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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

the spurs** not the suns, sorry

i'm glad this thread revived today because i've been wanting somewhere to say that i enjoy the vast majority of the player / former player pods, but i would like to never hear Gilbert Arenas speak again

enjoying the monica mcnutt mark jones pairing for the pelicans okc game tonight, shes funny and is into the game no dumb stuff, first national broadcast

yeah i was happy to hear her! and mark jones is always solid.

they had good chemistry

B/R Sources: While Danny Green was disappointed by how the final days of his tenure in Philadelphia unfolded, there remains an affinity between the three-time NBA champion and 76ers organization. Neither side has ruled out a return should a roster spot become available.

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) November 3, 2023

B/R Sources: While Danny Green was disappointed by how the final days of his tenure in Philadelphia unfolded, there remains an affinity between the three-time NBA champion and 76ers organization. Neither side has ruled out a return should a roster spot become available.

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) November 3, 2023

why has the nba tonight crew been calling richard jefferson the director of ambience, i mean he does look like a director of ambience but i missed the genesis of the joke

i saw channing frye on NBA TV last night after the wemby game and thought he was really good

yeah i thought so too, he seemed normal

windhorst was absolutely on fire on the most recent hoop collective pod about disappointing teams, sounding like the most disappointed parent ever over the bucks' defensive numbers so far and then doing a great bit about how the bulls are in a rebuild but don't know it yet.

I really love that pod even though they’re all such dorks

they're the best

what is this weird Manningcast thing called Hoopervision with Quentin Richardson, Dorrell Wright and Metta World Peace?

feel like the thing that really separates the hoop collective from the pack is how seriously they take the topic, the nba is meaningful to them on an emotional level, it might be somewhat schtick but they do it good its convincing, and its not just like some sports radio yelling or hot takes bs its still analytical, windy being so disappointed in the bucks defense is the perfect example, but they all do it macmahon will get seriously exasperated at kyries antics, where every other smart guy pod is all hey luka is very good isnt that neat, and the more insidery stuff they get into behind the scenes drama the wider view of how it all works together etc is served well by the seriousness too, and that stuff is just good to mix in with the actual basketball talk too one can only take so much discussion of shot charts and so forth