Wine & Dime

Big Chris (Paul) Energy

The Point God has announced his retirement from basketball and Chris Pennant has made is return to the pod in this bonus episode of Wine & Dime. The three talk all things Chris Paul (proving why PG is the most important position in the NBA, being the greatest player in Clippers history) before discussing Adam Silver's concerning comments on the future of AI (not Allen Iverson) in the NBA and the mess in Manhattan, Kansas. 
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Wine Pairing: The Prisoner Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa California)/Meiomi Pinot Noir (California)

NBA Trade Deadline Superlatives

Word on the streets is that the NBA trade deadline is BACK. There was a flurry of activity this trade window and Chris and Lyndsay go through some superlatives to recap many of the big and small moves including "Best Homecoming," "Best Masai Ujiri Impression," and "Biggest Conflict of Interest."
Wine Pairing: Flatrock Cellars Pinot Noir Niagara VQA 2023 (ON, Canada)
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Jalen Rosé Midseason Awards II

It's roughly midseason in the NBA and that means it's time for the second annual Jalen Rosé Midseason Awards! Chris and Lyndsay brought out the bubbles and once again as an ode to our old Pick & Pop Culture series, we're giving out awards and superlatives inspired by some of our favourite sitcoms. Tune in to out which Jalen takes the "Best Jalen" award this year, who is the messiest, and new awards such as the "Karl Marx Proletariat of the Year" award.
 
Wine Pairing(s): Santa Margherita Prosecco Rose (Italy), Langlois Crémant de Loire Rose Brut (France)
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WNBA Players Want Bread, and Roses Too

New year, same hosts, as Wine & Dime returns to discuss the continuing labour strife between the WNBAPA and the league including what the union's strike vote means, why the players have the most leverage possibly ever, the lack of trust between both parties, and how a strike ultimately hurts everyone. They close the episode by recapping all of the NBA news they missed. 
Wine Pairing: Henkell Piccolo Rose (Germany)
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Clipwrecked

Chris and Lyndsay are back, and popping open the Cava. They start with the messy breakup between Chris Paul and the Clippers, where Chris could wind up (Wolves?), and the general disaster that is the Los Angeles Clippers before hitting on the Suns connecting deeper with the Indigenous community in Arizona, Norman Powell the renaissance man, the state of North American sports ownership (James Dolan sucks, but private equity sucks worse), an update on the WNBA-WNBPA negotiations and the ever stranger landscape that is college athletics. 
Wine Pairing: Freixenet Cordon Negro Brut Cava (Spain)
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They Were Hired by Dr. Evil to Construct Project B

Chris and Lyndsay are back, this time with an assortment of wine and wine adjacent beverages, covering all the latest news in women's basketball including; the new Big Tech funded league that sounds like a Dr. Evil plan, the Chicago Sky's tragic asset management, what kind of players the Tempo will target for their inaugural season and the unnecessary but not bad Phoenix Mercury rebrand. After that they spend some time on a couple of surprising NBA teams (Suns and Raptors) and the joy of just having a decent team to cheer for. 
Wine pairing: Ruffino Riserva Ducale Chianti Classico 2021 
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We Pelicannot

On this episode of Wine & Dime the team are heading back to Rioja and begin with some news about WNBA CBA negotiations and what the new Saudi-backed league means for players before a round of stock up/stock down on the first month of the NBA season (stock up: Giannis dunking on everyone/stock down: the New Orleans Pelicans sinking season). 
Wine Pairing: LAN Rioja Crianza 2021 (Rioja, Spain) 
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Revenue Sharing is Caring

Chris and Lyndsay return to cover all of the madness that has occurred during their mini break. They begin by hitting all of the news regarding coaching hirings and firings before diving more into the WNBA labour strife and recapping the WNBA Finals. In the second half of the episode, they draft early NBA season storylines including Wemby's early reign of terror, the NBA's optics problem with gambling, the Raptors maybe not being terrible and the freeing of Tyler Kolek. 
Wine Pairing: Jacob's Creek Double Barrel Shiraz 2022
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Safe Spaces and 18 Wheeler Basketball with Chris Pennant

Wine & Dime is back, and this time with an additional Chris! The crew is joined by Chris Pennant, freelance broadcaster and newly minted M.S in Journalism, to discuss the calamity that is the Chicago Sky, Napheesa Collier's Kendrick Lamar moment (Say 'Cathy'), the possibility of a WNBA lockout, and the WNBA Finals bound Phoenix Mercury, plus Bill Laimbeer. 

Get it Together, Cathy

On this episode of Wine & Dime, Chris and Lyndsay dive into the first round of the WNBA Playoffs and discuss the Game 1 domination by the Lynx, the Aces hitting their stride at the right time, the dogfight between the Mercury and Liberty, and the Dream showing they're a real playoff threat. They finish with some discussion about the standoff between the Chicago Sky and Angel Reese, the apparent cap circumvention issue for the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard, and EA backing out of their ambitious college basketball video game project. 
Wine Pairing: Folonari Valpolicella DOC (Italy)
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