Surely you have subscribed to the TrueHoop Podcast wherever you listen, right? And if you would rate it and recommend it that would be ever so kind.

If you haven’t, the latest episode is right here, and includes Jarod Hector, David Thorpe, Henry Abbott, and special guest and sportswriter extraordinaire Howard Beck.

• A first look at Kevin Durant as a Sun.

• Yet another troubling story about Ja Morant. Howard offers some intelligent perspective on reporting.

• The trouble with "sports media" and the Nikola Jokic conversation.

• The NBA/NBPA new collective bargaining agreement. Jarod thinks it's the most important deal for the league's future.