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oh my god someone in the replies said Mclung was "Westbrook 2.0"

like westbrook except very tiny

austin reaves post-westbrook (reg season and playoffs) was incredible, i would absolutely throw shitloads of money at him

lol they did an oral history of windys finger thing https://www.gq.com/story/brian-windhorst-very-strange-trade-oral-history

This is the kind of reporting we need. https://t.co/GDlA3bd2OP pic.twitter.com/UBJS0AmuTV

— Yaya Dubin (@JADubin5) June 29, 2023

Looking forward to the Netflix doc about the oral history of the meme of the talking head soundbyte

i love windy so much

Podcasts saved the rockets franchise

“[James Harden] caught wind of Jalen’s podcast with Paul George, and he wasn’t too keen on some of the things Jalen Green was saying... For [Jalen] to say ‘it could be good, it could be bad,’ [James] didn’t like that very much.” 😬👀

- @KellyIko on this clip. https://t.co/FrSLP45gfa

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) June 30, 2023

Paul George playing 4D chess

https://nypost.com/2023/06/30/jeff-van-gundy-let-go-amid-espns-big-name-layoffs/

the fuck man

this is completely crazy unless they bump doris up to the big chair but if it’s just mark jackson…. my god

Damn, Jalen too!

goddamn those are a couple huge names

i guess i felt like jalen's star was rising? i don't have a good feel for that stuff

jalen's kind of an affable clown imo, not really sure how much he ever added but jeff was my guy

perk still has a job somehow

perk probably works for a fraction of those other guys

jvg had his quirks and was never my absolute favorite but you generally felt like you were in good hands with him

this is off topic but can I say that Pat McAfee's twin affectations of always wearing tank tops and always standing up drives me up a fucking wall?

Keeping mark Jackson and letting JVG go is some kinda cruel joke

this is bs. jeff may land at tnt?

further down that article mentions doc rivers as a dark horse to fill jvg's chair. i'm sure that won't happen but just the thought of listening to doc's rasp for 2.5 hrs every week...

Tragic. He’s been the proxy for the skeptical (and sometimes cynical) basketball fan (e.g., us)! He is also way more appreciative of the strangeness of NBA culture than Breen or Jackson (and nearly everyone else at ESPN). He’s a perfect fit for TNT.

My reviews of the former professionals that I believe work for ESPN:

Richard Jefferson: charming, acceptable basketball takes
JJ Reddick: insufferable, decent (improving) basketball takes
Kendrick Perkins: disaster
Vince Cater: charming, bad basketball takes
Jon Barry: insufferable, decent basketball takes
Caron Butler: boring

i think jefferson’s boring

i think RJ is my single least favorite NBA TV personality, he’s just remarkably smug while having nothing insightful or interesting to say. but also if you told me that perk’s CTE level takes are the worst thing on TV right now i couldn’t argue with you

the list above is why i’ve consistently taken slings and arrows in my unwavering standom of inside the NBA

the only NBA studio person ESPN employs who is worth a shit is tim legler but you can only catch him on the SVP sportscenter which is also the only good studio show on ESPN regardless of the sport

yeah the inside crew laps those guys over and over

wtf why is Mark Jackson not the one being let go???!

yeah i really hate richard jefferson

on twitter there's a lot of hate for doris burke and all this "she's only staying because she's a woman" shit :/

Legler rules

people need to realize that these decisions are being made based on a spreadsheet with all their salaries in it and nothing else

i like rj and do not understand the hate, i honestly dont know who the market is for perk, jj is p smaht about stuff but i think comes off like a dick bc hes a dukie.

espn is just p sterile, trying to find some formula of ex-jocks (some pros and some wannabes who became talk radio assholes) in suits and it never works bc they have no chemistry. inside the nba works because they took big star personalities like barkley and let them build rapport. espn is like watching 4 dads who have never met each other try and talk about sports before their kids' game starts.

im with jordan rj is repugnant completely swagless fool who thinks hes the shit

lonely guy thinkin bout things

BREAKING: ESPN has let go Jalen Rose, per @nypost pic.twitter.com/8mby04vmBn

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) June 30, 2023

glad jaylen got that ja morant interview in before this happened.

rj, i liked him better after i heard him on a podcast where he was allowed to swear.

the thing that puts him over the top from being an ordinary pointless talking head for me is hes kind of a dick, like be humble your not too great

jalen could probably figure something out with the ringer as he and bill are buds.

i just hope even tho hes not on espn anymore twitter still makes fun of jalens hair/whole deal

very perplexing hairline

people need to realize that these decisions are being made based on a spreadsheet with all their salaries in it and nothing else

― call all destroyer, Friday, June 30, 2023 12:53 PM (forty minutes ago)

keyshawn johnson (laid off) had a 5 year $18m contract lol

good work if you can get it

some classic stuff from nick friedell on the zach lowe bulls podcast from the other day. howling uproariously when zach says “in fairness, lavine is a great scorer…”

wow what a bloodbath, lots of big names

Here's the list of ESPN Firings
Suzy Kolber
Steve Young
Keyshawn Johnson
Max Kellerman
Rob Ninkovich
Jeff Van Gundy
Ashley Brewer
Jalen Rose
LaPhonso Ellis
Mike Breen
Mark Jackson
Todd McShay
Joon Lee
Matt Hasselbeck
Jason Fitz
Jordan Cornette

— Mark Johnson (@MarkJohnson777) June 30, 2023

i cannot believe they let breen go :(

Wtf, Breen?!!
Glad Jackson is at least gone.

oh never mind whew

And take Breen and Jackson off of it. It appears I got those two wrong.

— Mark Johnson (@MarkJohnson777) June 30, 2023

surely thats not a real tweet

sorry!!

i was gonna say there's a small handful of competent old school broadcaster types left

mcshay is def gone (football but still i'm shocked)

joon lee is great hope he finds good work somewhere

kellerman sealed his fate years ago

ESPN is letting go Max Kellerman never forget this moment
pic.twitter.com/9Q10Oa5Joy

— very rare (@veryrare_ns) June 30, 2023