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The Hoop Heads Podcast is co-hosted by Head Start Basketball Founder Mike Klinzing and Coach Jason Sunkle. The Hoop Heads Podcast covers a wide range of basketball topics relevant to coaches, players, and parents. Listen in for interviews with personalities from across the basketball landscape.

Our line-up of podcast guests includes some of the top minds in the game across all levels, from grassroots to the NBA. They’ll share insights to help you grow as a coach, improve as a player, or enhance your experience of the game as a parent. You’ll gain new perspectives on what the best coaches are doing, how they do it, and why they do it. We hope to make you think and challenge you to consider your approach to the game of basketball.

We’ll also attempt to entertain and inform as we share our thoughts on the NBA and college hoops. We are passionately committed to the Hoop Heads Podcast and growing the game of basketball.

Visit our website www.hoopheadspod.com to check out every episode we've ever recorded and learn more about what drives our show!

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  • #1300
    September 21 · 1 hr 14 min

    Michael Martinez - Overseas Pro Player & Bilingual Content Creator - Episode 1300

    Michael Martinez is an overseas professional basketball player who currently competes internationally in Columbia. Michael has also built a bilingual following of 275K+ across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Snapchat, posting training, game day, and everyday content in English and Spanish.

  • #1299
    September 18 · 26 min

    Round Table 93 - What’s something about winning that you understand differently now than you did when you first became a coach? - Episode 1299

    Welcome to the 93rd edition of the Coach’s Corner Round Table on the Hoop Heads Podcast. Each episode of the Coach’s Corner Round Table will feature our All-Star lineup of guests answering a single basketball question.  A new Coach’s Corner Round Table will drop around the 15th of each month. September’s Round Table question is:  What’s something about winning that you understand differently now than you did when you first became a coach?

  • #1298
    September 16 · 1 hr 4 min

    Ballmer, Expansion, League Pass, & The Best Players from Each State Rankings Continue - Episode 1298

    On this episode Mike & Jason discuss a slow NBA news week, including potential league expansion to Seattle and Las Vegas and which Western Conference team might move east. They criticize the confusing and expensive ways fans must access local NBA games, arguing that a reasonably priced League Pass-style package would be a better solution. The hosts examine Steve Ballmer’s decision not to challenge the NBA’s punishment of the Clippers and debate what the franchise’s future looks like without full

  • #1296
    September 11 · 1 hr 28 min

    Nick Nichay - Dartmouth College Men's Basketball Assistant Coach - Episode 1296

    Nick Nichay is entering his first season at Dartmouth College as a Men’s Basketball Assistant Coach under Brett McConnell. Nick previously served as the Head Coach at D3 Franklin & Marshall College for seven seasons where he led the Diplomats to consecutive appearances in the NCAA Tournament in 2025 and 2026.

  • #1294
    September 7 · 1 hr 11 min

    Andre Jackson - Director & Producer of the Documentary "Beyond Banners" - Episode 1294

    Andre Jackson is the producer and director of the documentary Beyond Banners which follows sixty years of Gwynn Park High School basketball, a powerhouse public school program in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The doc begins as the story of one basketball program and grows into an examination of what is happening to high school sports on a national level.

  • #1290
    August 28 · 1 hr 32 min

    Danny Servick - Founder of Pro One Basketball - Episode 1290

    Danny Servick founded Pro One Sports in 2003 and built the company into one of the top global agencies in the business. Danny served as an NBA and FIBA agent, provided scouting services for top teams all over Europe, and helped players and coaches all over the world. On this episode Mike and Danny discuss the evolution of Pro One Basketball from professional player agency to travel basketball club

  • #1289
    August 26 · 1 hr 37 min

    NBA Eastern Conference "Grade My Summer" - Episode 1289

    On this episode Mike & Jason grade each Eastern Conference team's off-season moves and breakdown their current depth chart as the summer winds down.Visit our Sponsors!Give With HoopsGive With Hoops is a groundbreaking initiative that fuses basketball analytics with modern sponsorship. Built for teams who see data as opportunity, from AAU programs to college powerhouses. By tying on-court performance directly to community and sponsor engagement, Give With Hoops help programs raise more while deep

  • #1288
    August 24 · 1 hr 17 min

    Linda Martindale - Founder of Martindale Coaching - Episode 1288

    Linda Martindale is the Founder of Martindale Coaching where she works with athletes on their mental fitness. Linda has been a head varsity basketball coach for both girls and boys, most recently as the boys’ varsity basketball head coach at Lincoln-Sudbury High School in Massachusetts. She is also the host of the Game Changers podcast and a non-profit board member.Linda played college basketball at Alaska-Anchorage and The University of Arizona. She has 4 children who have all been college athl

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