{"id":3073,"date":"2016-12-20T08:16:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T13:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2016-12-20T08:16:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T13:16:53","slug":"coast-2-coast-nerlens-noel-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2016\/12\/20\/coast-2-coast-nerlens-noel-trades\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #13: News Rundown, Nerlens Noel Trades, and Conference Tiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: Welcome to the 13th episode of\u00a0<strong>Coast 2 Coast<\/strong>, the\u00a0<strong>NBA\u00a0<\/strong>podcast right here at\u00a0<strong>Last Word On Pro Basketball<\/strong>. As always, LWOPB is committed to bringing you the very best in basketball news, analysis, and commentary. In putting together this podcast, we continue to stay committed to our high standards. Enjoy the show.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #13: News Rundown, Nerlens Noel Trades, and Conference Tiers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Austin and Dante are back after a finals-induced hiatus, but the NBA news doesn&#8217;t stop. They jump around between <strong>Craig Sager<\/strong>&#8216;s tragic passing, some of the new <strong>CBA<\/strong> details, and how <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/griffbl01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blake Griffin<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s injury affects the <strong>L.A.\u00a0Clippers<\/strong>. Then, they ponder whether or not the <strong>Houston Rockets<\/strong> are for real. Tune in to find out!<\/p>\n<p>After that, based on recent news, they try to find <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/n\/noelne01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nerlens Noel<\/a><\/strong> a new home, and to no one&#8217;s surprise, one deal includes <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/couside01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DeMarcus Cousins<\/a><\/strong>. To end, they try to decipher the NBA&#8217;s tiers, including whether <strong>Portland<\/strong> is in trouble, and if any <strong>Eastern Conference<\/strong> teams can contend with <strong>Cleveland<\/strong> and <strong>Toronto<\/strong>.\u00a0Following that, they quickly preview the NBA Christmas Day games.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/merzn-65be10?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 <strong>Last Word On Sports<\/strong>. He is currently attending the\u00a0<strong>University of Oregon\u00a0<\/strong>and enjoys watching, talking about, 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\/458960600\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 67.845118% 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\/458960600?et=u9f9xbH_Rf1Mjm2fwlxGDw&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=L6-BNi5nL5uvgbCky6kmFTN3VwOj4AsoR8UzA0XW3I8=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"403\" 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 potential Nerlens Noel trades, Blake Griffin&#8217;s injury, the Houston Rockets, and more of the latest NBA news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"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":[36,2,62],"tags":[65,226,622,143,333,96,202,45],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","category-featured","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-blake-griffin","tag-craig-sager","tag-demarcus-cousins","tag-houston-rockets","tag-nba","tag-nba-news","tag-nerlens-noel"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","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=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}