Not Your Weekly Sports Pod

This week we are joined by Mid Week Athletes founder Evan V to discuss a topic close to his heart - Mamba. We go down memory lane to try to come to a consensus of where Kobe Bryant stacks up against LeBron James. Stay tuned for some entertaining team up hypotheticals, projecting their games to the 80s/90s, and their own all time rankings among the Greats of the game.

We answer the question everyone has been asking: how likely is the combination of Jalen Green & Alperen Sengun to succeed in Houston? We dive deep into the circumstances around Jalen's recent ascent, as well as how we think Rockets front office views Sengun as a building block. We also ask a dozen questions relating to 2025 to Rockets GM Raphael Stone's AI counterpart.

Want to know more about the Lisan-Al-Gaib? The archetype of the white savior got you tired? Zendaya a little too broodish here? Speaking of which, Zendaya and Timotee, or Zendaya and Holland? All of the unanswerable questions and more get unpacked with our rewatchables series, covering the best movie since COVID, Dennis V's imagining of the second half of Frank Herbert's first Dune novel.

The boys are joined by a recurrent legendary guest who is on a mission to educate the simpletons. Houston Texas, congratulations! You are the host of a grade A NFL organization. Let's break down EVERYTHING that led to the state of Houston Texans football.

We give Houstonians what they want: an in depth analysis of the breakout season Alperen Sengun is having with the upstart Rockets. We discuss the future of the team, the Jalen Green dilemna, and what's next for Stone and this young core.

Bonus minutes for Houston Astros offseason talks.

The time has come. The boys return before wrapping 2023 up with perhaps the greatest cinematic phenomenon since the COVID lockdown, Greta Gerwig's Barbie.

Enjoy as we unpack all there is in Barbie world, from Greta Gerwig's influence on the film, Margot Robbie/Gosling's masterful renditions of Mattell's titular Barbie & Ken, and our world famous awards that we'll give out to the stars who made this movie the Barbillion dollar phenom it became.

The boys get down and dirty for a deep dive on OTE, the professional basketball league that produced the Thompson Twins and just signed the number one prospect of 2024, Nasir Thompson. We get into the cultural, financial, and basketball significance of the league, as well as their prospects for remaining relevant.

The second half of the episode is all out Houston Rockets talk!

Are you tired of your team's narrative being that of the worst team in basketball for the last three years? Join the boys as they run through the most optimistic fan's outlook for your 2024 Houston Rockets play-in team.

100 episodes! From COVID 2020, the boys have worked at the bare minimum pace to continue to bring you premium content with last minute research. This time, we slap ourselves for waiting 100 episodes to do a Christopher Nolan movie rewatchables. Enjoy the greatness that the Kobe & Shaq-like pairing of McConaughey & Christopher Nolan.

We take a break from the weekly sports takes to bring you a eulogy of a legend in television culture- L to the OG. The legendary Shakespearian Brian Cox has done much to cement Succession's Logan Roy as one of the greatest characters we love to hate on television. The antagonist/protagonist/anti-hero/Fox News CEO portrayal that is Logan Roy has come to represent the best of HBO's Succession: characters that have absolutely no business preaching piety or any kind of moral compass, but characters that we love and relate to nonetheless. Listen to the boys of Not Your Weekly Sports Pod, as we break down everything that was Logan Roy, and where Succession will ultimately land in the pantheon of all-time HBO Sunday shows.

The boys take you on a journey as they preview every single NBA playoff team trying to make a name for themselves in the WIDE OPEN 2023 Playoff brackets out East & West! We go through first round matchups, projections for the deeper rounds, and briefly bring up a few non playoff teams (Namely YOUR Houston Rockets). Enjoy our nostradamus predictions once again.

The first season of the most watched TV show of 2022 gets a Rewatchables segment dedicated to it. Join the boys as we discuss the impact this series had on reviving the world of Westeros, and washing the bad taste of Game of Thrones out of our collective viewing mouthes.

You've heard us chronicle the absurd talent boom in the NBA, the repercussions for the viewing product, and what it means for the future of the game. Listen in to this week's take on the inevitability of NBA Expansion to accommodate this surplus of talent; we give you the obvious takers, and some interesting picks you won't see coming.

Your favorite NBA analysts have probably covered the absurd scoring outputs we have seen in the 2022-2023 season, but have you heard a couple thirty year olds give a controversial take on why this might be good/bad for the product that is basketball? We go through the historic context of what brought us here, and what to expect from the NBA and its stars going forward. 

The second half of this episode is dedicated towards unveiling our second annual FAKE midseason awards. These awards include the Russell Westbrook Award, the Eric Gordon Always Bitchin Award, the Tyler Herro I Told You So Award, and so so much more. Enjoy!

The year is 1999, and the box office is healthy. Go back and redraft the best movies in one of the best years for cinema. Your favorite movie might be on here.

Everyone is well aware of basketball's incredible growth and international spotlight that has really accelerated over the last decade, but will the sport ever reach the grand scale that FIFA has every four years? The boys discuss the circumstances that would have to prevail for this to become a reality... and what a fun reality it would be. Enjoy hoops fans!

Two hours of basketball jam packed into one of our most enjoyable episodes to record. Take a lesson from 3 men who know how to debate, as they tackle the polarizing James Harden and mesmerizing Luka Doncic debate. The second half of the episode is a deep dive into discussing who the top ten guys in the league are RIGHT NOW. Much disagreement was had... but civility was maintained.. kind of.  

The boys each go through ten of their favorite players from NBA History that would dominate the modern 2023 brand of basketball played in the NBA today. To spice things up, we each go with 5 superstars, as well as 5 non-superstar players and how they stack up in today's game. We conclude the episode by going through the top ten players in the NBA today, and how they'd look in the 90's. ENJOY!

The 2022 Houston Astros prove to the MLB that once again the road to the World Series goes through H-Town. Dive in with the boys as we break down the significance of this historic team's 4th pennant, matchups to look forward to in their matchup vs the Phillies, some what ifs during this dominant run, and other goodies as two die hard Houstonians feed you Astros content!

Remember when big studios would invest heavy dollar signs into true action adventure movies (Thanks Marvel)? Take a step back in the time machine to the 90s, where Universal studios pumped $80 million into a movie that Roger Ebert said wasn't a cinematic spectacle at any level, but simply a fun ride. Hop in and enjoy this retrospective look back at Brendan Fraser's 1999 The Mummy!

In anticipation of Netflix's Redeem Team Documentary produced by LeBron James & Dwayne Wade, the boys sit down and do a deep dive retrospective on the road that led Team USA Basketball to the Beijing Olympics. This one gets heated, as many remember their history differently. 

Is it safe to say that this year's 2022 EuroBasket has been some of the most entertaining offseason basketball we've seen since the 2011 NBA Lockout Drew League? NBA Allstars, former MVPs, and rotation guys have been duking it out under the banner of national pride to preview what seems to be an end to American dominance in the international scene. Listen to what your boys have to say about the state of basketball internationally, and how this summer may serve as a watershed moment for the end of US supremacy in the basketball realm. 

The return to Westeros has brought with it a purpose in life for all of us flea bottom peasants once again. This week, we continue our sports drought with a deep dive into one of televisions toughest tasks: keeping an audience interested after a pilot episode. 

HBO's House of the Dragon not only manages to do that, but also manages to grows its audience size, add depth to all of the introduced lords & ladies, and to put it simply: HYPE US UP. 

Dive in with us as we break down episode two of what we proclaimed in the Spring as the anticipated best TV show of 2022. #TeamDaemon

Finally, the peasants have returned to Westeros. We do a deep dive on one of the most anticipated TV releases in the golden age of decadence, The House of the Dragon. We give our initial impressions, positives/negatives, character breakdowns, and comparisons to the original Game of Thrones series that captivated the world (until that debacle ending). So much Valyrian decadence to cover here. 

The boys do a Deadpool Rewatchables Old school style! Deep dive on the merc with the mouth.

The annual tradition is back. The boys drop our projected top ten NBA guys under the age of 21 for the 2022-2023 NBA Season! Rookies drafted this year are not eligible. See where your top prospect landed on our list now!

No, we're not talking about Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. This episode is dedicated to one of the ten greatest action movies of the 1990's, Michael Bay's The Rock. Starring Sean Connery & Prime Nicholas Cage, this throwback gives homage to all of the classic 90s action tropes, while maintaining its charm to this day, thanks to the legendary production crew and the timeless one himself - Sir Sean Connery. This episode is a MUST-LISTEN if you loved the movie!

The boys sit down to draft the 15 best NBA Finals Team losers of the century. Do you think any of the last 4 NBA Finals losers made any of our top 5's?

You asked, so it is here. Rewatchables inspired category/award style of recapping what Nabil and I think is the greatest Hollywood action movie since Terminator 2: Judgement Day. This one got spicy, in a weird Tom Cruise kinda way...

What in God's name is going on with the greatest offseason period in all sports - NBA Free Agency? Listen for everything you need regarding the hot start on this week's episode.

We're baaaaackkkkkkk. 

The title says it all, the boys and guest host Nigel answer ten burning questions following the 2022 Warriors Championship. 

Topics include, Steph's ranking among all time greats, winners/losers of the draft, favorites for the 2023 season, etc etc. Hoops heads will want to tune in. 

The 2022 NBA Conference Finals has featured some real highs and lows, including an uptick in blowouts. Join the boys as we recap all four Conference Finalists' runs thus far, plus what the future may have in store for each of them. We also feature a segment on the most underachieving player in NBA History... Can you guess who it is?

The boys dive into our first sports movie rewatch episode - 90s Adam Sandler Classic, Happy Gilmore. We explore what makes Adam Sandler movies so endearing to the culture, and how his prime from 96-00 stacks up with the best comedians. Of course, we go through all of our classic categories inspired by The Rewatchables. 

Join the boys as we unpack the first round of the 2022 NBA Playoffs. We preview all round 2 matchups in order from West to East. Suns-Mavs, Warriors-Grizzlies. Heat-Sixers. Bucks-Celtics. 

