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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

love him yeah. he's the best bill guest for sure, they are pretty in sync when they do their pod

get em woj

yeah he's a real sicko

https://ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2025/11/03/no-adrian-wojnarowski-woj-not-ejected-st-bonaventure-opener/87067897007/

fwiw

this seems fine so far. hopefully they'll have some more fun with it while also bringing the in-depth hoops talk

i like the room setup, super warm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5KbZsapPCs

they had bam/norm on. pretty good insight and the players had plenty of time to explain details. the studio court breakdown was cool (about 7 min in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K8IYKjWnjg

wondering if blake hired the menswear guy as his stylist lol

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Zach Lowe asking Chris Vernon “how are you feeling?” about Ja and the Grizzlies time stamp: 2:35

The next time that Zach Lowe says a word on the podcast time stamp: 8:42

ha

Vernon said he went to play golf and gamble on college football before he was willing to respond to a thousand text and messages he got on Saturday morning, I respect the priorities

pods are fun n games when your team is good but pure pain when the vibes are down

thats why i only watch extracurricular content after wins

vernon's perspective is completely delusional and zach did his best to thread the needle of being gracious but also hinting at that. my impression of grizzlies fans on the internet is that it's a widely shared sentiment, which as a fan of a rival team, I'm ok with!

whats he think the ja sitch is salvageable or something

Vernon says he’s optimistic, says Ja posted some sort of “Go Griz” message on social media since the suspension and that, after some consideration, Ja may appreciate his coach’s no bs approach to challenging players.

I’m skeptical

the stockholm syndrome was in full effect when verno started in on how they need ja to drive attendance because of the federal investment in the "safety" of downtown memphis

hes saying they need ja because otherwise people wont come to games because theyre afraid of the fascist thugs running the streets?

lol maybe that's what he meant and it got lost in his hyperactive radio host guy schtick

i mean idk i was just guessing based on what you wrote

oh sorry i was being sarcastic, i think it was more there is this big push to improve downtown that both the state and feds are involved in, and there is an expectation that the organization needs to do its part by putting a watchable product out there, so trading ja is completely off the table.

if there is any truth to that at all, it just shows how all-in the grizz are with this player but it sounded a little unhinged in the flow of the conversation.

oh ok lol, yeah does seem pretty nuts to think the ja memphis relationship is going to work out at this point

particularly considering ja isnt that good at basketball anymore

even putting aside the weird stuff about downtown memphis it was funny hearing him lapse into the exact fan cope that always happens in these moments which is explaining how trading a petulant star like ja might make sense for other teams but with memphis it actually doesn’t make sense and you can’t understand that unless you’re from the city

the thing is, generally these sort of repeated antics and character questions will sour a fanbase on a particular player, but with memphis it seems to be the opposite. it’s bizarre