NBA Storytime

Jamel Johnson is joined by Bleacher Report Producer Rachel Roderman to admire the tattoos gracing NBA players' bodies. Are tattoos the first NFTs? Where is the best place to get your ink? Y'all ever been to a tattoo party? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Basketball has a lot of important lines: free throw, 3-point, base. That's not even counting the ones on the players bodies. Modern hoopers have tattoos all over, but it wasn't always like that. NBA players needed to fight for their right to ink. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by Over and Back Podcast host and basketball history buff Jason Mann to finally give Jumpin' Jackie Jackson his flowers. Is pocket change still a thing? Which current NBA stars can touch the top of the backboard? How much would you pay to see Jamel do his signature "Just a Sick-Ass Windmill, Dog" dunk? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Globetrotter and Rucker Park legend “Jumpin’ Jackie Jackson” blocked and dunked on Wilt Chamberlain in the same game...but that’s not how he got his nickname. Instead, he bought it for a quarter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by comedian, actress, and podcast host Megan Gailey to marvel at how Nancy Lieberman beat the clock. Could Nancy stilly play in the big 3? The NBA? What the hell is a Cornet? Should Jamel and Megan start a women's basketball league as a tax haven? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nancy Lieberman dominated women’s college basketball and the upstart women’s basketball leagues that kept folding in the 80s and early 90s, but didn’t really have a place to show her skills when she was in her prime. When the WNBA finally came around, she was 39 and only played one season…until 11 years later she took to the court one last time to show she still had it at age 50. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by sports podcaster and comedian Adam Weinrib to talk second chances. Why collect only good jerseys for good players? Do you want to go to Udonis Haslem's NYE party? Should all NBA moments - including the sad ones- be memorialized with an Antoine Walker shimmy? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2007 Heat C Shaquille O’Neal fouled out of a game against the Atlanta Hawks. Or DID he? The refs had accidentally assigned Shaq an extra foul, but the Big Diesel was forced to finish the game on the bench. When they realized their mistake, the NBA looked to make up for it by replaying the last minute of the game…3 months later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by comedian Mo Welch to hop in David Cowens taxi. Can you get weed on Postmates? Should bottom tier NBA players start a rideshare service? Does anybody know how to code? We just developed a turn-based NBA bench manager RPG. Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Celtics Center Dave Cowens was a weird dude (at least by 1970s standards). He drove a jeep, lived in an apartment above a toy store…oh, and one time he decided to drop out of the NBA to drive a taxicab. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by comedian, producer, podcaster and author Josh Gondelman to relive each of Kevin Burleson's 35 missed shots from "The Streak". Should there be a fantasy standup comedy league? Is German Art Haus ball the next big thing? Can Jamel name ANYBODY on the 2005-06 Charlotte Bobcats? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Kevin Burleson made a layup in the middle of a game against the Bucks, he probably thought he was heating up. What he couldn’t have known is that he would not make another basket for more than two months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by comedy writer and Air Buds co-host Mike Benner to reminisce about the Sixers tragedy that was Poor Roy Rubin's coaching tenure. What kind of sex workers did Roy Rubin have access to? Was Rubin really Sonic the Hedgehog? Did pulling guns on the coach make the season better or worse? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1972, the 76ers looked to fill their Head Coaching vacancy by putting ads in the classified section of Philly newspapers. They got exactly what they paid for in “Poor Roy Rubin.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by comedian Rob Haze to reminisce about Kobe Bryant taking singer and actress Brandy to prom. What are Brandy's starting 5 best songs? Will we ever see Michael Jordan's prom pictures? Would Rob Haze have been pissed if Brandy and Kobe blew up his prom? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Before Kobe Bryant had his storybook NBA career he was just a kid playing high school ball outside of Philly. That was until, as if by magic, Kobe managed to take Grammy award winning singer and actress Brandy to the Ball…errr prom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by comedian Kenny DeForest to recount the career of Mr. Will Perdue. Do Bulls fans remember Perdue's bench-tastic career fondly? Is Jerry Krause every Chicago kid's boogeyman? Is the position of "Goofy White Center" dead in the NBA? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You probably don’t know the name “Will Purdue,” but the big man quietly had one of the most wild and successful careers of all time while rarely leaving the bench. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamel Johnson is joined by NBA twitter's very own NBA Paint to see how deep the Wiccan NBA conspiracy goes. Was this season's Suns-Bucks Final proof of Wiccan influence? Is Giannis' super-long free throw routine secretly a pagan ritual? Will the final spells be carried out so that the NBA can have a game on the moon? Listen up and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You might not have noticed, but in the 90s the NBA was taken over by witches. The Orlando Magic joined the league, the Bullets rebranded themselves as the Wizards and nature imagery dominated jerseys across the NBA: Is it so impossible to believe that the global rise of basketball popularity was fueled by Wicca? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices