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

NBACentral @TheDunkCentral

Blake Griffin is launching his own weekly late-night sports show, “The Stepback with Blake Griffin,” on Prime Video and YouTube, per
@THR. The show will feature Griffin giving his takes on some of the biggest and most controversial topics in sports, including gambling, NIL, taxpayer-funded stadiums, marijuana use, analytics and sports journalism.

The series premieres October 20, with new episodes every Tuesday.

ah yes more ex hooper opinions to flood the market more

zach lowe, i do not care about the mets

lmao

his banter is always so bad just get to the Xs and Os please sir

lol, as someone who really dgaf about baseball, i find his mets corner chats somewhat charming.

mind you, i generally listen to podcasts out of one earbud at a cubicle at an office and miss 1/3 of the convos

i actually like those segments. the passionate fandom he's rediscovered is not really where i am right now with any sport/team. the way he's tapped into it along with his kid makes me wonder if the same thing might happen to me when my own kid is a little older.

that is where i am with me and my son, but with pokemon cards

btw the alakazam deck fuckin rules, fuck dragapult ex tho

Sometime between about age 45 and 50 my sports fandom temperature reset to a much lower simmer than it had been at any time previously.

Not sure if that was just age/real life or living through some dire shit from my teams that just made me recoil from getting too invested (that period coincided with various Process-era Sixers collapses, Mets seasons of promise that went nowhere, and the worst stretch of Flyers mediocrity in their history).

turn the sliders down bro

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lmaoooo

I've somehow never listened to the state of the league pod but I heard those guys on the nothing but respect podcast and I subscribed immediately

when i was on tiktok they were my favorite hoop guys

sam vecenie leaving the athletic to move to barstool RIP to ever mentioning his work again

that fuckin sucks, i don’t think his politics align with theirs in a general sense but apparently in at least a mercenarial sense!

yeah that blows

zach lowe back to writing!

https://zachlowe.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-lowe-post

I subscribed and I get 5 gift subscriptions (for 30 days, not indefinitely), so if anyone here wants one let me know. might make sense to wait until there is a locked post

nice. he hinted vaguely about this, but i wasn't sure if he was going to follow through.

two very important bits of news today regarding player podcasts

NBA player & venture capitalist @kylekuzma is launching his own podcast @readtheroomshow where he will discuss a wide range of topics including investing, technology and culture with special guests in partnership with @investedhq. pic.twitter.com/jAfi58QEJx

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) October 15, 2026

https://defector.com/michael-porter-jr-again-stands-athwart-history-saying-damn-thats-crazy
patrick redford on MPJ

the pod landscape is so scattered and watered down. do any of these guys have any type of sustainable viewership besides the ones that were kinda first to it.

saw the trailer for blakes new show yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk_omVFy0dM
which i guess at least its somethign different idk

kuz has the potential to be the dumbest podcast of all time, should be interesting

feel like kuz is just boring and lame, mpj is truly deeply dumb

turns out they just didnt replace bontemps, rotating third guys, at least once no third guy, seems fine

goodwill seems like he’s been there most of the time, is he not the permanent guy?

looks like goodwills been on a little less than a quarter of the eps since bontemps left

and macmahon has been on all save three

oh hm i haven’t been listening as regularly in the offseason but my impression has been they’ve been rotating the third guy for the purposes of previewing particular divisions. I guess we’ll see this week

i think rotating third guy is a good set up, def better than doing an ep a week with no tims

i have a feeling goodwill is gonna be the 3rd guy the majority of the time. he has a good rapport with windy and mcmahon, which is probably the most important quality, and he's been around so he has stories etc but tbh i haven't been super impressed with his hoops opinions

iirc the show originally had a rotating cast, like back when jackie macmullan was on? i'm a big fan of vinnie, i feel like he'll be on the majority of the time, the only other person who i feel like appeared w/ regularity this offseason was anthony slater, who is pretty boring. they also transferred mcmenamin from the lakers beat to the sixers beat and i find him boring & annoying but i bet he'll be on more this year

had to laugh that today's episode previewing the 2026 atlantic division begins with 20+ min of decision era lebron stories

yeah windy always open to talking about bron then the ny guy they had on mentioned that people complain about him covering lebron too much

barkley did who he play for went one for five then they ran it back with the same questions and he went two for five https://bsky.app/profile/ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social/post/3myjg5uhm2s2e

i laughed very hard at that segment. his best one

Ernie announced he's leaving after this year. Might be time to close up shop.

chuck always has said he leaves with ernie so id imagine this is the end

ugh. what a legend he is. gonna miss ernie.

he looks darn good for 70

show should just be shaq alone in a abandoned studio sipping water chuckling

kenny can't run to the video board anymore because he had both knees replaced. they tried to do this thing where shaq was illustrating at the board for kenny as kenny narrated, but shaq kept accidentally standing in the way of the video, and not in a funny way, but in a "this wasn't rehearsed ahead of time and it's just a big waste of air time" way

all's to say that i don't think there's much of a reason for the show to exist in this way except for the fact that every other NBA pre or postgame show is still somehow miles worse than even this severely degraded version of inside

i feel like everyone eulogized them at the end of the '25 season before they had the espn deal, felt like they shoulda wrapped it up then

it seems like they mostly kept the show going for other people -- the staff and crew on the original show as well as fans who didn't want to see it go off the air. but the fit w/ espn was awkward on its face and last season didn't really inspire any confidence that the show is considered any sort of priority in the disney empire. just feels kinda like an afterthought in general, however i still watch bcuz i want to support the only halfway watchable tv studio show in sports

i like the prime crew but they dont have much personality. they have infinitely more than melo/tmac/vince who are frankly just three very boring guys

they are pretty dull

looking forward to Shaq/Kenny/Richard Jefferson/Pat McAfee next year

it’s hysterical to me that the hoop collective, espn’s one NBA podcast, has one sponsored segment and every single time it’s introduced it’s in the clunkiest most janky way possible as if nobody involved has ever heard of the concept of a sponsored segment let alone tried to execute one. gets me every time

otm

espns not caring about podcasts theyve got mnf, its just windy tim and jackson three pals making a pod, theyve got that janky ai intro of windy in a convertible