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

ha what

It was no surprise when (George) Karl surfaced on social media with the same pugnacious, in-your-face style. He has sparred with former players Anthony, Martin and Smith, and television personalities Kendrick Perkins, Mark Jackson and Nick Wright on Twitter/X. The inflammatory posts generated headlines and back-and-forth discussion. The dust-ups went a long way to pushing Karl back into the NBA conversation.
He was once again relevant. He once again had a voice. There was just one problem.
He never wrote the posts.
“I’ve gone on Twitter to find out what somebody said, but I’ve never, ever wrote anything,” Karl said. “I’ve never done that my whole life, but I know it’s out there.”
The man behind the account is Brett Goldberg, Karl’s business partner and manager. Sometimes, Karl will tell Goldberg to post on a subject. Usually, though, it’s Goldberg creating the content.
“It’s like 80 percent Brett,” Karl said. “He wanted me to have more of an online presence … and I don’t understand branding.”

https://archive.ph/blsZ5#selection-517.0-537.125

that entire article is painful. retired man craves attention with the voraciousness of a 4 year old.

Insane

tatum got a delay of game for giving the ball to the ref have not seen that before

oops

NBA on NBC and Peacock @NBAonNBC

A legendary addition to our team!

We’re thrilled to welcome Michael Jordan as a special contributor to the NBA on NBC and Peacock.

cant imagine this will be a very forward facing position

It's taken years building up to this, ESPN...kudos, this is truly breathtaking

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/45226904/2025-nba-conference-finals-astrology-knicks-pacers-thunder-timberwolves-zodiac-stars

they're just ripping off twitter's zodiac gm

Michael Pina michaelvpina.bsky.social‬

Stephen A. Smith picked the Thunder in this game because he walked around a mall in Minneapolis earlier today and wasn't feeling the energy

the vibes detector was...wrong

Lmao

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:wc5i4z242bqrsxvabql7na4y/bafkreif5ozijm54xfeixmzmkgsj2jqbffxe3ov2jedlzl73paxkh6rwwbe@jpeg

https://bsky.app/profile/owenphillips.bsky.social/post/3lq34zkxf222g

man, i was hoping stan had some flaming hot takes, but he mostly just voted ty lue #1 for coach of the year

noticing a lot of espn ppl in the "free thinkers" area and more print media (or ppl who started in print) in the middle

Awards discourse is the worst, really.

man, i was hoping stan had some flaming hot takes, but he mostly just voted ty lue #1 for coach of the year

― circles, Monday, May 26, 2025 7:52 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

his brother is lue’s lead assistant lol

The "Face of the NBA" debate is such a perfect modern sports media thing: make up this non-existent and totally arbitrary title then continuously argue why certain players should or shouldn't be considered this thing that doesn't even exist

hate that shit so much truly just some marketing brained nonsense, same for the trending concept of "moments", who gives a shit man

it turns out the face of the nba was all of us the whole time

reggie miller attempting to say michael imperioli

Gilbert Arenas is one of the biggest losers on Earth

in a previous media era he wouldve been disgraced off the air never to be heard from again except by am talk radio degenerates, now we have the internet where no one gets fired and he just refuses to shut the fuck up

Blocked his name on everything and my life is better

what does javaris crittenton think of all this, i wonder?

is there something particular that ol’ gil did recently that i missed or just general

homophobic/misogynistic quotes about karl-anthony towns

sounds pretty on brand

@Rachel__Nichols

Rick Carlisle opens his press conference by expressing dismay over yesterday's report on Doris Burke's job security as part of ESPN's lead broadcast team: "She has changed the game for women in broadcasting...Doris is a great example of courage and putting herself out there. It's so sad to see these reports leaked before such a celebrated event."

it is kinda weird how far nba fans have turned on doris. i think shes good but shes stuck with r jeff ...

i wish it felt kinda weird but sadly it does not

it’s not a good combo for her right now. i think she’s good as the sole analyst on the b team but she’s stuck on an awkward three-chair a team.

aside from the general "open season on misogyny and homophobia" vibes percolating in the nba world atm she got put in an unenviable position of following up a beloved (? i mean the mark jackson part.... anyway) crew that was broken up for no good reason. people were going to be mad at whichever group of people got thrown into that booth for not being as good (...?) as what we had, and espn hasn't given her a stable partner thru which to build the kinda riffy camaraderie that is what people seem to associate with calling basketball games. or maybe that's just not her vibe, idk. espn on air personnel decisions across leagues have been on a bullet train to the 7th circle of hell so i expect nothing less w/ whatever their next choices are

https://i.imgur.com/1qdH3XA.jpeg

this situation where bill has a wildly worse camera than zach and also theyre in the same room

lmao, one was on an ipad camera i think

when you’re putting every pod on youtube i guess it can get kind of silly

bill saying isiah thomas has been facetiming into suns meetings

lol that was a great piece of intel

frustrating bill wanted to gossip but zach wasnt into it

zach needs to loosen up he's free from espn now

yeah but pretending to be bill's friend has to feel worse

https://i.imgur.com/1qdH3XA.jpeg

this situation where bill has a wildly worse camera than zach and also theyre in the same room

― lag∞n, Thursday, June 12, 2025 4:32 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

we’ve gone from lagoon pretending to not know what podcasts are to critiquing camera work on stuff that is clearly meant to be listened to and not seen smh

lol one of us one of us

first of all if they didnt want me to see it they shouldnt have made a video of it, and i never wanted to see or hear any of it anyway but since its all thats left i have no choice

btw just watching a video on haliburton and he was a kid he played on tyler herros aau team that was coached by tyler herros dad for a few years then when they got to high school they didnt invite him back, thats crazy

zach needs to loosen up he's free from espn now

https://i.imgur.com/nAHId7b.png

I would have been cool if it was Balatro

https://i.postimg.cc/gk89tVZ6/Screenshot-20250622-181516.png

🤔🤔🤔

Food for thought from Shams

so crazy it might be true

so much food for thought you're just like "shhh--" *points to plate* "hams"

Deandre Austin has gotten a lot better in the last 24 hours