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A podcast where Deon Franklin, VJ Johnson, and Taylor Call bring to you all the latest news and commentary in Basketball with a more in-depth look at the NBA! Two former Marquette University Basketball walk-ons together with a lifetime basketball fan make for a perfect combination of seriousness, fun, and hot takes! Come listen to us and follow us on social media @the.daggerpodcast
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In this week's episode of The Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will hand out their weekly awards before diving into the hottest news from around the Association. First order of business will be "Chokegate" as the guys will give their takes on Draymond Green's UFC moment against the Minnesota Timberwolves and Rudy Gobert, exploring also the bigger issues for the Golden State Warriors. After that, the crew will breakdown both team's start of the season and prospect for the rest of the year. Are the T'Wolves contenders for the title or to win the West? Is the Warriors dynasty done? Is there anyone coming to save them?
In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will give out their weekly awards and then dive right into the James Harden trade from the Philadelphia 76ers to the Los Angeles Clippers. Is this team still a top contender in the Western Conference? How will James "The System" Harden fit in a team with Kawhi, PG, and Russ? How will this impact the Philadelphia 76ers? After that, it is overreaction time for the boys, as they will give their piping hot takes from the start of the season.
In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will give out their weekly awards and then dive right into the first week of action in the NBA. Thoughts on teams off to a slow start and those that are still undefeated, we will bring you our first impressions without overreacting much, that is for next episode! After that the Dagger will grade each NBA City Edition uniform from top to bottom and trust us there are not many that are worth buying this year. To finish off the episode the guys will give a quick take on the NBA In-season Tourney and then pick the 5 Games of the Week.
In this week's episode of The Dagger Basketball Podcast, the boys are BACK!!! The crew is back together for good after a period of absence. Today, we will bring you guys the annual season preview as the NBA restarts tonight with an amazing two-game slate. We will have our over/under segment covering each team's total wins. Will the Bucks go over their win total line? After that we will give their out way-too-early NBA awards, predicting who will be the Rookie of the Year, the Sixth Man of the Year, and the MVP. To finish of the first episode of our fourth season, we will start our weekly 5 Games of the Week segment.
The Dagger Basketball Podcast is back with a bang after a few weeks of hiatus because of Deon's wedding! The crew will start by covering the biggest news from the month of September. Damian "Dame Dolla" Lillard has finally left the Portland Trail Blazers after over a decade and moved East to land in Milwaukee to play alongside the Greak Freak Giannis Antetokounmpo! What an absolute blockbuster trade, and we will go over it in this episode with a very special guest! Does this move put the Milwaukee Bucks on top of the league again?
In this week's episode of The Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will give their takes on Team USA's downfall at FIBA World Cup where the guys failed to bring home any hardware for the trophy case. Who is to blame for this disaster of a team? Will this bring back some of the better players to the Team USA roster for next year's World Cup? All questions we will answer in this episode. Then we will move on and rate your favorite NBA podcasts, we will each rate the best NBA Podcasts rating them A to F, and in some instances F-.
In this week's episode of The Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will give out their usual weekly awards to start off and then dive right into some conspiracies about the NBA! The episode will feature some of the juiciest conspiracies like the alleged MJ and Jimmy Butler story, the draft lottery drama, and the Blake Griffin Dunk Contest backstory! Are these all true or is it just fiction made up by NBA fans? These and more will be answered by the boys together with a special guest returning for his favorite segment!!
On this week's episode of The Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will not be handing out one award... because they will hand out a whole plethora of them! It is the Annual Dagger's Hooper of the Week and Good Hustle Awards show!!!!! The guys will review the entire year and choose their favorite awards that have been handed out in the last year, so come stroll down memory lane with the boys! Bonus segment will cover Jaylen Brown's hypermax extension. The episode will conclude with a few trivia questions so stay tuned till the end!
In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will catch up on the news from around the association in the past 2 weeks! After giving the weekly awards, we will dive into the NBA Summer League giving our takes about the rookies, the teams, and the whole format of this tournament. After that we then move to the awkward silence around the league after the Damian Lillard trade request. Will he be traded? Will he stay? What is actually going on in his head right now? If he does get traded, where will he end up? We will then briefly touch on a topic that we have not spoken on yet, in the Ja Morant suspension.
