Ball Street Journal Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Ajay, Nishant, and Saad drop an emergency pod in the aftermath of monumental Doncic-Davis trade to speculate on each team’s motivations and project their futures.
All four members of the podcast join in for the first time in a loooooong time to open some late Christmas presents - they dive deep into the most and least surprising team performances.
Ajay and Nishant give thanks for the second annual NBA cup and the energy it's stirred into the 2024 season. Find out which teams are feasting or in a famine & who will be crowned the next champ.
Ajay, Nishant, and Saad catch us up on an eventful NBA offseason and their most anticipated stories of the upcoming 2024 NBA season.
After a disappointing and unexpected Conference Finals round, Ajay and Nishant review the Celtics’ and Mavericks’ paths to this surprising Finals matchup and the outlook of their futures.
Ajay, Nishant, and Saad catch us up on the 2024 NBA Playoffs and the trends in team construction that led us to these unexpected Conference Finals matchups.
Ajay, Nishant, and Saad kick off 2024 with an All-Star Game preview. Channeling their inner general manager, they each draft their All-Star starting five from a pool of this season’s most deserving players.
The first Ball Street Journal podcast Christmas special! Ajay, Nishant, and Saad make their Christmas wish lists for the rest of the 2023 NBA season.
On the eve of the 2023-2024 NBA season...a BSJ first! All three hosts and the producer are live to preview the Western Conference: disastrous trades, intriguing rookies, and emerging superstars.
Ajay and Nishant are joined by Rohith (for the first time since his unceremonious departure from their fantasy football league) to reflect on players’ loyalty in the NBA. Is it for the money? Is it for the fame? Is it for..?
Ajay and Nishant come to you live to preview the Eastern Conference for the 2023-2024 NBA season. The offseason put many players and teams in flux - will it carry through into the regular season?
For the first time in a long time, Ajay, Nishant, and Saad link up to recap the NBA 2023 free agency and their first reaction to the in-season tournament announcement.
Ajay and Nishant hit the ground running on the offseason with a critique of the Suns’ trade for Bradley Beal and predictions for the upcoming 2023 Draft.
Ajay and Nishant are joined by first time guest and lifelong confident Boston fan, Shiv. Will their prediction of a Celtics win come true? Or should the Celtics be warned: the Sixers are coming?
Ajay is joined by Saad to go through the upcoming first round matchups of the 2023 NBA playoffs and which superstars will carry their teams to the next round. Plus a quick foray into live color commentary.
Ajay and Nishant preview the 2023 Play-In Tournament with their picks of unthinkable contenders and hapless pretenders.
With less than 10 games remaining in the 2022 regular season, Ajay and Nishant set out on an impossible task: predict the final standings of the logjam between the Western Conference’s 4th and 12th seeds.
Ajay and Nishant weigh in on Ja Morant’s suspension and kick-off the NBA awards season.
Ajay and Saad are back on the pod to sort out the trade deadline movement and to hype us up for the season’s homestretch.
Joyous times in New York and Philadelphia bring Ajay and Saad together to talk about the vibes around the league.
As we enter the unofficial start of the NBA Trade Season, Nishant and Ajay look at who’s stepped up and if someone’s fallen into the trade danger zone. And it’s never too early to cast your vote for this season’s winner of the Michael Jordan Trophy for NBA Most Valuable Player…brought to you by KIA.
Saad and Ajay talk through the lost opportunities of this past offseason’s biggest moves and intriguing propositions to correct them.
The NBA soap opera is back. Ajay and Saad break down the latest sagas of the 2022-2023 season.
In the continued series of unfortunate events in Brooklyn, Ajay jumps on the pod to close out Steve Nash’s tumultuous coaching career.
Game night at BSJ Pod! Ajay, Nishant, and Saad play a round of fantasy draft to build a roster of upcoming show stoppers plus a quick game of start, bench, or cut.
Ajay and Saad talk through Phoenix’s future after the disappointing end to last season, crowded Magic backcourt, confusion in LA, and the promising growth of the Knicks.
Ajay outlines the abundance of talent on the Raptors. But will Masai make moves to bring in the superstar Toronto needs to return to the Finals?
Portland looked ready to move on from the current iteration of their roster. Nishant dissects their offseason moves and finds little sense in their future direction.
Nishant goes through the seemingly never ending list of OKC’s draft assets and their continued efforts to gain more capital. Will their good track record in the draft help them return to relevancy in 2022 and beyond?
Ajay tries to rationalize Danny Ainge’s approach to the offseason and his lack of patience for an average, middle-of-the-road basketball team.
Nishant contemplates whether the top end talent of Gregg Popovich’s coaching can provide a sense of direction to one of the NBA’s least talented rosters.
Nishant examines whether the Wizards’ long-term commitment to Beal and offseason roster improvements can finally spark some magic.
Even after an entertaining playoff run, the Timberwolves aren’t spared from Nishant’s strong critique of their head-scratching offseason moves.
Ajay offers some words of advice to the Sacramento Kings in light of their questionable, aimless offseason.
Nishant walks through the plethora of draft assets and young talent in Houston and their upcoming spring cleaning.
Ajay reviews the Bucks’ disappointing end to the 2021 season, 2022 offseason moves, and the influence venture capitalist money may have on Milwaukee’s roster building going forward.
Ajay talks about the Pelicans' minimalist approach to the offseason and finds what they needed most was in front of them the whole time.
Rugged Sixers fan and first time guest, Nikhil, joins Nishant to examine whether Philadelphia has done enough this offseason to finally take The Process to completion.
