Courtside Speaks: Recent Episodes
Omar Abdullahi
We discussed the exciting start to this new NBA season. Feels like we get great games on league pass nightly.
We discusssed some of the free agency moves and the Dame/Harden sagas that have yet to reach their conclusion.
Did not take long for the NBA to go crazy after the finals. We discussed the trades and draft picks over the last 2 weeks.
As the title says, we went in-depth on what we saw in the second round. We also made quick predictions for the conference finals.
Some amazing stuff went down this year in round 1 of the playoffs. We discussed what we have seen and how those trends for certain teams will continue as they move on. This was recorded Saturday, but I became very sick so sorry for the late release.
8 Games remain in the regular season for most teams with not much clarity in the western conference. The East seeding is also interesting from 8-10, and 5-7.
Only 30 days remain of the NBA regular season. Teams are running out of time to make a run.
We discussed where Kyrie could potentially traded to, and some other trade possibilities throughout the association.
We debated who the 24 all stars should be and we also spent some time discussing answers to some questions we were asked.
We ranted about the wolves abysmal season so far and also spent time grading the other massive trades to go down in the NBA off-season so far.
We discussed some of the surprise all star candidates so far this season as the voting has now officially begun.
We discussed what teams are playing at their current level, or who is over achieving or under achieving.
We discussed what we have seen when it comes to the warriors struggles, The Brooklyn Nets mini success with new coach Vaughn, and the Kings resurgence.
Utah, Spurs flourishing while top teams in the western conference are struggling so far this season.
We discussed some of the things we noticed to start the year so far, nothing conclusive considering the fact most teams only played 2 games.
We discussed ROY, Sixth Man of the Year, MIP, COY, and MVP predictions. Next week for part 2 we will discuss All NBA and All defensive teams.
Last week we discussed the western conference standings, this week we moved onto the eastern conference. Take a listen on how we see the teams ending up.
We discussed how we think the western conference standings will look when the 82 games come to an end.
Discussed the latest blockbuster trade in the NBA as Mitchell is now a Cavalier. Had a fun little football chat as well towards the end.
We had a discussion on how things may look a couple seasons from now when it is time to renew the CBA.
We played commissioner for an episode and discussed ideas that would make the NBA more enjoyable all round. Side note: we did spend some time discussing the Ayton news and the Kyrie/LA rumors at the beginning of the episode.
Discussed the start of the summer league and what teams have pushed themselves into far better positions to compete next season.
We discussed the Mavs/Warriors, Celtics/Heat and some of the key takeaways we had heading into the finals.
We discussed how the lottery turned out and what each team may end up doing with the pick.
We discussed the conference semis and also made predictions for the upcoming game 7s. We also discussed how the conference finals may turn out for the teams that moved on.
We discussed the results of the first round of the NBA Playoffs and also made our predictions(some very bold) for the second round.
We discussed the play-in games that concluded and also previewed and made predictions about the ones coming up tomorrow. We also discussed the 1/8, 2/7 first round matchups and gave predictions across both conferences.
PLAYOFF TIME! We discussed the play-in matchups and the playoff series that have been confirmed so far already for part 1.
We picked our NBA Award Winners through a ballot system. All awards were included except, All rookie teams. We also spent some time discussing potential changes to NBA seeding with 1 week left of the season.
Discussed what changes we would like to see with the primetime NBA games(ABC, ESPN, TNT).
We go into depth about possible deals that may take place across these next 5 days or so until the NBA trade deadline.
Made our choice on All star reserves, discussed Wiggins as a starter. Also discussed trade rumors as the deadline nears.
We did our own all star ballots and composed the scores to see who we have making the all star game. We discussed the Jazz conundrum, the recent Daryl Morey interview and the Brooklyn Nets trying to survive without KD.
We discuss the mass capspace, clippers news, second all star voting returns, and the midseason MVP so far.
Discussing the all star first voting returns, and also the usual player/team of the week.
Discussing trade possibilities as newly signed players could be traded on December 15. Covid protocols, team of the week, and player of the week was also discussed.
We discuss how we see the seeds from 1-10 working out in each conference and we also predict award winners.
Going through 20/30 NBA teams draft. 10 teams were skipped over because they either had no picks, or they only had one second round pick which is tough to grade a team on.