Cookies Hoops

08/25/2026

New ‘Home Court’ hats in aura-enhancing colors are in our shop. We hit the lob, you smash and grab

08/25/2026

YOUNG AND HUSKY E577 is for Patreon subscribers only!

We are now intellectual giants (2:43), corporate raves (17:04), Rick Rubin: champion of AI (22:42), dive bars in New York City (45:22), if the BQE is here to stay for power broker motorists (1:02:06), Chalamet vs Nets (1:10:02), is Jokic dying on the vine in Denver? (1:15:04), Ausar Thompson and Jalen Duren (1:35:04), NBA ownership financial imbroglios (1:42), Klay Thompson to Miami (1:52).

08/22/2026

Allen Iverson’s top 5 movies of all time c/o heatframes on Twitter

08/19/2026

Roll with the winners. The new ‘Team of Destiny” hat and a rare restock of our classic royal blue and orange ‘Basketball’ hat are in the Cookies Hoops shop now. You earned it!

08/18/2026

FREE LISTEN: E576 “LOSING RECIPES”

Amazon book destruction (12:33), viral restaurants (23:42), Nancy Mase tatted up (30:17), Fugazi vs Fugazi (44:33), Steve Ballmer = case closed! (1:00:32), Lakers sold to Kushner (1:10:44), Russell Westbrook retires as the perfectly imperfect NBA star (1:27:19), if Amar’e should be in the Hall of Fame and other halfway crooks (1:35:03).

08/14/2026

New ep for Patreon subs! MISS FREEDOM E575

NY in August: city of the dead (1:31), an autopsy of “Woke 1” (13:03), LaMelo’s psychedelic house of wonders (30:15), Usher may have a doppelganger featuring So So Def All-Stars (44:24), Royce White and Enes Freedom being as tiresome as ever (1:04:03), WNBA culture wars (1:08:32), Kawhi x Clippers cap circumvention scandal 2: More cap circumvention scandals (1:29:03), okay sure why not let’s talk about Ben Simmons one more time (1:45:12).

08/10/2026

08/04/2026

E574 IS A FREE LISTEN! Matthew Schnipper, journalist and author of the memoir “Rise Above” (5:03), joins to talk indie sleaze era = shutter-shaded nostalgia or internet anomaly? (19:22), contemporary music writing (38:06), Babe Ruth didn’t exist (57:17). Also: G-Unity and bland NBA weddings (1:22:01), Wemby’s ticking biological clock (1:37:02), NBA 2K coverboys (1:44:17).

08/01/2026

New York Basketball