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Unfiltered NBA takes, breakdowns, and storylines you won't get anywhere else. From trade rumors and superstar drama to deep dives on the league's biggest moments, we cover the game with honesty, context, and a little bit of edge. New episodes breaking down everything happening across the Association. IG: instragram.com/cooptoth3hoop X: x.com/cooptoth3hoop Tik Tok: tiktok.com/@cooptoth3hoop

Jul 17

They Don't Understand What This Means For The Lakers

Brooklyn declined a team option worth $6.25 million, and a 24-year-old former top-ten pick hit the market for anybody willing to take a swing. The Lakers got Ziaire Williams on one year at three million, and my Pelicans pushed hard and lost him to a hometown zip code, so we can add that to the pile. I go through how a 10th pick out of Stanford ended up here, what Memphis was actually betting on, and why the Cam Reddish comparison is fair even if I think the swing was right both times. Then the defensive numbers, where B-Ball Index has him graded as a genuine passing-lane menace among wing stoppers while the rim protection sits at the bottom of the scale, which is exactly what Walker Kessler is for. The bigger thing is what the roster is turning into. Kessler, Quentin Grimes, Collin Sexton, Williams, Cam Carr, Adou Thiero, and a front office still chasing Jonathan Kuminga and Matisse Thybulle after everybody assumed the Williams deal closed those doors. A team that ranked 22nd in pace last season is now built to run, and it is running without the guy who led the league in fast-break scoring. So is Pelinka actually building something around Luka here, or is this just a lot of upside stacked on top of upside until somebody has to prove it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 12

The Lakers Can't Keep Getting Away With Stuff Like This

The Lakers sat at 25, the Knicks were willing to move 24 for cash, and Los Angeles refused to gamble on Cameron Carr lasting one more pick. I get into why that was the right call, why a Western Conference scout told Brett Siegel the whole thing made no sense, and how a guard who walked out on a number one Tennessee team in the middle of December turned into a first-rounder eighteen months later. Carr led Baylor at nearly 19 a night while shooting 37 percent from three on six attempts a game, and at the combine he measured 6'4.5" barefoot with a wingspan just past 7'0.75" and a 42.5" max vertical that ranked second in the entire class. The tape backs it up, the Summer League reads are already there, and the defensive tools might be what keeps him on the floor for JJ Redick. Then there is the other side of it. Pelinka's last five draft additions before this one were Thiero, Bronny, Knecht, Maxwell Lewis, and Jalen Hood-Schifino, and a team without a tradable first for seven years cannot afford to keep whiffing. So which is it, did the Lakers finally hit on a lottery talent who slid, or is Carr about to become one more name on a list that says Pelinka just cannot draft? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 4

The Lakers Have No Idea What They've Done

The Lakers finally got Luka his center, and the bill came due the same day. Two unprotected firsts in 2031 and 2033, swaps in 2028 and 2030, and a four-year, $130 million contract made Walker Kessler the anchor of Los Angeles's next era, and the fallout left the franchise without a tradable first for seven years and roughly $475 million committed to three players. Danny Ainge cashed in on Utah's leverage again, LeBron James walked out the door while the front office chased a big man, and Anthony Davis sat back and laughed at every post about it. I get into why the fit next to Luka is as clean as it looks, what Kessler was doing in Utah on scraps from a young backcourt, and why the debt still makes this whole thing scary. Was an A-list center worth losing LeBron and emptying the draft drawer, or did Pelinka just find a smarter-looking way to run out of options? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 30

LeBron James Wasn't Messing Around

Austin Reaves agreed to four years and 185 million dollars, the richest deal an undrafted player has ever signed, and the guy it might've cost the most has four rings. We get into how the Lakers went from lowballing him around 30 million a year to clearing 45 once Detroit got interested, and why Bobby Marks says none of it touches their flexibility. Which leaves LeBron. Shams described one check-in call after the Finals and silence since, with the front office sorting out roughly 50 million in space before it circles back to him. We run through the three doors that opened up: a Cleveland sign-and-trade built around Jarrett Allen, Miami as the reunion Pat Riley probably isn't turning down, and Golden State, where Draymond just declined 27.7 million to make room for LeBron and an Anthony Davis trade. So where do you land? Is LeBron staying in L.A. because you don't blow up the most stable situation of your life at 41, or did the Lakers wait long enough that Rich Paul gets to pick the ending? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 26

