Whether it’s Big Mama’s #MindTheSundayTruce gospel, Draymond Green and Kendrick Perkins debating the gospel or Yours Truly spittin’ that “Hostile” Hoops Gospel each and every week, we are exhibiting our Love Language by the act of serving you the best of the News, Views and Truths on the NBA and beyond!Wall St. gives each amounts of flower and darts to Eddie LeVert, Theodore Pendergrass, the greatest rock and roll song ever, The Ghost of Scott Foster, Christopher George Latore Wallace, a...

Genesis.Alpha.The Beginning.Origin Stories, especially compelling ones, can inspire to aspire.On this week’s episode, we call on a very special guest to run the floor and complete the hoops talk possession with us.We read his scouting report… It has but three words:He.Will.FINISH!The chat on All Things Basketball begins with no Brittney Griner, but she is in our hearts and minds as the 2022 WNBA season begins sadly without her, a distinct air of excitement as an all-time great mulls...

As Mother’s Day and the start of the WNBA’s 26th campaign are on the horizon, we get all into our feelings and truly honor the genesis of our being: Women.Aiding in homage and sincere navigation of these things and more is Nashville’s very own Mike Patton, creator and host of Touring The AFC South (yep… a football dude and rock solid citizen all around), who details his journey in sports, journalism, broadcasting and Life as guided and inspired by the women in  it.Mike and Wall $t. trade bars...

In nineteen hundred and ninety-four, the world was blessed (or cursed, depending upon with who you speak) with a technology that would change the course of mankind… for better or for worse.We’re still sorting out the official particulars there.Chuck Creekmur, the CE0,000,000 of AllHipHop.com and Delaware native steps in the square to talk about establishing a unique voices in the cacophony of these rough, interweb streets, and the Philadelphia 76ers as they eye the Eastern Conference...

The late great Kobe Bean Bryant (Bless The Dead) was once told that there was no ‘I” in “Team”, to which he responded:“Yeah… ain’t no I in Team… But there is “Me” in that m**********r!”And despite the 5-time NBA Champion’s sentiment above, we call on squad as Affect The Culture’s Darius Robinson enters the centre and brings the energy as we talk about his life’s mission, the importance of beatboxing in high school boys bathroom rap battles, proper biscuit construction, basketball roadtrips...

We have reached the end of the 75th NBA regular season, the Diamond season as they call it, where they celebrated the past, present and future of the NBA all season long. The NBA Playoffs begin this weekend and with that comes award season. Will Strickland of "The Open Run with Will Strickland and Ryan Henry of "Below The Hardwood" sat down to hand out the 1st Annual #DoWork Awards as well as the NBA's regular season awards such as MVP, COY, DPOY and more in this special crossover edition of...

The 2022 NBA Playoffs begin Saturday April 16th, so get prepared with a special crossover episode of The Open Run with Will Strickland and Below The Hardwood featuring Will Strickland and Ryan Henry.The gentlemen preview, breakdown and predict the first round of both the East and West NBA playoffs and review the Play In Tournament games thus far You can find Ryan Henry on NBA Podcast Below The Hardwood as well as;Twitter: @RAHenry Instagram: @RAHenry Find Will On These Rough...

“Hark! Who Goes Yonder?”“T’is I, The 2022 NBA Playoffs, Fans!” Yes, the second season is nigh and eventually we will have hardware to dole out for a most unique season in The Association to individual players, coaches, executives and teams alike!.We stay fashionably in step during the proceedings with the help of Kendra Charisse Porter, an award winning image consultant, body expert and stylist.The Original KCP and Wall $t go back like fat crayons and car seats… all the way back to the...

The calendar changes, but don’t be fooled!April brings the end of the NBA regular season, the start of the playoffs and March Madness Finals Four.Though we quit school due to recess because we don’t play, the Kansas Jayhawks, South Carolina Gamecocks, Connecticut Huskies and North Carolina Tarheels do. A man of many hoops hats, Canadian Elite Basketball League’s Vice President and General Manager Of The Ottawa Blackjacks Jevohn Shephard, enters the centre to help Wall $t. sort out all of this...

Learning to say you’re sorry for people you’ve wronged is one thing…Meaning it is a whole ‘nother thing.To one degree or another, we are all still works in progress.There is no shame in admission.With March Madness Finals Four set, the last two weeks of the NBA’s regular season before us and just a month or so out from the launch of the WNBA’s 26th season, we close out #InternationalWomensEryday strong!And because Basketball Never Stops, to help Wall St. navigate these rough interweb streets,...

Opportunity presents us all with options.Our decisions affect everything we do… and don’t do.Alas, here, ambivalence shan’t be suffered.So, with that in mind and in the words of that Immortal Kneegrow Wordsmith, Pimpin’ Ken:“What’chu Gon’ Do? BBQ Or Mildew?”We select the cheffin’ as Wall $t. gets to cookin’ with Lawton, Oklahoma’s Finest, ESPN Senior Editor Eddie Maisonet III on Sweet Sixteens, Cinderellas, and players who earned checks at the next level with their performances to All-America...

Fear can be life stifling… or quite the motivator.Canadian independent sports agent and 1999 NCAA Dunk Champion Gary Durrant runs the resume on how he decided to take a leap of faith and jump into the shark tank that is athlete representation.The head honcho of Durrant Sports Management and Wall $t go 1v1 on everything from the misguided notion of loyalty in sports business, NIL rules and Dickie V to Black women as NBA agents, the process of making an NBA roster, Dunk Contest robberies in...

