale) and Adam Fromal (@fromal09) are ranking the top 10 players of the decade for EVERY. SINGLE. NBA. TEAM.
FREE-AGENCY TAKEZ LEGGO. In Part 2 of their 2020 NBA Free Agency rankings, Hardwood Knocks analyzes the top landing spots for all 20 teams that fall under the “Full MLE” umbrella. Make sure you’re listening to the entire intro to understand our criteria for these
MAIL TIME. The latest and greatest Hardwood Knocks mailbag takes you all around the NBA and back again. We’re talking MVP, Miami’s defense, Carmelo Anthony, the Wizards, Wendell Carter Jr., Michael Porter Jr., Buddy Hield and Bogdan Bogdanovic, the Western Conference playoff race and so
Let’s play catch-up. With the rumor mill rolling along, Hardwood Knocks goes deep on the latest news. We analyze Zion Williamson’s debut; the Pelicans’ trade deadline plans; Dwight Powell’s season-ending injury; hypothetical deals for the 76ers, Heat and Mavs; Derrick Rose’s trade value; the Pistons’