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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

yup all otm

Matt Barnes is the future imo

barnes is good breaking down the game and what not from the little postgame and The Jump clips ive seen but not sure about entertaining for a 2.5 hour broadcast. its really a hard skill, even the best at it get bad after a while (van gundy).

an idea for players only would be to rotate different guys in and out like a quarter at a time or something

Players only being gone is good but questionable stuff is going on. They got rid of The Starters, Kamla gone. Seems like cost cutting for no reason.

yeah wonder what their plan is, if anything

Ros and Fratello out at nba/tnt

Fitz as Hannity I’m guessing because on his (recently canceled) radio show he would defend literally everything the warriors org did and would just really go over the top praising Myers/Jacobs/Kerr etc

oh duh i totally read matts post wrong thought he was talking about jim barnett. fitz is a goof yeah.

Main issue with Fitz on KNBR is that they lost the Warriors rights to 95.7, so it was less of a natural fit having him on the network. Radnich "retiring" plus Greg Papa moving over just made it a good time for housecleaning. They absorbed Fitz's co-host Rob Brooks into Tom Tolbert's show, which has been pretty bad so far.

Rod* Brooks

yeah I was irrationally bummed by the knbr shakeup

Russillo leaving ESPN for the Ringer

So...the news is out. I’m headed to @ringer
Want to thank @espn for the last 14 years.
I grew up on @SportsCenter and then to be on the actual set, my name on a show...have to remind myself at times how cool that is
Excited to try and limit Celts talk to 30mins w/ @BillSimmons

— Russillo (@ryenarussillo) August 6, 2019

he didn't already work for the ringer?

he did dual duty but now it seems he’s going to be exclusive to the ringer

I like russillo a lot, he’s a pretty independent thinker, does his homework, and is funny. he’s always right on the edge of being arrogant and being in on the joke. he’s either a thoughtful meathead or the reverse, can’t really tell for sure

jordan otm. hard knocks works too cos you really get a lot of unfiltered stuff and it doesnt SEEM quite as curated. and also no one really knows these NFL personalities as well as the main NBA guys who all already have their own personal brands people are familiar with.

a lot of the Hard Knocks players are just getting a training camp tryout and have no guaranteed contracts or clout, they're at a very different place in the hierarchy

Hard Knocks can be pretty boring but sometimes you do get a sense of how hapless some organizations are.

yeah it always seemed like what people liked about hard knocks was being introduced to the unknown players scrapping for roster spots, the stories of their journeys etc. it wasn’t about following tom brady. and honestly the F1 series isn’t either — bcuz the sport is so static at the top the show at least in the early seasons focused more on the teams and racers who were, in the words of the show, driving to survive. the NFL & NBA ones do the very modern corporate thing of being like “hey we all love to click on stuff about famous people we already know right???”

it’s any athlete or celebrity’s dream. you give the impression of being open and vulnerable but you’re always in control of the narrative and you know that a corporation like netflix is never going to do you justin bieber & beyonce sparked a similar gold rush in pop star documentaries that are partnerships between the star and the huge streaming service all in service of burnishing both brands while giving the viewer a fake look behind the curtains. it’s a total perversion of what a documentary is supposed to be, but of course also explains a lot about, or is very reflective of, the time we live in
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, October 30, 2024 10:13 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is really well put

Galaxy brain stuff right here

Austin Rivers makes the case that Karl-Anthony Towns is more skilled than Nikola Jokic.

"So what does Nikola do better than him other than pass?" https://t.co/gCQ1IfTYOV pic.twitter.com/7lrITBRUGK

— n i k o l a e s t h e t i c (@nikolaesthetic) November 1, 2024

c list take merchant, debased state

gibberish

get him

An anonymous Celtics player denied Kendrick Perkins from attending Banner night:

“The respect for him is below zero. He disrespects our work and organization” pic.twitter.com/MXCD0Jo3QF

— CelticsUnite (@CelticsUnite18) November 3, 2024

https://www.the-sun.com/sport/12785663/kendrick-perkins-banned-boston-celtics-nba-banner-rising/

the nation needs to see scal and perk settle this by playing one on one

Kendrick Perkins calls out Brian Scalabrine for thinking he’s banned from the Celtics organization

“Who the f*** are you? You’re the same motherf***er that, when we won a championship, was in street clothes, hurried up and changed into your jersey. So, once we started taking… pic.twitter.com/r8XhlcyDLA

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) November 5, 2024

yeah on the edge of a cliff face maybe

hey whoa cmon

Pistols at dawn maybe.

Lowe is soul cleansing

A great bit that Zach Lowe has not tweeted about the Lakers one time since returning to Twitter now that he gets to talk basketball on his terms lol.

— CT (@CT_WIU) November 13, 2024

entire first half of the windhorst pod today was on the lakers lol

i personally do find the lakers compelling at the moment due to the early hype increasing the chances of combustibility

too bad they didnt start out on fire

Had a laker friend send me a text “3-0” after the third game talking big lol haven’t heard from him since regarding the lakers

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5926632/2024/11/16/inside-the-nba-abc-espn-tnt-lawsuit/?source=user_shared_article

I don’t really understand this. “inside” is moving to ESPN, but will continue to be produced by TNT, and the 4 guys might be on other TNT shows too?

i think that is called outsourcing

i know the guys were talking about how they wanted to keep the whole production together the crew and whatnot since a lot of them had been working there a long time so maybe thats why theyre doing it that way