
Game Theory Podcast
Sam Vecenie, a Senior NBA Writer at The Athletic, talks all about basketball. From the NBA, to the NBA Draft, to college hoops and even some high school, Vecenie is has you covered in this show. And some thoughts on movies, too.
Latest episodes

Aug 4, 2021 • 1h 3min
NBA Free Agency Frenzy, Days 1 and 2: Bulls, Pelicans, Heat, Lakers, Knicks, Spurs
In this episode, Dave DuFour joins the show to talk about what we've seen from the first two days of NBA free agency. We chat about the Bulls (first 15 minutes), the Pelicans (15:00-30:00), the Heat (30-36:00), the Lakers (36:00-44:00), the Knicks (43:00-48:00), the Spurs (48:00-53:00), then kind of a grab bag of other moves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Aug 2, 2021 • 1h 35min
2021 NBA Draft Deep Dive with Matt Pennie! Everything that happened on Thursday night gets broken down
Pennie and Vecenie break down the 2021 NBA Draft, doing a deep dive on all of what we saw. From Cade Cunningham going No. 1, to the fit between Evan Mobley and Jarrett Allen, to the surprises throughout the lottery and the teams that succeeded, we run through everything we saw on Thursday night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jul 29, 2021 • 1h 16min
2021 NBA Draft Preview: Best bets and Over/Under Draft slots
Pennie and Vecenie do a deep dive into NBA Draft betting props, discussing every over/under prop on the board right now. It serves as a good little set discussion point as we head into draft day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jul 23, 2021 • 1h 22min
Mock Draft! What we would do at each of the top-30 picks in the 2021 NBA Draft w/ Matt Pennie
Pennie and Sam run through the draft order and go back and forth, giving the top-30 picks and explaining why this is what they would do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jul 15, 2021 • 1h 14min
NBA Draft Big Board: Matt Pennie shares The Pennie 20, his top-20 prospects in the 2021 NBA Draft
It's a rankings episode! Matt Pennie shares his top-20 prospects in the 2021 NBA Draft. We also discuss how he went about making the rankings, and he gets to share some love on some of the high school standouts from Cartersville with Under Armour's first recruiting event of the season. Oh, and we discuss movies, including one of my favorite movies I've seen this entire year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jul 8, 2021 • 1h 18min
NBA Draft Deadline Decision Day and NIL Rights with Matt Pennie
Pennie is here. We run through some thoughts on NIL rights, and on the NBA Draft Deadline Decision Day. We answer the important questions here, too. How much would Pennie's NIL rights have been worth at UMass? What movies have you watched more than any other in your lifetime? And what players made good decisions to turn pro? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jul 5, 2021 • 1h 7min
The Phoenix Suns making the NBA Finals is one of the craziest turnarounds in recent professional sports history with Sreekar Jasthi
Sreekar Jasthi, aka SreekyShooter, joins to chat about the Suns going to the NBA Finals with the fellas. Everything you need to know about this crazy season of Phoenix basketball. The Devin Booker conversation; James Jones building the team; Monty Williams going from not-great in New Orleans to phenomenal in Phoenix; Chris Paul; and being the man to make the jokes and memes about the whole franchise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jun 30, 2021 • 1h 20min
NBA Draft Combine Recap; How good would Shaquille O'Neal Be in the Modern NBA?
Matt Pennie and Sam run through some NBA Draft Combine stuff, including what is valuable to take away from the combine? How should we be evaluating it versus tape versus pro days versus every other piece of the process? First though, they start on "what would Shaquille O'Neal look like in today's NBA? Would he be just as dominant as he was in the 1990s and 2000s? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jun 27, 2021 • 1h 42min
Hawks-Bucks Deep Dive; Suns/Ayton; F9, and the Fast and Furious Series Ranking with Robby Kalland
Robby Kalland joins for the only important podcast of the year: the F9 recap, along with updated Fast and Furious rankings. Oh yeah, given that this is a basketball podcast, we talked a bit about Hawks-Bucks and the Suns for the first hour.The Fast and Furious convo is absolutely spoiler-heavy, but if you're here for basketball and haven't seen F9, you are safe until around the hour mark when we give a clear EJECTO PODCAST, CUZ warning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jun 23, 2021 • 48min
NBA Draft Lottery Recap! Mini-episode breaking down Detroit, Houston, Cleveland and Toronto Celebrating!
Matt Pennie is here to break down what happened in the 2021 NBA Draft Lottery, and discuss Cade Cunningham, Jalen Suggs, Jalen Green and Evan Mobley. Also some Combine talk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices