House of Strauss: An NBA Podcast
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A podcast about the Golden State Warriors, the NBA, and other things. Featuring The Athletic's Ethan Strauss.
House of Strauss: An NBA Podcast
2d ago
Jason Timpf of Hoops Tonight on the Volume Network seemingly appeared out of nowhere, thriving at the top of NBA media. Of course, like many an “overnight success story,” his rise was many years in the making. This was a great conversation wherein we discussed, among other things…
* How Jason used 2020 era Twitter Spaces as the battering ram to break into media
* Why Jason, as the counterpoint to Spike Eskin, loves JJ Redick
* How Jason’s career was decided by Colin Cowherd’s 5 seconds of judgment
* Reducing a game to a story
* How much should we blame or credit luck and variance in an outcome ..read more
House of Strauss: An NBA Podcast
2d ago
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Prominent foreign policy writer Eli Lake, currently posting at The Free Press, dropped by HoS to talk basketball. I, of course, wanted to discuss Lake’s views on politics, culture and the ever fraught topic of Israel. I’m not sure which of us won the battle for topic allocation, but I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation (and I’ve made the NBA part of it free).
Subjects include, but are not limited to…
* Why Eli is “my least favorite kind of intellectual”
* Eli’s beloved Sixers…getting mighty intriguing?
* How ..read more
House of Strauss: An NBA Podcast
1w ago
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We’ve got Andrew Bogut and Mike “Pro” Procopio of the Rogue Bogues podcast to discuss the eliminated and possibly dead Golden State Warriors dynasty. Obviously we talked about a lot of other subjects with these first grade ballbusters. Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* The Warriors. What should they do?
* Draymond Green as player-podcaster
* Did the Warriors really screw up the James Wiseman pick? Or were there just few good options?
* Jontay Porter getting banned from the NBA for prop bets
* The way as ..read more
House of Strauss: An NBA Podcast
2w ago
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Top flight Audio Man Spike Eskin is here to discuss the newest NBA podcast hits. Spike’s gotten a lot of mileage out of humorously critiquing LeBron and JJ Redick’s “Mind the Game” pod, but perhaps he should be focusing more of his energy on Michael Porter Jr.’s “Curious Mike” product?
Topics discussed:
* Is Spike a hater for laughing at LeBron’s Internet-lauded NBA strategy podcast? What’s wrong with two dudes drinking fancy wine and talking hoops?
* Why did Spike’s “LeBron caught himself in a lie” clip go t ..read more
House of Strauss: An NBA Podcast
2w ago
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com
Boy do we have a loaded topic docket with America’s preeminent sports media critic and New York Post newsbreaker Ryan Glasspiegel. Honestly discussed fraught topics abound.
As Ryan would frame this rundown:
* All things Caitlin Clark (ratings, will it translate to WNBA, the backlash from women's basketball players and the backlash to the backlash)
* Why Norby Williamson's out at ESPN/who he is/what it means
* Dawn Staley/Outkick: What’s with the prestige media anger over the biological male in women’s sports ..read more
House of Strauss: An NBA Podcast
2w ago
Sports announcers and 49ers Youtuber Guy Haberman had vocal cord surgery and now sounds like Patty + Selma. I find his current predicament fascinating. He insists the subject of announcer voice issues isn’t interesting. We start talking 49ers around the 52 minute mark, for people who are into that sort of thing.
Topics include:
* What does a vocal cord surgery do for a broadcaster?
* Which sports announcers qualify for Top 5 “All Pipes” Team
* Do New York announcers have the best accent for the job? Do Midwesterners have the worst?
* Why did the elite duo of Guy + John Middlekauff break up ..read more
House of Strauss: An NBA Podcast
3w ago
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Our friend Amin Elhassan went negatively viral with his jump shot, but it’s only made him stronger.
Many a fraught topic discussed in this one, including whether it’s easier to say things now vs. the recent past. Subjects include but aren’t limited to…
* Amin’s crazy co-workers argued that Michael Jordan lacked charisma
* Amin’s moment as Internet main character, based on a jump shot
* Ben Bolch of the LA Times becomes main character over calling LSU women’s team “Dirty Debutantes,” and something about hot sa ..read more
House of Strauss: An NBA Podcast
1M ago
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In the Elon X era, no article ever goes viral. At least that’s what I used to think. But now, of late, articles in New York Magazine and The Cut have broken through as a sort of rage bait. To assess what’s going on, we’ve called in honest and trenchant culture writer Kat Rosenfield. Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* Pre mourning your old dog
* Getting “serious” with your significant other early
* The Andrew Huberman cover story in NY Mag
* How the Huberman story, while well written, fails to hit its tar ..read more
House of Strauss: An NBA Podcast
1M ago
If you’re an NBA fan you know who Andre Iguodala and Evan Turner are, beyond being recent guests on House of Strauss. In this episode, I used my “stupid questions” approach to ask these current media members about their old jobs. The answers? Well, they were anything but stupid. Enjoy…
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House of Strauss: An NBA Podcast
1M ago
Joe covers sports, business and often how the two intertwine. He’s been all over the sports + gambling topic, most recently with his viral observation on live sports betting integration getting added into NBA League Pass. Basically, Joe discusses all my favorite topics, so of course we had a great conversation. Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* How America and Europe are on opposite timelines with sports betting
* Is the sports betting boom going to harm young peoples’ sports fandom?
* Why you can somewhat easily beat the books (except they won’t allow it)
* Should sports books be forced ..read more