Game Theory Podcast

For the fourth year in a row, Robby Kalland joins Sam for the only essential preview podcast: NBA Win total over/unders. This episode is on the Eastern Conference. We use our good friends over at BetMGM and their win total lines to dive deep into each team, and discuss what we think will happen this year for every one. The teams go in alphabetical order. The numbers we go off of can be found below:

ATL 47.5; BOS 45.5; BKN 56.6; CHA 38.5; CHI 42.5; CLE 26.5; DET 24.5; IND 42.5; MIA 48.5; MIL 54.5; NYK 41.5; ORL 22.5; PHI 50.5; TOR 35.5; WAS 33.5

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Fred Katz joins the show, and we tier the Eastern Conference into four ways: Pretenders, Play-in Contenders, Playoff Contenders, and Title Contenders.

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Matt Pennie joins Sam to run through a preseason lookahead to the 2022 NBA Draft. Who are the wing forwards that you need to know? We do deep dives on Patrick Baldwin, Jabari Smith, Caleb Houstan, Kendall Brown, Matthew Mayer, Keegan Murray, Julian Champagnie, Jabari Walker, E.J. Liddell, Michael Foster, Toumani Camara, Dawson Garcia, Moussa Diabate, then throw out some of the sleeper names we like.

First though, we start on J.J. Redick's retirement, one of the most interesting careers in the last two decades of basketball

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Matt Pennie joins Sam to run through a preseason lookahead to the 2022 NBA Draft. Who are the big men that you need to know? We do deep dives on Chet Holmgren, Paolo Banchero and Jalen Duren. Then, we move onto Daimion Collins, Mark Williams, Trayce Jackson-Davis, Drew Timme, Walker Kessler, Azuolas Tubelis, Kofi Cockburn, Hunter Dickinson, Moussa Cisse. Armando Bacot, Liam Robbins, Trevion Williams, Zach Edey

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The podcast where John Hollinger and I explore the biggest swing piece still remaining this offseason: Ben Simmons. What should Philadelphia do with him? What is his value? Where do we think the best landing spots are?

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Matt Pennie is back! We break down Emoni Bates and the Memphis Tigers. We talk Kentucky getting Shaedon Sharpe, a top-5 player in the 2022 recruiting class; Then, OTE and some college hoops injuries.

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Dieter Kurtenbach, the busiest man in Bay Area media, has returned to break down the Pacific Division's offseason moves. We do deep dives into all of Golden State, Lakers, Clippers, Phoenix, Sacramento, discussing whether or not they got better this offseason

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James Edwards joins the show to break down the offseasons for all of Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indiana, Milwaukee. We do deep dives on each and explain whether or not each of these teams looking to compete on some level next season got better.

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Andrew Schlecht makes his long-awaited Game Theory Podcast debut, and his dulcet tones break down the offseason moves made by teams in the Northwest Division! We chat Denver, Minnesota, Oklahoma City, Portland, Utah, a group of teams marked as much by what they didn't do as opposed to what they did

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Danny Leroux is here to run through all of the offseason moves that occurred this past season in the Southeast Division. We hit Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami, Orlando, Washington in detail, discussing how each team got better or worse this offseason

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Blake Murphy joins the show and we dive deep into the Atlantic Division, breaking down all of the offseason moves from Boston, Brooklyn, New York, Philadelphia, and Toronto.

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Danny Leroux joins the podcast, and we break down the offseasons of Dallas, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, and San Antonio. For a quick time stamp:

Dallas: start

Houston: 15:00

Memphis: 22:30

New Orleans: 35:00

San Antonio Spurs: 51:00

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Matt Pennie and Sam Vecenie run through the first few days of Las Vegas Summer League, breaking down all the important action which has occurred in this largely inconsequential event that creates volcanic hot takes every year. 

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In this episode, Dave DuFour joins the show to talk about what we've seen from the first two days of NBA free agency. We chat about the Bulls (first 15 minutes), the Pelicans (15:00-30:00), the Heat (30-36:00), the Lakers (36:00-44:00), the Knicks (43:00-48:00), the Spurs (48:00-53:00), then kind of a grab bag of other moves.

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Pennie and Vecenie break down the 2021 NBA Draft, doing a deep dive on all of what we saw. From Cade Cunningham going No. 1, to the fit between Evan Mobley and Jarrett Allen, to the surprises throughout the lottery and the teams that succeeded, we run through everything we saw on Thursday night.

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Pennie and Vecenie do a deep dive into NBA Draft betting props, discussing every over/under prop on the board right now. It serves as a good little set discussion point as we head into draft day.

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Pennie and Sam run through the draft order and go back and forth, giving the top-30 picks and explaining why this is what they would do. 

