Tag: 2024-24 nba season

Who should start for the Brooklyn Nets to start the 2024-25 NBA season?

Could players like Noah Clowney and Day’ron Sharpe actually end up in a starting role?

Who should start for the Brooklyn Nets to start the 2024-25 NBA season? Such a question would normally be pretty easy to answer for fans of the ball club, given the presence of seasoned vets like Dennis Schroder, Cam Johnson, Dorian Finney-Smith, and Nic Claxton.

But there is a fairly good chance that one or more of them will be dealt away for draft assets and younger players before opening night now that the free agency log jams have mostly ended. Could players like Noah Clowney and Day’ron Sharpe actually end up in a starting role come the league’s opening night for the Nets?

It presents quite an interesting thought experiment for fans of the team to work through. And that is what the hosts of the “Nets Kingdom” explored on a recent episode of their show. Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say about who they think will star for Brooklyn.

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Can Dennis Schroder be the veteran leader in the Brooklyn Nets tank season?

Does the roster need a veteran player like Schroder to instill professionalism into the team’s young players?

Can Dennis Schroder be the veteran leader in the Brooklyn Nets tank season? The Brooklyn Nets have picked their path forward into the future, strip-mining the roster for future assets and young talent as the ball club commits to a full rebuild.

And with that full rebuild comes a whole lot of questions about the identity and hierarchy of the team moving forward. Will the team identity matter, given few if any players on the roster now might be on the team when it is over? Or does the roster need a veteran player like Schroder to instill professionalism into the team’s young players, regardless of where they will be playing in a few seasons?

The hosts of the “Locked On Nets” podcast took some time on a recent episode of their show to talk over this very question. Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say about the role of Schroder and the identity of the team at the start of a major rebuild.

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Chicago Bulls announce new network partner for the 2024-25 NBA season

Fans of the Chicago Bulls, Chicago Blackhawks, and Chicago White Sox will soon have themselves a new way to take in games.

Fans of the Chicago Bulls, Chicago Blackhawks, and Chicago White Sox will soon have themselves a new way to take in games from these two local ball clubs in the NBA, NHL, and MLB, respectively. A new broadcast network for the city of Chicago’s local rooting interests across multiple leagues, aptly called the “Chicago Sports Network,” is planning to launch in October of 2024.

How will this impact fans wanting to watch their favorite team? Will it impact league pass offerings at all for Bulls fans on the NBA side of things? And how do we watch this new network anyhow — on cable, broadcast TV, or streaming?

To get to the bottom of this intriguing development in the Chicago sports landscape, the hosts of the “Locked On Bulls” podcast, Haize and Pat the Designer, took some time on a recent episode to talk over the potential impact of the “Chicago Sports Network.”

Take a look at the clip embedded above to hear what they had to say about it.

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Are we buying Lonzo Ball being back on the court with the Chicago Bulls at the start of the NBA regular season?

Do we believe that this time he is really going to get back in the court and stay there?

How much are we buying Lonzo Ball‘s claim he’ll be back on the court with the Chicago Bulls at the start of the NBA’s 2024-25 regular season? Ball has missed the majority of the last two and a half seasons with a complex and nagging knee injury, but reportedly is getting close to full health after an especially lengthy recovery.

Do we believe that this time he is really going to get back in the court and stay there? So much time has passed that even if he does make a successful comeback with Chicago, he has aged so much that he may no longer fit the plans of the organization.

The hosts of the “CHGO Bulls” podcast took a long and hard look at a potential Ball return, its plausibility given recent history, and what it might mean for the team moving forward.

Take a look at the clip embedded above to hear what they had to say.

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Chicago’s Lonzo Ball claims he’ll play the first game of the 2024-25 NBA season with the Bulls

Is this a bit ambitious for a player who has had so many setbacks in his injury recovery to date?

Veteran Chicago Bulls floor general Lonzo Ball has already missed the last two and a half NBA seasons due to a knee injury that seems like it will never get better. But in recent months, the Bulls guard has evidently been making progress towards an NBA return.

In fact, Ball has even gone as far as to claim that he will be back on the court with Chicago when the Bulls begin their 2024-25 campaign at the start of the next regular season. Is this a bit ambitious for a player who has had so many setbacks in his injury recovery to date?

The hosts of the “Locked On Bulls” podcast, Haize and Pat the Designer, are rightfully a bit skeptical of such a bold pronouncement when they got into Ball’s claim on a recent episode of their show.

Take a look at the clip embedded above to hear what they had to say about a potential Ball return to the Bulls next season.

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Will Victor Wembanyama be even better with the San Antonio Spurs next season?

He challenges our understanding of how player development should work, even before he is done with his inaugural season in the NBA.

While pretty much everyone expected San Antonio Spurs rookie forward phenom Victor Wembanyama to be good in his first season in the NBA. But very few people were expecting his growth at this level to go from gangly rookie coping with the level of defense found in that league to a legit Defensive Player of the Year candidate.

But that is the allure of Wemby — he is like no player we have ever seen before, and challenges our understanding of how player development should work even before he is done with his inaugural season in the Association. Could Wembanyama be even better next season, given development arcs are rarely linear?

Or can we expect a little regression given how fast he’s come along?

To talk it over, the hosts of KABB FOX San Antonio’s “Sneakers and Cleats” podcast took some time on a recent episode. Check it out for yourself in the clip embedded above!

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