Hoops ‘R Us: Recent Episodes
Xander Gonzalez
All things basketball from the past and present NBA to breaking news and video games hosted by a kid created for kids!
The Denver Nuggets look to close out the Miami Heat in Game 5 at Denver. We wrap up the final episode of Hoops R Us for season 6 as we crown a new NBA champion for the 2023 season. Trade rumors are already out of control as superstars like Kyrie and Dame will potentially test the market and find new homes next season.
We are watching game 2 of the NBA finals with live reaction of the entire game. Miami pulls off an insane win at Denver, something Lebron, AD, KD, and Booker could not do! Now they go back to Miami with the series tied at one a piece. Joker is still going wild, the Miami role players are stepping up, and we have some of the most exciting final possessions of the playoffs as we see Murray go up against Jimmy for the game winner.
Break out the brooms! the Lakers have gone fishing in 4! Xander goes off on his Dad's Lakers for getting swept against the Joker. The Nuggets look like they are championship ready. Carmelo Anthony announces his retirement, while Lebron hints at ending his career as well. The Miami Heat look to put the Celtics away in 4 as well. The NBA script is in the garbage right now, nobody knows what will happen next.
The Conference Finals are set! Xander suffers twice as his Warriors are sent home by Dad's Lakers and X has his first career sports injury after breaking his toe this weekend! We watch the Lakers @ Denver game live as we simulcast the action while Dad gets the last laugh on Xander and his Warriors.
We got Xander sweating after his Warriors have fallen to a 3-1 deficit. Lakers and Warriors face off in Game 5 with the Warriors fighting to stay alive. Knicks take on the heat at MSG trailing 3-1 in a must-win in front of that tough NYC crowd. And we cover the latest in the Celtics/ Sixers and the Suns/ Nuggets series.
The Lakers at Warriors Conference semi-finals game 1 delivered record-breaking viewership with over 7.4 million average viewers. It was the most watched conference semi-finals game ever! And for good reason. Curry vs. Lebron... Warriors vs. Lakers... Legacy vs. Legacy.... most points ever vs greatest shooter ever.... It does not get any better than this. We share our reactions and recap the first games of the conference semis throughout the playoffs.
The most loyal NY Knicks fan joins the show to talk Knicks basketball! After years of disappointment, the Knicks are exceeding expectations and taking New York City to a new level. This has been a playoff for the ages, the perfect movie for the NBA. an 8th seed takes down a one seed, The Greek Freak has a philosophy on failure in sports, the King has his sights set on a ring, the Warriors are looking to repeat, and there are plenty of teams with a legitimate shot at winning the title. The NBA script has delivered all the drama we can handle.
The NBA playoffs are insane right now! but the NBA's worst nightmare is coming true as some of the biggest stars are falling to injuries in the postseason. All this talk about load management and everybody getting healthy for the playoffs is proving to be nonsense as we are missing some all-stars in these round 1 games.
We take you through each series and pick our round 1 winners.
Finally, it's time for the PLAYOFFS! we launch this episode on the day the play-in tournament kicks off with the Heat going at it with the Hawks and the Lakers facing the Wolves. We also make our picks for this year's MVP race!
Playoffs are officially 2 weeks away, exactly 14 days from today! in this hour we take you through the latest standings and predictions. The East seems pretty locked up but the West is still a battle. Lakers are pulling up to the playoff party, while the Mavs are waiting outside the club? It's going to be a wild 2 weeks before the dust settles, we get into the playoff seeding and go through our finals picks.
This is the final stretch of the regular season. All the power teams are making their final push to position themselves for the playoffs. The Lakers are back in the mix, the Knicks are making some noise, Ja is getting some help, and we have about 6 teams that are legitimate contenders to win it all. We will break down the Western and Eastern Conference seeding and power ranking, and touch on my end-of-season results for my 4 youth basketball teams.
Just when you thought we couldn't get enough... things get very interesting in the crazy world of the NBA. Ja Morant finds himself in the middle of a criminal investigation. King James can be out multiple weeks?!?! What does this mean for the Lake Show? We have a sniper back on the court. And.... another scoring record already?
