THE PROSPECT

This week we still are without our North Star, Don Sikorski, so we continue down the NBA Playoff coverage, with a very special guest and sports savant — 9yr old Hudson Pasternak, who gives The Greek a run for his money and get's into dangerous waters with The Greek over Deandre Ayton!

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This week we take a comedic turn as "The Jew" fills in at the Sports Desk for Don Sikorski.

The Jew summoned "The Greek", a true sports aficionado and all-around anxiety-ridden sports junkie, to ride shotgun as they try to navigate the NBA Playoffs.

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The evolution of basketball scouting these days, has morphed into Instagram highlight reels, and deals for  high school basketball players where some of them are becoming millionaires by the time they turn 18 years old, for Viktor Wembanyama as the next great hope of the NBA, his path was vastly different from say Michael Jordan, or Lebron, or Steph Curry.

In thinking about the philosophy of scouting, the essence of scouting, what comes to mind for me, is a legendary story about a man they called THE GLIDER.

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The Greek Drive at 5 , breaks down the start of the playoffs , the sad state of the Dallas Mavericks and the Wemby Lottery.

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At the end of the Men’s College Basketball National Championship, Jim Nantz of CBS a broadcaster who has called 32 Final Fours, signed off with a small quote, that caught my attention for many reasons, Jim said, “Everyone has a story, and everyone has a dream." Those words this year and the run that UCONN had inside the tournament, took on extra meaning for me this time of year.

While I have faithfully watched the NCCA Tournamant since I was eight years old, the Monday night of the Championship game has been my only religion, I have yet to miss that game, no matter where I have been.

With UCONN’s run thru the tournament, and their televisied games, what they also provided for me was a topic of conversation with my Mother who is battling Alzheimers’s and attened UCONN, wherein she met my father, and they have been married since. 

While the disease ravages her short term memory, the UCONN’s Men’s basketball games, have turned into a conversation piece that injects some positive emotions, in my daily interactions which at times are painful, sad, introspective, and relevatory.

While my Mom’s battle of Alzheimers, has been front and center, another story resonated with me, and that was the public narrative around the Uconn coach Danny Hurley, and his early struggles with mental health, and overcoming walking away for a period of time of the game of basketball altogether.

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CMM's Don Sikorski, sits down with Chad Hopenwasser A.K.A. @lifeasbigman, to discuss all the latest in B-Ball, Wemby, The Final Four and so much more.

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Today on The Propsect, we're do things a little differently.

Don Sikorski interviews Mike Evans, the founder of Full Court Peace, an organization that works in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, El Salvador, the Wind River Indian reservation, and other destinations, to rebuild basketball courts, and use the sport to bridge the divide inside and out diverse neighborhoods.

It is the use of basketball for the purpose of human rights, connection, and a simple idea — if we can all connect at a human level, then the world might just be a better place.

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Criminal Minded Media's Don Sikorski goes to the Greek, our own John Anagnopoulos, to talk all things Wemby, Ja Morant, Kevin Durant and more...

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In creating the prospect, I started to realize that while I am vastly interested in tracking the rise of Wemby, and seeing what happens to a player that has already been anointed, the premise of the Prospect, keeps bringing up memories of all my basketball experiences, have given me the ability to track stories that are adjacent to the Wemby journey that cross-over into my thoughts on the modern day NBA.

In the creation of this episode and thinking about Wemby, my memories took me to another touted prospect, who had a unique journey and that is Allen Iverson.  

While I was thinking about Iverson this past week, news broke that shifted my thinking in a totally different way…….

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In the journey of Victor Wembayama and whether he will become the NBA’s next greatest star or prospect, I stumbled across an article in New York Magazine, that I feel is very relevant to tracking Wemby’s journey.

While the NBA news cycle was in overdrive this week, all around the trade of Kevin Durant to Phoenix, and Kyrie Irving to Dallas, I started to think about the larger NBA environment, and where we are at in popular culture as NBA teams look to position themselves in the Wemby lottery, which is why a hit piece on Kyrie Irving was something I wanted to talk about and explore.

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