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It's a rankings episode! Matt Pennie shares his top-20 prospects in the 2021 NBA Draft. We also discuss how he went about making the rankings, and he gets to share some love on some of the high school standouts from Cartersville with Under Armour's first recruiting event of the season. Oh, and we discuss movies, including one of my favorite movies I've seen this entire year.

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Pennie is here. We run through some thoughts on NIL rights, and on the NBA Draft Deadline Decision Day. We answer the important questions here, too. How much would Pennie's NIL rights have been worth at UMass? What movies have you watched more than any other in your lifetime? And what players made good decisions to turn pro?

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Sreekar Jasthi, aka SreekyShooter, joins to chat about the Suns going to the NBA Finals with the fellas. Everything you need to know about this crazy season of Phoenix basketball. The Devin Booker conversation; James Jones building the team; Monty Williams going from not-great in New Orleans to phenomenal in Phoenix; Chris Paul; and being the man to make the jokes and memes about the whole franchise.

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Matt Pennie and Sam run through some NBA Draft Combine stuff, including what is valuable to take away from the combine? How should we be evaluating it versus tape versus pro days versus every other piece of the process? First though, they start on "what would Shaquille O'Neal look like in today's NBA? Would he be just as dominant as he was in the 1990s and 2000s?

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Robby Kalland joins for the only important podcast of the year: the F9 recap, along with updated Fast and Furious rankings. Oh yeah, given that this is a basketball podcast, we talked a bit about Hawks-Bucks and the Suns for the first hour.

The Fast and Furious convo is absolutely spoiler-heavy, but if you're here for basketball and haven't seen F9, you are safe until around the hour mark when we give a clear EJECTO PODCAST, CUZ warning.

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Matt Pennie is here to break down what happened in the 2021 NBA Draft Lottery, and discuss Cade Cunningham, Jalen Suggs, Jalen Green and Evan Mobley. Also some Combine talk

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James Edwards from The Athletic is here and we run through everything that happened in basketball this weekend. It was a lot.

A breakdown of the 76ers and Hawks series. Some flowers for Trae Young, and real questions about the Ben Simmons era in Philly. A Clips-Jazz breakdown, and what happens when you don't have a circuit breaker for when the scheme gets broken. Bucks-Nets, the best Game 7 of the playoffs. Some quick thoughts on the Kemba Walker Trade. And a Draft Lottery Preview.

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Matt Pennie joins and we run through the NBA Draft Combine, G League Elite Camp, and some thoughts on the lottery heading into the week. Who are the most important names to know in terms of who could be moving around the board?

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Sam didn't wake up until 6:30 AM Melbourne time, which meant that while he was asleep, the NBA basically broke. Danny Leroux broke all the news to him live on the spot, so he reacted to all of the wild news that happened in the NBA on June 16. In order....

-Chris Paul in COVID protocols

-Kawhi Leonard injured with an ACL injury

-Stan Van Gundy out in New Orleans

-Scott Brooks out in Washington

-Donnie Nelson out in Dallas

-LaMelo wins ROY

-John Calipari?

-Then finally, a discussion of Kevin Durant, an absolute superstar who painted his masterpiece last night against Milwaukee.

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Pennie is here, and we run through what he saw at Pangos All-American camp, then talk about eight guys we would bet on to help themselves during the 2021 NBA Pre-Draft Process. We also break down what it's like to be savagely burned on the internet by someone calling you a pipsqueak.

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Former NBA scout and executive Drake U'u joins the podcast to chat about Clippers-Mavs Game 7; Philly-76ers Game 1; Bucks-Nets Game 1; Suns-Nuggets; and a couple of minutes at the end about the 2021 NBA Draft.

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Matt Pennie is here and we run through the Celtics news, Coach K news, the NBA Draft Early Entry list, and we talk more about Mare of Easttown.

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Matt Pennie is here and we have a grassroots episode for Pennie to take the lead. Overtime Elite has signed four players, all of whom are very interesting long-term prospects. Sam lets Pennie explain them, while they talk through the Overtime Elite program a bit and try to figure out where it's headed. Additionally, we run through Alperen Sengun, who continues to build buzz due to his terrific Turkish League playoffs. Then, we talk Pennie recruiting stories, and he gives a beauty. Finally, Sam and Pennie go deep into Mare of Easttown, explaining why we love the show and giving our theories on what happens. That is a very spoiler-ridden conversation, and one that we give ample warning to for people to turn off if they haven't seen the show yet. It starts at around the 55:00 mark.

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NBA Playoffs breakdown with Dave DuFour. We run through each of the eight series currently taking place. 

