• Episode 43 – The Best NBA Nickname

    Greetings, fellow earthlings, and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. In today’s episode, we’re back in Bracket Season. That means a new episode every week! This week, the brothers are joined by guest Michael Ruiz to decide the best nickname…

  • Episode 42 – The Best McDonald’s All-American Team Ever

    Greetings, fellow earthlings, and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. In today’s episode, we’re heading into Bracket Season for the second year in a row. That means a new episode every week! This time, we’re deciding the best McDonald’s All-American…

  • Episode 41 – Oscar Schmidt

    Greetings, fellow earthlings, and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. In today’s episode, we’re looking at the second-greatest scorer in basketball history, Oscar Schmidt. The talented Brazilian doesn’t get nearly enough credit among NBA fans, but his story is the…

  • Episode 40 – Aleksandar Nikolic, The Father of Serbian Basketball

    Greetings, fellow earthlings, and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. In today’s episode, we’re leaving the world of true crime and looking at the story of Aleksandar Nikolic, the guy who turned Yugoslavia (and by extension Serbia) into a basketball…