70. Andy's NBA Midseason Hot Takes: SGA MVP Campaign, Denver Surging and More!

We take turns naming teams that we are interested in down the stretch for better or worse, including: the Pistons, Suns, Sixers, and more!

You already know what we're discussing on this one: Luka Doncic traded in a massive surprise to the Lakers, with Anthony Davis headed back to Dallas. We look at all the angles and discuss the possible motives for the crazy move. Then, we briefly discuss De'Aaron Fox being moved to the San Antonio Spurs and their chances at making a playoff push.

In this episode, Andy has three takes from the last couple weeks of NBA basketball: We get into Denver's recent surge, SGA's MVP chances, and Portland figuring things out. Then we try out a new segment where we dive into the last week in our personal lives; this week, we're rediscovering reading and exploring a break from social media.

We sat together and watch the NFL Wild Card matchups this weekend and couldn't help but draw quite a few comparisons between how the NFL's product comes across on TV versus how the NBA fares, especially with all the recent news about TV ratings. Then, we discuss the Blazers at this point in the season and potential draft prospects we'd want to see in their uniform next year.

*Recorded prior to NBA play-in tournament completion* We discuss the quarterfinals and semifinals of the NBA cup as well as the championship matchup between the Bucks and the Hawks.

On the first half of this episode, we discuss NBA players and their hip-hop counterparts. Who is the Future of the NBA... and more!

We hit our flow state on this one. Listen to us break down the 6th studio album by Kendrick Lamar song-by-song, dive into some of the deeper meanings and purpose behind this music, as well as touch on Kendrick's ongoing beef with Drake and the spirituality within this album.

On this episode, we recap the Celtics/Cavs NBA Cup game that just wrapped up, and take the opportunity to analyze the way two of the best teams in the NBA are playing the game in contrasting styles. Then we shift gears to focus on where we stand with the NBA Cup, and try to predict how these games will play out going forward these next couple weeks.

We give our state of the union with the unfortunate news that the orange man will be back in office and then get back to our scheduled programming. The Blazers are off to a pretty rough start and we break down whether this could be their worst team in decades based on their offensive woes. Then we talk about the weird vibes with the Philadelphia 76ers and more!

We start off the episode going through the big music releases in the last week, focusing on Tyler the Creator's Chromakopia and Lil Uzi's Eternal Atake 2. Then, we had our weekly Trail Blazers discussion where we talked about the performance of our key young players. We finished off the episode playing a quick game of "I know it's only been 2 weeks but..." as a way of giving some immediate overreactions to the early NBA action.