Happy New Year and welcome to the first episode of 48 Minutes Basketball Network in 2022!

This week on the Bench Mob; Tim, Ben, and Josh discuss the latest issues in the Rockets franchise with Kevin Porter Jr., DeMar DeRozan showing an MVP candidacy and pick our starting 5 for each conference for the NBA All-Star Game.

Also this week's Bench Gawds: Sean: Greg Monroe, Tim: Kyle Guy, Ben: Hamidou Diallo, Josh: Jordan Nwora

If you grew up in Cincinnati in the late 90's and early 2000's, you knew all about the Bearcats and Jordan Brand. 

This week on @ Large Bid, Tim talks with Ian Stonebrook of Boardroom about the article he wrote this week for Boardroom discussing the Jordan Brand Era Bearcats. Ian goes through the idea of the article, putting it together, listening to the Bearcat Basketball Podcast to get a ton of his information and how this Bearcat era compares to the Fab Five of Michigan and the great UNLV teams of the early 1990's.

Tim and Ian also discuss branding, how big the LeBron deal with FAMU is for HBCU's, will we see more athletes and universities do co-branding and more!

We hope all of you who celebrate had a Merry Christmas! This week on the Bench Mob the crew discusses the performance from James Harden, Kemba Walker bringing back that MSG Christmas Magic, Kevin Love resurgence, Jonathan Kuminga fitting in, our favorite Christmas games and our Hoop Years Resolutions for 2022.

Happy holidays from the Shot Callers! To celebrate, Joe & Kyle have made their list, and checked it twice. So now it's time to find out who's been naughty and who's been nice! The guys also give a preview of the Christmas Day installment of the Warriors-Suns battle for first place atop the Western Conference! With this being the last episode for 2021, they also give out the first annual Shot Caller of The Year Award. Tap in to find out who's taking home the imaginary hardware!

@ Large Bid is jam packed this week discussing Penny Hardaway not being aware of his players vaccination status before a much needed game against Tennessee, All the games being moved around from COVID issues, Villanova starting to struggle and look human, Kentucky vs North Carolina, and just how good can the Xavier Musketeers be?

As the bench mob gets together for the final episode before Christmas, we have quite the show for you!

Tim, Ben and Josh discuss the NBA's COVID issues, the Cavaliers rise, Anthony Davis injury, Some interesting NBA Conspiracy Theories including the futures of Domantas Sabonis, Kyrie Irving, and Nikola Jokic and lastly, our Bench Gawds!

This week, Kyle & Joe discuss Steph Curry becoming the all-time 3 point leader. They also talk the Grizzlies hot streak, Zion being shut down for the foreseeable future, and take a look at the MVP rankings for the first time this season!

This week on the Bench Mob, Sean is in Miami, FL so we brought in our pal Jabari Davis from the Baseline NBA Pod.

The crew discussed an array of topics including:

Steve Kerr for Team USA

Ben Simmons Trade Talk Intensifies

Lakers Chat

Are the Jazz for Real?

Bench Gawds

Steph Curry's 3 point title watch

What is the next move for Zion Williamson?

After being good all season, the Shot Callers finally embrace the chaos that is NBA Trade Rumors and fire up the trade machine for the first time this season. Joe & Kyle discuss some potential Pacers trades following Shams' reports earlier this week, and also explore some non-Damian Lillard moves that Portland could potentially look into making to shake things up!

As some conferences start their play, the college hoops season is running wild!

@ Large Bid is here this week discussing the big wins for Ohio State and Alabama last week, Who could be next at Maryland, and also the NET Rankings arrive for the first time this season.