Locked On NBA – Daily Podcast On The National Basketball Association - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Depending on the hosts of this show, you get surprisingly measured and respectful basketball insights (Locked on Celtics and Lakers hosts) to bitter musings (Locked on Pelicans) to salty and delusional drunks at a bar (Locked on Heat). Here are a few of the takes that don’t belong on a professional podcast:

• The Heat are the better team. If they were healthy they would have beaten the Lakers EASILY. (Every team is has problems at the end of a tough season: starting point guard Bradley opted out, Green hurt his hip in Game 2 and was hindered the rest of the series, Davis limped through Game 5. Also the 73-30 run in Game 1, and the 47-18 run in Game 6 respectfully beg to disagree with the adverb “easily.”)

• NBA ratings are down because fans didn't like to see Anthony Davis force his way off the team (with no mention of Butler doing the same thing in two cities, or worse, Paul George signing a long term deal and forcing his way out after one year).

• The Lakers could have problems next year because they don’t have any cap space room to make moves (partially true, but it’s worse going forward for the Bucks, Celtics, Clippers, Heat, Raptors, 76ers, and Warriors).

I do regularly listen to this podcasts. The guys are knowledgeable and make interesting points on current NBA topics. My biggest complaint is the the sound quality. A lot of voice drops, crackling, and in consistent voice volumes. Please fix audio quality to improve daily listening. Also, not my first listen, saying that every time is annoying.

Among the network, including the National pod, some groups are really improving in terms of personnel and production.

I highly suggest changing the intro — not the reason it doesn’t get five stars — just a suggestion. It feels dated and generic, especially at this point. Suggest using a totally different intro. Something more inviting to your listener, more distinctive to your brand, and more contemporary — especially for this national pod to compare against other nationals for people’s “first listen.” Seems a small note, I know, but listeners make decisions very quickly, and trends show that it matters.

Loving the 1min recaps of all the games - definitely beats looking through box scores.

Sorry to leave such a scathing review as I really like a lot of the hosts on the network, but after today's episode I really had to leave something.

Compared to other pods, Locked on has a lot of ads, wasted space, and basic reporting that you can get elsewhere with pretty much any pod.

Today's episode went:

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3 minute long intro where they didn't talk about much of anything aside from watching the draft on some platform
4 mins about Kyle Lowry with little unique analysis
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Locked on Promo
Back to talking Shai where they mentioned Toronto should trade #4 for Shai thats probably not going to happen.
A couple other tidbits
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I skipped the last part
The final 2 mins were some other promo that I didn't listen to

This was a 36 minute podcast I believe.

I listen to Locked on Knicks a lot, and sometimes to Locked NBA, but both I think need to find more ways to provide more unique persona and analysis rather than reporting and rehashing what's going on in the league.

Obviously I know most pods just talk about what everyone else is talking about, but pods like Knicks Film School or Knicks Wall for example are way ahead of Locked on in terms providing unique viewpoints, personality, entertainment, etc. It's hard to listen to those two pods then listen to Locked on after.

All in all, I do like the hosts and don't mind the reporting, but most episodes seem like 30% ads and Locked on promotion, 50% reporting, and maybe 20% goes to some unique analysis about the league/team itself.

Sorry I had to leave this review as I've been listening to NBA pods for years now. But yeah, hope to see something more unique coming in the future.

I don’t know why I keep trying, but when Wes hosts I just can’t get through an episode. He’s arrogant, smug, and loves the sound of his own voice. Embodies a lot of what I don’t like about the media and fans in larger markets. I’d love for him to get some perspective and cover a different team, because he currently comes off as the kind of guy who, just because he’s articulate, thinks he knows more than everyone else.