A thread to talk about NBA Podcasts / Personalities / Announcers / Shows / Broadcasters / Commentators

Stuff like: who the best or worst broadcasting teams are / which podcasts are worth checking out / which nbatv shows are good / how bad inside the nba is / etc.

listening to the Kyrie episode of JJ Redick's podcast and kyrie is a weirdo. anyway in a snippet of it JJ said the rim on one side of the court (at the England arena) was crooked. 76ers shot well in the first half and Boston in the 2nd half. idk thought that was interesting

the minn broadcast team is good like everyone says. i actually learn stuff from those guys.

yeah i like them. i like the pdx team as well.

So my top pods are:

listen to every one p much
Lowe Post
Woj Pod
House of Strauss – New pod with Ethan Strauss and his wife Allie (some hoops but kind of all over the place)
JJ Redick
bill simmons when he has hoops talk
warriors plus/minus with tim kawakami and marcus thompson

listen to some but not all
The Ringer NBA show — with Network and those peeps
Talk Hoops with Zach Harper
Basketball Friends — Haberstroh and other people
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show — Ben Golliver & Andrew Sharp
The Hoop Collective — all kind of espn writers
RealGM Radio — Danny Leroux pod

i love the TBF guys. THC is a pretty pale imitation at this point.

agree

plz post juicy nuggs from podcasts in here plz thanks in advance

actually we require that you listen to the full pods to be able to comment itt

rude!

i love the basketball jones/the starters weekly pod, but I could understand if it is way too silly for some. Road trippin is occasionally entertaining. The Ringer's NBA pods should be much better than they are. Give Shea Serrano a podcast, simmons!

I fully admit to watching the starters daily nba tv show most days please do not ban me

lol those guys are living the life props to them for turning hoops fandom into a career. havent really listened to them since the TBJ days, I follow them all on twitter tho.

i can only (sporadically) get into the tv show around all-star game and playoffs, but yeah they are inspirations

I mostly like the constant dunking on leigh ellis and his constant Dad ways

bill simmons on Lowe's pod just released, im sure to discuss the Rox/Clips dramz

it was p good. but they are mostly talking midseason awards or w/e. think lowe is going on simmons' pod tomorrow.

anyone watch the rachel nichols show the jump?

i'd like to but it's on at a time where i am never watching tv

yeah the timing is rough, i let it run in the background when im at work sometimes. p good. she gets good guests.

Chris Paul watched ASG last yr and didn’t like lack of competition... he hated seeing Steph have fun especially when he laid down on floor during game after Giannis dunk. From @BontaHill show with @sam_amick

— warriorsworld (@warriorsworld) January 20, 2018

Didn’t know cp was a “play the game the right way” truther . What a dork.

lol cmon of course he is

How does kev stan for someone who hates fun so much?

Windhorst
"Right now, the best place for Isaiah would be in the G-League...He's costing the Cavs games right now. It would be better if he was costing the Charge games."

shd be standard to rehab in the minors after a big injury, players shd be into it, chance to get yr groove back in a low pressure situation

agree

congrats to zach lowe for finally figuring out a workable hair situation.
http://i68.tinypic.com/2hol79e.jpg
also his new pod w woj man between the two of them is just way too much stuttering! both really dry basketball nerds does not make for an entertaining podcast.

i need this magic sleep drink
https://www.si.com/nba/2018/02/06/nuggets-knicks-trey-lyles-blake-griffin-derrick-rose-som-sleep-drink

ESPN announced that they are expanding their Rachel Nichols hosted, The Jump, to one hour.

— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) February 20, 2018

Richard Jefferson on Simmons had a lot of great Cavs drama gossip

gotta check that

Ethan Strauss joining the Athletic might be enough to push me over the edge to sign up.

Hey nerds listen to the basketball movie podcast my sister has started doing w her friends

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/film-court/id1393865270?mt=2

Subd. I’ll check it out

Thanks; please thinkfluence all your friends so she becomes extremely successful.

breens greatest calls

Mike Breen Greatest Calls: A Thread pic.twitter.com/BeehE5aItT

— Ike (@ManILoveOhio) July 16, 2018

cant wait for this show

“I still regret giving my 14-year-old my name.” - @KingJames

This and more real, unfiltered conversation with @OBJ_3, @mavcarter, and more in UNINTERRUPTED’s unscripted series THE SHOP.

First episode dropping 8/28, exclusively on @HBO. pic.twitter.com/zIoxEgBnJn

— UNINTERRUPTED (@uninterrupted) July 26, 2018

Shams leaving Yahoo for the Athletic.

SVG joining ESPN

Our Andrew Marchand reporting Stan Van Gundy expected to join ESPN as studio analyst. Would love instead to see Mike Breen paired with the Brockport boys - Jeff and Stan https://t.co/tZQeTl3K3S

— Marc Berman (@NYPost_Berman) September 28, 2018

they gotta let those guys do a game together at some point.

For sure

my fav hoops pod rn is brian windhorst's espn pod w/ the other espn basketball ppl. it's basically the old truehoop podcast but w/ all good/smart writers and no "personalities" like amin or the more talk radio-ish guys that used to be on the truehoop pods. windhorst is kind of a garbage writer but as a moderator of conversation he's good bcuz he is very very knowledgeable about the league.

i listen to it cause brian is good but i actually hate the combinations of guests who rarely seem to have any chemistry. other than bontemps whose grumpiness i enjoy they can be a drag.

it's a little worse now bcuz jackie macmullan is out... sometimes it's a weird crew. kirk goldsberry in partic is not very good.

yeah he's awful.

windy is cool enough. he knows a lot for sure, seems really plugged in. i havent listened to his pod recently ill get back into it. dude lacks any sense of humor tho.

windy has a sense of humor but like any good midwesterner it's extremely dry.

espn shuffling nba countdown again:

SOURCES: BEADLE, PIERCE, BILLUPS OUT AT ESPN’S “COUNTDOWN”

only Jalen is staying on

i like chauncey, paul is awful obvs

jalen, u cant fire jalen

chauncey is fine just boring. beadle seemed fine? idk the whole show needs to be re-thought. try something totally different.

that show is really and truly wretched... jalen actually is prob the only good one

honestly i really enjoyed scott van pelt's coverage of game 5 on his special edition of sportscenter they should just give postgame to him

beadle seemed really disengaged most of the time. none of them had any chemistry.

agree. i love the final sportscenter with ScottVP. great format

yeah its good

players only is done.

Via sources: TNT will no longer air the Players Only NBA broadcast. Turner Sports will likely do some Players Only content but as far as games for the 2019-20 season, the Players Only broadcast on TNT is no more.

— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) July 24, 2019

a not-bad idea that was horribly executed.

i did enjoy some players only broadcasts but when it was bad it was insufferable... they also did it too often. would've liked to see them tweak a bit but oh well

yah you both are otm. kinda wish they tried to hone it to a good spot and adapt it rather than dump it completely but the naysayers were pretty harsh on it from the start.

i think they'd just need to be more selective about the scheduling... it was a cool vibe for those middle of the season thursday night west coast TNT games that are like blazers vs rockets or whatever. but sometimes they'd get a good game where you actually wanna hear real announcers and it would be like, why'd anyone think this was a good idea

by good game i mean big game

yeah there was one where there was some crazy shotmaking going on between two good teams and i think on a big go ahead bucket greg anthony was like "well that was a really nice look there ... well executed" or some monotone platitude and all i wanted was a breen BAAAAANG or w/e

yup all otm

Matt Barnes is the future imo

barnes is good breaking down the game and what not from the little postgame and The Jump clips ive seen but not sure about entertaining for a 2.5 hour broadcast. its really a hard skill, even the best at it get bad after a while (van gundy).

an idea for players only would be to rotate different guys in and out like a quarter at a time or something

Players only being gone is good but questionable stuff is going on. They got rid of The Starters, Kamla gone. Seems like cost cutting for no reason.

yeah wonder what their plan is, if anything

Ros and Fratello out at nba/tnt

Fitz as Hannity I’m guessing because on his (recently canceled) radio show he would defend literally everything the warriors org did and would just really go over the top praising Myers/Jacobs/Kerr etc

oh duh i totally read matts post wrong thought he was talking about jim barnett. fitz is a goof yeah.

Main issue with Fitz on KNBR is that they lost the Warriors rights to 95.7, so it was less of a natural fit having him on the network. Radnich "retiring" plus Greg Papa moving over just made it a good time for housecleaning. They absorbed Fitz's co-host Rob Brooks into Tom Tolbert's show, which has been pretty bad so far.

Rod* Brooks

yeah I was irrationally bummed by the knbr shakeup

Russillo leaving ESPN for the Ringer

So...the news is out. I’m headed to @ringer
Want to thank @espn for the last 14 years.
I grew up on @SportsCenter and then to be on the actual set, my name on a show...have to remind myself at times how cool that is
Excited to try and limit Celts talk to 30mins w/ @BillSimmons

— Russillo (@ryenarussillo) August 6, 2019

he didn't already work for the ringer?

he did dual duty but now it seems he’s going to be exclusive to the ringer

I like russillo a lot, he’s a pretty independent thinker, does his homework, and is funny. he’s always right on the edge of being arrogant and being in on the joke. he’s either a thoughtful meathead or the reverse, can’t really tell for sure

love him yeah. he's the best bill guest for sure, they are pretty in sync when they do their pod

him or lowe yeah

yeah Lowe is only like once or twice a year tho

i didn't know him before but i've grown to really like him over the course of his appearances on bill's pod....his sense of humor is very dry and weird and mostly based on really subtle and quick meta jokes about being a media talking head. he's also good on actual sports. i don't always agree with his nba takes but he definitely comes to them from an authentic place.

he did this bit on bill's pod a couple months ago about his worst year ever and it was just him factually describing shitty things happening to him as a broke and directionless dude in his 20s. it was so good it was almost poetic.

yeah the 2002 rant was so good. I was in hermosa/Manhattan beach last week and was hoping id run into him roller blading or something lol.

omg i just found it again, the part where he proposes to his elementary school teacher gf at the school in front of children and she says no is classic material

sometimes he and bill get a liiiittle too bro-y for me... but as far as basketball goes he def knows his shit

one thing i do hate about them is they have this tic where they refer to anything as "the [x] thing" ... "and then the brogdon thing happened" "are we gonna talk about the griffin thing" and sometimes they'll just refer to a "thing" esp from the past where you're like wait that's a thing? i really hate it

haha they def overdo the "thing" thing

hope they dont oversaturate and only do like once every few weeks or something (probably wont happen)

bill misses a lot of his jokes I think

KG's Area 21 cancelled.

lotta restlessness with nba broadcasts this offseason

for the starters heads: https://awfulannouncing.com/nba/the-starters-join-the-athletic.html

nice for those dudes. athletic always seemed like a good fit.

https://nypost.com/2019/10/08/michelle-beadle-buyout-rachel-nichols-rise-espns-nba-power-shift-is-complete/

Dwyane Wade has signed a wide-ranging multiyear deal with WarnerMedia. He'll be a TNT NBA analyst, do studio appearances for Turner/CBS at the Final Four, work on projects for Bleacher Report - and his production company, 59th & Prairie, got a development deal for new content.

— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) October 22, 2019

trophy husband trying to be useful around the house

lol he's going to be insanely boring

wade def often has some sleepy stoner vibes onscreen idk how that'll really work

yeah im not sold

I agree. But Jalen was similar yet morphed into a good media personality.

he's just never going to say anything interesting. i never heard him say anything interesting for however long he was playing.

yeah he's famous and will continue to be famous independent of basketball so it's not surprising that the TV networks would be after him even tho cad is 100% right

wade as a tv personality will be like webber on quaaludes

c webb is cool tho, he doesn't say much but he has a good vibe. wade is cheesy

CWebb just needs a new partner

a lot of players doing pods now, anyone listening regularly to any?

_ Knuckleheads with Q Rich and Darius Miles is pretty fun but they are kinda boring, got some big guests like KD, Kobe and Wade
_ Matt Barnes and Stack Jack got one on showtime called All the Smoke. I like it so far, the JR smith one was pretty good
_ Road trippin with Channing and R Jeff - havent listened cos r jeff is a warriors h8r
_ JJ reddick one is pretty good
_ Winging it with Vince and Baze heard one it was fine

idk any more?

one w current players talking about the recent games theyd played / basketball thoughts on other teams games wld be cool

I can't listen to Q Rich cause friend went to school with him and I've heard several stories about what an asshole handsy jerk he was

fair

You can tell JJ wants to be Professional Media Guy. Haven't listened to it in awhile but ya can be p good.

sure he will be on tv upon retirement (after this season prob)

is JJ the most successful white guy duke failson

probably yeah

i really like jared dudley on everything i hear him do. he breaks things down but also has grounded opinions and doesnt seem scared to rustle some feathers. im sure he'll have a voice in the media post retirement

jj's transformation from duke superstar who writes poetry about how hard it is to have haters into well liked low key nba role player is pretty stunning tbf

dude turned into the best hired gun in the league somehow. figured out just enough defense to be able to stay on the floor with any lineup. he looks pretty bad this year so far tho so it may be nearing the end of the line

it must suck to have millions of ppl continue to judge you for how you were when you were 20. not just speaking about JJ but pro atheletes in general.

My memory of redick was that the defense was good by year 2 because the offense was struggling and he needed to compensate.

imo he’s a classic example of a guy who does everything pretty well and one thing very well

also has a great motor cool with just running around the whole game. he's a master of off-balance shooting, feel like he shoots as good fading to his right as he does completely set

he also got into sick shape, has to be one of the best-conditioned guys nowadays. for a guy who was wildly entitled and overrated coming out of school i give him credit for figuring out what he needed to change to stick in the nba and making it happen.

got over my Q Rich dislike...Knuckleheads is really good

someone like Durant comes off much differently (ie better) with them 2 than any other interview I've heard

got over my Q Rich dislike...Knuckleheads is really good

iirc in an article from like last year miles said they stole it from a LA high school team and before that theyve said it was a pulling yr antenna out gesture ie having high awareness

https://www.clipsnation.com/2018/10/24/18019850/darius-miles-origin-trademark-celebration-fist-tap-quentin-richardson-baby-clippers

https://gunaxin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/quentin-richardson-clippers.jpg

I loved that clippers team btw

That was the first clippers team that made people really think things could change there. Obviously the Elton Brand teams fulfilled it.

nah that would be the early 90's teams with Manning imo , they made it to the playoffs for the first time in LA two years in a row.