In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew is finally all back together and will review everything that happened in the past two weeks! We will start with the weekly awards, which will feature some crazy contracts that have been handed out this past week. Next, we give our review of the NBA Draft identifying the winners and losers of the draft night, some reaches, and some diamonds! After that, we will break down each of the biggest trades and trade requests like CP3, Porzingis, Dame, and Harden.
In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast the crew is finally back after a short period off! The usual weekly awards will be given and then we will jump right into giving a breakdown of the NBA Finals and the NBA Champions Denver Nuggets. Then we will switch gears and give our analysis of the Bradley Beal trade to the Phoenix Suns! The last part of the episode will give a full preview of the upcoming NBA Draft that will held this Thursday, with a Top 3 that will be remember for so time!
In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will have much to talk about as the NBA Playoffs Conference Finals have come to an end. The first part of the episode will cover the teams that have been eliminated, the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. What went wrong for these teams? Who is the most at fault in each team? What does the future hold for these two franchises? These questions will all be answered in this episode! In the second part of the episode, the crew will give a preview of the 2023 NBA Finals between the Denver Nuggets and the Miami Heat!
In this week's episode of The Dagger Basketball Podcast, after the crew hands out their weekly awards, we will dive in and breakdown the situation for each of the four eliminated teams in the second round of the NBA Playoffs! Covering the total cleanup in Phoenix, the meltdown in Philadelphia, the problems in New York, and the end of a dynasty in the west. After that we will preview the Conference finals featuring the keys for winning the series for each team and our predictions on who will book a spot in the 2023 NBA Finals!
In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will give out their weekly Hooper of the Week and Good Hustle awards before diving right into the Second Round of the 2023 NBA Playoffs! From the explosive series in the East between the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers, to the fiery Denver Nuggets and Phoenix Suns series out West. The hoops on the floor, the drama between Nikola Jokic and the Suns owner, and the predictions for how the series will end are all going to be covered in this episode.
This week on the Dagger Basketball Podcast we will host a support group for all you devastated Milwaukee Bucks fans after their First-Round loss in this year's NBA Playoff to the 8-seed Miami Heat! We will bring in two very special guests to help us breakdown what went wrong for the Giannis and Co. We will also bring you our thoughts on what the future holds for this organization and specifically Coach Bud. After that we will also react to a couple other stories coming out of the First-Round with two teams that are in trouble after their poor performances.
In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, we will be talking about what has been happening in the first round of the 2023 NBA Playoffs focusing mainly on two particular players that had a spotlight shined upon them. Draymond Green and Dillon Brooks the two NBA villains that have been the center of attention in a negative way in these first games of the playoffs both ejected once already in the first round. Additionally, we will go over two spicy series with the Heat taking a commanding lead and the Warriors tying it up.
In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, we are having our annual end of the regular season award ceremony! Rookie of the Year, Most Improved Player, Coach of the Year, 6th Man of the Year, and the most anticipated MVP award will all be given in this episode! Additionally, we will form our All-NBA teams for the 2022-23 season with a lot of variety given that a lot of players deserved to be on these lists! We will also review the Game 1s from the past weekend and react to some of their outcomes.
In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast we will start with the weekly awards with a great variety of recipients of Hooper of the Week awards. Then we will move on and start breaking down the play-in tournament games starting this Tuesday. Will Playoff Jimmy make an appearance? Will the Atlanta Hawks pull it together and make it on the playoff bracket? Do the Wolves have a chance without Gobert and McDaniels? Next, we will cover the first-round matchups that are actually set and give our predictions on who we think will make it to the next round.
This week the Dagger Basketball Podcast turns 100 episodes old!!! In our third season we have reached the century mark so we will celebrate going down memory lane in the out of bounds question for the week while also looking at the future and what it holds for the pod. However, we cannot go the week without talking some hoops so we will go over the Angel vs Caitlin drama that transpired from the Women's Championship game this past weekend! Additionally, there is trouble in paradise as the Dallas Mavericks are out of the playoffs as it currently stands.
In this week's episode of the Dagger Basketball Podcast, the crew will give out their weekly awards which are very March Madness themed given the past weekend we just had in college basketball! Then a guest will join the show to go over two teams that are struggling after having a stellar season up until two weeks ago, the Boston Celtics and the Denver Nuggets. It is the wrong time to start slowing down and we will breakdown what we can expect going into the 2023 playoffs. The second part of the show will be a review of the first weekend of the NCAA Basketball Tournament and all the crazy games that happened.