Early premier showing to our 2022 NBA Top 6 Draft Prospects. You may be surprised by the ranking profile here, but rest assured you have NBA fans whose teams are consistently in the lottery, and are thus knowledgeable on these things. Enjoy. 

Dennis Villaneuve is quickly climbing the ranks of Hollywood as one of its most esteemed directors. Here the boys do a deep dive analysis of one of his best works, 2016's Arrival, which was carried on the back of a beautiful performance by Amy Adams. Nabil the Real Deal has this in his top 5 Sci Fi movies of all time, while Vala has Dennis V as his favorite director in cinema right now. 

Listen through our discussion on the impact that this movie has had on how we consume media, as well as our various categories like Most Rewatchable Scene, Can you Fit a Rock in it, and so much more.

With the OFFICIAL departure of our biggest figures on the Houston Rockets, Houston Astros, and Houston Texans... the boys ask, have Houston Sports entered our dark ages here in 2022?

Get ready to go on an educational journey with three sports bros whose expertise ranges from healthcare, to cyber security and small business. 

The title says it all. Two Houston fanatics who have followed Harden since demanding his way out of Houston (and now Brooklyn) discuss what to expect with the duo that is making headlines. We ask you guys a few questions that we take an hour to answer... 

Fact/Fiction- Best guard/center duo since Kobe/Shaq?

Is this the best team in the East?

Harden & Embiid's place in the tier of NBA Stars.

How is the timing of this trade with respect to where these stars are in their careers?

Going forward, what's this team's window?

Join Not Your Weekly Sports Pod as we unveil our first ever midseason made-up, fake NBA Awards Ceremony! Awards include the Russell Westbrook Award, The Rasheed Wallace Award, The Eric Gordon Legacy Face Award, and so so much more!

Two Millenial Rockets die hard fans discuss the legacy of Tracy McGrady, aka TMAC, as it relates to their introduction to basketball in the late 90's. Consider yourself a Rockets/McGrady fan? Let's see if you can answer this week's trivia in the opening of the episode, and follow along for one of the more in depth episodes about an NBA Hall of Famer.

We are joined by Saif Basaria of the Water Boy and Equipment Manager Podcast to discuss the 5 greatest two guards ever (excluding current NBA Player James Harden) in a hypothetical world where they are drafted by a modern NBA Team. The title says it all, but this one gets spicy real quick as the boys try to figure out the perfect home for some of our favorite hall of famers ever.

Catch Saif on his podcast every Friday on a streaming platform from your phone, tablet, computer, etc. 

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I like the way you die boy.

Join us as we explore one of the daring classics on Quentin Tarantino's Mt Rushmore off all-time greats, Django Unchained, his most commercial success. 

There is too much to unpackage in the descriptions here... whats the most rewatchable scene, how would we recast this movie today, where do Candy and Steven rank in Tarantino's Mt Rushmore of movie villains? Tune in to this week's rewatch feature to find out.

The Western Conference landscape has seen a changing of the guard over the last decade. Not Your Weekly Sports Pod discusses this new class of elite teams that we expect to dominate the top of the standing for years to come. 

We revisit a topic we touched on in our very first ever episode from over one year ago! How has the debate on young athletes going to the NCAA vs entering the pros straight out of highschool changed in the last year and a half? Is the NBA G League currently a viable alternative/will it ever be? This one gets spicy boys... 

First and foremost, happy holidays to all of our Houston Rockets fans! From the US West Coast, to the country of Turkey, you guys are everywhere! A lifelong diehard Rockets fan, along with a lifelong Warriors fan/Rockets Hater review the season thus far! This is your comprehensive 1/3 season review and outlook for YOUR Houston Rockets. Christian Wood trade destinations and putting a contender over the edge, doing right by Eric Gordon, the John Wall conundrum, the teenage crew of rookies... it's all here. Stay till the end for made up NBA Awards for the entire league so that you can get a taste of a few other teams in the league. 

Everyone has heard by now that Kyrie Irving has returned to the BKN Nets as a "part-time allstar" who will only be able to participate in limited away games due to his refusal to vaccinate. Hear Not Your Weekly Sports Talk go through what this means for the Nets, and how Kyrie ultimately is a winner in this drawn out saga. 

Even more importantly, COVID's Omicron Variant has ravaged the NBA with 80+ players going into the Health & Safety Protocols, games being postponed, and fans turning to anxiety in response to uncertainty with regards to the immediate future of the NBA. What's going to happen? What are alternatives/solutions? We've got them for you in this episode, with so much more... 

The title says it all. Is this 2004 genre building masterpiece sequel by Sam Raimi the best Spidey we've ever seen? Is it in the Mount Rushmore of superhero movies? Does it boast the best score for a superhero movie? Many more questions and answers are paired with our fan favorite categories for this timeless rewatch. 

The boys sit down to discuss the cross section between sports, culture, and human psychology that has allowed the NFL to reign supreme with regards to TV Ratings. This one gets too deep for the description to cover.