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

also very short sighted needless to say

there’s that, and as one of the tims pointed out, his response just underscores the league’s indifference to the games themselves actually mattering. just watch the highlights and stephen A and you’ll be good

xp yeah

their collective eye roll at the new all star game format was also good, as windhorst’s bizarre pedantic tangent about the ryder cup

i don’t even follow the ryder cup but windy otm, it doesn’t resemble this allstar format at all

brian’s line about getting sponsorship from a green bank was very well-delivered lol

as was him deadpanning “good idea” after macmahon said he had made friends with an attorney in town

dying at lowe going on a 2 minute rant wondering what the author of “eat, pray, love” is up to three days, considering…what she’s up to these days

hahah someone needs to tell him

just listened to that, absolutely hysterical

reggie and melo spending way too much time referencing each others games

Seemed like melo barely said anything at all really

Noah Eagles voice does not match his face

...

https://bsky.app/profile/itsuncledrew.bsky.social/post/3m3qqjg3to22n

sadly his basketball analysis is even worse

god i hope they fire him yesterday

ick

Barkley looking like he was on a GLP-1 in the off season

he was, iirc part of a marketing stunt for a company that sells it or some similar thing

was literally just thinking he looks pretty gaunt

so many fat people are abandoning me

a well known rapper came into my office this week and i straight up did not recognize this person until i asked somebody who he was

Whoooo

was it joe (formerly fat joe)

Lol so Zach Lowe is coming to Minneapolis to do a live show at First Avenue, I'm thinking about going

ilh-coded as hell

you should go, especially since this is the first time he's doing it i think he will have alltime manic zach energy

Yah that’s a must lol

lollll

After a heated verbal altercation with the officiating crew, St. Bonaventure GM Adrian “Woj” Wojnarowski was just ejected from the venue. Wojnarowski was berating the officials from the stands and was forcibly removed by security. A stunning scene here at the Field of 68 event.

— Scott Hughes (@ScottHughesCBB) November 3, 2025

lmao. over time at ESPN woj was able to shift his image to this like cuddly figure of omniscience, basically being like the dumbledore of the NBA. but anyone who has followed his work for a long time especially back when he was writing about lebron circa the heatles knows that deep inside woj is a completely insane human being

get em woj

yeah he's a real sicko

https://ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2025/11/03/no-adrian-wojnarowski-woj-not-ejected-st-bonaventure-opener/87067897007/

fwiw

this seems fine so far. hopefully they'll have some more fun with it while also bringing the in-depth hoops talk

i like the room setup, super warm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5KbZsapPCs

they had bam/norm on. pretty good insight and the players had plenty of time to explain details. the studio court breakdown was cool (about 7 min in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K8IYKjWnjg

wondering if blake hired the menswear guy as his stylist lol

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Zach Lowe asking Chris Vernon “how are you feeling?” about Ja and the Grizzlies time stamp: 2:35

The next time that Zach Lowe says a word on the podcast time stamp: 8:42

ha

Vernon said he went to play golf and gamble on college football before he was willing to respond to a thousand text and messages he got on Saturday morning, I respect the priorities

pods are fun n games when your team is good but pure pain when the vibes are down

thats why i only watch extracurricular content after wins

vernon's perspective is completely delusional and zach did his best to thread the needle of being gracious but also hinting at that. my impression of grizzlies fans on the internet is that it's a widely shared sentiment, which as a fan of a rival team, I'm ok with!

whats he think the ja sitch is salvageable or something

Vernon says he’s optimistic, says Ja posted some sort of “Go Griz” message on social media since the suspension and that, after some consideration, Ja may appreciate his coach’s no bs approach to challenging players.

I’m skeptical

the stockholm syndrome was in full effect when verno started in on how they need ja to drive attendance because of the federal investment in the "safety" of downtown memphis

hes saying they need ja because otherwise people wont come to games because theyre afraid of the fascist thugs running the streets?

lol maybe that's what he meant and it got lost in his hyperactive radio host guy schtick

i mean idk i was just guessing based on what you wrote

oh sorry i was being sarcastic, i think it was more there is this big push to improve downtown that both the state and feds are involved in, and there is an expectation that the organization needs to do its part by putting a watchable product out there, so trading ja is completely off the table.

if there is any truth to that at all, it just shows how all-in the grizz are with this player but it sounded a little unhinged in the flow of the conversation.

oh ok lol, yeah does seem pretty nuts to think the ja memphis relationship is going to work out at this point

particularly considering ja isnt that good at basketball anymore

even putting aside the weird stuff about downtown memphis it was funny hearing him lapse into the exact fan cope that always happens in these moments which is explaining how trading a petulant star like ja might make sense for other teams but with memphis it actually doesn’t make sense and you can’t understand that unless you’re from the city

the thing is, generally these sort of repeated antics and character questions will sour a fanbase on a particular player, but with memphis it seems to be the opposite. it’s bizarre