In order: ATL-NYK, MIL-MIA, BKN-BOS, PHI-WAS. Then, UTA-MEM, LAL-PHX, LAC-DAL, and DEN-POR.

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Tony Jones is here and we dive deep into the play-in games then go into our NBA Awards picks. Tony is an actual voter for the awards, I am a fake voter, so we run through our picks for MVP, All-NBA, ROY, All-Defense, COY, 6MOY, MIP and more.

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Ben Taylor is here! We deep dive into the MVP race (among other tangents), discussing Nikola Jokic's historical dominance, Steph Curry's second peak, and much more.

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Danny Leroux is here to run through offseason previews for the 10 eliminated teams before the playoffs start on this coming week in the NBA. In order, we go:

HOU, DET, OKC, CLE, ORL, MIN, TOR, CHI, NOP, SAC

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Part Three of The Athletic’s Origins story for Dell Technologies ‘Small Business Podference’ series. In this episode The Athletic’s co-founders Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann continue on about the company’s expansion into the U.K., how the team got through the shutdown of sports and challenges that lay ahead. Writers, Marcus Thompson, Anthony Slater, Zach Harper and David Aldridge give their thoughts on that process as well.

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Part Two of The Athletic’s Origins story for Dell Technologies ‘Small Business Podference’ series. In this episode The Athletic’s co-founders Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann continue on about the company’s first steps into the marketplace. The challenges they met selling this idea to investors, and journalists they were trying to recruit, specifically with the expansion into the Bay Area. Writers, Marcus Thompson and Anthony Slater give their thoughts on that process as well.

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Part One of The Athletic’s Origins story for Dell Technologies ‘Small Business Podference’ series. In this episode we hear from The Athletic’s co-founders Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann about how they met, how an idea for better sports coverage materialized into a significant media player in the sports landscape and the spirit at the heart of The Athletic’s culture. For the complete lineup of episodes, visit delltechnologiespodference.com

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Matt Pennie joins to do another updated 2021 NBA Mock Draft. For the first time, we talk about teams and prospect fits instead of just a top-30 prospect listing. So it's a bit of a deeper dive into not just college prospects, but also some thoughts on where NBA teams sit as they enter the close of their season.

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In this episode, we run through why the Lakers, Clippers, Jazz, Suns, Nuggets, 76ers, Nets, and Bucks will or will not win what has quickly morphed into the most wide open NBA title chase in years.

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Matt Pennie and I run through the top international prospects in the class, but first we talk Emoni Bates and what's going on with him as he starts the offseason and AAU cycle before his senior year. Longer thoughts on Alperen Sengun, Josh Giddey, Usman Garuba, Roko Prkacin, and Rokas Jokubaitis, plus others.

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Kyle Mann from The Ringer joins and we break down the rookies from the 2020 NBA Draft class. Deep dives on Anthony Edwards, LaMelo Ball, Immanuel Quickley, POKU, and Tyrese Haliburton, plus more

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Part Two of our series breaking down the 25 best coaching jobs in college basketball. Part One is in the podcast before this, where we run through the other jobs.

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Matt Pennie joins to chat about what the best jobs are in college basketball. Which program would be the best to coach? A deep dive into what matters in a coaching job, why there are more good jobs for coaches than ever, why you can be successful in more places than ever, and into the jobs rated No. 25 to No. 13, with discussions on all of the ones that just missed out.

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NBA Catch-Up w/ Nekias Duncan. We run through the NBA Title Race, the MVP Race, the East, the Suns, the Knicks, the weird middle of the Eastern Conference and much more.

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Matt Pennie is here to chat about winning and the NBA Draft; Josh Giddey, the toughest evaluations in the class, and some segments that include Pennie Recruiting Stories, Sam Explores Australia, Movies, Two-Year-Old Children, and more

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Matt Pennie is back, we break down thoughts on the transfer portal, on the NBA Draft and some of the kids who have made early decisions to stay or go -- such as DJ Steward, Trayce Jackson-Davis, Taevion Kinsey, Scottie Lewis, and plenty more

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Pennie joins the show for the first of a two-part episode. In this first part, we break down everything to do with what we saw this weekend in the Final Four. Prospects, game breakdowns, contextualizing this season and way, way more.

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Matt Pennie joins to break down what we saw in the NCAA Tournament, the Indiana coaching hire, and Russell Westbrook thoughts.

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Pennie is back, and we run through what draft prospects over and under performed in the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament. 

We start with Cade, move through to the lottery guys still left like Suggs and Mobley. Then, we run through some of the fun stories.

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Jim Root from the Three Man Weave joins the show and we run through a bunch of games in the Round of 64

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