The Bench Dribble Podcast

There’s no NBA for the foreseeable future due to the coronavirus epidemic. We run through everything that has happened, from the time the league stopped to future plans. Does Spencer’s Dinwiddie have the answer? Who should win the awards if the season doesn’t return? And we dribble on about how to decide a championship winner.

Out of nowhere the Brooklyn Nets have ousted Kenny Atkinson (1:00). The Nuggets and Rockets have dreadful weeks. Will coronavirus hold fans out from games? Lakers beat up Bucks. Brogdon tears his quad and other injuries (31:40). Dribble (36:48). What are the ceilings of Lonzo and Josh Jackson (36:48), 24 Caris Magic, Aron Baynes flamethrower, predicting first round playoff matchups. Anthony is trailing in this months tips already (59:20).

Are we witnessing Jason Tatum become king of the Celtic kingdom? How about that Rockets Celtics finish. Two machines not men went head to head twice this week, when Zion met LeBron. Sixers woes and glimmer of hope. Wherefore aut thou Kemba? Player of the week ends in a feud and Anthony couldn’t tip a waiter at this point.

All-Star weekend delivered. We run through every event and dribble over a cracking All-Star game. Then focus shifts back to the NBA season. The buyout market has dried up, which contenders added pieces? Kyrie’s season over and KAT banged up. We go bold and predict what will happen for the rest of the season. Finally, we finish up with some burning questions.

We’ve got ourselves a bunch of trades. We run through all the trades made at the deadline and how this leaves each team shaped. Who were the winners and losers of the deadline. Nikola Jokic is on fire leading the Nuggets. All-Star weekend predictions. Aaron Gordon isn't winning the dunk contest and if you want to get rich listen to our Rising Stars MVP prediction.

On today's show we discuss Lakers tribute to Kobe, Dame playing elite, Kyrie shooting lights out, donnybrook between the Grizzlies and the Knicks, All-star Benches, Rising stars rosters, Injuries across the league, Player of the week and we bid farewell to Toby.

We take a look at the league's response to the passing of Kobe Bryant before touching on the rest of the news, including the All-Star starters.

We look back on Kobe Bryant's life and career in the wake of his passing.

We hit the news including a couple of questionable trades, update our tips, name our player of the week and Aaron describes his adventures on Hawks Twitter.

We hit all the NBA news from the past week including Kyrie's predictable return (and questionable GM skills), Harden's inefficiency, Ja Morant's emergence and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's run. We (eventually) remember that the Jazz are on a 10-game streak while we crunch the numbers on the East and West playoff race and make our predictions as to where the teams will fall come the end of the season.