Cookies: A Basketball Podcast

The Gay Cold (13:30), Hoboken's finest (8:25), whether the Tokyo Olympics should happen (22:02), the Dream Team (38:35), a grillmaster's delight (44:05), Rachel Nichols and ESPN (54:15), Finals ratings are up, but why would you care? (1:14:02), Durant and Kyrie (1:20:02). 

The Many Saints of Newark trailer (2:30), fond memories of horrorcore (14:25), fasting....while asleep (19:35), Rx Papi and Rx Nephew (24:54), volume shooting versus taking the perfect midrange, but in the art world (38:33), New York's mayoral race drags on (45:13), heatwaves, droughts and climate doomerism (54:17), Chris Paul and the Suns are headed to the Finals (1:01:34), after years of boomerific martyrdom, Lillard wants out of Portland (1:15:03). 

When did you get "pizza woke" (11:30), it appears Eric Adams is the dirty cop NYC craves (19:42), QR codes at restaurants (33:08), so much bucatini they gotta use the scales they weigh the whales with (45:22), Sixers and Simmons and an unrepentant Detrick (53:45), Clippers/Suns classic (1:21:45), Pistons win NBA lottery and Kuo tells them whomsth to take (1:39:22), Kemba becomes the latest casualty of Boston's organizational toxicity (1:43:33).

New episodes drop first on Patreon! Rampant promotion of our new book, "The Joy of Basketball: An Encyclopedia of the Modern Game" (2:05), psy-op fireworks are back (11:32), the battle for Washington Square Park (15:09), the latest mayoral debate (26:23), is every pod a food pod? (46:25), assigning blame for Sixers' stunning collapse in Game 5 (54:18), should Giannis guard Kevin Durant (1:12:57), can injuries be prevented? (1:28:28). 

New episodes drop first on our Patreon! ESPN's Pablo Torre joins Cookies Hoops to discuss the outdoor dining science fair (4:22), K2 corridors (17:18), New Haven pizza (38:02), NYC mayoral fiascos (41:45), Defensive Players of the Year (1:02:03) and Ben Simmons appreciation (1:14:55), the rolling Brooklyn Nets and the Barclays experience (1:22:05), Chris Paul's demons (1:39:29), and whether Kawhi Leonard is the closest thing to MJ that we've seen (1:48:23). 

New episodes of Cookies drop first on our Patreon page—sign up today! Normalcy is returning (3:22), whether Williamsburg is really a den of depraved creative directors (14:46), murder mysteries solved in the Mare of Easttown finale (35:18), the Boston Celtics are rebuilding (55:33), complicated emotions surrounding the Knicks' season (1:10:44), Sixers close out the Wizards without Joel Embiid despite Scott Brooks' maniacal psychological gambits (1:28:05). 

A history told through free beer (3:54), mortadella, the tres gabagooles, and one ham to rule them all (12:30), favorite subway stations (22:01), Mare of Easttown with spoilers (30:31), Mach-Hommy and Olivia Rodrigo (42:08), fans are back in NBA stadiums, with mixed results (58:28), Knicks vs Hawks heats up (59:30), Justice in the Palace (1:09:35), Chris Paul's bad luck continues (1:25:33).

Writer Jonah Weiner of Blackbird Spyplane joins Cookies Hoops to discuss hiking fit checks (3:18), Bay Area vibes (9:15), Keith McNally vs Graydon Carter as New York heals (20:01), what do these geriatric millennials want? (35:01), BBSP's color of the year (43:05), aesthetic coffeehouse predictions (53:24), what's beef: factory farming (1:08:24), viral food horrors (1:13:36), Westbrook vs Embiid (1:33:25), why you should subscribe to this newsletter full of recon (1:36:23). 

New episodes drop first on our Patreon page! Kuo's art show closes (1:40), why are Uber and Lyft so freaking expensive? (18:25), subways are back to running 24 hours a day (24:02), Mare of Easttown episode 5 with spoilers (37:39), Kwame Brown takes on all haters (45:31), what makes an NBA player a bust (55:33), Chris Webber makes the Hall of Fame (1:03:37), is Julius Randle the best Knick since Patrick Ewing? (1:14:50), Sixers' easy route to Eastern Conference Finals (1:21:44).  Pods

The CDC has liberated us from Soros muzzles (2:05) and elbow bumps (13:25), Dimes Square tours (25:03), the Mare of Easttown (45:21) with spoilers (54:21), Knicks potential playoff opponents (1:01:01), the play-in tournament is unfair and stupid but we like it (1:14:32). 

