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99 - Reggie Miller

This week, we cover Air Canada's rise to fame with the fledgling Raptors, all his sick dunks, his fall from grace after a forced trade to the Nets, and his image rehab in recent years.

98 - Vince Carter

boy, we've been talkin around this for years! It's time to go back to the 50s and take a look at 'ole Bob Pettit (the progenitor of the power forward) and his wonderful, fabulous St. Louis Hawks...they spar with Russel's Celtics, they win a title, they move to Atlanta...you get the picture!!!!

97 - The Bob Pettit Hawks

This week, we continue our discussion of Mr. Clutch, picking up after his retirement from the Lakers and following his golden touch in managerial capacities. We talk his GM years putting together the Showtime and Shaq/Kobe Lakers, his rebuild of the Grizzlies, advising the Warriors, and now the Clippers.

96 - Jerry West, Off the Court

We're talkin' a major legend this week...Mr. Clutch! In the first of a two-part series, we cover Jerry West's playing career, from WVU to the Los Angeles Lakers, all those sad trips to the Finals against the Celtics, the championship year, and many injuries in between.

95 - Jerry West, On the Court

This week, we're taking a non-standard angle on Pop's career: his life before all the Spurs titles. We talk his time in the Air Force (and maybe as a spy?), his years spent coaching D-III in Pomona, and his years as assistant coach and GM on the Spurs.

94 - Gregg Popovich

We round off our discussion of Mike D'Antoni, Steve Nash, and the Seven Seconds or Less Phoenix Suns by looking at the years following Nash's back-to-back MVPs, trouble with the Spurs and the dissolution of the franchise, and the reuniting of Nash and D'Antoni on the Lakers.

93 - 07 Seconds or Less Part 2

The first of a two part series on the progenitor of the modern league, the runnin' and gunnin' :07 Seconds or Less Phoenix Suns! We're talking Mike D'Antoni, Steve Nash, Amar'e, the Matrix, underdogs, and some wild series!

92 - 07 Seconds or Less Part 1

Penny Hardaway - a real sweetie! This week we discuss his meteoric rise on the Magic in the mid-90s, some grisly knee injuries, the time he spent with the Suns, and, of course, Lil' Penny.

91 - Penny Hardaway

This week, we're dipping into that much-beloved early-2000s range and looking at the tallest player ever to play, Yao Ming. We cover his time playing in China, and short but sweet time with the Houston Rockets.

90 - Yao Ming

This week we're linsane in the membrane! That's right, we're talking everybody's favorite three week long global sensation, Linsanity. We cover Jeremy Lin's precarious beginnings, his month of international superstardom on the Knicks, and his struggles to find a place in the NBA in the aftermath.

89 - Linsanity

This week, we consider the Portland Trailblazers drafting Sam Bowie over Michael Jeffrey Jordan in 1984, and ask if it's really the biggest draft bust in all of sports history. You know how we like to trouble the narrative!

88 - Sam Bowie and the '84 Draft

For the first short of the new year, we're taking a quick look at a figure of much debate - Robert Horry and his seven championships. Is Big Shot Bob a clutch performer who deserves our praise, or a phony fraud who got lucky? We lay out the evidence of his time on the Rockets, Lakers, and Spurs, and debate his legacy.

87 - Robert Horry

This week's short takes a look at the 70s/80s shooting phenom World B. Free. We cover his time on the 76ers, Clippers, and Cavs, get into his famous name change, and interrogate his shooting legacy.

86 - World B. Free

The Holy Grail of basketball stats - the quadruple double! In this short, we cover the only four that have ever happened, talk about how they sometimes almost happen, and theorize why they get talked about so much.

85 - Quadruple Doubles

NBA history podcast by Michael Chiappini and Philip Derbesy. Dive into the discourse with us. New episodes every Wednesday.

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