{"podcast":{"title":"Hardwood Knocks: An NBA Podcast","slug":"hardwood-knocks-an-nba-podcast-47033","podcast_index_feed_id":47033,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/2916956/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://nbamath.com/hardwood-knocks/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/0e35e4bb65b157c6a017ae3c940d3204.jpg","author":"HardwoodKnocks: An NBA Podcast","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Hardwood Knocks is a totally, completely, thoroughly fun AF NBA podcast in which Bleacher Report's Dan Favale and Grant Hughes analyze the ins, outs, ups, downs and, heck, even diagonals of The Association. FOLLOW US EVERYWHERE⬇️ Apple: http://apple.co/2iIw0IJ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Xnq1yKgX8uJCllz1fOQfP YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HardwoodKnocksNBA TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hardwoodknocks Twitter: https://twitter.com/HardwoodKnocks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hardwood_knocks/ SUPPORT THE SHOW BY PURCHASING HARDWOOD KNOCKS MERCH⬇️ https://hardwood-knocks-shop.fourthwall.com/?","last_synced_at":"2026-09-26T18:17:13.268667+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hardwood-knocks-an-nba-podcast-47033"},"episode":{"title":"Cleveland Cavaliers 2026-27 NBA Season Lookahead","slug":"cleveland-cavaliers-2026-27-nba-season-lookahead","published_at":"2026-09-11T09:01:13+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hardwood-knocks-an-nba-podcast-47033/cleveland-cavaliers-2026-27-nba-season-lookahead","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hardwood-knocks-an-nba-podcast-47033","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/cleveland-cavaliers-2026-27-nba-season-lookahead--75062766","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/75062766/cleveland_cavaliers_lookahead.mp3","summary":"Dan is joined by Justin Rowan ( @cavsanada ) of The Chase Down Podcast to break down the 2026-27 Cleveland Cavaliers. FOLLOW THE CHASE DOWN POD ON YOUTUBE . TIMESTAMPS⤵️ 0:00 - INTRO 1:22 - Lessons learned from last season 4:56 - The Peyton Watson trade and fit 25:07 - Donovan Mitchell’s contract and future 32:13 - James Harden’s fit 37:36 - Evan Mobley’s improvement 42:14 - Jaylen Tyson’s next frontier 44:05 - Importance of Sam Merrill 45:19 - Early impressions of Meleek Thomas 50:24 - The secondary guard rotation 51:45 - Do the Cavs have something in Nae’Qwan Tomlin? 53:04 - Mario Hezonja role 54:38 - Cleveland’s depth 57:35 - What is this team’s identity 59:42 - Biggest needs 1:00:03 - What is this team’s identity? 1:00:36 - Top-10 rotation 1:01:09 - Go-to crunch-time lineup 1:01:38 - Weirdo lineups we want to see 1:02:28 - SHOUT-OUT JARRETT ALLEN 1:03:18 - PREDICTIONS SUPPORT US ON PATREON 🫶 SUPPORT THE SHOW BY PURCHASING HARDWOOD KNOCKS MERCH SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL⬇️ TikTok: @hardwoodknocks Twitter @HardwoodKnocks Instagram: @hardwood_knocks Dan's Bluesky: @danfavale Dan's Twitter: @danfavale Dan's IG: @danfavale Grant's Bluesky: @granthughes BUSINESS INQUIRES⬇️ hardwoodknocks@gmail.com","meta_description":"Dan is joined by Justin Rowan ( @cavsanada ) of The Chase Down Podcast to break down the 2026-27 Cleveland Cavaliers. FOLLOW THE CHASE DOWN POD ON YOUTUBE…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4108,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hardwood-knocks-an-nba-podcast-47033/episodes/cleveland-cavaliers-2026-27-nba-season-lookahead/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hardwood-knocks-an-nba-podcast-47033/cleveland-cavaliers-2026-27-nba-season-lookahead.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}