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The Way We Ball
by Eric Todd
A fairly free-flowing conversation about the NBA, the Houston Rockets, and being alive in this strange place and time.
Episodes
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2026-2027 NBA Picks or How it most certainly will not shake down
The season is here. And we are ready with conference standings predictions, playoff predictions, and awards predictions for everyone to point and snicker at in six to eight months. ENJOY
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We put the W in FINALS with Ryan Dilbert
The WNBA Finals are upon us, and we're here to get you ready or as ready as any of us will be, We talk through the wild ride that the first two rounds of WNBA playoffs have been and make our, certain to be incorrect predictions on what we expect to happen in this next, ultimate season matchup.…
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A Marie Kondo'd Season Preview
As we prepare ourselves for another NBA season's gifts, we discuss what sparks joy in our respective fandom and what might not, what we're holding onto and what we're giving up. Jacob is mostly wrong as usual and August is a perfect guest to help us get started. We love and appreciate you, as...
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Rockets Sad Season Preview with Sara Rodriguez and Jonathon Williamson
It's that time again. Baseball is winding down. The kids are back in school, and the NBA Season is nigh upon us. To properly process our feelings about the impending Houston Rockets spasm, we have requested the help of two of our oldest friends Sara Rodriguez and Jonathon Williamson, who attempt,...
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WNBA Playoff Preview with Ryan Dilbert
While the US women's national team were busy winning their 12th World Cup championship, we were busy breaking down what happens when our nation's heroes return home, the WNBA Plaaaayoffs. We are joined this week by former Bleacher Report and current Resura Magazine writer (and founder), author of...
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In Memoriam: eulogies for the dead and other basketball endings
It's the offseason. Don Nelson has died, Dolly Parton and Tim Curry too. Russell Westbrook has retired. Is this era of the Denver Nuggets slipping away with last year's first round exit, Aaron Gordon's athleticism, and Peyton Watson's exit? What are the harbingers of the Lakers' sale, the second...
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The Jesus Episode, or LeBron James is a 76er
LeBron rings the Liberty BellThis week we use LeBron's latest last Decision as an excuse to talk through how we expect the Eastern Conference to begin to shake out this fall. Then we take some time to appreciate (and acknowledge) some of the storylines in the WNBA.
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The Offseason Cometh
This week, in likely our final episode of the year, we address all the massive trades that have shaken our understanding of the basketball world to its very core. We go team by team (Boston, Charlotte, Detroit, LAC, LAL, Philly, Toronto, Utah) to address the major movement over the last week and...
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Giannis is a Heat and the 2026 NBA Draft with Alex Saenz
It's finally over. Giannis Antetokounmpo is a Heat, and the anticipation around this lauded draft class is relieved. We talk about how both were kind of duds from an excitement standpoint, while Jacob at least tries to cheer us up about the Heat's chances of contention. Alex Saenz of From the...
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The New York Knicks are your 2026 NBA Champions
It's over, maybe faster than we'd hoped, but certainly in spectacular fashion. And once again Eric carries the obviously more correct opinions and the show. Enjoy and we'll see you next season.
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Don't Let It Me Be Lonely
We've only just seen Game 2 of this year's Finals, but we're both worried it will end and so very grateful for what we've been blessed with already. This week we catch up on some NBA news, the death of Stacey King, some coaching changes, and Donald Trump's insistence on inserting himself in every...
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Finals Reaction: Knicks Take Game 1
The Knicks haven't lost in 7 weeks, and we haven't been heard from for nearly half that time. We are back with an NBA Finals post-game breakdown. Listen to all the ways Eric predicted every bit of this (privately so there's no way you can prove me wrong), what the Knicks are doing right and how…
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Can It Be All So Simple?
Round 2 is near to its close. The NBA draft lottery is set. The WNBA season has begun. The Knicks are in the Conference finals. The Thunder haven't lost a game yet in the Playoffs. Wemby elbows Naz Reid in the neck in the middle of our recording. Are we exactly where we thought we'd be before the...
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Game 7s and the Deliverance of Joel Embiid
IT'S ROUND TWO!!! 3 GAME SEVENS, real redemption for Joel Embiid and Rudy Gobert and centers and defensive supremacy and a final Rockets collapse.
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Pure Chaos - Round 1 of the NBA Playoffs
In this episode, we break down the 1ST Round insanity that has captured the NBA, and continue memorializing our fallen Houston Rockets. With only 3 series looking like they might produce the most obviously expected outcomes, there's plenty to discuss.
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PLAYOFFS?
THE PLAYOFFS ARE HERE, and this week we preview all 8 1st round matchups, talk a little Play-In, and some other stray news.
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A Houston Memorial and a Bridge Collapsed
This week, on the final morning of the regular season we review possible the Playoff scenarios of the day's games (obsolete as of this posting, but not-so as of our recording). We consider the outcomes of the incentive structure built around the NBA's current rules that have led to a third of the...
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Some real MVPs, the new WNBA CBA with Mirinda Rose, and our culture's relationship with mental Illness
This week, we return to discuss some of what we missed these last two weeks, LeBron embarrassing himself, how we don't know how to talk about mental illness, and the labor and practical win that is the WNBA's new CBA with our powerful and insightful friend Mirinda Rose.