Yeah but those teams had larry brown coaching, that doesn’t count. The bobcats made the playoffs with Larry brown.

true! we were hyped for them though and went to a bunch of games those years . it was fun.

big draw of course was those tickets were cheap and we couldn't really afford to go The Forum much.

I like the podcast the guys from The Starters do for the Athletic, No Dunks. You may need a subscription for it

idk dunks are good imo

you don't need an athletic subscription for those pods. they're good but it's a little too much content every day, I'm listening to 2-3 a week

They cut loose more than they did on tv and also make fun of each other more

yeah I always liked their podcasts way more than the tv show, they're much better at shooting the shit than fitting into the rigid sports TV format

I really like Drew Gooden on the wizards broadcast team. Great voice, easy-going homerism.

wade on the all the smoke pod talking about parenting his kids is powerful stuff
https://youtu.be/qqwBZqndDUg
about 30 min in

Looking forward to listening to this, I just got hip to this pod and it’s great, lmfao when Jax was talking about how JJ Redick got him to start wearing classier watches and Barnes says “He respectfully shitted on your watch.”

one thing i do hate about them is they have this tic where they refer to anything as "the (x) thing" ... "and then the brogdon thing happened" "are we gonna talk about the griffin thing" and sometimes they'll just refer to a "thing" esp from the past where you're like wait that's a thing? i really hate it

― J0rdan S., Monday, August 5, 2019 bookmarkflaglink

This stands out to me SO much more now since you posted this. lmao youve almost ruined them for me.

look it's hard for me to listen to it myself

I’m surprised no one has brought this to their attention. It would be fine on occasion but it’s become like an every topic filler word

This has probably been discussed upthread but the scourge of referring to players by their first names has to stop. Exceptions obv for guys with cool or iconic names like Zion or Lebron or Luka but foh with referring to Simmons as Ben or Harden as James like they’re your buddies

I’m surprised no one has brought this to their attention. It would be fine on occasion but it’s become like an every topic filler word

― Thybulle on the Dash (Spottie), Wednesday, February 26, 2020 9:53 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'm pretty sure russillo is aware that he does this. it's of a piece with his meta approach to talking about sports.

listened to JR Rider episode of All The Smoke and was like man I think I've been confusing JR Rider & Isaiah Rider my whole life. Googled him and discovered the shocking truth...

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5YvonzEDfQ

lol granny

I hope this doesn't sound condescending or like I'm playing into gender stereotypes but I really enjoyed hearing Jackie MacMullan talk about MJ on Zack Lowe's podcast and provide a feminine perspective. "You're a details guy, Zack, I'm all about the emotional experience". It does get a bit old to hear nothing but men give their takes on NBA past & present, which as a whole pay very little attention to emotional, personal, family history, etc matters.

she also had some good "bball breakdown" type nuggets, such as how Dennis Johnson was the 1st person who pointed out to her some of the things MJ was doing on defense

Chris Webber reportedly may be done at Turner after 2020-21 NBA season https://t.co/YGjFUSDdix pic.twitter.com/J7O6AeorjM

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 7, 2021

lol my first thought

Webber isn’t very popular with viewers, which is often indicated by “Chris Webber” being a trending topic on Twitter on the nights he’s calling a game.

the time has certainly come...

now do marv.

unfortunately article mentions pierce and jefferson as possible replacements

nooooo c webb come back

lol

perk got extended at espn today too. i guess they just want the loudest most clownish dudes out there.

Overdue but end of an era

A legendary career 👏

Hall of Fame broadcaster Marv Albert announces his retirement following TNT’s coverage of 2021 NBA Eastern Conference Finals. pic.twitter.com/2UyTfaG53y

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) May 17, 2021

his long second act should never have happened.

correct

my god marv is wearing a lot of makeup in the picture in that tweet

The @nytimes in talks to buy @TheAthletic
— Sources say NYT approached The Athletic following a @BenMullin report about a potential deal between The Athletic & Axios
— The Athletic has roughly 1.2m subscribers, a number of which on discounted rate planshttps://t.co/mlNJZ9VCwu

— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) May 25, 2021

ok will my nyt subscription work then lol

will https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome work tho

ooh thx

essential extension

it would be nice if there was one for a REAL BROWSER

there is a firefox one

withdrawn

feels like draymond is being groomed for the inside the NBA desk after he retires, thankfully he's very good at it

Yah he’s a natural

athletic had a long piece about that iirc, he's absolutely gonna be chuck's replacement

dray needs to study chuck for how to get the takes off in a smooth manner, right now he just says a bunch of off the wall shit looking for applause, hes a lil more shaq than chuck tbf

i dont think hes said anythign off the wall? that one booker thing but he was trying to get him to come to gs.

he did something out there a while ago that "got people talking" trying to remember what it was

he def has to grow as a personality and a thinker but conversing on camera for TV seems to come natural to him

yeah i dont think its fair to judge him at this point hes just moonlighting, setting him up to replace chuck also prob not fair

lol i mean look when chucks gonna fire one off he goes real low key

"I call him Anthony 'Street Clothes' Davis because he's always in street clothes"

Chuck has a nickname for AD 😅

(via @NBAonTNT) pic.twitter.com/Q2VkI5CwTh

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) June 2, 2021

lmao i was dying at that last night. inside is so much better during the playoffs

just a master class, no one wanted to ask him what he was talking about but they were already in too deep

the grim resignation from ernie that he’s the one they pay to ask such questions

lol yes

replacing chuck is probably an impossible job bcuz he created an entirely new role for an ex-player analyst that doesn't really feel repeatable, like threading this needle where your opinion is respected across the nba but also the whole shtick around you on TV is that you don't watch the games. it just seems like he's the only one that can really pull that off. draymond will have to figure out his own personality.

but i do think he brings his basketball intellect to the broadcasts in a real way, in the discussion on inside tonight about sixers-hawks he brought up how embiid was going to be able defend pick and rolls w/ his knee injury. it really felt like a good fusion between draymond the elite defender and draymond the announcer, whereas shaq was just, like, braying about how the hawks were going to win the series w/o raising any sort of intellectual point about the play

chuck is a regular at an expensive hotel bar in manhattan where a friend of mine works and she's struck up a bit of a friendship with him. she says he's a genuinely nice person who asks about her family, keeps track of the threads of their lives etc.

like threading this needle where your opinion is respected across the nba but also the whole shtick around you on TV is that you don't watch the games. it just seems like he's the only one that can really pull that off.

do you really think chuck’s opinion is “respected across the NBA” in 2021?

chuck is a regular at an expensive hotel bar in manhattan where a friend of mine works and she's struck up a bit of a friendship with him. she says he's a genuinely nice person who asks about her family, keeps track of the threads of their lives etc.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, June 3, 2021 9:15 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is cool btw and tracks with everything i've ever heard about the guy off-camera.

Yah phx folks have nothing but good to say about random encounters w him.

