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

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

espn laid friedell off, i’m hurt

Very sad about Steve Young also getting the boot. Damn.

wtf friedell rules

His voice hurts my ears.

I'm just going to complain about the Athletic's site, I can't think of a good reason why it loads so slowly.

the culprit is always third party ad shit, tho ive seen much worse than this so idk why its so slow

https://i.imgur.com/ICX3VRB.png

i have no load issues with them, is it browser/adblocker issues?

Shouldn't be adblocker because it's most egregious on mobile browsers, on which I don't have them installed. What bugs me is that the page loads really slowly and doesn't seem responsive till everything loads -- I can't click articles right away and in my impatience I always end up going to the wrong link.

huh, a few days ago i was trying to use the app on my ipad and it couldn't even scroll an article smoothly, but then i switched to the website on safari (with no ad blockers) and it was fine. it does seem like they've gunked things up lately so that they can serve me the same bleu de chanel ad 12 times in a row.

Athletic is bad now

Not that great. Like Hollinger, but that’s it.

they have two celtics writers which is nice them plus hollinger is what i read there mostly

yeah I'm pretty much just in for the Timberwolves and Vikings beat writers

Reader mode in Firefox is key for me reading both NY times and The Athletic. Especially on mobile

NBA coverage is not the Athletic's strong suit

also, all the comments on their NBA articles sound like hockey fans' opinions about basketball, which I've already been deeply overexposed to in this country

Sports podcasters, I have a request.

If you are discussing a player for a long time, please use that player’s name more than once at the start of the discussion. As a listener, it can be a difficult game of “Guess Who?” if you’re multitasking and miss the name drop at the start.

— Evan Zaucha (@EZ_Hoops) July 19, 2023

yes this is a pet peeve of mine too

Anyone care to list/rank all of the pods of players (active and retired)? (I'll exclude radio show cranks (Rick Barry).) I do enjoy them in clips where a guest is telling funny stories or roasting Dillon Brooks, but have never felt the need to listen to an entire episode.

Active:
Draymond
Bev

"Active":
PG

Retired:
JJ
Stephen Jackson/Matt Barnes
KG

paul george has a podcast named i shit you not "Podcast P"

the role he was born to play (guy who talks about basketball during the playoffs)

Yes I have Paul George under "Active".

Add Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles to the retired players group

so who put marc on the payroll to tweet this

NBA stars aren’t fools. They smell the money from Saudi Arabia. Basketball is quite popular in Saudi Arabia. It’s men’s national team won the bronze in the 1999 Asian Basketball Federation Championship . The 12-team Saudi Basketball League was established in 1976. pic.twitter.com/njguJC1aT4

— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) July 25, 2023

lol It’s men’s national team won the bronze in the 1999 Asian Basketball Federation Championship .

cant believe we've been sleeping on the house of saud as ballers

i'm sure we all remember where we were for the bronze medal game of the 1999 asian basketball federation championship

he deleted it lol

I think Shaq would do a commercial for genocide if the check was on time

— Trill Withers (@TylerIAm) September 28, 2018

we're so close to this

Spears is so bad. Hate when he is on Lowe Post.

Bob Myers is nearing a deal to join ESPN’s “NBA Countdown” as an analyst, per @nypost pic.twitter.com/oYBNuGFZ9u

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) August 10, 2023

pour one out for the bob meyers can do literally anything after basketball narrative

light years ahead

ainge on knuckleheads

Stephen A said on PG’s Podcast that LeBron and his camp drive him crazy because they can’t accept being #2 All-Time, and how one day he told Rich Paul to “Get the f**k out of my face.”😳😂

(🎥 @PodcastPShow) pic.twitter.com/TEkIIJxKxD

— uSTADIUM NBA (@uSTADIUMNBA) August 14, 2023

classic gen x-millennial dynamic

love stephen a's johnny gill outfit and tiny chain look

not so much the quiet storm as the obstreperous squall

i mean i know i shouldn't have any expectations for ESPN anymore but fuck they haven't filed a FIBA story in two days, nothing to be found on the main page today, had to search to find those

🆕 Athletic NBA Show

🏀How the NBA schedule is made

Evan Wasch Executive Vice President, Basketball Strategy & Analytics walks Mike Vorkunov through the schedule making process

🎙@MikeVorkunov

Listen
Apple: https://t.co/K7r4qlpjaT
Spotify: https://t.co/m51IYXr0S1 pic.twitter.com/jntZlrKOCF

— The Athletic NBA Show (@AthleticNBAShow) August 19, 2023

Every arena the NBA plays in wants to fill as many days as possible with events like boat shows, gun meets, music group tours, and monster truck competitions and there are all kinds of contractual obligations that have to be met about how those dates get filled, so you just know scheduling 30 teams for 82 games must be like putting together an enormous jigsaw with 500,000 pieces.

you cannot do a monster truck rally in a basketball arena

or a boat show

The Blazers played for decades in an arena that regularly held such events.

But even if my examples were not precise, the principle of arenas not wanting to stay empty is perfectly valid, which was my point.

Guys, I don’t think I’m going to make it through my remaining 8 hours of preview pods before the games start tonight.

its tough to go into the season while only hearing over and unders from 15 out of a possible 25 completely interchangeable guys