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Tales From The Hoop

Ricky Frech and Dave Frech

A podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history.

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Tales From the Hoop 17 – The Mascot Fight Bracket

Tales From The Hoop ·

2025/03/20

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. To celebrate the start of the NCAA Tournament, we’ve put all the mascots in a bracket and decided which one would win in a knock-down, drag-out brawl.

105:16

Tales From The Hoop 16 – Mystery Player Bracket

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2025/03/10

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. It’s bracket season, so we’re here with a special episode and guest star to pick a star from a bracket of unknown players. Check out Michael and Ricky’s video game […]

54:02

Tales From The Hoop 15 – Bison Dele

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2025/03/03

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales from the Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, wacky stories from basketball history. Today, we’re talking about Bison Dele, one of the most tragic stories in NBA history.

42:29

Tales From The Hoop 14 – Connie Hawkins

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2025/02/17

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales from the Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, wacky stories from basketball history. Today, we’re beginning what will likely be a long foray into the various point-shaving scandals in basketball history by looking at one of the more bittersweet stories, Connie Hawkins. The Hawk […]

54:16

Tales From The Hoop 13 – 2025 All-Star Picks

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2025/02/03

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. Today, we have a very special episode discussing our picks for the 2025 All-Star game. Did the league and fans get it right? Let’s find out.

30:58

Tales From The Hoop 12 – Tony Lavelli

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2025/01/20

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales from the Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, wacky stories from basketball history. Today, we’re digging deep into the Boston Celtics’ history to discuss Tony Lavelli, the man who might be the most important Celtic of them all.

67:30

Tales From The Hoop 11 – The 2025 NBA Hot Take Off

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2025/01/06

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales from the Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, wacky stories from basketball history. Unfortunately, the boys have COVID, so we’re going through our hottest NBA takes this week to see who is the most scorching. This podcast is not sponsored by Paxlovid.

37:31

Tales From the Hoop 10 – NBA Christmas Day

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2024/12/23

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales from the Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, wacky stories from basketball history. Join two brothers as they look back on everything that’s happened on Christmas Day in the NBA.

39:27

Tales From the Hoop 9 – Nat Hickey and Bernard James

Tales From The Hoop ·

2024/12/09

Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to Tales From the Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. Join two brothers as they look back on the old fogies of the NBA.

48:45

Tales From the Hoop 8 – Reggie Harding

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2024/11/25

41:57

Tales From The Hoop 7 – Ted Stepien (The Worst Owner...

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2024/11/12

Tales From The Hoop 6 – 2024-25 NBA Preview

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2024/10/28

In this very special Tales From the Hoop episode, we leave the weird world of basketball history behind and look to the future. Join two brothers as they dig deep into the 2024-25 season and tell you exactly what’s going to happen.

Tales From the Hoop 5 – Mark Jackson and the Menendez...

Tales From The Hoop ·

2024/10/14

Greetings fellow Earthlings and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. Join two brothers as they look back at the odd connection between Mark Jackson and the Menendez Brothers.

The Orlando Magic Files – The Worst Dunk Ever, Stupid...

Tales From The Hoop ·

2024/09/30

Greetings fellow Earthlings and welcome to Tales From The Hoop, a podcast dedicated to diving into the weird, wild, and wacky stories from basketball history. This week, Ricky and Dave look back at some of the silliest stories from Orlando Magic history.

Tales From The Hoop Vol. 3 – John Brisker

Tales From The Hoop ·

2024/09/10

This week, Ricky tells Dave the story of ABA star John Brisker, who mysteriously disappeared in the 70s and may have been eaten by cannibals.

Tales From the Hoop Vol. 2 – Gary Suiter

Tales From The Hoop ·

2024/08/12

In this episode, Ricky tells Dave the story of Gary Suiter, one of the worst players in NBA history and a guy who never learned from his mistakes.

Tales From the Hoop Vol. 1 – Darryl Dawkins

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2024/07/22

Dunking with Darryl

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