Jackie MacMullan, one of the most accomplished & respected journalists in sports, will retire from ESPN at the end of the month

Jackie appears Wednesday at 3p ET on #TheJump

Her final ESPN appearance is Tues, Aug. 31 on @AroundtheHorn

Thank you, Jackie!https://t.co/bI5gJJVCad pic.twitter.com/STfsIU5Uqk

— ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) August 18, 2021

sorta weird how she stopped going on ESPN basketball podcasts and started doing a bunch of appearances on bill simmons podcast, i feel like something happened there. i feel like the wording about how she's retiring "from ESPN" isn't necessarily accidental

she said some quasi racist shit about kyrie a few months back right

yeah, that was on bill's pod tho. she got pushed out of the rotation on windhorst's pod for whatever reason, can't remember the last time she went on lowe's pod either. maybe ESPN just told her they didn't want her on podcasts anymore and gave her the green light to be on bill's all the time

ah yeah maybe espn was just done with her and let her ~retire~ out of deference rather than fire her

i don't think there's any ill will--my guess is that she was planning to wind down her espn obligations and they wanted to highlight some other folks on windhorst's pod.

you can see it today in all the twitter tributes--jackie is pretty universally beloved and not a troublemaker.

I missed the controversy — thought she was mostly solid tho otherwise

"this is cool btw and tracks with everything i've ever heard about the guy off-camera."

My ex coworker is Chuck's 2nd cousin and says he was always a jackass at family functions.
She also went to high school with Quentin Richardson and said he was a stuck up asshole.

conflicting reports!

well people do mature. i imagine chuck was absolute hell on wheels when he was a teenager.

also not unheard of to be cool to strangers and a jackass to your family.

He comes across as very likeable and wayyyy more thoughtful in his autobiography vs his TV personality.

there are many stories of chuck being a jackass to strangers too tbf, i would like for the record to state that i do not care but these are the facts

do i need to tell my charles barkley story for the 100th time

yes

My dad was having dinner on the riverwalk in San Antonio once and saw a heavily intoxicated Sir Charles being carried by two people

Reports that Max Kellerman is going to be out on First Take, leaving Stephen A as solo host

Don't feel strongly about Kellerman but the way ESPN is quadrupling down on being the Stephen A Smith network is demented

hes just about the only draw they have any more

stephen a kicks ass but also if you're watching ESPN at like 10 am or whatever time that show is on there's bigger issues at play

kellerman seems like the one guy out there in the espn cinematic universe who consistently produces actually good controversial takes

I always liked Kellerman, seemed like a good guy to keep Stephen A. in check

stephen a kicks ass but also if you're watching ESPN at like 10 am or whatever time that show is on there's bigger issues at play

that's when I work out usually which is pretty much the only time I watch ESPN. I assume this is like half their viewership.

I like Stephen A Smith but he's also kind of a moron. he's an incredible showman though

do i need to tell my charles barkley story for the 100th time

― Clay, Wednesday, August 18, 2021 5:15 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

yes

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, August 19, 2021 2:08 AM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

back in the mid-90's when ballboys were still *children* and not, like, college kids, i spent a season as a ballboy for the blazers, i was probably 14 or so? i worked maybe a quarter of the games that year, sitting under the hoop, mopping up sweat for the players and whatever other little duties we had. a truly wonderful thing to get to do when you're a kid who worships basketball players! rebounding and passing the ball to THE GUYS in pregame and at the half! getting yelled at constantly!

anyways, i think this was a year or two after chuck won MVP, 94-95. the suns are in portland and someone is shooting a free throw and i'm on the right side of the hoop, and in first rebounding position next to me is ol' chuckster. I'm staring off into the middle distance and daydreaming, as i still do too often when i should be paying attention to my surroundings, and i eventually realize someone is trying to get my attention. it's barkley, he's almost waving at me now. "HEY, KID, GIMME A TOWEL." I do the "who, me?" gesture and he says "YEAH YOU, THE UGLY ONE, THROW ME A TOWEL". so i throw this man, a living legend, a towel, and he wipes his disgusting dripping head clean of sweat and then tosses it back to me and says "THANKS STUPID, THANK UGLY. PSSSH."

https://www.landofbasketball.com/box_scores/1995/0409PHXPOR.htm
^ i think it was this game but not 100% positive

lmao how do i not remember this story????

back in the mid-90's... i was probably 14 or so?

(silently calculates Clay's age)

pretty sure ive said this before but we need to track down some clay game footage

Yah that’s a good story must secure footage

aimless if you do the simple math there it comes out to 22 years old, probably should have said that in the first place

a fun addendum to the story is that around 2011 or so this woman i had been dating for many years was working catering for some events group and ended up waiting on at a table near barkley's at a charity function. according to her story, he tried to flag her down for a drink refill and she told him she could not refill his drink because he wasn't in her section, and furthermore she would not because he called her boyfriend (that was me) ugly when he was a teenager. barkely responded "probably because he was ugly!" and then hit on her in a really gross fashion (ten years ago was a different time!)

I detect a stubborn insistence that you are not ugly, despite Chuck's eyewitness testimony!

sir charles was right, as usual!

barkley's go-to insult for women and children is "ugly"

tbf it is a classic

He meant your soul

pod listeners should check out windhorst's interview with the guy who wrote the new book about KD, kyrie, and the nets. i'm definitely picking that book up now.

there was an interesting discussion on — i believe — the most recent hollinger & duncan podcast about summer league from the front office perspective, how/why teams get put together etc. first 15-20 mins or so of the episode, i thought it was interesting

xp nice, ill check it. also the draymond sit down with KD was cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x6DjeJNd64

xp yeah i enjoyed that summer league roster construction discussion, very educational

to revisit the jackie talk above, she went on simmons pod and explained her retiring. she was one year into a three-year contract but between wanting to have time to care for aging parents and feeling like doing longform writing was getting harder while also being deemphasized by her employer, she was just kind of done.

the whole simmons angle vis a vis ESPN didn’t feel accidental to me, at least on his side

strauss is leaving the athletic to maybe not talk about the nba anymore?

https://houseofstrauss.substack.com/p/the-fleshy-part-of-the-thigh?r=11111&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter

i kinda feel that middle part

another step on the path to going fully right wing

yeah he might, he's always straddled the fence. maybe he joins up with bogut or something

can't wait to not pay for it lol

otm

always been wack and annoying

i thought he did some interesting stuff as a nerdy oddball beat writer, i like him much much less in his current form

the fact that he would admit to several ppl telling him “you’re the type of person who could reasonably say something stupid and get fired for it” …. why would you say this publicly

yah that part was dumb, the whole opening was dumb

"You got a dude, Ethan Strauss, who comes in here and just gives his whole opinion on stuff, and makes it seem like it's coming from me.."

Kevin Durant’s press conference, forcefully pushing back against the Knicks rumor and the media’s treatment of him pic.twitter.com/aqqbK7APh2

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) February 7, 2019

kd roasting him is still one of the highlights from that weird kd season.

i'm glad for his wide and child that he isn't sociopathic enough to do light racism to get fired from his job though i take him seriously that he absolutely thought about it

*wife

TIL that ethan has been on jesse singals podcast to talk about wokeness ruining sports!

i thought this would be coming in a year or two, delighted that we are ahead of schedule.

lol wasted NO time

people think the right wing grift is easy, and i mean it is but also theres a ton of churn, if i had a solid sportswriting job id stick with that

wow this is big!

Breaking News: @espn takes Rachel Nichols off @NBA programming

ESPN has taken Rachel Nichols off of all NBA programming and will cancel her weekday afternoon show “The Jump,” the network confirmed today.

