NBA-Team: Decisions Made in the Best Interest of the Organization

In the first part of this seasons' post-mortems, Andrew and Adam look at teams who were sunk this season due to mettling from the office or ownership. From trading your franchise cornerstone to publicly calling out your star player then suspending your star player, these teams had some internal distractions. Teams covered are CHI, MIA, SAC, PHX, ATL, DAL, and MEM. Enjoy.

NBA-Team: 2024-2025 Playoffs: 2nd Round Preview

Andrew and Adam preview this year's 2nd Round Matchups.

NBA-Team: Finally.....

The craziest season in memory has finally come to an end. Trades being done that even NBA 2k wouldn't do, Coaches being fired amidst playoff hunts...and that final month of all two-way players and end of benchers. Is there anyone left who played enough games for the end of the season awards? Andrew and Adam bring the 2024-25 regular season to a close. 

NBA-Team - 2025 Playoffs: First Round

Andrew and Adam preview the first round of the upcoming playoffs. 

PTBN's NBA-Team: April Rules But Sometimes Drools

It is the best of times, and it is the worst of times in the NBA season. It is superlative season as the awards candidates are being discussed, tanking teams try their best (or worst) to get Cooper Flagg, and the Cavs, Thunder, and Celtics are eclipsing 60 wins in a season. But what about the middle? Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation's NBA-Team, are here to talk about it all! The play-in scenarios are almost locked in, but why are the Grizzlies and Suns pulling the plug after firing Taylor Jenkins and sitting Kevin Durant? Is the Pistons' aggressive nature a good way to get an edge for a squad that has never had playoff history? Why does Adam still think the Knicks cannot be considered a title contender this year? The two also discuss Giannis going on a tear, the Rockets and Wolves getting hot, LeBron, and much more! So suit up and take it out in episode 338 with the NBA-Team!

NCAA Team: Names 2 Know

Knowing that Andrew will be away for his yearly Madness "sabbatical," Adam got a hold of him before the tournament to check back in on the NBA Prospects. Has Cooper Cupp solidified his #1 position? Has anyone come out of nowhere and shot up the boards? Find out who Andrew has fallen in and out of love with on the latest edition of the NCAA Team

PTBN's NBA-Team: Securing the Bag

March is up and running, and while college players get their national spotlight and then hit the transfer portal, the NBA is stuck in their late-season purgatory where the only portal left is the postseason one, but which ones are ready to cash in and cash out? Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation's NBA-Team, are here for the real NBA sicko's to catch everything up. The Eastern Conference playoff picture looks locked in, but are the teams in the picture locked in or not? Will the injury bug force the Dallas Mavericks to do the unthinkable and forfeit regular season games? Will the Cavs ever lose again? Why does Adam Murray think we should have the first-ever tie in league MVP history between Nikola Jokic & Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Riche and Adam also talk about wild finishes, rolling out the tanking teams, bad officiating, and more! So suit up and take it on episode 336 with the NBA-Team! 

PTBN's NBA-Team: Beware the Slides of March

As the number of regular season games left shrink more and more, we see the chances of playoff success slip and slide and the tanks are getting ready to roll out. Things might be down, but Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation's NBA-Team, are back after one week to look and see what is up (and down). The Phoenix Suns' season is likely doomed, but whose fault is it really. The Sixers are also staring down an abyss after shutting down Joel Embiid for the season, but why does Riche think their long-term title hopes are not dead yet? Is there a limit to how much control head coaches in no risk of being fired can really have over their superstars after the Mike Budenholzer-Devin Booker fiasco? Riche and Adam also talk about the muddled Western Conference standings, the California teams being in their honeymoon phases, the Cavs beating the Celtics in Boston, and more! So suit up and take it out in episode 335 with the NBA-Team!

PTBN's NBA-Team: Love, Victor

The All-Star break is over, and it's time for everyone in the league to get to work and maybe get some overtime. Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation's NBA-Team, are done with their own two-week break and are clocking back in to check on which teams are rising, falling, tanking, and flunking as we enter the last two months of the regular season. Are the Phoenix Suns, the most expensive roster in the NBA, already doomed by our accounts? How devastating is (or could be) for Victor Wembenyama being shut down by the Spurs after a blood clot issue? How are the Brooklyn Nets somehow winning games? Why does Riche have such a huge beef with Adam Silver after his cowardly answer about not intervening in the Luka Doncic trade? Riche and Adam also revisit their over-under win total predictions, who will win the Defensive Player of the Year award, the meaningless All-Star weekend, and more! So suit up and take it out in episode 334 with the NBA-Team!

