The Basketball Jones - The Full Seasons

The Full Seasons

At the start of the ‘06 - ’07 season, The Basketball Jones produced a daily in a 15-minute version called “The Fix” and in a half-hour weekly round-up episode. “The Fix” was recorded remotely by Doyle and the hosts interacted with each other through Skype from their respective homes. The group met on the weekend at Doyle’s residence to record the longer show.

Though the show’s audience grew, the three partners became unsatisfied with the poor audio quality yielded by recording the show over the Internet. During the ‘07 - ‘08 season, The Basketball Jones was recorded daily in a studio at Super Sonics Productions in downtown Toronto and produced as a 20 minute show. The improved sound quality, word of mouth, and Skeets’ growing popularity as a writer on Deadspin.com brought more listeners, bouncing the show into iTunes’ top 100 most popular podcasts. At this time, the website, thebasketballjones.net, registered approximately 60,000 page views per month. Towards the end of the season, Skeets was hired by Yahoo! Sports to edit their basketball blog which he renamed, “Ball Don’t Lie”.

For the ‘08 - ‘09 season the show became a video podcast and was filmed in a downtown apartment building. The length of the show was shortened to 15 minutes. In addition to being available on thebasketballjones.net, the video podcast was also embedded daily on the Ball Don’t Lie website.

Matt Osten, a Montreal native and graduate of McGill University's Faculty of Law, officially joined The Basketball Jones at the start of the '09 - '10 season. Osten, also nicknamed The Savage Bodyguard, only wears white suits while on bodyguard duty. Matt coined the phrase, "two towel performance", and regularly puts in a two towel performance during their off-season podcast, The Blank Jones.

Leigh Ellis joined the podcast during the No Season Required tour. On a recent episode: '7 Secrets of podcasting', J.E. Skeets explained why Leigh Ellis had joined the show. His odd, yet funny, Australian accent. Ellis appears on the podcast as a fact checker and rates The Fix on the 'Kate Scale' and shares his Tweets of the week.

The Jones recorded a live 500th episode on January 15, 2010.

On the 31st of October, 2012, the Jones combined their Video podcast on iTunes with their Audio podcast. This led to them reaching the No. 1 spot on iTunes for the amount of listeners.

On March 1, 2010 The Jones proudly announced that they had officially joined The Score, a Canadian multi-media sports network.

During the 2011-2012 NBA season, The Basketball Jones made a deal with the NBA to produce content that would be featured on NBAtv and NBA.com. Although numbers were not disclosed multiple sources say the contract was worth seven figures.

During episode 1007, the final episode of the 2012-2013 NBA season, The Basketball Jones announced that they would not be producing any " Blank Jones " podcasts during the offseason. The reason given to listeners was that TBJ was leaving the score.com. It was confirmed the show would be continuing under a new umbrella, which is as of yet unknown. An announcement on this is expected shortly, on The Basketball Jones' facebook website.