Two Brits, One Orange Ball Podcast James Jeffrey and Mark Littlewood

In today's show, we're joined by co-host of the BBL Show, Jay Marriott, a former player and coach in the BBL as well as Hungry and several other areas in Europe and the US.

Jay is soon to become part of a new Gloucestershire basketball franchise who have hopes of growing to become a BBL team after securing investment from Gloucester City co-owner Alex Petheram.

Alongside Newcastle Eagles great Drew Lasker, Jay started The BBL Show in partnership with the league to bring light to its teams and the many untold stories of its players, coaches and key members.

In today’s episode we’ll cover the rise of the Knicks and fall of the Bulls and BBL news before being joined by BBL MVP candidate - Geno Crandall of the Leicester Riders. We’ll  talk about his former team Gonzaga’s run in March Madness, his season so far with the Riders who are very close to winning the league title, as well as the upcoming BBL playoffs.

Welcome to part two of episode 17 of the Two Brits, One Orange Ball podcast with Bulls Insider for NBC Sports Chicago, K.C. Johnson.

In this second part of the episode, we’ll cover Derrick Rose’s tenure with the Chicago Bulls, including going into detail about what it was like to cover his many injuries and the split of public opinion about whether he should play or not after being out for nearly a year having torn his ACL in the 2012 playoff match-up against the Sixers.

We’ll cover Jimmy Butler’s fall out with the Chicago Bulls, Luol Deng and what he meant to the Bulls organisation - as well as going deeper into K.C.’s London 2012 experience where he met the late Jimmy Rogers after turning up at Brixton Rec.

And finally, we’ll speak with K.C. about covering the second Bulls three peat and how reporting on the ground at the time differed from what we were shown in the Last Dance documentary.

So let’s dive back in to part two.

In this episode, we’ll be speaking to K.C Johnson, someone we very much look up to who has spent 19 years reporting on the Bulls for the Chicago Tribune before moving to NBC Sports Chicago in 2019 where he works as a Bulls Insider and co-hosts the Bulls Talk podcast. 

K.C. has been working for the Bulls since the 80s, reporting on everyone from Jordan to D Rose, Luol, Jimmy Butler and now, as he states in his Twitter bio - Denzel Valentine.

We finally took Alex Owumi’s advice and we’re very excited to welcome owner and head coach of the London Lions, Vince Macaulay onto the podcast today.

In the podcast we’ll cover everything from the recent BBL Cup loss to the Newcastle Eagles after being short handed due to six positive covid tests in the Lions camp. The harshness of being kicked out of the FIBA Cup as a result, before diving into the marketing and comms side of things and looking ahead to the rest of the season and beyond for Vince and the Lions.

Mikey Murphy is the New York Knicks Beat Writer for Empire Sports Media, a New York based media outlet. When Empire Sports Media was first created in 2017, it was just an idea. Two years later, they are one of the most read independent blogs in New York, garnering over two million views per month.

In this episode we’ll talk about the hopes surrounding the Knicks season with the additionals of coach Thibs, draft picks Obi Toppin & Quickley and President Leon Rose.

We’ll look back at some of the Knicks most historical moments and James will try his best not to make any Knicks digs throughout…