Basketball Stories

In 2003, the Baylor University men’s basketball team suffered a tragic loss when Patrick Dennehy was murdered by his teammate and best friend Carlton Dotson. Days before the murder Patrick and Carlton both bought guns, fearing for their lives. How did only one of them end up dead?

James Worthy got three rings and at least two escorts while he was in the nba. In 1990, "Big Game James" was arrested at 2pm on two counts of solicitation of prostitution and was jailed. He missed the first quarter of his game against the Rockets that night but came back in the second because he is an absolute legend.

in 2000, Boston Celtics legend Paul Pierce was stabbed eleven times in the "Bazz Club" in Boston. Pierce still played in all 82 games with the Celtics for the 2000-01 season, but his life was changed forever (because he got stabbed a bunch).

Chris Gatling was an NBA all star in the 1990s but he's spent most of the 2000s in and out of jail running some of the world's worst cons.

You are as young as you feel. No one is a bigger believer of that old adage than Jonathan Nicola who posed as a high schooler to live out his hoop dreams. The only problem was Nicola was 29 years old.

Nobody likes their job, even if it’s a good job like being a Chief Executive for an NBA franchise. So why not embezzle $13.4 million from that NBA team. We go in on Jeff David ribbing the Kings blind and briefly make fun of Scottie Pippen again.

Decades ago Scottie turned down a young fan's request for an autograph. That seemingly unimportant event would alter Scotties life more than he could imagine. The young fan he turned down grew up to be hyper petty rapper Future. And Future found a fan in Scottie's wife.

Bison Dele went from being a near NBA bust to a contributor on a historically great team to a top paid player for a franchise. That alone would make Bison walking away from the NBA worth examining. The disappearance and possible murder of Bison Dele is one of the strangest occurrences in NBA history. P.S. this ep has a Madonna sighting.

The draft lottery just happened and we talk about lotteries from the past and what this one will mean. Here is to hoping the NBA will call a press conference and do this year's lottery over.

‘Tis the season, so we have time to cover about 1% of the NBA weed incidents. We’ll get the rest next year.

He had a dramatic impact on music and his community and that earned him the respect of some of the biggest names in the NBA. We remember Nipsey Hussle.

The supposedly random occurrences that shape the outcome of basketball games might not be so random. Some of the biggest names in the league like Zion and Lebron put their faith in the higher power of the Basketball Gods.

He isn't the first rapper to claim to be a ball player but he got further than most. Romeo made it all the way to a major Division 1 college basketball scholarship. The only downside was that he didn't really make the team.

We are rolling out the red carpet for a special cinema based episode. If you have ever wondered where the best of the NBA are making cameos on the silver screen, we got you.

During his stint with the Utah Jazz, Carlos Boozer got the opportunity to rent his house to an anonymous tenant. That tenant ended up being none other than PRINCE. Boozer's house got Purple Rained on to the point it was unrecognizable.

In 1997, Biggie Smalls released the song “I’ve got a Story to Tell” where he claims to have had sex with a Knicks player's girlfriend but when the Knicks player comes home early from a game, he pretends the whole thing is a robbery to cover up the affair. The story has been confirmed by former Knicks players but who was it?

In game 5 of the NBA final Michael Jordan was under the weather and put up an all time performance. But was he sick, poisoned, hungover, or just trying to psyche out the Utah Jazz.

From 2000-2003 the Portland Trail Blazers had one of the most talented and conflicted rosters in the NBA. If there was an NBA rule to break, they broke it. Sure there were the basics like marijuana arrests, but they also had a fight between two 7 foot 4 practice squad players that included threats of a law suit.

Some news in the NBA is too pressing and relevant not to discuss immediately. Like when some guy on Reddit points out the Menendez Brothers are in the background of a Marc Jackson Knicks card. The brothers went to one of the most star-studded arenas in the world in between committing murder and being arrested for that murder.

For a long time it felt like Steph was doomed to be a basketball sob story, but he reinvented himself in China. The only other player in that country who is in his stratosphere as a hoops legend is Yao Ming. Name one other athlete who bounced back from eating Vasoline on cam to become a sports folk hero in another country. You can't.