Melas, Skeets, Doyle and Osten met while attending Ryerson University's Radio and Television Arts program in Toronto, Canada from 2001–2005.

[1] Melas was the co-host of a talk show on SPIRITlive, Ryerson's Internet radio station, called the "Sports Doctors".

Noticing a significant spike in reader traffic, Skeets began writing exclusively about basketball, usually from an irreverent and humorous perspective.

[2] These posts featured a photograph of two NBA players who appeared to be slow dancing accompanied by an imagined conversation between the athletes.

The titled famously caused controversy in the U.K., when Richard & Judy refused to admit it to their book club, due to "ethical reasons"[citation needed].

Drawing on his past experience with radio, Skeets decided to use the emerging medium of podcasting to produce a basketball-related talk show.

Each show consisted of segments dedicated to the on- and off-court happenings in the NBA separated by short musical breaks.

It also paid special attention to the NBA "blogosphere", a collection of bloggers who maintained web pages about their local teams.

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.

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.

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.

Born in Australia, Ellis is known for his unusual personal stories, a long-running "Tweet of the Week" segment, and his love for the pure fundamentals of basketball, such as free throws, jumpshot mechanics, and ball movement leading to easy layups.

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

Then, the show was divided into one main talking segment followed by a shorter one that included viewers' questions, "The 'Whoa Boy' Fantasy Line of the Night", and the "Book-off picks", a feature in which the hosts competed at selecting winning teams based on gambling odds.

Melas ended the show with a quote, to which Skeets replied, "Embrace the day people", followed by a sample of the song "Love Letter" by Easy Access Orchestra.

"The Overdose", the hour-long audio-only episode on Friday, featured interview and commentary and frequently diverted from basketball into the wacky stories from the NBA's week.

Skeets' frequent malapropisms such as "The Internets" and mispronunciations such as Shane "Ba-ché", Melas' peculiar analogies and love of the phrase "There's no doubt about that", and Doyle's eclectic musical selections, as well as various "drops" including the infamous Kenny Smith quote "Gimme Some Raptor News", were all hallmarks of the show.

During the podcast's first three seasons, Caroline Lesley, a New York-based actress, introduced the show and recorded several interstitials that ran at the episode's breaks.

[6] Due to a switch in studios caused by Rogers Media purchasing The Score television channel, but not the website and mobile assets, The Basketball Jones discontinued distributing The Fix as a video podcast at the beginning the 2012–13 season.

He has also done sound editing work for many animated television programs including Atomic Betty, Carl Squared, and Johnny Test.