Basketball Illuminati
Tired of agenda-driven basketball talk that only offers glimpses of the truth? Wish there was a place you could get the full picture? Basketball Illuminati offers you salvation. Go behind the scenes with exclusive analysis previously restricted from the general public. Fearless NBA Insiders Amin Elhassan and Tom Haberstroh peel back the curtain on why things happen in the NBA.
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September to Remember
The Illuminati look back at the greatest September trades in history, including an NBA Finals loser bringing in a star that propelled them to a title.
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NBAARP
The league's competition committee is incorporating a new fine system to govern star player rest, however there are a plethora of exceptions, which we are calling the NBA Acceptable Rest Protocol.
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Screwy Lewis in the News
Back at the end of May, we brought on a Truth Teller that connected the dots on Referee Eric Lewis' burner account. Lo and behold, three months later, he retired and vanished into the wind. What happened?
48 min
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World Champions
Sprinter Noah Lyles incites the wrath of the NBA comments section, Rondae Hollis Jefferson is the Kobe of Jordan, and Rudy Gobert takes accountability for France being eliminated from the FIBA World Cup.
45 min
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The New York Dicks
The James Harden saga continues with a healthy hundred thousand dollar fine from the association, but DA Amin Elhassan takes the case to defend him in Illuminati Court.
44 min
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Knights of the Triangular Table
James Harden broke the code on his dissatisfaction with the 76ers by calling Daryl Morey a liar, so we decode what Daryl was lying about and where this situation is headed.
46 min
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Mid Level Bread
Kevin Garnett is wondering where the all the mid level bread is located, so we head to the Illuminati bakery to prove that there's a lot more out there than you might think.
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Leveraging Value
Admiral of the IllumiNavy and Economics Professor Scott Kaplan joins the show to discuss his paper discussing 'The Distributional Impact of Maximum- and Minimum-Level Contracts on Player Compensation'
58 min
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Robin Ficker's Therapy Couch
In the doldrums of the summer, we turn back the clock in an interview with the legendary heckler Robin Ficker, although he objects to that term.
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Height Fraud
Victor Wembenyama is deflating his height from 7'5" to 7'3", and he's not the only athlete to do so. You won't want to Skip this segment.
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Small Sample Size Theater
Tom contextualizes Victor Wembenyama's Summer League performance by doing his own research on other star debuts.
49 min
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Source Loyalty Program
Does your favorite news breaker have a rewards program depending on how many miles their sources accrue? We break down all the loyalty tiers.
55 min
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Draft Gradeys
Jake Fischer of Yahoo Sports returns as Truth Teller to give us the inside track on the upcoming free agent frenzy, teams afraid of the second apron and Dame scenarios.
58 min
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Scooting Drills
Brandon Payne of Accelerate Basketball returns to the program to give us the scoop on Scoot Henderson's training and workout with Steph Curry before this year's draft.
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Nikola Jok-Ish
Denver has climbed to the mountaintop due to Nikola Jokic' workmanlike effort, as the Heat sink back to sea level and a summer of Damian Lillard rumors.
57 min
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Untrained Eyes
Amin continues to search for the mythical Jokic brothers and the Illumination Loves the adjustments the Heat have made so far in this series.
47 min
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What About Bob?
The Finals are here, the Heat made history that the Celtics fell just short of, and there's a mysterious blackout at the new LeBatard Show HQ. Is it all connected?
68 min
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The French Connection
A script for this year's NBA playoffs got leaked onto the internet... Or was that all simply part of the script?
49 min
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Harden the Interruption
Tim 'Banned' MacMahon joins the program with his signature theme song to discuss Ja Morant's habitual line stepping in our Truth Tellers segment.
58 min
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Steward Little
Mat Ishbia, the steward of the community asset that is the Phoenix Suns, found himself in a controversial spotlight after an encounter with Nikola Jokic on Sunday.
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Kitchen Sink Trades
We explore the history of trading everything but the kitchen sink for a star player and determine who is responsible for this trendy trade technique.
48 min
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Knicks - Heat VI
This year's first round of the playoffs has provided us with a litany of surprising series, and the Illuminarmy Generals reveal which is the rarest of them all.
55 min
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Statistical Noise
Tom finally gets back to doing what he does best: his own research! And he brings in wonderful statistician Sam Cook to sift through the randomness.
49 min
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Everybody Hates Rudy
MVP Tracker Max Croes joins the program to explain how he scours the media for data to connect the dots on who people are voting for in the major NBA Awards categories.
52 min
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Unintended Consequences
Truth Teller Keith Smith of Spotrac joins the program to help us parse the new Collective Bargaining Agreement details that have been announced and identify the unintended consequences of the major changes to the league.
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