The NBA has to figure out this thing they call an all-star game. Luckily, a pro dunker from the G-League named Mac came out of nowhere and saved the entire weekend. All-star game aside, the final stretch of the season is going to be must-watch TV! With big trades and contract buyouts, the playoffs are shaping up to be one of the best we've ever seen, unless we have some major injuries. Hopefully not!
The NBA is a script and they're not even hiding it anymore! Kyrie is in the Mavs, D-Lo is back in LA, and OMG... KD is in the Suns!!! This is insane. We have never seen a trade deadline go down like this. But wait.. there's more... The King aka LeDirector just broke the all-time NBA scoring record. What does this mean to Lebron's legacy and where do we rank him on that GOAT list? We unpack all the latest trades and get you up to speed on this Superbowl edition of Hoops RUs.
Reserves are final and oh boyyyyyy, we are missing some names that we expected on the roster. Fox, Ball, Butler, Harder???? What is going on? And we have a playground-style draft coming too? This is controversial and exciting at the same time let's go!
We get down to business and go through our all-star picks for the 2022-2023 NBA season. This year is loaded with talent and will probably have the most all-star SNUBS ever!
We kick off the new year with a fun episode as the league has been going off! NBA stars are breaking scoring records left and right all over the league. We had Luka Magic drop 60 with an insane triple double, then Spida Mitchell topped that with a 71-piece nugget just a week later! Teams are getting comfortable which means trouble for those teams that are starting slow.
My boys Blake and Raza join us on the show to talk basketball. They may look young, but they got all the NBA knowledge, old school and new school. These guys are basketball encyclopaedias. We talk about our favorite teams, players, and of course a little GOAT debating. Things get a little spicy.
Xander faces his toughest challenge yet as he goes through basketball tryouts for his middle school team while recovering from the flu. We take you on a step-by-step experience from drills to workouts to all the recovery methods we had to endure to get through this.
We are joined by one of the top AAU coaches in Westchester County and the founder of Faith & Grind Basketball, Mike Buffalo. Mike takes us through his journey running an AAU basketball program in the crazy world of travel basketball.
Happy Halloween! Our first special guest Alcedo Colon comes on the show to talk about the latest in the Kyrie Irving saga. Kyrie is suspended and yet again he is not playing basketball for his team due to a non injury related situation. We go through the drama surrounding the Kardashians... sorry we meant the Nets.
Our host Xander is fighting the flu but he still pulled off an MJ flu game and got our 1st episode done. We're talking offseason moves, rankings, and some early season drama happening in Lakers Lala Land. And our first argument of the year... who's the top guard in the league? Luka or Curry?
As Xander predicted... Warriors in 6!!! The Golden State Warriors are the 2022 NBA Champions as they destroyed the Celtics in game 6 of the NBA finals. We pick up the action live in the 2nd half and take you through every second of the 3rd and 4th quarters. Curry has a monster game and wins finals MVP! The rest of the Warriors also step up and do their job! Time to party as there is a dynasty in the Golden State.
Curry is ice cold from three land as he goes 0-9 from deep, but somehow the Warriors still pull off a huge win at home to take a commanding 3-2 lead as they head into Boston for a chance to win the title. We go through each quarter to see how they pulled this off and how Andrew Wiggins might have pulled off the best game of his life!
The Chef goes off and has a historic game 4 on the road as the Warriors take down the Celtics in a must-win game. Dreymond was in his feelings about the fans being mean to him while Kerr was hot in this game asking for technical fouls. But in the end, the greatest shooter of all time did not blink! Hear all about this incredible game 4 as we take you quarter by quarter with all the action.
The Celtics and the Warriors meet for game 3 in Boston. This series has been intense as both teams give it all they got in game 3. Will Boston's role players step up? Will Klay finally wake up? Tune in to catch all the action as we take you through all 4 quarters of game 3 of the NBA finals.
The Warriors find themselves in a must-win situation as they look to defend their home court against the Celtics for game 2 of the NBA finals. Draymond is up to his old tricks as he toes the line with his antics, and the Celtics look to steal another one in Golden State!
A thriller of a game between the Warriors and the Celtics goes down to the 4th quarter. Steph Curry goes off for 21 in the first quarter, and Tatum is a no-show for this game... Sounds like an easy Warriors win right? Both teams battle it out as we take you through every quarter along with all the heavyweight punches landed between both teams! What a game!
