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

nba media loving the knicks struggles, and tbf whats not to love

thirsty to talk about any other franchise than the lakers

gotta talk about the other franchise sometimes

ny and la, the two genders

lolzz

it’s pretty tasty for them to play so bad coming off that dolan interview

yeah have to admit that is a pretty funny coincidence

guy hadnt spoken to the media in years

ny and la, the two genders

― cam'ron winter (m bison), Friday, January 23, 2026 5:08 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

omg

great job everyone

Peacock reported losses of $552 million during Q4 2025, a 48% increase compared to the streamer’s losses in Q4 2024, which totaled $372 million. The spike was expected as NBC began making payments on its new 11-year deal with the NBA last quarter. That agreement, which includes a package of exclusive games for Peacock, averages out to approximately $2.5 billion per year over the course of the deal, though rights fees begin at a lower price point and increase over the deal’s term.

Watching games is a nightmare and it’s made me slightly less interested in engaging this season

macmahon dropping “DNP-CD’angelo Russell” took me out…

also i’m sure espn pays handsomely but windy talking about staying up until midnight to record the podcast when he has to wake up at 3:45 am to go be on espn morning TV… buddy

It ain’t worth it windy

"I don't see the difference between how LaMelo Ball plays and how SGA plays."

Iman Shumpert

too many podcasts maybe

windy out here running interference for the cavs bad front office

ESPN Cleveland: "It's not preposterous and ridiculous, I'm not going to try and talk you out of it," - @WindhorstESPN on the Cavs adding Giannis and LeBron this summer

macmahon dropping “DNP-CD’angelo Russell” took me out…

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Monday, February 2, 2026 11:01 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

great line wow

pj carlismos voice is so rough man idk if this tv stuff is for him

not much to talk about really (are the lakers and warriors contenders??????) but some fantastic banter on the hoop collective pod today, i was laughing my entire commute

ha, i saw that pop up in my podcast feed and thought "lakers and warriors, who cares?" but maybe i'll listen anyway

same

macmahon stole my joke about kennard fitting in perfectly with the lakers roster

I've literally never seen Jokic that happy

Nikola Jokic was so happy when he realized DeMarcus Cousins was asking him questions. 🤣🤣🤣

This is amazing.

(via @NBA)

pic.twitter.com/qLScSqVAwV

— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) February 14, 2026

lmao

cannot wait for my customized wedgies prop bet ai broadcast

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/bafkreih2lyjgxff6fhw7fzuaylomh2gygwheuxkubtf7hbinuqfia4ecle@jpeg

Silver has seen a Powerpoint deck and is a believer. But what exactly is the value for me in hyper-personalization as opposed to, um, just watching the game? Does it let me change the uniform colors? Does it turn the game into a video game I can control? Does it chase my favorite player around on the screen with a arrow pointing at him? wtf does it do?

smh steven a you gotta give people red meat not this leftover nonsense, just another rich guy thinking the public is clamoring for his conventional wisdom https://bsky.app/profile/razzball.bsky.social/post/3mf35s6jw722p

Herman Cain's 2nd coming

I'm so fucking sick of Shaq and Barkley

nba's version of entertainment media's fixation on nostalgia and comfort in an era of rapid disruption and dislocation

Charles and Shaq are just lazy and rude now, the whole vibe is so sour. their KAT and Austin Reaves interviews were embarrassing

athletic hired a bunch of defunct the post sports section https://www.nytco.com/press/the-athletic-welcomes-new-colleagues/

the new ABA doc on Amazon, Soul Power, is really interesting

Jalen Rose talking about the spurs called them Castle and Vastle and then talked about Shampaggknee incredible

tbf Vassell should change how he pronounces his name, would be good for spurs mojo if we could all call them Castle and Vastle

whole crew seemed brain damaged just now hard to follow what they were even trying to say

fun fact one of wemby's last names is vassell, if anything castle should sound more like cassell so he can match

whats he doin stop trying to hog the names

he’s 7’5” he just flat out needs more names

that is true

vince getting shots up in a tie https://bsky.app/profile/bobbykrivitsky.bsky.social/post/3mfzt5klpsk26

yeah the Inside crew was just weird as hell today

I’ve missed Doug Collins voice. Wish he was still doing it

love the retro broadcast, also love the spurs winning by a lot of points

Spurs cooking indeed

they shouldve had the players wear big shorts

theyd need to get them special ordered for wemby

xlˣˡ

hah