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That was the first clippers team that made people really think things could change there. Obviously the Elton Brand teams fulfilled it.

nah that would be the early 90's teams with Manning imo , they made it to the playoffs for the first time in LA two years in a row.

Yeah but those teams had larry brown coaching, that doesn’t count. The bobcats made the playoffs with Larry brown.

true! we were hyped for them though and went to a bunch of games those years . it was fun.

big draw of course was those tickets were cheap and we couldn't really afford to go The Forum much.

I like the podcast the guys from The Starters do for the Athletic, No Dunks. You may need a subscription for it

idk dunks are good imo

you don't need an athletic subscription for those pods. they're good but it's a little too much content every day, I'm listening to 2-3 a week

They cut loose more than they did on tv and also make fun of each other more

yeah I always liked their podcasts way more than the tv show, they're much better at shooting the shit than fitting into the rigid sports TV format

I really like Drew Gooden on the wizards broadcast team. Great voice, easy-going homerism.

wade on the all the smoke pod talking about parenting his kids is powerful stuff
https://youtu.be/qqwBZqndDUg
about 30 min in

Looking forward to listening to this, I just got hip to this pod and it’s great, lmfao when Jax was talking about how JJ Redick got him to start wearing classier watches and Barnes says “He respectfully shitted on your watch.”

one thing i do hate about them is they have this tic where they refer to anything as "the (x) thing" ... "and then the brogdon thing happened" "are we gonna talk about the griffin thing" and sometimes they'll just refer to a "thing" esp from the past where you're like wait that's a thing? i really hate it

― J0rdan S., Monday, August 5, 2019 bookmarkflaglink

This stands out to me SO much more now since you posted this. lmao youve almost ruined them for me.

look it's hard for me to listen to it myself

I’m surprised no one has brought this to their attention. It would be fine on occasion but it’s become like an every topic filler word

This has probably been discussed upthread but the scourge of referring to players by their first names has to stop. Exceptions obv for guys with cool or iconic names like Zion or Lebron or Luka but foh with referring to Simmons as Ben or Harden as James like they’re your buddies

I’m surprised no one has brought this to their attention. It would be fine on occasion but it’s become like an every topic filler word

― Thybulle on the Dash (Spottie), Wednesday, February 26, 2020 9:53 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'm pretty sure russillo is aware that he does this. it's of a piece with his meta approach to talking about sports.

listened to JR Rider episode of All The Smoke and was like man I think I've been confusing JR Rider & Isaiah Rider my whole life. Googled him and discovered the shocking truth...

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5YvonzEDfQ

lol granny

I hope this doesn't sound condescending or like I'm playing into gender stereotypes but I really enjoyed hearing Jackie MacMullan talk about MJ on Zack Lowe's podcast and provide a feminine perspective. "You're a details guy, Zack, I'm all about the emotional experience". It does get a bit old to hear nothing but men give their takes on NBA past & present, which as a whole pay very little attention to emotional, personal, family history, etc matters.

she also had some good "bball breakdown" type nuggets, such as how Dennis Johnson was the 1st person who pointed out to her some of the things MJ was doing on defense

Chris Webber reportedly may be done at Turner after 2020-21 NBA season https://t.co/YGjFUSDdix pic.twitter.com/J7O6AeorjM

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 7, 2021

lol my first thought

Webber isn’t very popular with viewers, which is often indicated by “Chris Webber” being a trending topic on Twitter on the nights he’s calling a game.

the time has certainly come...

now do marv.

unfortunately article mentions pierce and jefferson as possible replacements

nooooo c webb come back

lol

perk got extended at espn today too. i guess they just want the loudest most clownish dudes out there.

Overdue but end of an era

A legendary career 👏

Hall of Fame broadcaster Marv Albert announces his retirement following TNT’s coverage of 2021 NBA Eastern Conference Finals. pic.twitter.com/2UyTfaG53y

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) May 17, 2021

his long second act should never have happened.

correct

my god marv is wearing a lot of makeup in the picture in that tweet

The @nytimes in talks to buy @TheAthletic
— Sources say NYT approached The Athletic following a @BenMullin report about a potential deal between The Athletic & Axios
— The Athletic has roughly 1.2m subscribers, a number of which on discounted rate planshttps://t.co/mlNJZ9VCwu

— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) May 25, 2021

ok will my nyt subscription work then lol

will https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome work tho

ooh thx

essential extension

it would be nice if there was one for a REAL BROWSER

there is a firefox one

withdrawn

feels like draymond is being groomed for the inside the NBA desk after he retires, thankfully he's very good at it

Yah he’s a natural

athletic had a long piece about that iirc, he's absolutely gonna be chuck's replacement

dray needs to study chuck for how to get the takes off in a smooth manner, right now he just says a bunch of off the wall shit looking for applause, hes a lil more shaq than chuck tbf

i dont think hes said anythign off the wall? that one booker thing but he was trying to get him to come to gs.

he did something out there a while ago that "got people talking" trying to remember what it was

he def has to grow as a personality and a thinker but conversing on camera for TV seems to come natural to him