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Sick to Our Stomachs with Alex Saenz
THIS WEEK, we talk with Alex Saenz about Bam's 83, the Wizards, Luka's humiliation of Matas Buzelis, more Rockets than we should, some streaks, too-early and not-planned finals predictions, and somehow not enough Lakers.
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The Mild West
This week we talk about about the unspoken and constantly shifting relationships between the refs and on court strategy, the Western Conference contenders and why the Rockets should probably just give up and sell the team and we should really quit doing this silly podcast, AND then some more Joe...
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Cocaine Summers
This week we talk all things NBA and Houston Rockets with our old and good friend Sara Rodriguez. This is also our second foray into video. Please be patient with our/my video editing skills and un-camera-ready appearance, but we are glad again to share our faces with you. On topics we discuss if...
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Eastern Promises
This week, the ALL STAR break IS OVER. The home stretch of the NBA season is upon us, and we are here to talk about the Eastern Conference, the expectations and realities as we find ourselves in the spring of the year-of-our-lord 2026 really before anyone is properly prepared. We also follow up…
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I've Heard Nothing But Good Things
On this emergency video episode, we discuss the wild news that broke yesterday about Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and our own Kevin Durant. We particularly focus on the KD situation, screenshots from an alleged burner account, in which KD takes shots at nearly all of his former teammates and...
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Chris Paul Retires and Other Less-Than-Joyful Discussions
This week, we discuss Chris Paul's retirement announcement, his place in league history and the Rockets' annals. We also enthusiastically break down the most recent brawl between the Pistons and Hornets and touch on the current Rockets struggles, some big and small picture analysis of where they...
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Trade Deadline Reactions
This week, we are talking actual factual TRADES and triple doubles and Jacob sounds the alarm about something or other.
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The Church of Almost or More Than Halfway Home
This week, we discuss lots of news, the looming trade deadline, the re-emergence of Joel Embiid, and the poetry that is Joe Mazzulla pressers.
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The Way We Talk
A discussion about discussions in the NBA. Plus some Rockets things.
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Trae-historical
This week! We discuss the Trae Young trade demand/agreement/concession, some New Year's Q&A's, a (continuously, potentially dubiously) set of revised predictions, and a look back at how we got here - the 3 point revolution in context. As always, thank you for spending part of your day with us.
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The Texas Triangle or How We Learned to Love the Spurs
On this EPISODE, we check in with the Spurs, Rockets, and Mavs, how Victor Wembanyama has ruined the Christmases of everyone in Oklahoma, and a little bit about what's happening with the Cavs and Lakers. We tread in some familiar territory for a mostly congenial and collegiate discussion about…
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The NBA Cup is HERE and Our Sweet Destructive Loves
This week(!), we break down the excitement that was the Knockout and Semifinal rounds of the NBA Cup, an experiment that may have finally announced itself as more than just an experiment. We also take a look at the Young Guns of the East - Atlanta, Orlando, and Detroit and how their coming-of-age...
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Giannis to the Rockets, Chris Paul away from the Clippers, and why I'm always right
This week! NBA news, trade talk, and some eternal love for Chris Paul.
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Rockets-palooza with Alex Wheeler
This week we talk about all things Houston Rockets with our good friend and genuine mensch Alex Wheeler. We discuss the most recent slate of Rockets games, their promising start to the season, the chances of that last millennial NBA greats winning a swan song championship, and who Ime Udoka would...
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The Nico Corollary, a long boy
In this Episode, we discuss the problems with Nico Harrision's approach to his job as a symptom of the problems of powerful men in general and the absurd ways we love to venerate them. Also, how this trade deadline might be crowded with sellers hawking wares to a small number of buyers. And…
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Why is our culture and the Russell Westbrook Referendum
On this week's episode, we discuss why men are broken and Russell Westbrook's legacy. Also, Eric is his own ombudsman, and Jacob is a terrible priest. And some Rockets weekly chatter that we can't help.
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Ja Morant and the Dog-Whistle Journalism of Tim MacMahon
Sports media members often behave like spectators alone in their homes, commenting as if no one can hear them, or worse sensationally attack a player's character in order to further their own careers, but we hear you Tim MacMahon. We hear you loud and clear.
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The Baby is Out of the Bathwater
In this episode, we interview our friend Tim about what he knows and/or cares about and then discuss a few observations on the first week of the NBA season.
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SCALDING HOT SMOKED TOFU ON BUNSEN BURNER TAKES
The absolute hottest NBA Preseason takes to survive a trip to the surface of the mf sun, son.
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Is Free Agency Dead Forever? And Giannis stuff.
We break down the current NBA CBA and how it's forcing teams' to build in ways the previous salary structure did not and how or why or if Giannis Antetokounmpo might be on a different team in the near future.
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Introduction and Preseason Picks
In this first episode, we share our preseason picks for the 2025-2026 NBA season, introduce ourselves and work out the kinks of what we're even doing here.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A fairly free-flowing conversation about the NBA, the Houston Rockets, and being alive in this strange place and time.
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Eric Todd
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