The Downstroke

We talk to Brian about the overall situation involving bringing the NHL/NBA to Seattle.

We will interview King5 reporter Chris Daniels about bringing the NBA/NHL to Seattle, as well as recent labor issues in the State of Washington amongst the four WHL franchises in Everett, Seattle, Spokane, and Tri Cities.

We will then discuss this and much more amongst ourselves.

We talk to Mr. Custance about his recent trip to Seattle and his thoughts on Seattle expansion.

In this episode of The Downstroke hosts Taylor Bartle and Chris Meirose are joined by Q It Up Sports anchor Aaron Levine, talking NBA Expansion, Donald Sterling, and more!

 

If you're a Seattle sports or NBA fan interested in hearing more about this week's breaking news of possible NBA expansion, this edition of The Downstroke is required listening!

On this week's episode of The Downstroke, Kevin and Chris are joined by Clips Nation manager Steve Perrin to discuss all things "Southern Cali Sonics." 

Topics include Spencer Hawes, NBA free agency, LeBron James, Shaun Livingston, Steve Ballmer and an intriguing discussion on breakfast cereal ... 

Tune into The Downstroke for all your Seattle NBA action!

In this episode we are breaking down barriers and building bridges!  We have Greg Wissinger from Sactown Royalty and Zebulun Benbrook from Welcome to Loud City.  This is the first time in known history (well since 2008) that parties from Seattle, Oklahoma City and Sacramento have sat down and talked civilly for more than a minute and thirty-two seconds.

We kick off with Greg and get into what the Sacramento Kings need in the draft, what the needs are and some of his favorite players that he is looking for.  We talk about the need for point guard and what could potentially happen with Isaiah Thomas and that leads into free agency needs.

Greg finishes off by saying that Seattle needs a team and definitely deserves a team. 

Zeb jumps in at this point and talks about how the Thunder have been embraced by Oklahoma City and what type of process that has been.  We get into the semantics of the team that others might not understand so much, like the Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook dynamic.  We also get into free agency and some draft talk.

There is some fun talk on why Houston would want Carmelo Anthony, where Kevin Love might end up and what decision could LeBron James make.

We end the night on some random discussions that revolve around do like cake or pie, who was your most hated player ever in the NBA and if you could create your all League Pass team, who would be on it?

You can follow Greg on Twitter at @GWiss and Zebulun at @ZubulunBenbrook.

No Kevin Colabro this week, but he'll be back one day! This week our guest is Matt Moore from CBS Sports Eye On Basketball and Hardwood Paroxysm. Matt and I briefly recap the NBA Finals and how the San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat are not so different after all if you look past the surface. 

We get into this year's NBA Draft, how amazingly deep it is and why it's going to be a great thing for the expanding D-League this year. Matt has some terrific thoughts on making the D-League a true minor league system. 

We get into the topic of Russell Westbrook, Scott Brooks and are they actually good for the Oklahoma City Thunder? Matt had some great points as to why they are and got me thinking in a whole new direction. 

There is some great discussion on some rumors about where Kevin Love and Carmelo Anthony might end up, and a couple of the destinations might surprise you. 

We talk about the potential time frame for an expansion team in Seattle.

Matt definitely brought the goods in this one; it's a can't miss episode!

You can visit Matt's sites here: Hardwood Paroxysm and Eye On Basketball and you can follow him on Twitter at @MattMooreCBS and @HPBasketball.

The Downstroke is the podcast voice of SonicsRising.com.

While episode 10 may never see the light of day, episode 11 is a new and improved version with special guest host, and voice of the Seattle Supersonics, Kevin Calabro!  We're working on a couple of special guests for the show - former NBA players - and will announce those once confirmed.

We're talking NBA - playoffs and finals.  Maybe a bit on the draft, and hopefully a little bit on the Sonics Arena and news that Chris Hansen made another significant move to purchase land in SoDo this past week.

Taylor, Chris, and Mitch discuss all manners of things ranging from Steve Ballmer buying the Clippers to the NBA Playoffs to FIBA and more.

The bad news for this episode is that there is no special guest.

The good news is that there is also no Kevin Nesgoda!

Yours truly takes over the hosting reigns on this one, with Chris Meirose as my sixth man off The Bench. We cover topics ranging from the Clippers to the coaching carousel to the draft and more. We even delve a little bit into NHL news and talk about Victor Coleman and his role in the Seattle Arena.

So turn on, tune in and freak out!