Warriors vs Celtics... Who ya got???? This is going to be an epic showdown between two of the best teams in the league. No injuries, toe to toe, two complete teams going at it. It does not get any better than this! We also hit on game 7 that sent the Heat home after a missed 3-pointer by Jimmy Buckets. And we chat about KD and Kyrie watching their two former teams from home just like us!
One series is pretty much over! The Mavs cannot find the magic at all as they trail the series 3-0. The Heat and Celtics can't figure out who is going to win this series. Both teams and landing big punches in that series. And we finally wrap our F&G AAU Spring season. Tune in!
The final four remain and any one of these teams can win it all when it's all said and done! Heat vs Celtics and Mavs vs Warriors. It is going to be epic! We recap the previous round and talk about the jaw-dropping choke job the Suns put together in a game 7. Was this CP3's final shot???
Tune in for our predictions for the conference finals.
This is arguably the most competitive playoffs we've witnessed in recent history. 3 out of the 4 series are tied 2-2. We have the grim reaper of injuries hitting the NBA playoffs again! and The Joker might have won his second MVP!!!
Conference semi-finals are set and we have 8 teams that can go ALL the WAY! Probably the most competitive NBA playoffs in years as every team can actually make it! We will cover Round 1 and make predictions on our Round 2 winners and losers.
The Nets might go down as one of the most disappointing teams to ever get eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. The Warriors are looking like the 2015 championship Warriors. The NBA playoffs are completely reshaped as key injuries have occurred.
The play in tournament was a little spicy as the NBA kicks off the playoffs. Pat Bev is up to his old tricks, and we go through some of the more interesting matchups for round 1.
Hoops R Us Podcast is back for Season 5!!! We kick off the 2022 NBA playoffs. Lakers are nowhere to be found, MVP talks are heating up, and Xander and his dad make their NBA Finals championship predictions!
The final episode of season 4; The biggest trade of the year goes down right at the deadline! We unpack the trade of the year which can change the league and determine this year's champion. We also go through the NBA all-star draft live on this episode as Lebron Jame and Kevin Durant make their team picks for the all-star team. You will not believe who the last pick was and the drama that was going on during the selections.
We go to the future on this one as we talk about one of the hottest topics in the world right now... The Metaverse! or should we say the "Netaverse" as the Brooklyn Nets unveiled last week. We also talk NFTs and the future of AR/VR technology in sports. We also hit on the MVP race, talk a little AAU, and cover one of the coolest hoopers in high school basketball, Hansel Enmanuel.
Back with our first episode of the new year! Two stars are back in the league! 10 - day contracts are flying everywhere, and we get into all-star voting for the 2022 All-Star game
Back at it again with Knicks superfan Uncle Javi. We break down the state of the NBA, Curry heading to a GOAT conversation? and of course, some same old Knicks talk. Merry Christmas!
First-hand experience of the AAU basketball world, we are officially on Curry watch as he chases history, and are we ready to grow concerned for Zion Williamson???
We pick up right where we left off as we catch you up on all things basketball! The King goes through a rough patch in his career, two brothers go at it to see who's the best, and the top spot in the West is up for grabs! We also dip our feet into AAU basketball and youth sports from first-hand experience.
My 1st in-person NBA game was a classic at The Barclays Arena in a showdown between my favorite team The Warriors and my friend Charles's favorite team The Nets. We recap our experience watching these future Hall of Famers go at it live! and we take Charles through some Hoops R us rapid-fire questions.
A recap around the league as we talk about the current standings as well as the Chef straight cooking out west! We also got some fighting on and off the court with gloves on???
Hoops 'R Us is back! Season 4 is finally here and the NBA is rocking right now! Big names in new uniforms, 75th anniversary All NBA Team snubs, and the blockbuster trade that makes sense.... should the Sixers and the Nets trade Kyrie for Simmons???
Welcome to season 4 of Hoops 'R Us!!! We kick things off with a spicy episode on the infamous GOAT debate. We had the kids version of this episode back in season 1, and now we take this debate to the grown ups. Get your popcorn ready, there's going to be fireworks.