Nishant revisits the draining of the Warriors’ talent pool and whether they’ve replenished enough to stay atop the NBA.
Ajay describes the Heat’s ability to find value in the rough. But have they found enough to stay on par with the rapidly improving Eastern Conference?
Mama, we made it! Nishant leads the way into Episode 50 by revisiting the Celtics’ offseason and potential bullet dodged by not trading for Kevin Durant.
Nishant chews over whether the Grizzles have done enough for the young cubs to backup their offseason jawing.
Ajay gives his completely unbiased, definitely impartial, and really objective review of the Cav’s roster…and then doubles down after the Donovan Mitchell Trade.
Ajay is joined by Saad off the bench to defend his fandom, predict the future of NBA stars young & old, and air his grievances against James Harden.
Nishant talks through what the perennially middle-of-the-pack Indiana Pacers have done to move their way up (or down?) the Eastern Conference ladder.
After back-to-back successful drafts for the Motor City, Nishant wonders whether the young Pistons have what it takes to rev their way through the Eastern Conference.
Phew…now that that’s over, Ajay and first-time guest, Saad, recollect the emotionally-charged KD trade request and flash forward to the Nets upcoming season.
The Bulls ended last season in a downturn, so Ajay asks the poignant question: can last year’s acquisitions get the Bulls running again?
Ajay marks the key free agency acquisitions and forfeitures of the upstart Mavs. Will Luka & co. push past the Western Conference Finals? Or was last season a fluke?
Nishant wonders whether the re-introduction of Jamal Murray and MPJ will be enough to catapult Denver back into the upper echelon of the Western Conference.
Ajay talks through the pieces rolling in and out of the A and the Hawks’ success hinging on the compatibility of Trae and Dejounte.
Ajay returns to the pod and joins Nishant to talk through the mind-bending situation unfolding in Crooklyn, better known as Brooklyn.
We shouldn't have left you...Nishant hops on the pod to go through Charlotte's (lack of) offseason activity
Ajay and Nishant direct their own small sample size theater and proclaim which young NBA stars on their first contract are rising and which might flame out.
Ajay is joined by Rohith to give an early season performance review of the latest Lakers offseason acquisitions
Ajay is joined by Devas to react to one of the greatest NBA playoffs performances of all-time.
Ajay is joined by Rohith to reflect upon the recent rash of injuries in the NBA and implications for the home stretch of this compressed NBA season.
Ajay and Nishant are joined by NBA culture connoisseur, Akanksha, to dish out her knowledge on the latest NBA fashion, gossip, and off-court shenanigans.
Ajay and Nishant lament over the current state of NBA free agency and its future implications.
Nishant is joined by Ishaan to talk about the rising awareness of mental wellbeing in the NBA and their subsequent personal growth.
Ajay and Nishant are joined by resident Brooklyn and Lebron fan, Rohan, just hours before the NBA All-Star draft. How will their teams compare to those of Team Lebron and Team Durant?
Ajay and Nishant speak openly and candidly about the state of the NBA and, more importantly, the players' wellbeing amid the ongoing pandemic.
Nishant is joined by resident Lakers fan, Rohith, to review Los Angeles' off-season and preview the upcoming season.
Ajay and Nishant reflect on this year's unusual off-season and the upcoming, possibly unusual, season.
Lifelong Lakers fans, Ajay and Rohith, celebrate their (probable) run to the win the championship.
Ajay and Nishant talk about the rising tensions within the bubble and the make-it-or-break scenarios for many of the bubble's stars.
Ajay and Nishant rejoice over the much needed reprieve of the NBA in a very difficult world.
A quarter through the 2019-2020 season, Ajay and Nishant get in early on the NBA awards season.
We never shoulda left you. Ajay and Nishant link to talk about the ever-changing expectations of the NBA fans and media.
Ajay and Nishant preview the upcoming NBA playoffs and what each team needs to do to win it all.
The Ball Boi's let loose about a shocking, tumultuous beginning to the NBA trade deadline season.
The Ball Bois discuss the recent trade between the Philadelphia 76ers and Minnesota Timberwolves and the implications for both teams and its players.
The Guys reunite for the first time in-person since July to discuss the winners and losers of the 2018 NBA free agency.
The Guys break their summer schedules to jump on an emergency podcast to breakdown the emerging Kawhi Leonard-DeMar DeRozan trade.
The Guys provide way too early speculation about free agency that is both unfounded and irresponsible. They also completely ignore discussing the recent NBA champions.
Ajay and Rohith wrap up the conference finals and look to the upcoming Warriors-Cavaliers match up (again...someone please make it stop - we're looking at you James Harden).
Ajay and Sandeep do Ty Lue's job and figure out how the Cavaliers' role players can help turn the series around.
Ajay and Nishant are joined by Lebron-Stan Rohith to discuss the next great coaching battle (Lebron vs. Brad Stevens) and conference finals outlooks.
Ajay and Sandeep discuss the meteor that is LeBron James and the inevitable extinction of the Raptors, the Celtics true MVP, and the possibility of a Warriors-less finals.
Nishant is joined by childhood playground baller legend, Abhi, to discuss first round excitements and disappointments.
In typical blog boys fashion, Ajay, Nishant, and Sandeep discuss the unknown futures of the losers and potential losers of the 2018 NBA playoffs.
Podcast rookies Ajay and Nishant tip off the Ball Street Journal podcast series with a NBA 2018 Playoffs preview, Round 1 predictions, and takes on the rookies in Philly and Utah.