Read the story: https://t.co/NP6wtWVL9h pic.twitter.com/0254ayg667

— Sports Business Journal (@sbjsbd) August 25, 2021

yikes! so they're basically firing her w/o firing her

Nichols has a year remaining on her contract and will still be paid, but won't be on-air.

— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) August 25, 2021

wow. does she have other transgressions besides getting caught on a hot mic whining about someone getting an assignment over her? that has already sort of blown over, i thought?

leave it to espn to handle this in the stupidest way possible

the surprising part here to me is cancelling the jump at the same time, i thought it was pretty well-regarded.

i liked it for a time but way too much perk in recent months

wow. does she have other transgressions besides getting caught on a hot mic whining about someone getting an assignment over her? that has already sort of blown over, i thought?

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, August 25, 2021 12:50 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

nothing public that i know of

Got to create a whole show and spend five years hanging out with some of my favorite people ❤️ talking about one my favorite things 🏀 An eternal thank you to our amazing producers & crew - The Jump was never built to last forever but it sure was fun. 😎
More to come… pic.twitter.com/FPMFRlfJin

— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) August 25, 2021

maybe she goes back to NFL coverage for a bit?

kill me

NEWS: Stephen A. Smith wants to team up with Magic Johnson on ESPN, The Post has learned.https://t.co/w3vQSzOACR

— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) August 26, 2021

haha noooo

i think stephen a. is just looking for the ultimate challenge. trying to imagine cutting to the classic brand of stephen a. reaction shots after one of magic's non-takes. unintentional comedy of the kind i never want to see

in reading the article i guess the new head of nba content (the last one got bounced over the taylor/nichols thing) is tight with stephen a. and stephen a. is currently the network's biggest star, so it sure sounds like this is going to happen.

we already know how bad magic was at this why bring him back in

ESPN will launch 'NBA Today' - a new @ESPNNBA studio show - Monday, Oct. 18

Hosted by @malika_andrews with @KendrickPerkins, @mrvincecarter15, @chiney, @ZachLowe_NBA, @wojespn & @ramonashelburne

Mon-Fri | 3p ET | ESPN

*Debut episode to air on ESPN2*https://t.co/79uhFW5Wh3 pic.twitter.com/F5l6iQs34d

— ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) September 20, 2021

kendrick woj lowe is a pretty wildly divergent cast

Excited to announce I’m joining @espn as an NBA analyst! Let’s go!!! https://t.co/3SiZGO3I19

— JJ Redick (@jj_redick) October 27, 2021

the tony romo we deserve

Welcome to the Turner Sports family, @money23green!

The 3x NBA champ will contribute to Inside the NBA as an active player in a first-of-its-kind deal 👏🏿 pic.twitter.com/wXdIkq1ao2

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) January 27, 2022

here for this

yeh hes real good at it

yes!!!!

nice

was listening to lowe’s pod today and he shared that his mom had a stroke and isn’t doing well :(

Oh hell that sucks

i thought zach’s feed had been quiet recently. sometimes i want to clown him for having gotten a little cartoonish but he’s a good guy. i hope things improve.

i had no idea candace parker came out in december, has been married for two years to a russian hooper, with a baby on the way - she is the best

probably the best lady vol ever, and maybe the greatest woman’s player period?

lmao what a tool

What a fun NBA off-day in Miami. But we didn’t get Elon’s Finals prediction. pic.twitter.com/ruJQmDv7B2

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) May 17, 2022

Thanks. I can’t imagine disliking someone who runs companies that employ some of the smartest and hardest-working people in the world creating tech that can make life better, safer, more efficient. And more fun. But to each their own. You do you too

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) May 17, 2022

big elon guy huh

clown shit

sure did.

my logic is clear: i'm not complaining if i get a *really* good player, even if someone drafted later turns out better.

i grew up in houston. no one ever said "should've taken jordan." ayton ain't olajuwon, but luka ain't mike, so i think the analogy holds. https://t.co/z2JHzdq87G

— bomani (@bomani_jones) May 16, 2022

hahah that's really dumb

bomani is incapable of admitting hes wrong

correct

I generally don't follow the drafts, was Ayton considered a bad pick at the time?

he was the consensus top pick m/l but with a ton of the more informed people saying hey you might want to check out this kid who won the euroleague mvp at 19

the really crazy pick was bagley at 2

tho when you consider the ancient balkan blood feud aspect it starts to make sense

there was lots of talking head types being like "well you can't pass up a 7 footer this skilled!" ayton also put up legit good stats at arizona, and there was the local angle, he seemed like a pretty safe pick (which has turned out to be true) and because luka was not in our faces the way american prospects are where lots of ppl feel like they have informed opinions i think the feeling was mostly "hey can't blame them for picking ayton." i don't remember there being tons of prominent voices being like "this will be a disastrous decision that the suns will regret for decades." people *did* say that about the kings and the hawks, but i think ayton seemed like "modern" enough of a center that the suns generally were given a pass pretty much up until two days ago

it was a classic example of picking fit over best player available. the suns had book so they needed to pair him w a center. it is interesting to think about booker and luka on the court together. seems like a match made in heaven, booker is better off ball.

the really crazy pick was bagley at 2

― lag∞n, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 5:47 PM (five minutes ago)

if i'm not mistaken it seemed like they were insulted by whatever interactions they were having w/ luka and perhaps some of the other top guys and really gravitated towards bagley because he told the kings he would be excited to be picked by them. which turned out to be a career killing decision for him, but the kings never seemed to stop and think like "maybe this guy is happy to get picked by us because nobody else in their right minds would draft him number 2."

reportedly divac also doesnt like lukas dad

it was a classic example of picking fit over best player available. the suns had book so they needed to pair him w a center. it is interesting to think about booker and luka on the court together. seems like a match made in heaven, booker is better off ball.

― Spottie, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 5:55 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ppl saying they shdnt take luka cause they already have a dribbling scorer was wild as if its not ok to have two of those guys

i wanna say there was a number of guys in that draft who refused to work out for the kings, shit like that. bagley was the guy who was like "i would LOVE to be drafted number 2 overall even if it's by the kings!"

same tbh

ppl saying they shdnt take luka cause they already have a dribbling scorer was wild as if its not ok to have two of those guys

― lag∞n, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 3:02 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hey you know what the suns couldve used in the 2022 playoffs...

i bet they woulda rather had brunson than ayton in that series

this kid who won the euroleague mvp at 19

― lag∞n, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 5:46 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

what an insane accomplishment btw way more impressive than say winning the ncaa player of the year as a freshman a thing thats only happened three times (kd, ad, zion) (tho obvs its gone from unheard of to merely unusual during the one and done era)

luka's euroleague stats as a teenager were miles better than the euroleague stats of guys who became very solid nba pros

a guy like nikola mirotic was putting up numbers half as good at age 24 that luka was at 18

yeah it actually makes for a more stable projection than college. teams just invented reasons not to draft him, didn’t think he was athletic enough, stuff like that. really should’ve been one of the easiest picks in draft history. again i give the mavs front office a lot of credit for betting on luka to the tune of 2 first round picks when everyone else around them didn’t even wanna draft him period. and of course 2 first round picks for luka now looks like one of the heists of the century, i don’t think you could legally trade enough first round picks to even acquire luka at this point, i think he’s quite literally untradeable. i have no idea what you could even come up with to give the mavs to even make them consider trading him.

that’s the thing. with a lot of euro prospects, you’re projecting future production from young guys who barely see the floor but doncic was just as young as many of those highly-drafted projects and he was the literal mvp

lmao

What is happening here?@kendrickperkins brought the handcuffs out for the Warriors’ performance and @mollyqerim and @stephenasmith were quite thrown off 😂 pic.twitter.com/fOcZVTaTFb

— First Take (@FirstTake) June 3, 2022

I saw a lot of screen shots of that outfit on the timeline today and was too afraid to hit play on any of the videos

it was very funny. i love perkins

sneaking suspicion alcatraz paid him under the table for it but i guess it’s all in the game

BRIAN WINDHORST: Steph has not yet been great. Steph could easily put up fifty or sixty three-poi--
TIM BONTEMPS: I will kill you. I swear to fucking god I will fucking kill you.
TIM MCMAHON: Now hold on. Let this stupid dipshit finish his dumbass point for idiots.

— Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant) June 14, 2022

i love them

haha that is the exact dynamic

Lmao

hahaha

I'm waiting for when Draymond does his podcast at halftime.

fuck that, go live during the game

strap on a gopro and see if the refs say anything

"THIS BLOCK WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE GOOD FOLKS AT MAILCHIMP"

Can’t think of many worse at this than Broussard

Who says no to this trade scenario? 🤔

Nets receive:
⚫ Jimmy Butler
⚫ Bam Adebayo

Heat receive:
🔴 Kyrie Irving
🔴 Ben Simmonspic.twitter.com/yjgSvvCr2i

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) June 25, 2022

i say no, personally

I clicked on this just to see what my guy Brian was saying and two minutes later I’m consumed by the question of what’s going on with the Utah Jazz. It’s my only quest in life to find out. This is perfect television. https://t.co/Cf4mDdo22E

— Kevin Clark (@bykevinclark) July 1, 2022

^^^as good as advertised

masterful

danny bout to blow it up over there, extremely believable

ngl i had to read the comments to understand wtf he was talking about

lmao agatha christie ass basketball reporting

hahah otm

lmao

here for it tbh

exquisite television

that windhorst clip is incredible and he was otm!

windy is otm quite often

i know ESPN did not just do an entire segment based on a ja morant “quote” from ballsack sports 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/UqihKpMddW

— Molly Morrison (@mollyhannahm) July 11, 2022

https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/jonathantjarks/journal/view/id/63118e310f3ef0104cd375ed

Not a good update from Jonathan Tjarks, now in hospice care.

god that is awful

jesus christ. i feel awful for his family.

Ugh man that’s horrible

dammit

anybody watch the untold episode about tim donaghy?

tjarks news is so sad

he passed away last night. what a terrible, terrible thing.

So sad

RIP. Ringer NBA pods were never my fav but Tjarks always seemed like a solid dude.

Showtime Sports has announced that veteran journalist and NBA personality Rachel Nichols is joining Showtime Basketball as both a host and producer. pic.twitter.com/wREJgdi2N5

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) September 30, 2022

zach lowe did his annual “5 most confusing teams” pod w/ howard beck instead of kevin arnovitz, which sent a red flag up in the air for me. i searched on twitter and apparently last week zach mentioned on a pod that arnovitz is “no longer here” to do the pod, which most ppl are taking to mean he has left ESPN. his twitter account says he still works there but all his tweets have been wiped and his bio says the account is “inactive.” it looks like he last wrote something for them in august about the soccer team ryan reynolds owns. i’m now more confused & curious than i was before. i really liked him

Reddit seems to think he is leaving the NBA journo world to write about TV. I guess he’s already had a Top Chef podcast with Tom Haberstroh(?!)

I like Arnovitz too. Howard Beck and Ben Golliver are among my least favorite NBA podcasters, hate when they show up as guests on shows I like.

the tweets being wiped is new but his bio has had that inactive note for a long time bc he stopped using twitter.

it did seem like his piece and pod appearances were starting to decrease in frequency so he’s probably done there. i liked a lot of his stuff but it was a remnant of the truehoop era of espn’s nba coverage for better or worse.

arnovitz was great, too bad

Reddit seems to think he is leaving the NBA journo world to write about TV.

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, October 3, 2022 6:58 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

fwiw it says for tv

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/xqz03h/what_happened_to_kevin_arnovitz/

ah good for him if he’s doing TV writing. he seemed far more cultured (gay) (LA) than his colleagues so that scans. will miss him on the pods tho i always enjoyed his perspective

yeah, he always had a unique take. i think he leaned a little too hard into the importance organizational culture at times but his pieces on bill kennedy, the grizz game ops, and the kings guy who stole a bunch of money are classics

arnovitz was good. would be cool if he still did one or two pods a year with zach

There is tension over sourcing requirements, too, best personified by leading NBA reporter Shams Charania, who specializes in his lightning fast and exhaustive reporting of transactional news, which he always delivers first to his nearly 2 million Twitter followers. Indeed, the Athletic’s own reporters have raised concerns about his reporting when it veers beyond the narrow lane of transactions. Within the Times, there was some intrigue about whether Charania would re-sign with the Athletic, as a signal of whether the Times would embrace his kind of reporting. Perpich said breaking news was important for more visibility and that retaining Charania was a key priority, and he re-signed this month; the New York Post reported the deal was for a year.

re the athletic and times synergizing https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/10/07/new-york-times-athletic-subscribers/

As for whether insider reporting could exist within Times standards, Stallman said, “When we learned more about Shams and his methods, we were really, really impressed at how rigorous he is. Not only was there not any lingering concern over whether that worked under the Times imprimatur, but we were kind of dazzled by it.”

tbf the times has always been very beat sweetener friendly

interesting article. also interesting to learn I can use my NYT subscription to log into the athletic, meaning I can cancel that subscription?

I really do hope they can budget room for a nuggets beat writer though

yeah, an nyt sub, digital or paper, suffices for athletic access

Charles Barkley has agreed to a 10-year deal with TNT that could reach up to $200M, per @AndrewMarchand pic.twitter.com/lVpcXvLT9C

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) October 17, 2022

THE FELLAS ARE BACK!

The #InsidetheNBA crew will stay together for many years to come after signing long-term contract extensions with WBD sports. pic.twitter.com/X3l5oBuitc

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) October 17, 2022

Chuck contract has unlikely incentives of beating Kenny to the screen.

thank god he's not leaving. the LIV stuff was really worrying me

liv cant even get anyone to show their golf on tv

ALL ABOARD THE CHUCK BUS 🚌

The NBA season tips off at 5pm ET on TNT pic.twitter.com/tQmYmqIW7q

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) October 18, 2022

There’s a lot to appreciate here.

it sucks that tnt spent a zillion keeping the inside crew together for another hundred years hen they’ve been plainly bad for like a decade but that beast inertia hard to stop it

should be an interesting year for the ol drayman

WBD Sports, Omaha Productions and Green 23 will debut a new all-access series, The Countdown, during pregame tonight.

The premiere will feature Draymond Green's journey throughout the preseason, including Green’s reaction to his practice altercation and return to the Warriors. pic.twitter.com/ZO7clVQpnS

— Warner Bros. Discovery Sports U.S. PR (@WBDSportsPR) October 18, 2022

"He looked cooked."