PTBN's NBA-Team: After Shocks

After a seismic, earth-shaking deal between the Lakers and Mavericks sent the trade deadline into a whirlwind (where we had a record amount of deals in one week), Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation's NBA-Team, are trading all the details, hot takes, and barbs about the 2025 deadline. Is there any justification for a lifelong fan to turn heel on their own franchise the way that Mavericks fan have after Luka Doncic was dealt? Is the luxury tax limit still the biggest boogeyman in the NBA as teams continuously sold for pennies on the dollar? Did a team on pace to win 60 games somehow get BETTER when the Cavs acquired De'Andre Hunter? HOW many teams were involved in that Jimmy Butler trade to Golden State? Riche and Adam also talk about the frustrating Kings, the blow-it-up Bulls, the soft-reset Hawks, De'Aaron Fox to the Spurs, and much more! So suit up and take it out in episode 333 with the NBA-Team!

PTBN's NBA-Team : The Don and the Brow Take Over the Town

Just when you think it's safe to take it easy leading up to the trade deadline, the National Basketball Association pulls out what might be the Trade of the Century (maybe the Trade of All Time?) to give Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation's NBA-Team, are geared up and hyped up to discuss whether or not the L.A. Lakers or Dallas Mavericks leveled up. Luka Doncic is a Laker, but did we find out at the same time that the Don did? Anthony Davis is a Maverick, but is there a chance that Dallas got better and worse at the same time? Did Adam actually give GM LeBron an A+ grade for the first time in his career, or did the Lakers look to the future after LeBron? Will this deal leading to a flurry of equally shocking and weirdly desperate trades by playoff teams? How quickly did this deal REALLY come together? We hit all of the angles, all the potential conspiracy theories, salaries, spilled tea, and more! So suit up, and trade it out... I mean, take it out in episode 332 with the NBA-Team!

NBA-Team: 7x Club

As we all wait for this year's trade dead(dud?)line, Andrew and Adam go discuss a list of players who have been traded 7 times over their careers.

PTBN's NBA-Team: No Country for Old Men

As our great nation swears in its second-oldest President (second only to the previous one), the elder statesmen in our great National Basketball Association are on the struggle bus as we reach the midway point of the regular season, but will they find their mojo before it's too late? Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation's NBA-Team, are here to discuss the regular season woes for a lot of middling playoff (and, in some cases, play-in) teams with bloated contracts and diminishing value with the trade deadline on the horizon. Will we FINALLY get a resolution to the Jimmy Butler situation in Miami? Are the Philadelphia 76ers, despite its nightmarish season, stuck having to not tank it despite the absence (now and maybe longer) of Joel Embiid? Have the NBA done a poor job of marketing MVP candidate Shai Gilgeous-Alexander? Riche and Adam also talk about the California teams, the Suns trying to save their season, the young Rockets and Grizzlies, Cooper Flagg, SNOW DAYS, and more! So suit up and take it out in episode 331 with the NBA-Team!

PTBN's NBA-Team: Level of Compete

New Year, new me, but in the case of the NBA, the new 'me' way meaner, nastier, and more cutthroat than the old 'me.' But with the trade deadline coming up, will things get only more intense, and does the league kinda need it? Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation's NBA-Team, are here to mediate fights, arbitrate some fantasy trades, and contemplate all things 2025. Now that Jimmy Butler has talked his way out of Miami's lineup, how much longer will it be before he is no longer in Miami, and why does Adam believe that Butlers's options very limited? How much blame does De'Aaron Fox deserve for the firing of Mike Brown in Sacramento? (You might be surprised by our answers). Riche and Adam also discuss the Suns' dysfunction, the Lakers dumping D'Angelo Russell, FIGHTS, the Knicks, and more! So suit up and take it out in episode 330 with the NBA-Team!

PTBN's NBA-Team: Stuffing Stockings and the Box Scores

There is more than just creatures stirring in the NBA household as we get ready for the annual Christmas Day slate this Wednesday, and right before the gifts are delivered, Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation's NBA-Team, are sending out their Christmas cards (and in Adam's case for some teams, Grinch-mas coal). All the discourse might involves too many three's and sagging ratings, but why was a low-scoring NBA Cup final between the Bucks and Thunder a strange breath of fresh air? Are the Kings, Heat, and Wolves in a purgatory where they need to make dramatic moves? Why has Riche suddenly become anti-rest? The duo also discuss the Christmas Day broadcast lineup, the overachieving Spurs, Joel Embiid in a mask, and more! So suit up, take it out in episode 329, and Merry Christmas & Happy New Year form the NBA-Team!