{"id":5314,"date":"2017-03-22T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=5314"},"modified":"2017-03-22T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:42:10","slug":"coast-2-coast-podcast-episode-22-resting-players-lavar-ball-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2017\/03\/22\/coast-2-coast-podcast-episode-22-resting-players-lavar-ball-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #22: Resting Players, Lavar Ball, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s episode, Austin and Dante tackle some of the bigger NBA storylines of the past couple weeks. Most impacting the fans, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/2016\/12\/15\/resting-nba-stars-ruining-game-fans\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resting stars<\/a> has been a hot debate that Austin and Dante disagree on how to handle going forward. Next, the two talk about the spotlight-loving Lavar Ball (<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/2017\/03\/14\/how-lavar-ball-is-damaging-his-sons-futures\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how he would love to know we&#8217;re doing that<\/a>) and his impact on the league and his own kids.<\/p>\n<p>Following that discussion, Austin and Dante talk about the quality fights that occurred this past week and the season as a whole. With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/curryst01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Stephen Curry<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/monrogr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Monroe<\/a><\/strong>, and the Wiz and Boston Celtics all involved, have fights made the league more interesting? Have they added more rivalries? After speaking to some of the possible playoff matchups and changes in seeding, the two wrap up with the possible impact of offseason changes from the draft, free agency, and front office moves as well as checking in on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hieldbu01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buddy Hield<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s productivity.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #22: Resting Players, Lavar Ball, and More<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/suetf-68ef0e?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 legend being thrown out of the Garden.<\/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\u00a0Last Word On Sports. He is currently attending the\u00a0University of Oregon\u00a0and enjoys watching, talking about, and playing sports. He is a shameless Oregon Ducks\u00a0and Colorado Buffaloes\u00a0fan.<\/p>\n<p>Dante studies Financial Economics at\u00a0Columbia University. 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\u00a0New York Yankees\u00a0and\u00a0New York Giants, but cursed by the turbulent history of the\u00a0Brooklyn (New Jersey) Nets.<\/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\/647639944\" 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\/647639944?et=GKjIZqzdQj5_s6XM86UPYA&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=d0EN2joEda9vN4N2TiIpIaeGF107k4LVnJQsmlxjIBI=&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 discuss NBA teams resting players, Adam Silver&#8217;s memo and how Lavar Ball is ruining basketball culture for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":5322,"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":[615,896,256,822,895],"class_list":["post-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-nba","tag-adam-silver","tag-basketball-podcast","tag-buddy-hield","tag-lavar-ball","tag-nba-podcast"],"modified_by":"Harrison Marcus","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314","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=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}