{"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":"Oklahoma City Thunder 2026-27 NBA Season Lookahead","slug":"oklahoma-city-thunder-2026-27-nba-season-lookahead","published_at":"2026-09-24T09:01:24+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hardwood-knocks-an-nba-podcast-47033/oklahoma-city-thunder-2026-27-nba-season-lookahead","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hardwood-knocks-an-nba-podcast-47033","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/oklahoma-city-thunder-2026-27-nba-season-lookahead--75326074","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/75326074/okc_thunder_lookahead.mp3","summary":"Dan is joined by Nick Crain ( @CrainNBA ), Jacob Kniffen ( @JacobKniffen ) and Tayler Peterson ( @Tayler_P15 ) from The Uncontested podcast to break down the 2026-27 Oklahoma City Thunder. SUBSCRIBE TO T HE UNCONTESTED ON YOUTUBE , and SUPPORT THEM ON PATREON : https://t.co/RoXfK1lcdL . TIMESTAMPS⤵️ 0:00 - INTRO 4:21 - Themes from last season 8:17 - Oklahoma City’s collateral damage 14:56 - Who picks up Lu Dort’s defensive workload? 16:43 - Jalen Williams’ “return” 21:28 - Trickle-down effect of Dort’s absence 24:41 - Cason Wallace’s role and future 34:06 - Can Chet Holmgren be more aggressive? 42:12 - Ajay Mitchell’s continue development 47:56 - Jared McCain’s fit 52:46 - The Thunder’s approach to player development 55:16 - Bennett Stirtz, Thomas Sorber, Aday Mara 1:00:02 - Importance of Kenrich Williams 1:08:04 - Biggest needs 1:09:21 - Shai Gilgeous-Alexander stats 1:10:23 - OKC’s shooting 1:10:41 - Top-10 rotation 1:13:01 - Go-to crunch-time lineup 1:13:23 - Weirdo lineups we want to see 1:16:41 - 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 Nick Crain ( @CrainNBA ), Jacob Kniffen ( @JacobKniffen ) and Tayler Peterson ( @Tayler_P15 ) from The Uncontested podcast to break down…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5212,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hardwood-knocks-an-nba-podcast-47033/episodes/oklahoma-city-thunder-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/oklahoma-city-thunder-2026-27-nba-season-lookahead.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}