Ball Nerd

After Houston Rocket's GM, Daryl Morey tweets support for Hong Kong protests, a firestorm begins between the NBA and the Chinease government. With China so quick to slap the hand of the NBA, was the NBA's reaction too passive out of fear of losing money?  Which master do they really serve?

After so many years, why is the NBA suddenly calling for all teams to accurately report the ages, height and weight of all players? Bogues breaks it down!

Demarcus Cousins goes down with an ACL! What does this mean for Boogie moving forward? What should the Lakers do now? In other sad news Sebastian Telfair receives three and a half years from a gun case, what happened to this promising player who was once a NYC prodigy?

After much controversy the NCAA's new system of rules with one in specific being dubbed the "Rich Paul Rule" called for any sports agent that was looking to represent a potential pro basketball player to have a mandatory four year bachelor's degree before being able to do so. Rich Paul of Klutch Sports, pens an awesome write up in 'The Atheltic' and the rule was reversed. What does it all mean?

BallNerd host, Bugsey Mogues explains the constant "Jedi Mind Trick" that the sports media uses to help propel their story lines.  This episode "warm's you up" to the concept and exposes one of these tricks being used by Lebron James.  As an ongoing run of future 'Jedi Mind Trick episodes' this is part of the 'Critical Warm Up' series.

Dubbed "The Critical Warm-up" , listen to the informative trailer for the warm up.

With Steve Ballmer and the Los Angeles Clippers getting their chance at a new arena, why would James Dolan be mad about this?  Listen to the pod to find out. Is the timing of this with the Kawhi Leonard aka Lex Luthor signing a bigger tell tale of "The Claw's gangsterism?  Oh yea, and James Dolan gets his nickname!