The Hoops Temple Podcast presents the unofficially official expansion draft with the newly appoint GM's of the Seatle Supersonics and Las Vegas Oceansharks

Welcome Back to the 2nd annual playoff wins draft. leading up to the 2026 playoffs Nate, Dylan, and Aaron draft 6 teams each with the sole goal of trying to select the teams who will win the most playoff games this off season. All wins count for 1 point including the playing round. Let the drafting begin!

Bam bests Kobe's single highest scoring outburst since the merger, Shai surpasses Wilt Chamberlain in consecutive 20 point games and DeMar DeRozan's quiet consistent scoring has moved him above Tim Duncan on the NBA's career leading scorer's list.

Aaron and Nate look back at NBA landscape at the start of the Bird and Magic era and rank the top 10 players of the 1979-80 season.

Nathan is back from the plague (a rather mild cold) to catch up with Dylan on All-Star, KD Burnergate 2026, DeAndre Ayton and which players are following the strong but not always predictive tradition of breaking out after the all star game.

Aaron has tricked another poor soul into joining him for revisiting NBA season's past to remember the top 10 of that season. Coming out of the bubble who were the top 10 players of 2021? Aaron and Dylan have the answers.

Dylan and Aaron breakdown the 2026 NBA trade deadline winners, losers, and gamblers.

Does the NBA seem to keep on getting stranger and stranger? Well do we have a tale for you. Aaron Dylan and Nate talk through the recent trades, the all star reserves being named, and more.

In a moment of crisis, in what may be the darkest hour of Sacramento Kings fandom, when the Russell Westbrook Stockholm Syndrome has taken hold, Aaron returns to ask one simple question.

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Dylan and Nate bring their 5 teams or players they are watching the most for upcoming moves to the pod.