New episodes drop on Patreon first! It's Frieze art week! (3:05), Yachty and Yams (12:02), Keith McNally logs on (17:25), pandemic shower habits go lamestream (34:05), ska...is healing (39:17), do denim nerds still exist? (42:01), Alife closes (44:02), did this NBA season suck? (59:02), if mental health is the new wanting it more (1:08:33), Lakers in jeopardy of a play-in game (1:28:03), anti-big man bias (1:21:05). 

Subscribe to the Cookies Hoops Patreon to hear new episodes of the perfect pod as soon as they drop! On 293: An existential threat to the Clandestino cheese plate (9:33), end of the curfew (19:33), masks gone...or masks forever? (24:33), Black Rob, Shock G and DMX (42:33), the surging Wizards (1:05:33), Dr J's top 10 and the BMM (1:24:33), superteams (1:34:33). 

Living in a cashless society (5:35), pasta technology (17:03), Derek Chauvin is convicted (23:05), the Knicks are streaking (47:40) and will Zion join them? (50:12), the city-less Brooklyn Nets (59:35), MVP darkhorse candidates like Curry and Lillard (1:03:44), Kobe sneakers (1:20:15), Chris Paul worship (1:30:31). 

Midnight curfews (2:10), does work...suck? (13:25), our predictable arguments about capitalism and technology (40:33), vaccine skeptics (58:02), sandwich artists (1:20:02), LaMarcus Aldridge retires (1:29:33), rim protection fetishism (1:35:33), streaking Knicks (2:00:22), Kuo was right about Porzingis (2:08:33), Jabari Parker returns (2:14:33). 

Subscribe to our Patreon to hear episodes as soon as they drop! New York vibe check (7:02), bar rules (12:05) and the return of nightlife (18:35), worried about DMX (32:05), angels that walk among us (39:33), ketchup shortages (43:10), who is to blame in Boston? (52:33), Paul Pierce logs on (1:05:25), Durant returns after warring with Rapaport (1:15:04), lucky shots and a KBB glimpse (1:28:33). 

White boi summer (1:05), Rochester culture is not a costume (16:33), normalize bibs (21:45), Lil Nas X and his blood-drip (29:45), Franz Ferdinand "Take Me Out" and other new music we're listening to (41:48), does the NBA have a buyout market problem (57:45), defensive player of the year and the tyranny of monoculture (1:34:20).  

The art of wedding playlists (3:25), shrimp scammers (16:20), crab boils (26:35), why is there still a curfew? (35:02), NBA deadline action (54:00), Lowry stays put, as Ujiri refuses to blink (58:02), the Sixers pick up Hill and moneyball Doc Rivers (1:11:23), the Heat have a good day one (1:20:37), Boston keeps it redundant (1:28:03), Orlando's diaspora (1:38:03), the Knicks do nothing and Kuo is loving it (1:45:33). 

Is it ethical to get an early vaccine? (3:03), media searches for post-COVID content (18:02), attacks on Asian-Americans (31:02), forgiving Meyers Leonard and Tim Hardaway Sr. (52:35), Sixers take on the Bucks (1:02:11), Knicks grand plans (1:19:18), coastal elites (1:24:10), Lonzo Ball (1:27:02).   

Is COVID really ending on March 12th? (1:02), the forgotten male harpist (11:30), royals, flushed (21:05), downtown media gets exposed by the New York Times (27:02), Dimes Square origins (42:05), the NBA All-Star Weekend (47:01), inside the Knicks' disjointed front office (56:08), Blake Griffin and Nick Collison party in the Lower (1:10:25), Meyers Leonard goes gaming (1:17:28). 

To subscribers' delight, new episodes drop first on Patreon! Coffee and newspapers (1:20), Zizmorecore and instant nostalgia (16:30), Dr. Seuss was cancelled or something (21:30), Texas reopens because COVID is over (25:03), voting rights and surface tension (36:20), crypto-art (48:26), Shaq and the NBA's fandom divide (56:45), Karl-Anthony Towns to Knicks rumors (1:10:33), odd Sixers role player splits...revealed! (1:19:04), LaMelo rules (1:25:33).