{"id":2393,"date":"2016-11-14T10:13:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T15:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2016-11-14T10:13:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T15:13:31","slug":"coast-2-coast-early-nba-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2016\/11\/14\/coast-2-coast-early-nba-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #11: Early NBA Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: Welcome to the tenth episode of Coast 2 Coast, the basketball podcast right here at\u00a0<strong>Last Word on Pro Basketball<\/strong>. As always, LWOPB is committed to bringing you the very best in sports news, analysis, and commentary. In putting together this\u00a0<strong>NBA<\/strong>\u00a0podcast, we continue to stay committed to our high standards. Enjoy the show.+<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After a short hiatus, Austin and Dante are back to give their early NBA impressions. They begin the show discussing\u00a0<strong>Gregg Popovich&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong>thought-provoking election thoughts, and what they mean to the NBA as a whole. Next, they run through a bevy of NBA news, including <strong>Mark Cuban\u00a0<\/strong>vs. the media and the <strong>New York Knicks<\/strong>&#8216;\u00a0problems.<\/p>\n<p>After that, they do another 3&#215;3 on the teams who they are still confused by, new potential <strong>All-Stars<\/strong>, and who could be the next out-of-the-box 50 point scorer. (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/walkeke02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kemba Walker<\/a><\/strong> gets his deserved love.) Finally, they name their &#8220;team of the week&#8221; and talk about a few games that catch their interest.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #11: NBA Early Season Impressions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/eg85p-648dad?from=yiiadmin\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Austin Cracraft and Dante Guarneri discuss everything from the wide world of the NBA, whether it be the latest update from a Banana Boat or a rookie\u00a0screwing up on his Snapchat.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Follow the show on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Coast2CoastPod\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Coast2CoastPod<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Austin is a Staff Writer and Podcast Host\/Producer at Last Word on Sports. He is currently attending the\u00a0<strong>University of Oregon\u00a0<\/strong>and enjoys watching, talking, and playing sports. He is a big\u00a0<strong>Colorado Buffaloes<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Oregon Ducks<\/strong>\u00a0fan.<\/p>\n<p>Dante studies Financial Economics at\u00a0<strong>Columbia University<\/strong>. For every statistic and analytic undertaking, he hopes to shed humorous light on the everyday parity of the sports world. A life-long sports fan, he\u2019s been blessed with championships from the\u00a0<strong>New York Yankees<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>New York Giants<\/strong>, but cursed by the turbulent history of the\u00a0<strong>Brooklyn (New Jersey) Nets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/456862974\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 64.141414% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/456862974?et=sWxncm0_RkJdOK-qKueVZw&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=wD4kkIA5aq9yNaDRsOaVdOX7hEY3LiK2NomI7ZBuaKU=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin and Dante hop on the pod to discuss their early NBA impressions and who could be surprise All-Stars, as well as Popovich&#8217;s political thoughts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":2400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,62],"tags":[65,497,204,169,570,96,477,58],"class_list":["post-2393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-basketball-podcasts","tag-gregg-popovich","tag-kemba-walker","tag-mark-cuban","tag-nba","tag-nba-podcasts","tag-new-york-knicks"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}