Basketball Guyaries Nba History Podcast

Special guest Andy from Cleveland joins us this week as we detail the evolution of NBA jerseys and logos from the origin of the sport through today's league.

Part history of the Cavs franchise and part reflection on the nature of rivalry, this episode takes a backward glance at Cleveland's long-standing beef with the Chicago Bulls.

This week we're looking at one of the biggest upsets in NBA history: when the eighth-seeded Denver Nuggets beat out the first-seeded Seattle SuperSonics in the first round of the 1994 playoffs. Also featuring a special segment, the Baseball Galeries with our #1 fan Gloria!

As part of our ongoing Pacific Northwest series, this week we're stopping in Vancouver to talk the short-lived, ill-fated Grizzlies. Were they the worst team in the history of the NBA? Do they have a legacy? Whatever happened to Mike Bibby? Tune in for the answers to these questions and more!

This week we give a quick and dirty history of the Christmas Day games and list off a few of our favorites. Just in time for your holiday listening pleasure!

As respite from the depressing slog of our "Scandals" series, this week we're talking the beloved (yet deranged) family film "Slam Dunk Ernest," co-starring Kareem Abdul Jabbar. We review the film, discuss the virtues of the Ernest franchise, dig into Kareem's acting career, and think about the genre of magical basketball films.

For the final installation of our "Scandals" series, we're taking a hard look at the ugly depravity surrounding Kobe Bryant and his 2003 sexual assault allegations.

The third installment of our "Scandals" suite takes us back to 2007 to investigate the downfall of one crooked ref and the betting scandal that almost rocked the league.

Our "Scandals" series continues with an examination of Magic Johnson's infamous 1991 announcement that he was HIV positive and would retire from the NBA.

For the first episode of our "Scandals" series, we're getting to the bottom of the carceral state and talking about the death of the Celtic's 1986 draft pick, Len Bias.

We're hopping in the time machine and traveling south this week to unearth the lost history of the Cincinnati Royals. Boy, what a team! Twyman and Stokes, The Big O, Bob Cousy, Tiny Archibald...what times they had...while it lasted...

What do players do when their basketball playing days are over? This week we're looking at post-careers - the standard and the not so standard.

I got game, you got game, he/she/it got game...that's right, this week we're talking the Spike Lee basketball classic He Got Game! Oh, we've got a young Ray Allen, we've got Denzel, we've got Aaron Copland. Featuring special guest, the ever-cinematic Max from Johannesburg!

Performance Enhancing Drugs...what do they know? We're gettin' our hands dirty this week and trying to figure out if these things are a threat or what. We talk about the league's policy, some key players who have busted for using 'em, and whether the conspiracies about LeBron taking HGH pass muster.

Hey, it's our inaugural random "blueprint" episode...the cards told us to pick Terry Mills! Who is that, you ask? Listen in to find out - his story will tell us all about the journeymen of the NBA - those middling players we've forgotten but without whom the magic couldn't happen, right?

Is Tim Duncan boring? Hard to say! We dig through the facts to interrogate the reputation of The Big Fundamental. But give this ep a listen and decide for yourself!

Our long-teased choking episode! We're getting literal and metaphorical - what are the best "chokes" in NBA history? Boy, have we got a doozy of a list...

Sixties September is at a close with this ep on the war that rocked the decade ...Vietnam, of course. What does Vietnam have to do with the NBA, you ask? Why give this ep a listen and find out what Bill Bradley, Lew Alcindor, and other favs were up to in this decade of turmoil.

Hey, guess what?! It's still Sixties September! This week we're talking expansion...the Bulls! The Suns! The Sonics! The Bucks! All the teams you know and love that entered the league in the sixties, they're all right here just waiting for you to learn about them! How about that?

The Big Dipper...Goliath...Wilt the Stilt...7'1" tall...Wilt Chamberlain: a big guy. For our second installment of Sixties September, we're looking at the clouded legacy of one of the NBA greats. Guest appearances by Richard Nixon and Arnold Schwarzenegger!!