Charles Barkley on what he has seen from James Harden 👀pic.twitter.com/Ogo4o8kEB0

— Action Network (@ActionNetworkHQ) October 18, 2022

lmao

chuck otm

lol good luck man

"We should treat [The Lakers] season as a celebration of LeBron's individual greatness... Spending all day everyday talking about their deficiencies, that's not great."

— JJ Redickpic.twitter.com/kuBXQBEtY5

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) October 19, 2022

yeah sorry but we're choosing violence

jj is so humorless and grandiose, type of guy who gets fired up talking about networking opportunities

i remember thinking JJ was great as the color guy when ESPN put him on games last year. but him and tommy alter as like serious pundits i need a barf bag

he could be good if hed just lighten up a bit and stop being captain save a player all the time, he understands the game hes good at talking on tv, hes just a giant bore

i know he says stuff like that because it’s good for business but even by that standard it’s an insane statement

thats his worst take ive heard

espn’s new score box is wonderful

wheres this?

like, on TV

i am still marveling at that barkley bus graphic. kd burner, russ on the outside, kawhi a blank slate. shit is rich. kudos to the uncredited(?) artiste

pylon chris paul

like, on TV

good story

“We were in the locker room for 9 hours after the game. Oklahoma didn't want us to go anywhere... Shoutout Chris Paul, he gave us 15 bottles of wine. We got drunk, not gonna lie."

Donovan Mitchell on the night of the NBA shutdown 😳

(via @OldManAndThree)pic.twitter.com/Oi6cgC1lrK

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) October 21, 2022

Lol whoever this guy is he’s on the money. I can’t stand EJ

TBH @Jumpshot8 I thought it was in bad taste so I took it down.

I should've said Eddie Johnson is awful.

I hate being that blunt, but it's very bad. https://t.co/yJNcxTX9PS

— Danny Marang (@DannyMarang) November 6, 2022

who sponsors this podcast

https://i.imgur.com/ZzhBmEo.png

I still listen to the pod but the ad reads are so annoying because they blend it into the conversation. And my Xmas dream is to get rid of Tommy.

normally i would be expecting the ad money to dry up, but i don't think the sportsbook money is drying up anytime soon

i cannot handle the name "the old man and the three" i am sorry but

It’s truly the worst pod name

he should embrace the fatalism its the inspiration be like i shot all these threes and for what just to have a podcast, shit like that

lmao salute

Lmao Zach Lowe taking shots on NBA Today after Croatia's win today 😂#NBATwitter https://t.co/fVBK0dctdN pic.twitter.com/2lTvuOD9lE

— 𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣’ 𝙉𝘽𝘼 (@_Talkin_NBA) December 9, 2022

banal joyless perk "turn up zach" has me rollin

lowe is absolutely sloshed already in that llooool

funny bcuz he’s always talking about allowing himself to have a single beer after he’s finished writing about a big playoff game

prob why hes yelling about only every four years he let himself go lol

hahaha that rules, zach's adoption of croatia via marriage is very sweet

GOING FOR TWO by @kevinarnovitz #BlackList2022 pic.twitter.com/jUgaDgL14A

— The Black List (@theblcklst) December 12, 2022

had to do some digging to figure out what the hell this meant but:

GOING FOR TWO
Kevin Arnovitz
An openly gay NFL quarterback finds his meticulously-planned life upended on and off the field when he
falls for a charming high school teacher during the most important season of his career

sorry, the blacklist is a list of scripts that some consortium of ppl have judged to be the best unproduced scripts in hollywood. ngl that premise sounds kinda terrible lol but good for kevin

*nfl quarterback falling in love* i gotta go throw the ball now call you monday

i guess if you're gonna quit your cushy and presumably well paying job covering the NBA for espn you might as well do it for a cheesy rom com script that might make you like $10 million or something

who's making $10M on a rom com spec

oh i didn’t mean spec, i mean more like making a hit film that gets you residuals or whatever (idk how hollywood works)

here are today’s streaming options for yesterday’s LA/BOS game 🤔

https://i.imgur.com/YFZneJj.jpg

keep in mind i pay for this service

recommend skipping that one tbh

can understand not wanting to be around jalens mid life crisis fashion

It’s time. After 23 years with ESPN, we have mutually decided to move on. I’ve learned everything I know there, met my best friends there, met my wife there, and leave with zero regrets. I can’t wait to share what’s next.

— Jacoby (@djacoby) December 14, 2022

haha

jacobys always been very nondescript to me. offers nothing

hes pretty good at talking like he should be the host of a show where the rest of the guys are ugly sports experts with terrible voices

where else are you gonna find a guy who's friends with jalen rose and bill simmons??

lol.. and yeah a host could work

FINALLY a Lowe Post that covers the Lakers' trade options

— Ryan Bernardoni (@dangercart) January 10, 2023

BBC airing 9 NBA games this season, starting with Paris last night and including a handful of playoff games

a transparent bid to advertise League Pass to international fans but I support it

smart.

in other news.. tons of layoffs today at sbnation/vox for a lot of nba writers/media peeps

https://www.nexttv.com/news/its-on-bally-sports-rsns-headed-for-bankruptcy

Basketball code reached its apex in conversation during last year’s playoff series. Brooks also clubbed Gary Payton II with a flagrant 2 call, which led to the Warriors role player fracturing his elbow. Then, the physicality – and the debates of the intentions – heightened when Jordan Poole pulled Morant’s knee for a loose ball to deem him out for the playoff series.

omg why can't these writers actually write?

lmao the fuck are those words

that is atrocious but at the same time it's a random sbnation blogger who you probably shouldn't be reading

I know but I remember early when they started that they could make decent sentences (Ziller in particular), now the site is practically unreadable.

Serious sparks are flying between Stephen A. Smith and Jay Williams over Kyrie Irving pic.twitter.com/Cp7MaSeTQD

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) February 6, 2023

Unwatchable

poor legler just wants to break down some xs and os

it really was a bad call lol

This is the worst call of Mike Breen's career (according to him) https://t.co/e0Z74LlNsH pic.twitter.com/4tSKFvL9dY

— TheOldMan&TheThree (@OldManAndThree) February 9, 2023

lol yeah that was a bad one

i wonder if his view got blocked or what he saw w/ the refs after the ball went thru the net

had to be something like that

REPORT: “NBC Sports is prepared to make an aggressive offer to win back NBA rights after more than 20 years without them,” via @sherman4949/@CNBC.

(https://t.co/xPHfaHD4H8) pic.twitter.com/q8QrU9jLom

— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) February 13, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGdkaFZVyGc

roundball rock >>>

Timberwolves have a new play by play guy for TV this year, Michael Grady, was the Nets sideline reporter, he's been really great this year and I could see him going national eventually

i like the wolves crew

nba on NBC could be cool

lol immediately thought of the song coming back

just in case no one has seen this, the entire thing is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_h7Lm7C9Nk

one of the all time great youtube videos

*boomer dad with sandals+socks combo* now thats what i call classical music

roundball rock bridge highly underrated imo

KOC getting roasted for this

Brandon Miller just had one of the best performances of the college season amid the controversy: 41 points with the game-tying shot at the end of regulation and the game-winning layup in overtime. pic.twitter.com/81kNMM4B5r

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) February 23, 2023

geez, read the room dummy

what a loser

controversy huh interesting

it’s truly demented that that kid is still playing

Georges Niang says he has ‘a lot’ to say about Ben Simmons

“Ben Simmons kinda handicapped us”

(Via @975JKShow | h/t @sixerdaily )

pic.twitter.com/jkxRBODOU8

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) February 24, 2023

it was obvious during the game in philly that niang really does not like him

probably tough to respect someone like simmons when you were a 50th pick who made good and you've made like $12 million in your entire career

this fuckin guy celtics are the top rated clutch team in the league and just beat the sixers by running a beautiful play with six seconds left on the clock what a clown

Celtics got the win but their end-game offense remains a concern against great defenses like the Sixers. Strange lineups, bad ATOs, and far too stagnant.

