{"id":3265,"date":"2017-01-03T14:23:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2017-01-03T14:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:41:11","slug":"coast-2-coast-podcast-episode-14-nba-new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2017\/01\/03\/coast-2-coast-podcast-episode-14-nba-new-years-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #14: NBA New Year&#8217;s Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: Welcome to the 14th 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<h3><strong>Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #14: NBA New Year&#8217;s Resolutions<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Austin and Dante return after a few too many holiday meals to talk about the <strong>Christmas Day<\/strong> heroics of the <strong>Boston Celtics<\/strong>\u2019 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/thomais02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Isaiah Thomas<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Cleveland Cavaliers<\/strong>\u2019 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/i\/irvinky01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyrie Irving<\/a><\/strong> in their matchups against the <strong>New York Knicks<\/strong> and <strong>Golden State Warriors<\/strong>, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>After covering the news of the past two weeks, the two discuss their NBA New Year&#8217;s Resolutions, focusing on the two LA teams as well as the league as a whole. They finish with some bold predictions about the rest of the season and possible trade destinations for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/millspa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Millsap<\/a><\/strong>. They also touch on what the future holds for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rondora01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rajon Rondo<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/wrygg-66255d?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\u00a0<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>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\/540810548\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 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\/540810548?et=e5Wj5sBgSx9MNsP5aLDh7w&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=DB7gmjc_eVUl--VxFGMpzHdZRXiSyTfbRAVXRlfm_r0=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" 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 suggest some NBA New Year&#8217;s Resolutions for a bevy of teams including both teams in LA after shaky Decembers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":3290,"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":[65,497,189,152,96,477,153,209],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-featured","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-basketball-podcasts","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-nba-podcasts","tag-paul-millsap","tag-rajon-rondo"],"modified_by":"Harrison Marcus","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","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=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}