☀️NO LOOK is taking its listeners to sunny Los Angeles☀️, but, no, not to the dreamy magic of the Lakers. It’s time to talk about the Los Angeles Clippers. First of all: do you know what a clipper is? I bet you don’t! Anyway! Friend, foe? Laura and Sarah are decidedly meh, whatever, and okay about Clippers Nations. Steve Ballmer haters unite! Blake Griffin lovers, this one's for you! Remember when Kawhi Leonard left the Toronto Raptors after one season, bound for the Clippers, in search of his n...
Apr 03, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Admit it: there are a LOT of teams in the NBA that give you the ick, and sometimes you’re not sure why, and others you absolutely know deep in your soul they’re garbage to you. Therefore, the NO LOOK pod presents this special Garbage Minutes episode featuring the Charlotte Hornets, Orlando Magic, Memphis Grizzlies, and Houston Rockets. (Please clap that the gals made it through this speed round of teams unscathed.) It’s not like these are TERRIBLE teams (except for the Hornets, not budging on th...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr 27 min
Hi hi hi hi, did you miss NO LOOK podcast?! The gals took an extra long All-Star break to discover the joy and magic of Savannah, Georgia (Laura) and Tony Soprano (Sarah.) But this week, the pod is back and it’s Chicago Bulls week. No, they didn’t do a Last Dance rewatch, but enough of the content, memes, and Michael Jordan’s general MJ-ness are burned into their brains forever. Learn about Sarah’s basketball origin story, why Laura is meh on this team overall, who’s the Scottie Pippen and who’s...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Happy Valentine’s Day! On this episode of NO LOOK, Laura and Sarah go to San Antone! (That’s how you say it and spell it, right? Pretend you’re hearing it in a sexy, scruffy Texan drawl.) The San Antonio Spurs seem chill as hell and so is this episode. Learn about the Coyote in probably the most comprehensive mascot check of the season so far. Hear about why Gregg Popovich rules and also why there’s no Kawhi Leonard on this ep. (Spoiler: Kawhi’s a Clipper now, duh.) News check? Trade SZN, baby! ...
Feb 14, 2024•1 hr 23 min
Welcome to this eighth, meaty episode of NO LOOK. The episode with beautiful audio, beautiful chats, and beautiful vibes about a team that could be bland as hell but isn’t: the Indiana Pacers. Laura and Sarah wax poetic about this mid-east, sorta-southern team. What’s a pacer? (It’s a car thing, if you didn’t know, which they didn’t.) Why do Laura and Sarah love this team so much? Why does Sarah start her day with mic’d up TJ McConnell videos on YouTube? Tyrese Haliburton is the mature, fashiona...
Feb 07, 2024•1 hr 20 min
NO LOOK is back and laser (beam) focused on the Sacramento Kings, the twin flame of the Toronto Raptors. Today, Blake Gillespie (@sacredhoopsbook) takes over History Check and gives a rhapsodic and poetic chronicle of the Kings, their playoff drought, and what it’s like to be a fan of a sometimes flailing team. (Sound familiar, Raptors fans?????) Mascot check? A black-eyes-to-hell creature named Slamson the Lion who Sarah and Laura think would be into Regina Spektor’s “Samson” tho. News check? A...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 17 min
NO LOOK’s most unhinged episode yet. In this episode, Laura and Sarah take us through sizzling Heat Culture. What makes the Heat so good? What impact does Pat Riley’s fashion and management style have on Laura? Why is Sarah so meh about this team? Is Erik Spoelstra that good of a coach to get THAT deal? Why is it SO HARD to figure out audio on a podcast? News check? Soft-launching a new segment called KLAY OF THE DAY. Klay Thompson on the Bay, some seals, how delightful. Finishing up with DRAY O...
Jan 17, 2024•1 hr 15 min
An unfortunately prescient episode of NO LOOK. On Dec. 29, 2023, Laura and Sarah decided the next episode would be about the New York Knicks. The next day, Sarah’s life partner, OG Anunoby, was traded to the Knicks. A dark day in Toronto Raptors fandom. A day team NO LOOK understood the gravity of their powers. In this episode, Laura gives us the Knicks’ fairly rudimentary history, Sarah’s mascot check is that there is no mascot, and how does everyone feel about the Knicks with OG on the team? A...
Jan 11, 2024•1 hr 11 min
On the fourth episode NO LOOK, we take on the reigning NBA champs, The Denver Nuggets! Horse girl, Nikola Jokic! The pride and joy of Kitchener-Waterloo, Jamal Murray! Denver has a fairly boring history, which we’ve honestly come to expect from this team. (Laura feels not a whole lot for this small market team and Sarah’s fine to hide in the mountains.) The team’s mascot is a lil spicy though so we’ll take it. News check? Christmas Day games! The Detroit Pistons break our hearts! NBA boyfriend o...
Jan 08, 2024•1 hr 7 min
In episode three of NO LOOK, we torture Laura with yet another episode about birds: the New Orleans Pelicans! Mascot Check takes its toll on Sarah (prepare your mind, body, and soul for the King Cake Baby.) What’s your dream Smoothie King smoothie? Hear Laura’s gospel on the brand that gives us the best arena name in the league. The team has a fairly sad history and we wish them nothing but the best for the future. News check? Massive concern around Luka Doncic’s identity crisis (thin headband.)...
Jan 03, 2024•1 hr 4 min
In episode two of NO LOOK, we’re flying high into the sky with the Atlanta Hawks! Laura, a noted ornithophobe, and Sarah, not an ornithophobe, dig into the Hawks’ team history, if a “hawk” is an appropriate mascot for the vibrant city of Atlanta, and how we each feel about Trae Young (hint: one feels pretty great about Trae, the other calls him a troll doll.) News check? Draymond Green’s indefinite suspension (why his Gemini Moon m a t t e r s) and Giannis Antetokounmpo’s game ball frackus with ...
Jan 01, 2024•52 min
Welcome to No Look podcast! We’re Laura Jane Faulds and Sarah MacDonald, two writers living in downtown Toronto, devout Toronto Raptors fans (this year notwithstanding), and basketball fans at large. For us, No Look is the podcast equivalent of an impassioned dinner conversation about your favourite basketball player’s worst tattoo (we’re looking at you DeMar, I’m sorry) or the history of the New Orlean’s Pelicans’ terrifying King Cake Baby mascot or what Bronny James’ life will be like in the l...
Dec 26, 2023•1 hr 6 min