This is it for the Phoenix Suns! Win or go home as they go into Milwaukee to try to pull off a huge win on the road. We are going live quarter by quarter in what may be the last game of the NBA season
The most exciting game of the series is game 5 and we are here to summarize what you missed. We also do our first ever Hoops R Us movie review and we talk about Space Jam: A New Legacy
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Live analysis of Game 4 Suns @ Bucks. We’re also focusing the disaster happening with team USA. Our favorite video game NBA 2K reveals their covers!
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Live summary of each quarter of Game 3! Team USA falls to Nigeria in an exhibition. Steph Curry gets an award!?!?
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Live commentary of Game 2 of the NBA finals! We’re also talking about Team USA for the Tokyo Olympics and we have to hit on the new SpaceJam movie starring Lebron James.
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Coming at you live as we watch game 1 of the NBA finals! Bucks @ Suns #hoopsrus
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Live look at the Bucks vs Hawks Game 4. Alex Caruso arrested, and special guests Brandon visits to talk more Scottie Pippen!
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So much going on around the league! Some playoff upsets as the underdogs advance to the next rounds. Some drama in Philly, and a live look at game 2 between the Suns and the Clippers which you wouldn’t believe!
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Update on all the round 2 action around the league. We also have the end of season awards. And we are coming to you live while watching the finals minutes of Bucks vs Nets.
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We kick off Season 3 of Hoops R Us with the NBA Playoffs in full swing! Recap of the round 1 drama and an occurrence that we have not seen in more than 10 years!
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We wrap up season 2 of Hoops R Us with recap of the play-in tournament, MVP finalist, and much more!
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My favorite NBA star of all time finally gets his own episode to appreciate his greatness as the best shooter to ever step foot on a basketball court.
We recap the NBA TV 1996 NBA Draft documentary with some interesting facts and gems we uncovered during the series.
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Back from a quick break while I was at Basketball Camp! We just saw an exiting end to March Madness NCAA basketball and we’re still getting used to new faces around the league. Also quick recap of hoops camp which was awesome!
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A bunch of trades happening around the league today before the deadline, and a huge wave of injuries everywhere as well.
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A check-in of what’s happening around the league with my special guest Harrison. Standings, playoff seeding predictions, just a good dose of basketball updates!
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Xander and Lenox recap the 2021 All Star and look into the second half of the season
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From muscles and speed to branding to social responsibility. We get into a very good discussion about today’s NBA superstars and what makes them Modern Day Athletes (MDA). Ft. Alcedo Colon
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Have to vent about this year’s All Star SNUBS! Westbrook, Trey, Sabonis!?!? What’s going on here!?!?
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We are back for season 2 of Hoops R Us! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @Hoops_Rus
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The final episode of season 1 ends with with the timeless debate of who is The Greatest of All Time. Xander invites his friends Lenox, Brandon and Harrison to have a good old fashioned G.O.A.T debate.
Celebrating the life of Kobe Bryant. Here we talk about Kobe outside the court as a father, husband, best-selling author, and Oscar-winning producer. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hoopsrus/message
Celebrating the life of the legend Kobe Bryant from a hall of fame basketball career to his life off the court. Featuring the #1 Kobe fan I know, my dad Abicar Gonzalez. We go through all the iconic Kobe moments throughout his NBA career. From the 1996 draft to the creation of the Black Mamba and the championship glory.
Best episode ever with co host Lenox Dolin! The NBA drama is on fire. The NBA season is young and we already have a blockbuster trade and a superteam!
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The NBA is in full swing. We have some career performances this week. Curry silencing his critics. The first battle between the Ball brothers. An exciting week around the league, and a quick recap of the Tony Parker doc on Netflix.
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As we wrap up 2020 I take a look at the current status around the league and cover some key injuries that may already impact finals predictions. I also got a PS5 for X mas so I’ll give early feedback on that NBA 2K.
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Our Christmas episode where we cover the NBA season opener, players on new teams, and a little NBA 2K
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We have a die-hard Knicks fan talking Knicks basketball and then we get into super teams and a battle of new school vs old school ft. Javi Gonzalez
Hoops R’ Us debut episode kicks off season 1 with a preview of the upcoming basketball season. From the championship in the bubble to the latest free agency and trade moves and of course team and player rankings. Get ready for Hoops R’ Us!