The Miami Heat Already Have A Huge Problem

Pat Riley spent four years attached to every star on the market without landing one, and then he landed the biggest one of all. Giannis Antetokounmpo is a member of the Miami Heat. We walk through what it cost: Tyler Herro, Kel'el Ware, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kasparas Jakučionis, the No. 13 pick, unprotected firsts in 2031 and 2033, a 2030 swap, and a 2033 second. We get into why Spoelstra never fully trusted Ware, the reporting that suggested Riley was never going to pay Herro, and why Jaquez might be the guy who makes Miami regret this. On the other side, Milwaukee's haul is getting more hate than it deserves. Brayden Burries and Nate Ament join a backcourt with Ryan Rollins, who put up 17.3 points, 5.6 assists, and 4.6 rebounds on 47.2 percent from the field in a lost season. There's a Melo-to-New-York blueprint hiding in this thing. And then the part nobody wants to say out loud: Giannis played 36 games last year at soon-to-be 32, Norman Powell is likely gone, and a Giannis-Bam frontcourt is terrifying on paper in a league where depth decides everything. Bucks fans, after everything that went down leading up to this: was the Giannis era worth how it ended, and would you have rather taken the Jaylen Brown package? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 13

It's Finally Starting With Joel Embiid

Download the Underdog app today and use promo code COOPNBA to score FIFTY DOLLARS in Bonus Entries when you play your first FIVE dollars - that’s promo code COOPNBA Underdog – Make picks, win money Must be 18+ (19+ in AL, NE; 19+ in CO for some games; 21+ in AZ, MA, and VA) andpresent in a state where Underdog Fantasy operates. Terms apply. Concerned with your play? Call 1-800-MY-RESET or 1-800-GAMBLER or visit www.ncpgambling.org; AZ: 1-800-NEXT-STEP (1-800-639-8783) or text NEXT-STEP to 53342; NY: Call the 24/7 HOPEline at 1-877-8-HOPENY or Text HOPENY (467369). Earlier this season I dropped "Joel Embiid Is In Trouble" — and the comments told me my take was aging like milk in the sun. So let's revisit it. After an emergency appendectomy, a 3-1 comeback against the Celtics, and a hard-fought playoff run that ended with a sweep at the hands of the Knicks, Joel Embiid walked away from this postseason saying something nobody in Philly wants to hear: "I don't even know if I'm going to be here." In this one I break down Embiid's playoff run, why the Knicks and Karl-Anthony Towns were such a brutal matchup for a less explosive version of The Process, what his comments about his future actually mean, and whether the Sixers are quietly ready to hand the franchise over to VJ Edgecombe and Tyrese Maxey. Plus: the Daryl Morey firing, Bob Myers walking into a mess, the $192M contract question, and why I just want to see Embiid get his ring, wherever that ends up being. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 7

This Has To Stop Happening With Austin Reaves

Download the Underdog app today and use promo code COOPNBA to score FIFTY DOLLARS in Bonus Entries when you play your first FIVE dollars - that’s promo code COOPNBA Underdog – Make picks, win money Must be 18+ (19+ in AL, NE; 19+ in CO for some games; 21+ in AZ, MA, and VA) andpresent in a state where Underdog Fantasy operates. Terms apply. Concerned with your play? Call 1-800-MY-RESET or 1-800-GAMBLER or visit www.ncpgambling.org; AZ: 1-800-NEXT-STEP (1-800-639-8783) or text NEXT-STEP to 53342; NY: Call the 24/7 HOPEline at 1-877-8-HOPENY or Text HOPENY (467369). The Lakers shocked the world taking down the Rockets, and the locker room was literally making GOAT noises for a 41-year-old LeBron James. But Game 1 against the Thunder exposed exactly what we feared: when LeBron's co-star can't get going, even a vintage Bron night isn't enough. We break down LeBron's absurd Game 1 performance, why Austin Reaves turned in maybe the worst game of his career, the Lu Dort foul-hunting problem, and whether bad playoff Reaves is an outlier or a preview of what's coming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 2

We Have To Talk About Austin Reaves

Up 3-0 with a 41-year-old LeBron defying time and Luke Kennard filling in beautifully, the Lakers looked like they were closing this series out. Then Game 4 happened, the Rockets started trolling, Jabari Smith and Sengün started talking, and Austin Reaves came back from his oblique injury to a Game 5 that went sideways fast. We break down Reaves' rusty 4-of-16 return, LeBron's 0-for-6 night from three, the questionable shot selection, the chaotic 4-on-1 transition possession that sums up the whole game, and what's left in the tank with the Thunder waiting. Plus: why a few bad games don't change the case for Reaves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unfiltered NBA takes, breakdowns, and storylines you won't get anywhere else. From trade rumors and superstar drama to deep dives on the league's biggest moments, we cover the game with honesty, context, and a little bit of edge. New episodes breaking down everything happening across the Association. IG: instragram.com/cooptoth3hoop X: x.com/cooptoth3hoop Tik Tok: tiktok.com/@cooptoth3hoop

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GETLIKECOOP
Years Active

2025 - 2026
Episodes

18
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