SiriusXM is expanding its NBA coverage with a new weekday program aimed at giving fans a deeper understanding of how teams operate behind the scenes. The company announced it has launched Deals and Dunks, a daily show dedicated to the business, strategy, and decision-making that shape the league.
The program debuted on SiriusXM NBA Radio and will air each weekday from 1–2 p.m. ET.
While the channel already features wall-to-wall discussion of games, players, and storylines, Deals and Dunks marks a shift toward more front-office-focused content. The show promises to break down roster construction, trade negotiations, contract decisions, and salary cap maneuvering—areas that have grown increasingly popular as fans have gravitated to the transactional side of the sport.
Zach Harper, a SiriusXM host and NBA writer for The Athletic, will lead the program. Harper has covered the league for more than a decade and is known for blending sharp analysis with an understanding of how executives think. However, he won’t be doing it alone. SiriusXM is pairing him with a rotating group of co-hosts who bring firsthand front-office experience or decades of reporting on the league’s biggest moves.
Former Phoenix Suns general manager Ryan McDonough and longtime Suns front-office executive Amin Elhassan will be among the regular contributors. Both have become prominent media voices in recent years and are expected to bring context to the kinds of conversations that usually stay inside team war rooms. Veteran NBA journalists Marc Stein and Chris Haynes will also join Harper throughout the week, offering national reporting insight and perspective on the forces driving decisions around the league.
The show adds another layer to a channel already anchored by established daily programming. The Starting Lineup, hosted by Frank Isola and former NBA forward-center Brian Scalabrine, remains the morning foundation for the network. Midday listeners continue to have Give and Go, featuring Rob “World Wide Wob” Perez and former guard Antonio Daniels, followed by NBA Today with Justin Termine and Eddie Johnson.
Johnson spent 17 years in the league and won the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year award in 1988–89.
With the addition of “Deals and Dunks,” SiriusXM is signaling confidence that fans want more depth, more nuance, and more transparency into how the NBA’s biggest roster decisions actually come together.
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