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

yeah i dont even know who he is

lol yeah all these player pods have cycled through the whole league like 3 times over already so they gotta scrape the bottom of the barrel

theo pinson played at UNC so he has basketball mob ties

jeff teague said on his pod the other day that the heat should trade tyler herro for bobby portis

that one is so left field you almost have to respect it where does an idea like that even come from

gotta fill the air somehow

so many dumbos

Fullcourtpass @Fullcourtpass

Paul Pierce says Draymond Green would NOT be all defense in any other era

“Draymond is the greatest defender of this new era… I don’t think you can put Draymond in any other era where he’ll be an all-defensive player”

(Via @NFGShow, h/t @NBA__Courtside)

its so tedious they need a new schtick

sadly... draymond will likely morph into the most insufferable of them all over the next 20 years.

lol true

kinda there already

just recently found out that if you have league pass and amazon prime, you can watch games on the prime interface. SO much better than the league pass site/app ime

Haha I feel the opposite

I use Apple TV tho might be different. Prime you can only multivew 3 vs nba app is 4

i might advocate using one of those men in black memory wipe pen devices to erase everyone's collective memory of all basketball played in the 90s just so we can stop fucking hearing about it

thinkin a lot lately in many contexts about how ancient people used to talk about how the people who came before them were truly great, 9 feet tall, unstoppable warriors, and today's guys were just shit

that’s so true

mcgrady and vince carter in full suits melo dressed like hes going grocery shopping is a weird dynamic they need to figure this out

i dont get why reggie miller loves the knicks so much he was their nemesis when he played

have you heard of sigmund freud

yes of course he was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst,[3]

dude was a ball knower

b2b national cooper flagg ads, for gatorade and new balance, lot for a rookie

nb one ran last year too

too many hoop collective eps without the tims this season

for sure. seems like the idea is the tims get m/w and slater and vinnie get friday. trying to give them time to develop a shtick but not particularly optimistic

yeah it seems like they’re going back to a rotation. i like vinny goodwill a lot, he & bomani’s basketball pods have been a favorite of mine for a while. but yeah it’s not the same ;_;

why not just more pelton

i have nothing against most of the non-tims but it’s disappointing when it’s a juicy topic like giannis trades and the A team isn’t there.

i generally only listen if its the tims

too many hoop collective eps without the tims this season

― lag∞n, Friday, December 5, 2025 8:36 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah it’s not good

bontemps’ recent magic johnson routine on twitter also leaving a bit to be desired

the limbo lady doing the halftime show in the nuggets/kings game in sacramento tonight is so good

maximum corniness

Rich Paul: "I'm on the show right now, but I had to take your call, cause you, Shams."

Max Kellerman: “So who gives who information when Shams calls you?”

RP: “Don’t worry about all that.” 😅

(via Game Over Pod)pic.twitter.com/y3o0aexQss

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) December 11, 2025

its good to be lebrons best friend

feels like 5 hoop collective pods in a row or something that have led with lakers talk…

rich paul getting a podcast on the ringer is super humiliating

bontemps crush on jj reddick is funny called him a very bright guy today while the other two were gently trashing him, recall him saying jj was a brilliant basketball mind, its prob cause jj is the cool guy version of bontemps

hot take: impossible for there to be a cool version of bontemps bc to be bontemps is to be inherently uncool

jalen brunson third in baller of the year goofy shit

huge accomplishment beating the celtics who had four of their starters injured then getting smoked by the pacers

i like brunson a lot because hes fun to watch but hes not nearly a top guy, you get what high volume production at good but not great efficiency and bad defense, clear second to third tier guy

I think that’s fair

Agree he’s basically Luka

what if you had a team of two lukas, crazy to think about

i bet they would wind each other up about bad calls until they went insane

Noah Eagles voice does not match his face

― Spottie, Tuesday, October 21, 2025

he has a good voice, but it's funny how much he looks like his dad de-aged to be 16.

so it turns out stephen a smith does indeed suck

what pos and furthermore what a dumbass

i had to search what happened and it turns out this guy who routinely sucks decided to suck more, super glad i had canceled my espn sub a few months ago