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Rus Bradburd Interview
By Ryan McNeill
For this Hoops Addict Podcast I had the chance to chat with Rus Bradburd about his book “Paddy on the Hardwood.” Rus has coached alongside two of the top coaches in the history of college hoops in Lou Henson and Don Haskins (who the movie Glory Road was based on) but he got [...]
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Marcus Davenport Interview
By Ryan McNeill
For this Hoops Addict Podcast I was able to secure an interview with Marcus Davenport to talk about his independent basketball documentary Flint Star. Some of the things that we talked about were his reasons for creating this documentary, what the documentary is about, why he chose to document the Flint basketball community [...]
Mark Turgeon Interview
By Ryan McNeill
This winter I had the pleasure of interviewing Mark Turgeon who at the time was the head coach of the Wichita State Shockers basketball team. When we recorded this interview the Shockers were riding the wave of being known as the huge Cinderella team last March in the NCAA Tournament and had opened [...]
Emmanuel White Interview
By Ryan McNeill
This Hoops Addict Podcast is an interview with the director of the basketball documentary “With This Rock.” I was able to chat with Emmanuel White about why he chose to document the basketball scene in Flint, the emergence of the super athlete in Flint and Emmanuel gives listeners the inside scoop on the [...]
Interview With Former NBA Player Bay Forrest
By Ryan McNeill
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with former NBA player Bay Forrest. While that name may not be familiar to a lot of basketball fans this interview is worth listening to because he had a lot of interesting stories about his basketball career such as turning down UCLA and North Carolina [...]
Interview with Christopher Bibey
By Ryan McNeill
This week I was able to chat with Christopher Bibey about his book “Open Your Heart With Basketball” and how his life changed after he was diagnosed with cancer during his freshman season of college basketball.
During this chat we also talked about what motivated him to write about all the highs and lows [...]
Brian McCormick Interview
By Ryan McNeill
Over the past few months I’ve been fortunate enough to chat with Brian McCormick via email about the coaching philosophies in his book last week I had the pleasure of recording an interview with him. During the interview we talked about his book “Cross Over: The New Model of Youth Basketball Development,” his [...]
Interview With Charlotte Bobcats Assistant Coach Gary Kloppenburg
By Ryan McNeill
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Charlotte Bobcats assistant coach Gary Kloppenbury for 5 Star Hoops. I was able to chat with Gary about what it’s been like to work for a coach who has him since he was a child, who some of his mentors are, the challenges and rewards that [...]
Podcast With Ohio State Assistant Coach Pete Gaudet
By Ryan McNeill
A couple weeks back I had the pleasure of chatting witih Ohio State Buckeyes assistant coach Pete Gaudet on behalf of 5 Star Hoops. Pete has travelled to nearly 25 different countries to run basketball clinics, he won two National Championships during his time at Duke, was the intern head coach at [...]
Interview With Florida State Assistant Coach Stan Jones
By Ryan McNeill
Stan Jones has helped guide seven teams into the postseason and coached nine all-conference players in his first 10 years coaching at the collegiate level. He has helped Florida State advance to the second round of the NIT in both 2004 and 2006 and he has attracted four consecutive top-15 recruiting classes to [...]