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

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

lol

Lmao

I do think we’ve well crossed the saturation point w this stuff

We have but I can’t quit it.

Addicted to boozers floating head / beard

My picks for NBA opening night with boosted odds @betwayusa

Suns +1.5
Lakers +5.5 pic.twitter.com/wm9oTZWUAo

— Carlos Boozer (@MisterCBooz) October 24, 2023

lol he looks like a video game

https://x.com/Cooldj0314/status/1716714269629112676?s=20

lol

nice

haa

Did he use a marker to draw a beard on himself this time?

i want to use this thread to vouch for hoop tiktokers jokicjoestar and pablo escoball

Ok I gave up and just marked them all as listened to. Except the Hollinger & Duncan that dropped while I was doing it. Can’t miss the rookie scale extensions talk.

I listen to hours and hours of NBA pods every week. I think the thing that annoys me most is how obsessed they are with distinguishing themselves from others with evaluations. I'm higher on this guy than most, I'm lower on this guy than most, I am far from the consensus. But really, they all say that same thing with minor variations.

― Jeff, Friday, June 23, 2023 1:20 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is all i notice now lol

I’m incredibly high on Timberwolves rookie Leonard Miller. pic.twitter.com/As81t4SYId

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) October 24, 2023

you gotta differentiate yourself in the marketplace of basketball ideas, which is particularly easy if youre kevin oconnor since you can just say something very dumb

usually yes but in this case let's hear him out

love to buy a stupid gaudy microphone so i can participate in the take economy

great discussion on inside the NBA tonight about the ways in which the guys were able to improve their games over their first few years in the league. shaq and chuck talking about big man play in particular within the context of wemby felt insightful

also 10 mins prior to that chuck, upon learning that the suns play in phoenix again on thursday, incredulously argued that he’d never heard of such a thing before, even as ernie repeatedly told him that the league has been doing same city home and homes for the last few years

and now for me the NBA is officially back