What's up y'all! In today's episode, I went over the middle of the first round (picks 11-20) of the 2019 NBA Draft, and gave my grades for the value of each selection. This is the 2nd part of a 3 parter; the first episode came out a couple weeks ago, and the third part will be dropping on Monday. As always, hit me up with any feedback you may have - @JoinTheHird is my personal twitter, or the podcast twitter @HirdItHere

Thanks for checking out another episode of the Hird It Here Sports Podcast! Had the pleasure of recording with someone I met at the 2019 Sports Business Classroom in Las Vegas this summer, as well as a follow podcast host - be sure to check out his show The Do Post! (link below) Adam has also been following the Lakers very closely as a fan the past few years, so I wanted to bring him on the show to talk about the Lakers - since the Lakers don't have much of a young core (anymore) we instead talked about the Lakers' offseason moves and how he saw the new look Lakers playing next season. We jumped around a lot, so didn’t include timestamps, but this was a fantastic conversation with Adam, and I hope y’all all enjoy!

As always, reach out to me with any feedback you may have, and if you enjoyed the show, please leave a rating and/or review!

The Do Post: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kuci-the-do-post/id1459602919

Recorded a Denver Nuggets Prospect Preview with fellow Sports Business Classroom '19 alumnus, Patrick Arsenault! This was, in my humble opinion, our best podcast so far (sorry Lance, it's me not you!) I spent some time actually trimming down silences for this episode, it seemed to make a clear difference, so I plan to continue to do that for future episodes. As always, if you have any feedback, reach out to me on twitter at @HirdItHere or my personal twitter at @JoinTheHird, or leave a rating & review here if you enjoyed the show! Make sure to subscribe if you haven't already for new episodes Monday thru Friday!

Nikola Jokic: 12:47

Jamal Murray: 19:52

Monte Morris: 26:30

Gary Harris: 30:52

Malik Beasley: 42:25

Juancho Hernangomez: 49:50

The Wildcards: 53:00

      Jarred Vanderbilt: 53:20

~~~~~~~~~Jerami Grant interlude: 55:45~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

       Bol Bol: 56:50

      Micheal Porter Jr: 1:01:55

Team Wrapup and Season Projection: 1:10:05

Third episode of our NBA Prospect Preview podcast! This time, we bring on Lance Smith @LanceSmithTPC to talk about his beloved Golden State Warriors! We end up bouncing around and hitting several Warrior related topics, with most of the focus on D'Angelo Russell and Kevon Looney, but plenty of more content mixed in. I had a lot of fun on this one, and I think we did a really good job covering all the guys Warriors fans should be excited about going forward! Please leave a rating and/or review if you enjoyed, and if you've got any feedback feel free to reach out to me at the podcast's twitter @HirdItHere or my personal twitter @JoinTheHird

Just as a note - I wasn't able to get the audio file into Audacity, so the editing and intro/outro was done in Anchor - unfortunately, there is no smooth jazz in this episode. I promise it will never happen again.

D'Angelo Russell: 18:20

(oh lawd)Kevon Looney: 38:40

The Oldies (Spellman/Evans): 1:02:00

The Rookies: 1:09:50

The Two-Ways: 1:21:36

Season Preview by Lance: 1:24:31

Second episode in our Prospects Preview series! This time I'm hitting the Boston Celtics, who come into the '19-'20 season with a totally retooled roster and three new rookies to add to the young core. Apologies, the puppy dawg was restless once yet again for this recording, hopefully the sound quality is overall pretty solid.

Jayson Tatum (8:46)

Jaylen Brown (24:07)

Marcus Smart (40:36) --> This is the point where I say "I'm gonna breeze through the rest of these guys" and then went on to record for another 50 minutes lol

Grant Williams (51:57)

Romeo Langford(1:01:45)

Carsen Edwards(1:04:37)

Robert Williams(1:12:43)

Team Fit and Recap (1:16:40)

Lemme know if y'all have any feedback - contact me at the Hird It Here Sports page @HirdItHere or at my personal account @JoinTheHird

Second part of my show on the NBA's rookie of the year odds. Did some historical research on the award ranging back to '06-'07,  so I discuss trends I noted and some of the more interesting ROTY cases. I then broke down the '19-'20 candidates for the award into three categories:

Bad Bets: guys I would avoid under almost any circumstances (last episode)

"Bet on your Guy": guys I am not particularly sold on myself, but that if you as the listener are more optimistic on, aren't unreasonable to put a bet down on. (episode jumps in at #12 PJ Washington)

and of course, my Best Bets (starts at 21:50)

I had to cut the episode into 2 parts, so please check out Part 1 if you haven't already, you're missing a lot of context and a lot of content! As always, please leave a rating and/or review if you enjoyed, and if you have any feedback, reach out to me personally at the podcast's twitter page @hirdithere or my personal page @jointhehird. Again, thank y'all so much for listening, it's truly a privilege to have y'all listen to my work.

First part of my show on the NBA's rookie of the year odds. Did some historical research on the award ranging back to '06-'07,  so I discuss trends I noted and some of the more interesting ROTY cases. I then broke down the '19-'20 candidates for the award into three categories:

Bad Bets: guys I would avoid under almost any circumstances (starts at 35:25)

"Bet on your Guy": guys I am not particularly sold on myself, but that if you as the listener are more optimistic on, aren't unreasonable to put a bet down on.

and of course, my Best Bets

I had to cut the episode into 2 parts, so please check out Part 2 to get the rest of my "Bet on your Guy" picks, as well as my five Best Bets! As always, please leave a rating and/or review if you enjoyed, and if you have any feedback, reach out to me personally at the podcast's twitter page @hirdithere or my personal page @jointhehird. Again, thank y'all so much for listening, it's truly a privilege to have y'all listen to my work.

First of a new series where I'll be going over the young prospect cores for each team in the NBA. Touched on:

Trae Young

John Collins

Kevin Huerter

De'Andre Hunter

Cam Reddish

as well as some general discussion on how the team fits and works together.

Also, this is the first recording from the "new studio" (i.e. my parent's luxurious basement), as well as the first published under the Hird It Here brand! Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of that at the time, so we'll just call it a tribute episode to Scout's Honor NBA. Anyways, hope y'all enjoy the episode - this was my second recording, as the first ended up at around 2 hours and 11 minutes; I still drug this one out to a good hour and 40 minutes, but it felt much more structured, and felt that it was discussion worth publishing. Going forward I plan to keep episodes more around an hour to 90 minutes, I don't want to waste y'alls time. 

As always, please let me know if you have any feedback, you can find the podcast on twitter at @HirdItHere, or my personal account at @JoinTheHird. Leave 5 stars if you enjoyed it, and if you have interest in coming on the podcast, reach out to me, I am always seeking out collaboration! Thanks y'all, keep it easy!