Tim Donahue of 8 Points, 9 Seconds talks Pacers on this latest episode. The holidays and this compressed NBA schedule wreaked havoc with plans to get more podcasts up, but here is the latest. It’s all Pacers all the time so be advised if you’re looking for leaguewide talk. And follow Tim on Twitter.

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In other chatter, we talk about the under-discussed juggernaut that is the Memphis Grizzlies, the unthreatening offenses of the Chicago Bulls and Indiana Pacers, and the sad end of the road for the Boston Celtics as a true contender. For stuff like this and more basketball talk all season, do follow Zach on Twitter as well @ZachLowe_SI.

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David West was signed to a two-year, $20 million deal by the Pacers yesterday. Me and Tim Donahue of our site 8 Points, 9 Seconds got on the horn to discuss the acquisition, among other Pacer-centric things.

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This is the first in a “Playoff Post-Mortem” series of podcast episodes that will be debuting over the next week or so to discuss those teams that were bounced from the postseason already. Fittingly, the Spurs will be next up (tomorrow, baring a abnormally long whisky binge) and the Thunder and Cavs should follow along in short order.

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Enjoy.

And please be sure to subscribe to Talking About Practice on iTunes, where ratings and reviews are encouraged.

As expected, Kelly brings the goods, dropping 50 minutes of funk while discussing the color of his couch, comparing willfully ignorant basketball announcers to Chicken McNugget connoisseurs and breaking down a hypothetical to-the-death duel between Trey Kerby and JE Skeets.

We also talk about basketball.

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Unfortunately, I’m pretty dumb and I messed up the recording during the second half of our conversation. Since Kyle had a lot of insightful things to say and we had a nice debate about Washington’s troubles this season vs. Indiana’s during the Jail Pacers era (which I wrote about last week), I tried all week to recover the audio, but it turns out that I don’t the first clue about how to do that.

My apologies. And that’s why this thing ends rather abruptly — it wasn’t just Kyle hanging up on me. I don’t think anyone wanted the big close to be about James Singleton. Oh well. Live and learn.

Most importantly, we still have a good half-hour talk about the Gilbert’s sentencing and what it means for the future of the Wizards, as well as Andray Blatche acting a little childish (the Adrian Wojnarowski article we talk about is here) and the team’s decision to trade away Antawn Jamison, Caron Butler and Brendan Haywood. Great stuff from Kyle on all this. (And here he is being great again with his piece on the Wizards who have departed the team this year.)

And in further, “Golly, I’m dumb” developments, you will also get to hear me drop some Bill Simmons-ian-level mispronunciation. I always laugh at commentators and analysts who speak improperly, so feel free to mock me as much as you want.

For learning purposes, let’s try these three again aloud:

Recidivist – Re – sid – eh – vist

Leonsis – Lee – own – sis

Wojnarowski – Still – have – no – idea

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Larry has spoken to NBA Players Association President Derek Fisher on several occasions, so there are some great insights there about CBA negotiations. He also thinks that a lockout is “more likely to happen than not.” Scary, scary stuff. No NBA would make the baby Jesus weep with infinite sadness.

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We ran long on this one so I didn’t bother with any major intro to explain the long lay-off since Episode 5. Apologies. Tech difficulties and other projects. But we’re back now and you can expect a new episode roughly once a week. Maybe I’ll even bang out a bunch over the next few weeks out of guilt. We’ll see how ambitious I get.

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Plan your listening accordingly. Then check out some of his work over at SLAM Online and Hawks.com and be sure to tune into NBA TV every Tuesday night at 6:00 pm to see Lang on the network’s new show The Beat.

Additionally, drop me an email or leave a note in the comments of any other teams or subjects you would like to hear more about. I have some guests and topics in mind for the next month or so, but will try to accommodate any requests as much as possible. We talk about practice for the people, after all.

