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Basketball Illuminati
Author: Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan & Anthony Mayes
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Tired of agenda-driven basketball talk that only offers glimpses of the truth? Wish there was a place you could get the full picture? Basketball Illuminati offers you salvation. Go behind the scenes with exclusive analysis previously restricted from the general public. Fearless NBA Insiders Amin Elhassan and Tom Haberstroh peel back the curtain on why things happen in the NBA.
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Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes go deep into the memory banks with Truth Teller Ethan Strauss of House of Strauss, as Klay Thompson chirping at Ja Morant and Kenyon Martin coming after Draymond Green stir up old memories of Ethan's beat reporter days.
After a behind the scenes look at working for the many headed hydra that is ESPN, we also question fan bandwidth in the wake of Netflix canceling Starting 5 and wonder if the NBA Cup will ever actually matter.
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Zach Harper, Mo Dakhil and Wosny Lambre, unlike the Brooklyn Nets, want Michael Porter Jr. to keep podcasting as much as possible.
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This week's docket, Do You Believe:
The Detroit Pistons Will Win The East?
The Phoenix Suns Are A Different Team With A Different Culture?
The Atlanta Hawks Are Better Without Trae Young?
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Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes use their third eyes to see past the preponderance of calf strain announcements and connect the dots to what's really going on.
Truth Teller Jared Weiss of The Athletic is boots on the ground in San Antonio to tell us Wemby's real height and injury status, what it's like to watch Steph Curry go nuclear and how to be a victor, not a victim.
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Zach Harper, Mo Dakhil and Wosny Lambre are back together again after a long hiatus to talk about... the Kings?
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This week's docket, Do You Believe:
Nico Harrison was scapegoated by Patrick Dumont?
The Orlando Magic defensive identity will be fixed?
The Clippers will miss the playoffs?
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Tom Haberstroh and Amin Elhassan attempt to get producer Anthony Mayes up to speed on the latest NBA happenings after his time away.
Draymond Green believes the Warriors have too many personal agendas.
Truth Teller Jason Gallagher of ThreeFourTwo Productions returns triumphant as Nico Harrison has been unceremoniously ejected from his position as GM of the Dallas Mavericks, 282 days after the dumbest trade in NBA history.
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Basketball Illuminati will return with a full length episode next week, but in the meantime Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes turn over the reigns of the podcast to their intern, Chad, for an investigation into Wemby's extraterrestrial height fraud.
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If you've been a member of the Illumination since at least July, your third eye has been open to NBA gambling issues long before last week's arrests. Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes attempt to clear up the confusion surrounding Terry Rozier's status.
Truth Teller Nate Jones of Goodwin Sports joins us to discuss the league's new broadcast partners at NBC and Amazon, Anthony Edwards shoe going after SGA's and whether Wemby should be mandatory prime time viewing.
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Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes react to opening night, a mysterious timeout that was never called, the return of pageantry, Michael Jordan's segment and Wemby's mysterious height.
Truth Teller Yaron Weitzman joins the program to discuss his new book A Hollywood Ending, which features some amazing stories from behind the scenes of all the prestige drama that has transpired in LA since LeBron took up residence.
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Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes woke up early to crush through Mark Cuban's second appearance on PTFO, and they didn't use ChatGPT to summarize it for you.
Truth Teller Michael C. Wright of ESPN joins us to discuss his story about Victor Wembenyama's ambitious and diverse summer activities, react live to Harrison Barnes' AI music video and announce his upcoming Texas two step with Banned MacMahon.
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Tom Haberstroh and producer Anthony Mayes have no contemplation of replacing Amin Elhassan in the Illuminarmy, just like Adam Silver has no contemplation to move the All Star Game.
Truth Teller Travonne Edwards of Greatest of their Era joins to discuss the absurd reaction to LeBron James' "Decision of all Decisions", Michael Jordan's future as a broadcaster on NBC and who should trade for Giannis.
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Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes cast the dramatization of this Pablo Torre Finds Out saga into a miniseries.
