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

have some consideration for the respective fan bases of detroit and dallas, they wanna know!!!

yeah def a beat sweetener for whoever leaked

i was definitely up last night wondering what was happening with marcus sasser so this is good

for the third year in a row, the dubs' announcers voted worst in the league

really enjoyed the Simmons reaction pod

macmahon with the impeccably timed kevin gates reference on the latest pod ❤️

bontemps mentioned

"both you and windy are good at kissing billionaire ass" --macmahon to bontemps on his new hawks job

hilarious segment. interesting to hear that bontemps is apparently such a front office whisperer that he said he's thought about this move for years and turned down previous offers & that windy also saw it coming. his job title is highly amorphous!

guess he is just a front office type

thought that pod was very sweet :) will miss timmy B

Jacob Tobey out as Spurs announcer after….his gf grabbed his phone while he was sleeping and blew up his alleged affair with the sister of a Spurs player on his own Instagram.

lol tough out there

i was following that on reddit a couple of days ago, messy as hell

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2026/07/15/silver-expects-local-broadcast-hub-for-2027-28-season/

absolutely insane we still haven’t figured this out at this point

bobby marks’ story about thinking he was trading for the second pick in the draft when it was actually the second pick of the team he was trading with….sheds a lot of light on the nets’ success on marks’ watch

Christopher Hine, the Wolves beat reporter for the Star Tribune is moving to Philadelphia to cover the 76ers for the Enquirer. Our loss for sure, good reporter and seems like a great dude on the local podcasts he does. He wrote a book on Ant that came out last year.

windy all the way on abu dhabis nuts in the lakers ep, sad stuff

abu dhabi gave mark walter money and theyre the smartest people in the world not some drunk on oil monarchy from a tiny country so how could the nba be expected to know hes shady

not great however everyone is getting richer and if you’re mad you hate the players and want them to starve :(

bad sitch

part of what makes windy good is that very powerful people feel comfortable sharing things with him, but he is also overly respectful of those people to the point that it was a running joke on the podcast when he would start kissing owner ass. i think in the grand spectrum of such people in the media & espn specifically (shams, schefter etc) windy is definitely a force for good as opposed to a force for evil, but you he almost makes you take your medicine insofar as you get clear insight into the hivemind of upper echelon pro basketball but you are going to hear some rich people flattered to a point of embarrassment every once in a while

the abu dhabi stuff in particular he frames thru the lens of like “it’s my job to know what’s happening with the NBA on a global business level” but he also kinda openly talks about how lavish his trips there are, and i’m not sure it would look great for him if the curtain on all of that was pulled back

lowe has over the last couple years entered the windy tier of talking heads where he has some intel but won’t spill any of it on his pod, very annoying tbh esp as he pivots away from more x’s and o’s stuff

i kinda dont like lowe any more. havent really been into him since his return to simmons something seems off

he prob realized podcasting aint shit during his break

i'm not sure much has changed about him per se but the downgrade from the assorted cast of characters at espn to those at the ringer is massive, the only person he has on who i will regularly listen to is goldsberry and maybe kyle mann but it's far from a must play, more like if i run out of better podcasts and still have chores to do i'll keep a lowe post episode like that hanging around. but the show just isn't an essential listen when 75% of the time the guests are mo dakhil and random ringer b and c listers

they took it off youtube so i forgot about it

yea thats a bir part xp. i def listen to the goldsberry ones and i think thats about it really.

I skip all Beck episodes, terrible. Goldsberry ok. I'll suffer through Dakhil if I'm desperate. Still like Bill and Lowe.

Hoop Collective is pretty much the only one I'll check in on in the offseason and even then I've found myself less jazzed about it without Bontemps in the dynamic.

offseason pods are 99% nonessential really.

Rob Mahoney does a good Kevin Arnovitz impression

can't believe I ever repped for Michael Pina (I think I said a positive word about him on here once). he sucks

mahoney isn't bad...

the thing about the hoop collective that i'll give ESPN a lot of credit for is that they are almost always platforming people who are primarily reporters, and so you get some analysis and camaraderie but the foundation of what is being offered is information gleaned thru reporting, sourcing, being in the locker room w/ players all season, talking to agents, front office ppl etc. the ringer universe is basically just dudes sitting around giving opinions, it's clearly a good business for them but for my tastes as a listener well... i have that here, frankly. give me something i don't already have access to & i just don't really get that from where lowe's pod has turned since he went over there

I like mahoney, and I like Pina as a columnist but he’s just ok as a podcast person. don’t like goldsberry at all, he seems like he has joe house level ball knowledge

nate duncan’s podcast is essential listening for me even in the offseason because he really does know ball, isn’t afraid to say what he thinks, and his cap knowledge is valuable

jord otm re reporters vs guys, its kinda funny that simmons was unique for presenting the guys pov when he first showed up and now its wall to wall guys

and actually when simmons is at his best now it’s bcuz he hears things from rich guys in LA that he reveals on his podcast & so he’s sorta become a really good source on like macro economic issues that are influencing the nba

yeah hes not really a reporter hes still a guy but now hes a connected rich guy

he’s also just got the juice which is big

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).