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Kevin just saw his Clippers get smacked around by the Rockets on Wednesday night, so we start with Houston and that inevitably leads into some talk about efficiency and advanced stats. But we get back to talking about more general Western Conference stuff before long, focusing on the Lakers, Nuggets, Mavs and, of course, the Clippers. The stylistic reconstruction that has revived Al Thornton’s career is discussed and we analyze this as something that may fit into the ad-hoc termed “Josh Smith Corollary” that centers around a player forgoing the things on the court that he doesn’t do well and, instead, increasing his utility and efficiency to the team by concentrating on the things he does do well. Josh Smith has famously sworn off of three-point shots this season, and Kevin has seen a similar change in Thornton. We speculate as to whether other guys like Carlos Boozer are or can benefit from such self-realization.

We also chat about ESPN’s TrueHoop Network. Given my involvement in that whole thing via Eight Points, Nine Seconds, I’m admittedly not the best person to be asking Kevin about this stuff. But it is a big topic and an intriguing development in not just NBA circles but in the evolution of the sports blogosphere at large, as anyone who attended either of the Blogs With Balls sports blogging conferences this year can attest to.

And for all you 80s sitcom fans, we also talk for a solid 10 minutes about Benson. Not sure how that happened, but we were able to come to at least one thrilling revelation. I’m not going to spoil the amazing payoff that will surely be sweeping the collective mind of America come this afternoon, but let’s just say that one of the world’s great mysteries has been solved.

I would also be remiss if I failed to give a shout out to our boy AI. (That’s what it’s called in “radio,” right? A “shout out”?) There would be no Talking About Practice without you, Mr. Answer, and, frankly, I wasn’t ready for an NBA without you either.

Welcome back.

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Thus, below, for your listening pleasure, is “Episode 3: The One Where Chris Ballard’s Publicist Doesn’t Probably Vet the Person Requesting an Interview.”

In all seriousness, it was a rather good discussion, if I do say so myself. And if you’re a person who is reading about the NBA on the internet, you will probably enjoy all the talk about Shane Battier, Daryl Morey and the Rockets’ use of advanced statistics/rigorous game-charting. We spend about 20 minutes on that stuff and also recount Ballard’s three-point shootout with Steve Kerr, talk about his D-3 glory days at Pomona College and go back and forth on the Dreaded 10 Questions of Stupidity.

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We get pretty in depth about Rajon Rondo (and reference this lenghty Boston Globe article on him that, in part, details his love for Connect Four), discuss Sheldon Williams vs. Big Baby, chat about the defense and mention some of the more typical Big Three/Sheed stuff as well. John also shares his thoughts on the other Eastern Conference contenders and faces the dreaded Ten Questions, which is an obvious gimmick that I am hoping your company would one day like to sponsor. (Call me.)

We did this before the Celtics beat Golden State last night, which was nice because John was willing to humor me and evaluate some of Boston’s few flaws rather than focusing on how dominant they are and likely will stay all season. Still, good times and there is a nice little Easter egg in there towards the end for you Boston fans.

That’s about all.

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Yeah, I know everyone and their mom has a podcast these days, but I’ve been wanting to do one for a while, so here it is. Honestly, between keeping up with BTPH, covering the Pacers at 8p9s and chiming in on occasion over at Hardwood Paroxysm, I don’t have the time for this. But make time I shall, all for the listening pleasures of ye’ loyal Both Teamsters. Think of it as the same consistent mediocrity you’ve come to expect — only now in audio form. Hopefully, it doesn’t suck too bad. Let me know your thoughts and whether or not this is worth your time.

The plan, as far as there is one, is to just call up some NBA heads I know and any others that will answer my emails to talk hoops. So who else could I choose to join me for Episode 1 than Talkhoops own Zach Harper, who also runs Cowbell Kingdom for the ESPN TrueHoop Network. We chat away for some 50 minutes on everything from last night’s news, which teams you should be watching on League Pass, the rookies to take note of and, predictably, My Cousin Vinny.

Listen to the Episode 1 in full below and stay tuned for the iTunes subscription to begin.

Enjoy.