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Saturday Apr 15, 2023
Saturday Apr 15, 2023
Andrew and Adam are back to preview the first round of this years playoffs.
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
The regular season has come to a close, and as teams get ready to fight for their postseason lives in the Play-In Tournament, Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation’s NBA-Team, wrap a bow on the regular season and hand out some hardware.
Is the MVP race between Joel Embiid and Nikola Jokic going to be the closest one since 1990, and will the PER leader NOT win it for the first time ever? Does the Most Improved Player and Clutch Player award need more specific criteria? Did the Magic finally find the superstar they’ve been looking for in eventual Rookie of the Year Paolo Banchero?
Riche and Adam also talk about potential the playoffs, a wide open championship chase, the new CBA, and much more! So suit up and take it out in episode 270 with the NBA-Team!
Friday Mar 31, 2023
Friday Mar 31, 2023
Now that the NCAA tournament is wrapping up and everyone's bracket is trash, Andrew and Adam talk about the (few) NBA prospects who shined in the tournament and start looking forward to the Draft Lottery and ask themselves - do OKC have enough to make a super godfather offer to guarantee the number one pick? Enjoy!
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
This is what we've been saying all along, everything will come down to the last half dozen games, and here we are, end of the season, and everything's going to come down to the final games. So, how are things going to shake out, which MVP candidate (*cough* Luka?) will most likely miss the play-in?
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
The NBA-Team are back for another episode! This week Andrew and Adam react to Kendrick Perkins crazy comments, Ja Morant’s recent brain lapses, New Orleans ungraceful slide out of the playoffs, and check in on the wackiest MIP race in recent memory. Sit back and enjoy Episode #267
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
After a wild trade deadline followed by a long All-Star break layoff, it’s easy to catch some sleep while the highest scoring NBA game took place in L.A. in the late hours. But leave it to Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation’s NBA-Team, to burn the midnight oil and catch the listeners up on all things pro basketball. In this episode of “Will He or Won’t He?, they discuss who will come back first between Kevin Durant, Zion Williamson, and Karl-Anthony Towns (in which Andrew somehow takes both sides at once!) Did the buyout market bring some potential season-changing adjustments? Are the Memphis Grizzlies now the heels of the 2022-23 season? Who is firing up the tank? All this and so much more! So suit up and take it out with the NBA-Team!
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Just when you think you have all the answers… Kevin Durant gets traded. After a quiet stretch leading up to the trade deadline, the Nets blowing up their superstar squad created a one-week NBA cataclysm, and Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation’s NBA-Team, are here to do some damage control and cover every single trade that took place this past week!!!
If the Phoenix Suns don’t win the NBA Championship THIS SEASON, is it fair to call the Durant deal a failure? Will the Lakers’ season now be known for more than just “the one where LeBron became the league’s all-time leading scorer”? Are the Warriors toast now that the West teams just got better? Are the KD-Kyrie-less Nets STILL going to make the playoffs?! All this and a ton more! So suit up and take it out in episode 265 with the NBA-Team!
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
It’s quiet (almost too quiet) in the NBA world as all the teams get ready for the trade deadline and the All-Star break, Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation’s NBA-Team, are back to keep everything nice and tidy. With so many teams in the West close in the standings, which ones will start tanking first? Why does Myles Turner’s new deal make him MORE likely to be traded? Riche and Adam also discuss Patrick Beverley’s antics, the reeling Pelicans, LeBron inching towards the all-time scoring record, and more! So suit up and take it out in episode 264 with the NBA-Team!
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
We are at the midway point of the 2022-23 NBA regular season, but Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation’s NBA-Team, are already in midseason form! In this episode, things seem to be mellow, but why are some teams like the Suns, Bulls and Hawks seem to be ready to push their own panic buttons? Riche and Adam also talk about the Lakers being in midseason purgatory, the Knicks picking up steam thanks to Jalen Brunson’s hot streak, Victor Wembenyama sitting court side to watch the Bulls and Pistons in Paris, and much more! So suit up and take it out in episode 263 with the NBA-Team!
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
It might be hard to close out the year 2022 the way Luka Doncic did, but Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation’s NBA-Team, will do the podcast version of closing out the year and ringing in the new one. Was Aaron Gordon’s wild dunk on Landry Shamet in overtime the Dunk of the Season so far? Where the panic meter on the Hawks, Bulls, and Timberwolves? When will the Nets lose again? Riche and Adam also talk about expansion cities, historic marks by superstars, and the real “R.O.I.” (Return On Investment) now that the Suns were sold for $4 billion. So suit up and take it out in episode 262 with the NBA-Team!
Saturday Dec 24, 2022
Saturday Dec 24, 2022
It’s NOT the series finale of the show. Heck, it’s not even the SEASON finale of the show. But it IS the final episode of 2022 for Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation’s NBA-Team, and they are ready to take on the tough questions. How did the Orlando Magic become the hottest team in the league not named the Memphis Grizzlies? Which Eastern Conference team is in trouble between Washington, Chicago, and Toronto? Will all the California teams make the postseason and if not, is it possible the Steph-less defending champion Warriors will be on the outside looking in? Riche and Adam also discuss the horrible award names, rubbing it in during big wins, the holiday tradition that is the Anthony Davis injury, and much more! So suit up and take it out in episode 261 with the NBA-Team!
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
The more things change, the more they stay the same… until it changes again. The NBA, as we enter the month of December, still has had its share of surprise teams, but Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, PTBN’s NBA-Team, are back to discuss the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns (two top teams last season) settling back at one. Can anyone slow down the Celtics’ record-setting offense? Are the pretenders finally creeping their uglier sides in Utah and Oklahoma City? Is Zion FINALLY dominating games? Is Adam sick of doubleheaders in the league? Why did Jerami Grant 28 free throws in one game? All this and a ton more! So suit up and take it out in Episode 260 with the NBA-Team!
Friday Nov 25, 2022
Friday Nov 25, 2022
Adam Murray is back from overseas scouting international talent (at least that’s what he TOLD co-host Andrew Riche) and he has some catching up to do in the NBA circles. In this episode, Riche and Adam discuss the not-so-exclusive 30 PPG Club, how two former teammates (De’Aaron Fox and Tyrese Haliburton) are the toast of their own towns in Sacramento and Indiana, and the Warriors’ continuous struggles. Oh, and Joel Embiid had a good game against Utah, if you haven’t heard. So suit up and take it out in Episode 259 with the NBA-Team!
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Adam is back on vacation (again....), so while he is overseas, Andrew and Adam go around the world and talk about some of the greatest international players from around the world. . . and oh yeah, the World Cup is starting next week, so listen as Andrew puts together his best November Madness bracket by...colors..or mascots...or whatever logic he has. Cheers.
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
The NBA regular season is off to a tumultuous start on and off the court, so Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation’s NBA-Team, are here to do some damage control and go around the horn. Are the Nets post-Kyrie or the Lakers with Russ on the bench in defcon 5 mode yet or do we need to not press the panic button? Is it already down to Luka versus Giannis in the 2023 MVP race before Thanksgiving?! And whose windows of title opportunities seem to be closing sooner than many expected? So take it out in episode 257 with the NBA-Team!