Truth Teller Henry Abbott of TrueHoop and author of Ballistic joins us to propose his diabolical plan to penalize Steve Ballmer that should satisfy all parties involved.
Henry also recalls his encounters with David Stern and wild Donald Sterling detail that was edited out of an old story.
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Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes react to the BRUTAL news about Fred Van Vleet's ACL injury and it's affect on the Rockets championship aspirations.
Truth Teller Bruce Arthur of the Toronto Star gives us the inside scoop on his story that details exactly what Uncle Dennis and Kawhi Leonard's camp asked for from the Toronto Raptors when negotiating as a free agent in the summer of 2019, and how it connects to the LA Clippers cap circumvention conundrum.
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Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes are betting on themselves and taking the qualifying offer!
Adam Silver's press conference last week provided one hell of a promotional clip for the aggregators, and not in the way he would have wanted.
Truth Teller Wosny Lambre of the Ringer walks us down memory lane to his previous attempts to interview Kawhi Leonard, including an 8 am drive out to Moreno Valley for a New Balance publicity stunt.
The Clippers / Aspiration story continues to provide fascinating content, as previously silent former CEO Andrei Cherny emerged to make comments on Twitter following the reveal about Dennis Wong on Pablo Torre Finds Out.
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Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes have identified their new favorite phrase that keeps popping up all over the place, and even consider renaming Tom's Research segment.
Truth Teller Law Murray of The Athletic joins us to dig deeper into the Kawhi Leonard / Clippers cap circumvention situation that provides a boundless level of intrigue.
If the allegations levied by Pablo Torre Finds Out are corroborated by the NBA, what type of punishment could Steve Ballmer be facing? Will this affect the Intuit Dome hosting the All Star Game next February?
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Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes have defeated every rival when it comes to analyzing LeBron's latest 'Forever King' commercial.
Truth Teller Ben Detrick of Cookies Hoops joins the program to reminisce about the bygone era of AND1 Mixtapes and streetball, especially in contrast to the current state of affairs in an NBA full of what he describes as "nepo babies, foreign giants, and aura-challenged biracial suburbanites who play bloodless math-ball".
Plus, we revisit his landmark Bryan Colangelo piece and how it compares to the Malik Beasley story and FreeMoose.
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Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes react to the latest update in the Malik Beasley situation and discuss Tyrese Maxey turning to IG live for help opening a can.
Truth Tellers Ben Kaplan and Danny Parkins join the show to discuss their book Pipeline to the Pros , which details the impact of former Division 3 college basketball players that rose through the coaching and front office ranks of the NBA such as Jeff Van Gundy, Brad Stevens, Tom Thibodeau and Sam Presti.
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Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes are having deja vu with another week gone by and no movement on the Jonathan Kuminga situation.
Truth Teller Dan Woike of The Athletic joins the show to discuss the state of the Lakers after Luka inked his extension. We're also DEEP into the offseason, discussing Happy Gilmore 2, which NBA Player would be the best guest on Hot Ones, Giannis discovering a cockroach in his home and Backstreet Boys vs N'SYNC.
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Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes are launching the Federal Bureau of Illuminati to keep a handle on all the illicit dealings across all sports.
As we rapidly approach August with 4 major Restricted FAs still unsigned, who will blink first in these contractual standoffs?
Truth Teller Ebenezer Samuel of Men's Health gets trainer nerdy with us to break down his Luka Doncic 2.0 cover story.
Finally, Amin unveils an Inconvenient Truth about where gamblers could turn for their next player prop bet targets.
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Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes admire the Clippers for assembling the most experienced (aka OLD) team in the association following the return of Chris Paul.
Truth Teller Spike Eskin of The Rights to Ricky Sanchez and WIP joins the show to discuss the extremely insightful article about Joel Embiid written by Dotun Akintoye and the state of the 76ers .
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Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes are joined by investigative journalist extraordinaire and Peabody Award loser Pablo Torre to dive even deeper into the Malik Beasley story that aired yesterday on Pablo Torre Finds Out.
What elements of the story were the most shocking? What didn't make the final cut? And how is Jussie Smollet involved? Tune in to find out.
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