Nice with numbers?The Artist Formerly Known As Dante Terrell Smith once exclaimed that it was never the last straw that breaks the camel’s back; it’s the 999,999 underneath it.It's called Mathematics.Most definitely.Here to ease some of that pain, at least temporarily Fellow BKNY native Glenn K. Bolton, aka Daddy-O, the leader of the original hip hop band Stetsasonic, joins forces with Wall $t. as things aren’t adding up and eerily evolving a world away from many of us, but standing strong in...

Ever had a #ByMyselfMeeting?In some instances, it’s double entendre.For our purposes here,  we’ll attempt to elucidate our thoughts, but… in the words of a young Canadian emcee: “I’m Just A Kid, Livin’ In My Head…Tryin’ To Make Some Sense, But I Don’t Make My Bed!”Helping Wall $t. this week to launch International Women’s Month is #BlackTwitter First Ballot Hall Of Famer and Social Media SuperShero, Buzzer’s Jasmine L. Watkins, who steps in the arena and drops jewels on her road to the...

What is the real cost paid for achievement?Time… and Effort.And we find out what debt is due as we welcome Duke University’s James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African-American Studies and Professor of English Mark Anthony Neal to enter the centre to talk hip hop and education, hoops, mental health, and Black male feminism.With the All Star festivities this past weekend, the Power 10 stands still and we drop who’s hot and who’s not during our second half season preview.Of...

It’s said that absence makes the heart grow fonder…And if after just one week, you missed us, the feeling is mutual.You had us when you pressed “play” every week on the podcast link.Dunno if Valentine’s Day brings out the best in feelings for you, but as we introduce multimedia supershero Thembisa Mshaka to the #BlackHistoryEryday and hoops proceedings, we hope you are ready to enjoy the jewels dropped and the love spread as we separate The Truth from The Lie.Let Us Learn You!News, Views and...

America didn’t invent violence…But it damn sure perfected it!In a different, less destructive way, equal opportunity smoke is offered across the hoops landscape and Wall $t. looks to broker the peace as #BlackHistoryEryday continues.Helping to bring The Ell Ooh Vee Eee to the proceedings and do it with a laugh is comedian extraordinaire Russell Peters enters the center to talk about how little he knows about basketball, but that his boxing and hip hop culture game is top shelf! We chat his...

As we launch #BlackHistoryEryday, it may seem at times that the toughest thing to do is Live…Optimism is great to have and even better when it is realized.But the lines between What Is and What We Dream It To Be can be quite different and at the end of the day, we gotta figure out play the cards we’re dealt, especially when you know the game is rigged.Welcome To Reality!Sometimes, it’s hard!To help ease some of the difficulties, Wall $t. enlists the words and wisdom of CBS Sports’ Producer...

Ever get confused as to how you refer to a person these days?It can be an adventure if you are not aware and sensitive to how one wished to be recognized.However, it is not what you are called but to what you answer and Wall $t. requests the presence of the first NBA assistant coach of Indian descent, Canadian hoops coaching legend Roy Rana.The newly-minted bench bawse of the Egyptian National Team globetrots with Will on his journey and impact, domestically and abroad, in This Thing Of Ours...

The late great James Brown once uttered that he’d paid the cost to the The Boss.Wall $t. goes one-on-one with another player who took his talents to South Beach!Joel Anthony, 2-time NBA Champion and current General Manager of the Canadian Elite Basketball League’s newest expansion team in his hometown, the Montreal Alliance, runs the court and shares stories of his time with The Heatles, things he didn’t know about his teammates, the future of Canada Basketball and life after basketball.In...

Ever taken on a task, but didn’t know how it would end?Life is funny like that… Not a serial drama where everything gets tidied up at the end of 44 minutes.There is a finality to it that is only truly defined by its ending.How is all that you’d done in the time you had measured?Does it even matter?Well, despite technical difficulties that truncated our “official” conversation, Wall $t. gets to go bar for bar with the grossly underrated producer/rapper/icon Diamond D for as long as it...

Do you know what it means when you lie by omission?My Dear Ol’ Dad (Bless The Dead) had bars on the subject and millions of people may have begun the new year under the false pretense of resolution, but we do no such thing on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One!TSN’s Mark Roe, the Swiss Army knife of sports broadcasters in Canada, helps Wall $t. turn the pages on the calendar into 2022 as we volley back and forth on the importance of protecting your mentals and checking in on your...

On our final airing in 2021, the podcast where Basketball and Life meet worked very hard at being resolute in our resolve to not drop resolutions for 2022!Did it work?Come and find out as The Toronto Star’s sports quill game veteran Dave Feschuk laces ‘em up with Wall $t. and salute The Hashtag aka  #HeWhoShantBeNamed on his 37th as we celebrate sustained greatness and another trip around the sun with hopes of a brighter new year.You got questions?We got answers.Never shaky.Forever rock...

T’was a couple nights before #HappyMerryChristmaHanaKwanzaaFestivusDiwaliEid and all throughout these Rough Interweb Streets, COVID creatures were stirring on the podcast where Basketball and Life meet!And while the pandemic is still here like your neighbor’s holiday fruitcake, The News, Views and Truths you choose on the NBA and beyond is still the gift that keeps on giving as we welcome Dr. D’Wayne Edwards, founder of The Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design, to get your kick game...