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) February 26, 2023

non-nationally televised knicks-celtics game with mike breen on the call on MSG is a nice bonus of living in nyc

“DID WE JUST SEE WHAT WE THINK WE JUST SAW?!”

Kevin Harlan nearly FELL OUT OF HIS CHAIR. Dan Bonner and @realStanVG were STUNNED.

The crew’s reaction to Furman’s dramatic win over Virginia was incredible. pic.twitter.com/Jym88PALq8

— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) March 20, 2023

great call. svg shell shocked

Dan Le Batard tells Stephen A. that he HATES what he and @SkipBayless have done to sports television.

"I would say who the hell are you to say me and him, what about YOU?!”
- @stephenasmith #SouthBeachSessions🌴

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— Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz (@LeBatardShow) March 24, 2023

i dislike richard jefferson so, sooo much

hes such a weenie

he’s lame, devoid of charisma *and* a dick. such a bad combo

he is now criticizing spencer dinwiddie for not going for a lay up down 3 with 8 seconds left and no timeouts

“no shot blocker in there” he says incredulously

ThreeFourTwo Productions has acquired The Dunker's Spot... Happy for them, but ugh have to listen to more gambling add reads.

Also hope they can edit the length of their eps down.. last one was 2 hours 40 minutes.

Jefferson is so bad, revolting personality

jj redick sidekick spike lee malcolm x jacket

https://i.imgur.com/70aRl6m.png

that guy really stinks

he just seems very pointless. jj would be fine on his own

the amount of playoff preview podcast content is overwhelming

This is the absolute best week of the year to listen to NBA podcasts. I just heard Bill Simmons say that Giannis will become "the best player since LeBron" if he wins a title this year, and then when asked to clarify he said, "Let's say LeBron ... it goes til 2018, right?"

— Tom Ley (@ToLey88) April 14, 2023

i tend to like the post game pods way more than the prediction stuff.

still thinking about how last night, as the camera showed tatum & brown embracing, mark jones said “the two Js… smoking on that philly pack tonight.” honestly did not know you could say that on TV

also after one of tatum’s made threes near the end he said “jayson tatum! not always there when you call but always on time” which actually felt like a correct interpretation of that lyric w/in the context of a star player missing every shot for 3.75 quarters but then draining three threes to ice the game

classic calls last night

lol yeah good stuff

doris on the other hand sometimes she goes so deep into her success wins mindset soliloquies its like are you even watching the game, she said that philly was down 0-2 to start the series twice before jones corrected her, its frustrating cause she knows ball but does so much "this wonderful young man" shit

its funny i saw both celtics and philly fans accusing her of being biased last night, i think cause shes so complimentary when fans hear it for their own team theyre like yes makes sense of course but then with the other team its all why is she in love with them

doris seems more flowery this year than in past years

yeah sometimes there’s a paternalism about her but she’ll also call guys out in a real way too, it’s almost a yin/yang of the same emotion, tough love kinda thing. she was right to be genuinely incredulous last night @ embiid & harden kinda giving up on the game. also she went viral for calling out dillon brooks in round 1

when JVG is on a big playoff game & treating it seriously and not doing 80s stand up routines i still think he’s the best we have in terms of breaking down the game in real time, even like during a possession. but doris is up there for me in that regard

TNT is kinda slipping, their play by play guys are great but reggie and SVG are not amazing. stan is aight but he’s not as good as his brother

i like jeff’s off the wall shit, his contrary ornery shit

hubie is the best as far as analysis, but thats all he does

xp was funny a few games ago where jvg randomly went on a huge rant about load management, i think it was a lakers game and breen was saying something about how it would be good for bron to get more rest for the next game and jvg kept doubling down saying he thought the vets would be better in the next game the more minutes they played, to establish a rhythm or something like that

it’s impossible for me to separate my feelings about him from the starks/ewing/oakley knicks but i think even without that he’d still be my favorite color guy

cant believe these coaches who watched first hand as the spurs built a dynasty on being the first team to do load management and yet they still dont believe it

also after one of tatum’s made threes near the end he said “jayson tatum! not always there when you call but always on time” which actually felt like a correct interpretation of that lyric w/in the context of a star player missing every shot for 3.75 quarters but then draining three threes to ice the game

― J0rdan S., Friday, May 12, 2023 1:08 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this was so great, such a weird line to suddenly reference and yet it fit perfectly as you say

Back when JVG was coaching, I only ever saw him in photos and so I always assumed that his affect was closer to Eeyore than to Jefferino Hot Dog Buddy.

what is this nonsense
https://i.imgur.com/ztENwlv.png

oh my god. hahahaha

he’s such a dweeb. I can see all his tweets tho I think?

i had a pleasant run in w/ stan van yesterday. he hopped out of a car outside my office in midtown and i was like “what the…” but there’s a very famous restaurant right next door & it turned out he was looking for that (not an uncommon occurrence). i think he flew down from boston for the night to hang with his wife. he’s lost a lot of weight, he looked good

it was actually at least the third stan van encounter of my life. back in his heat days he didn’t live too far from my parents, his daughter and my brother were in middle school at the same time. he always looked kinda disheveled, it was a bit like running into khalid shield mohammed. he’s looking better these days

sheikh not shield. my apologies to the big man…

i’m sure the broadcasting life is a hell of a lot healthier than the coaching life. good to hear tho!

he’s a keyboard warrior tho glad to hear it’s not taking too much out of him

mannix is getting absolutely cooked for these comments

Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix talks the Denver Nuggets media gripe.

"they're just not a compelling team to talk about - to write about"

Worth noting that @SIChrisMannix and his cohort are compelled by attention. And financial return. They peddle NBA sugar, not basketball. pic.twitter.com/RSLKMbb2dl

— n i k o l a e s t h e t i c (@nikolaesthetic) May 25, 2023

mannix is an idiot but i also can't imagine getting worked up about anything he says in that clip

interpreting his comments in the most generous possible light, I get what he’s saying to a degree. so many of these guys are employed not because of their value as analysts but because the players are such willing participants in the drama circus, and jokic just doesn’t participate in any of that stuff off the court. it’s tough for the brand these guys are trying to market

saw someone earlier tweeting about how basketball is interesting and people who like it should cover it, now i know what that was about lol

Morant brandishing weapons on Instagram is better basketball news than Jokic breaking a record set by Wilt Chamberlain, apparently.

I’ve said this before but as a casual at best NFL fan, the level of actual football analysis on mainstream broadcasts is just in another universe compared to the NBA

xp

100%

need to make 2k more about plays

xp
yes. I realised a few years ago that I would watch the games on TV and feel like I understood broadly what was happening and nothing the commentators said would disabuse me of that notion. then I would go on ilx and realise that I only understood about 30 pc of what I was watching.