How Cooked Is Your Team? | NBA Panic Meter

Flipping the panic meter — this time we rate how much we believe the hot starts, one to ten. Grizzlies at 6-1, Rockets at 7-1, Blazers at 5-1, Lakers at 6-2, the Mavs, and a Pistons team leading the NBA in defense by a mile.Two of us admit we were dead wrong in the preseason. Deon has his own team at a two.We also get into the Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum situation — no beef, just lamb chops and gravy.Plus Hooper of the Week and the Good Hustle Award: Luka’s last five games, Yaxel Lendeborg, the Suns falling apart, and a Charlie Villanueva's cold take.New episodes weekly.Instagram: @the.daggerpodcastTikTok: @the.daggerpodcastX: @thedaggerhoops

A week and a half in and it’s time to overreact. We go team by team and rate how much we’re panicking on a scale of one to ten.The Heat at 1-4 and Deon taking back everything he said about them. The Knicks, the Timberwolves without Ant, the Raptors without Kawhi, the Thunder losing J-Dub and Cason Wallace, the Jazz, and the Magic — who broke the scale entirely.Plus Hooper of the Week and the Good Hustle Awards: Cooper Flagg, the rookie class, Ty Jerome, Pat McAfee getting his feelings hurt, and the Knicks sending employees a fake championship ring email that turned out to be a phishing test.New episodes weekly.Instagram: @the.daggerpodcastTikTok: @the.daggerpodcastX: @thedaggerhoops

Opening week is here, so we’re putting our names on every award — Most Improved, Sixth Man, Coach of the Year, Rookie of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year and MVP. A favorite and a dark horse from each of us.Three different MVP picks. Three different Rookie of the Year picks. The only thing we agree on is Wemby for Defensive Player of the Year.Plus Hooper of the Week and the Good Hustle Award — the Knicks rings, the Jalen Hurts situation, and a middle school football game.

Tip-off is a week away, so we’re putting our names on everything. Top four in each conference, our pick to come out of each, the teams we think overperform, the ones we think fall apart, who sneaks into the playoffs and who misses entirely. We also get into the teams we genuinely can’t read yet.Hooper of the Week and the Good Hustle Award are back for the first time since the restart!

Giannis is a Heat. LeBron is a Sixer. The Knicks are champions. We took two years off and came back to a league we barely recognize — so we're reacting to all of it: the Knicks title run, SGA's MVP, Boston trading Jaylen Brown, Giannis to Miami, the Kawhi investigation, LaMelo to Minnesota, Ja to Portland, and whatever Washington is building. Not experts, not objective, not holding back. New episodes weekly!

The Dagger Basketball Podcast is back for Season 5 since its inception, and we are starting off with a BANG! We will begin the season by reporting on the blockbuster trade in the Association. KAT is the newest member of the New York Knicks and we are here to share our thoughts on the move. In the following segment, the boys will bring you their Pre-Season NBA Power Rankings for the 2024-2025 season.

In this week's episode of The Dagger Basketball Podcast, we will do a recap of the entire summer. We will cover topics ranging from the 2024 NBA Summer League to the Summer Olympics and more. Discussions get particularly heated on the DNP topic for Team USA Basketball...

On this week's episode of The Dagger Basketball Podcast, we will cover all major moves that happened during the first month of NBA Free Agency. While this was one of the quietest free agency markets we have seen in a while, there have been some intriguing moves that could put some teams over the hump. Get ready for the 2024/2025 NBA season with us and follow us on social media to interact with us!

In this week's episode of The Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew (minus Deon) will bring in a special guest to discuss the 2024 NBA Finals. The boys will bring you their reactions to the matchup overall and breakdown the performance of each team.

BREAKING NEWS LIVE!!! Listen to the very end of the episode as there is a surprise ending where we cover a news that broke as we were recording. In this episode, we will breakdown the 2024 NBA prospects ahead of this week's NBA Draft.