A thread to talk about NBA Podcasts / Personalities / Announcers / Shows / Broadcasters / Commentators

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.
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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

chauncey is fine just boring. beadle seemed fine? idk the whole show needs to be re-thought. try something totally different.

that show is really and truly wretched... jalen actually is prob the only good one

honestly i really enjoyed scott van pelt's coverage of game 5 on his special edition of sportscenter they should just give postgame to him

beadle seemed really disengaged most of the time. none of them had any chemistry.

agree. i love the final sportscenter with ScottVP. great format

yeah its good

players only is done.

Via sources: TNT will no longer air the Players Only NBA broadcast. Turner Sports will likely do some Players Only content but as far as games for the 2019-20 season, the Players Only broadcast on TNT is no more.

— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) July 24, 2019

a not-bad idea that was horribly executed.

i did enjoy some players only broadcasts but when it was bad it was insufferable... they also did it too often. would've liked to see them tweak a bit but oh well

yah you both are otm. kinda wish they tried to hone it to a good spot and adapt it rather than dump it completely but the naysayers were pretty harsh on it from the start.

i think they'd just need to be more selective about the scheduling... it was a cool vibe for those middle of the season thursday night west coast TNT games that are like blazers vs rockets or whatever. but sometimes they'd get a good game where you actually wanna hear real announcers and it would be like, why'd anyone think this was a good idea

by good game i mean big game

yeah there was one where there was some crazy shotmaking going on between two good teams and i think on a big go ahead bucket greg anthony was like "well that was a really nice look there ... well executed" or some monotone platitude and all i wanted was a breen BAAAAANG or w/e

but theres a nepo baby everyones favorite topic that is fun and interesting

good interview with shamgod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-YJ418udTI

nba player scores 12 points in a summer league game

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40586932/lakers-bronny-james-scores-12-points-las-vegas-summer-league-win

double digits baby

watching canada france and the halftime show is exactly a podcast with ronny turiaf as a guest

https://i.imgur.com/6l2xis3.png

and those two are announcing the game too, pure excellence from the nba app on youtube

amazing stuff from windy about 45 mins into the new hoop collective pod about playing golf in abu dhabi

in 130 degree weather

you won't have skip bayless to kick around anymore

https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/sports/skip-bayless-leaving-undisputed-in-fs1-bombshell/

im sure he'll find a way to be heard

Sharpe was arguably as compelling a debate foe for Bayless as Stephen A. Smith had been on “First Take” during his time at ESPN.

for sure

welp there you go not sure why that took so long

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTR3H8jaYAY3eOD?format=jpg&name=medium

I don't think the WB is going to feel that is the end of it.

that's how I felt when my first girlfriend broke up with me too but at some point u gotta move on

lmao

Another horrifying police shooting, does Tatum lack aura? Inside the NBA done, more

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— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) July 24, 2024

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honestly its at minimum a suspendable offense if not fireable

RIP Inside the NBA officially.

Seriously doubt we'll even see an ersatz attempt at recreating it on Amazon. Sigh

almost certainly won’t matter. if their particular brand of dumbass I-dont-watch-basketball “analysis” was something silver thougt would be profitable, it would have been brought back

as always you’re giving off extremely weird vibes when it comes to this subject…

…back in the real world… it seems likely some attempt will be made to keep the main three guys together. contrary to the apparent theory of one of the several wayward media critics on this message board, adam silver likely won’t have anything to do with it. if barkley wants to do a show with kenny and shaq it seems likely that one of the networks will write them that check. whether the show matters in the same way or is the same is a different question but i’d say it’s more likely than not that those three guys have some show somewhere in the new media deal

not only is “inside” very cool and informative (not for me! but for other people), but it obviously prints money due to its coolness and insights, and adam silver, who doesn’t understand business, is replacing it because he hates making money

if any of these networks had any sense, they’d think a little more long term than just signing the inside guys, idk

this is silly, it was entirely about getting away from a legacy media company to a streamer. inside is collateral damage; it's not actually important

ok... "media critic but he's an adam silver crony" is not a character i really feel hugely motivated to engage w/. enjoy

jordan I truly am not sure I understand your position here. you seem to think the “inside” crew is a never ending gravy train that silver doesn’t perceive? why not just re-up TNT then?

we can obv have some disagreements about whether the show is “good”, but if your argument is that it’s entertaining to casuals and therefore worth more than the sticker price, shouldn’t that problem solve itself? why would the league possibly turn its back on such a cash cow?

i hope shaq goes away im sure ive said that before

will there be Amazon-only games?

one would think, totally fucks up the having every game in youtubetv flow

when something lasts as long as 'inside the nba' it gets to be comfortable, like an old shoe and there are some pangs when the sole rips off. it has nothing to do with how sharp the commentary on the game was.

this is a long read but very much worth your time

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40591644/how-nba-got-business-african-dictator

grim

well adam silver has determined this makes money for the league, so that means it's good. no?

aww you rascal

we’re never going to agree on the “inside” thing, because you think it’s good and I think it’s bad. just gonna have to agree to disagree!