The boys are a teeeeeny bit hungover this week but where there's a will, there's a way, and also an hour of up-to-the-minute basketball talk. Lukas and Marco take a look at the three teams involved in the trades for Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell and how they're faring in the early weeks of the season. Is the Utah Jazz's success real, and could it be getting in the way of a true rebuild? How have the Cleveland Cavaliers meshed so easily, and what will they look like when Darius Garland returns? And can the Minnesota Timberwolves make their Twin Towers lineup (and the rest of their roster) work? Then, Myles Turner tells the Los Angeles Lakers they should trade for him on The Woj Pod. What would this trade mean for LA, but more importantly how is the media today complicit in the NBA's trade merry-go-round?

It's a great time to be a basketball fan, mostly because the JVG NBA Tribute Show is cycling through its beloved yearly episodes. Angus Ryan joins Lukas and Marco once again to go through their way-too-early hot takes and overreactions to the nascent 2022-23 NBA season. There's a lot of the league-best Utah Jazz, a couple of All-Star and MVP predictions and Angus's patented superstar season averages prediction.

We're baaaaaack! Lukas and Marco return from a brief hiatus to bring you their favourite pre-season segment, their classic spin on the over/under format that they invented way before the play-in. The boys talk you through their 7 locks for the playoffs in the each conference, the 4 teams they're sure will finish bottom and the 4 in between that will fight for play-in contention – and relevancy.

Our media accredited sideline reporter for the Women's Basketball World Cup takes us through a week at a FIBA event. No hot takes in this one, no takes of any temperature for that matter, just transparency on Lukas' experience of the event. In his time at the Cup, Lukas had the chance to interview a few professional basketball players, all of whom have played in the WNBA. This episode will feature the raw audio of those interviews directly from an iPhone 6 microphone, so listeners beware! To finish, our boy gives us a few of his goals moving forward, all while highlighting how important the week was for him.

The 2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup has come to a close, and while another gold medal for USA was to be expected it was still a great tournament and showcase for women's basketball. Marco and Lukas have been up in Sydney covering the cup, the latter more closely than the former, and drop in here with a quick check in on the morning of the cup's semi-final games of Australia v China and USA v Canada. Lukas talks about his experience courtside in the media pack, interviewing the stars of the tournament and his read on the games that at that point had happened so far. Marco mostly drives the Toyota Estima around Central station.

The Las Vegas Aces are 2022 WNBA champions, closing out their series against the Conneticut Sun in four games in style. Marco and Lukas have a lot to be happy about this week, so they take you through their exploits, from futsal to birthdays, before recapping the final two games of the finals. Then, the men of the NBA are up to no good once again. We talk through the Robert Sarver debacle and sale of the Phoenix Sun, Ime Udoka's one-year suspension and Doc Rivers' cheeky Twitter likes.

The WNBA Finals are here! After a historic series against the Seattle Storm, the Las Vegas Aces enter the series all guns firing, while the Conneticut Sun maintain their dogged approach from their gruelling five-game win over the reigning champion Chicago Sky. Marco and Lukas discuss the Sun's tough defence in Game 1, the Aces' late game turnaround and their cruising domination in Game 2. Also, Lukas introduces a new segment: People, Dream and Insitution.