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

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

windy is even super serious about orchestrating the pod he wants to make it good and pro he cuts people off all the time like well get to that later, also i like how they kind of hate each other

yeah they all do really care, and although i don’t think he would ever call it schtick, something windhorst has figured out is that sounding overly serious/invested in the bucks defense or a royce o’neill trade or whatever is how you make the audience care about those things too.

its dramatic which who doesnt like a lil drama

they have great frenemy chemistry, you get the sense they do like each other a lot and enjoy needling each other. it’s the best when they make fun of windy because he’ll allow himself to get mad about it he’s a pretty easy target

i like to think you can tell it's all in good fun and they're genuine friends bcuz they had a whole discussion at the end of a recent episode about how pelton replaced mcmahon on the post-harden trade pod & how windy called mcmahaon and cleared it w/ him but mcmahon was still talking about how they're already kicking him out of the crew. also windy says at one point "this won't make the pod" and i think it was like an extra 10-12 mins that ended up making it

the combination of them being smart about basketball in general plus being well sourced throughout the league plus actively covering beats and talking directly to players all season plus having a good chemistry together and being funny guys (mcmahaon is really quick witted on the fly) makes it the best basketball media product for me

the other thing i like about them is they really don't let teams off the hook. i was listening to the hollinger and duncan episode about the harden trade and they were slobbering all over morey for getting more for harden than he gave up to acquire him and how the sixers have all these options and this expiring and that expiring. meanwhile neither of them stopped and were like -- oh yeah and let's mention that both seasons ended in massive failure that embarrassed the city of philadelphia and wasted two of embiid's best years. the espn guys are more able to see the big emotional picture the way fans tend to while also being some of the best at covering the league down to the granular level

windhorst and bontemps in particular have alluded to spending time together off the clock, like i think they mentioned going to a dodgers game this past season in LA--they seem like they're tight enough to know exactly how to drive each other nuts in a way that's usually fun and entertaining.

john and nate unfortunately still have a blind spot re: morey like a lot of guys who came up with an analytics bent, despite the fact that he hasn't been good at his job for a while now.

ok this appears to be sweet, it looks like if I start the game on League Pass through a VPN then I can disconnect from the VPN after it starts

where can i find a good primer on vpns and specifically my intention to set up league pass through a roku. i have grudgingly accepted that while me 20 years ago could find my way around a computer with torrents and whatnot, i am now computer illiterate.

so ridiculous, in my zip code celtics are blacked out on league pass, though the one that starts about a 10 minute walk from me has no restrictions. i've been paying for cable as part of a triple play situation that just wasn't worth the effort to mess with but it's time. i intend to join the 21st century of hoop fans

I don't know if there's a way to use Roku and get League Pass local games w/a VPN. I'm using Surfshark, a VPN chrome extension (I paid for it) and watching League Pass on my Macbook

this says you may be able to use a VPN on your router instead of your Roku

https://nordvpn.com/unblock/roku/#:~:text=No%2C%20you%20can't%20use,as%20well%20as%20other%20devices.

I pay for YouTube TV to get national TV games/Bulls games. And league pass for everything else. So annoying. And expensive. But I cancel YouTube TV after basketball season.

Does anyone else’s league pass streaming skip all the time?? I don’t have the issue with any other streaming service, but the NBA app on my tv sucks so bad.

why dont you get league pass via youtubetv

xpost it's not great

why dont you get league pass via youtubetv

sad, if its really annoying they do cut the price to $50 half way through the season iirc

I do remember having league pass issues at some point in the past though I can’t say I’ve really had a problem at all over the past couple seasons. maybe my problems were mainly in browser — I only watch on roku or on my phone these days. and it’s significantly cheaper than it was a few years ago

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windy dialing in from the void

haha the floating head

just when you think he's past his prime, Shams comes up with a classic

Developing: NBA teams are probing the availability of Bulls two-time All-Star Zach LaVine and there is increased openness from both sides about exploring a trade, sources say.

probe that availability, teams - the openness about exploring is increasing (per sources)

its very funny that he works for the nytimes

did not realize austin rivers was out of the league and on espn

Tried the Rachel Nichols/Boogie Cousins podcast... Cousins brings very little to the table imo

BREAKING: Mark Jackson has been dismissed from his job at MSG and the Knicks have banned him from the team plane, per @AndrewMarchand

“MSG Network planned on having Jackson occasionally fill in for Clyde Frazier this season, but Knicks management, led by team president Leon… pic.twitter.com/fTf7hijvmh

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) November 15, 2023

lol shocked he’s rubbing coworkers the wrong way

incredible how badly he fucked himself over in golden state

interesting tidbit, normal org team pres doesnt talk to the press

Rose does not speak to the media.

i also do not speak to the media

smh

i miss JVG. doc rivers is not hitting

crossover!

With ESPN and TNT each airing one NBA In-Season Tournament semifinal game on December 7, the two networks are combining both their studio and game coverage for the games.

ESPN’s coverage begins at 4 p.m. with NBA Countdown. The cast of Malika Andrews, Stephen A. Smith, Michael Wilbon, Bob Myers, and Adrian Wojnarowski will be on-site in Las Vegas, and they’ll be joined “for an extended segment” by TNT’s Inside the NBA crew of Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley, and Shaquille O’Neal.

the television event of the century

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lol

Kevin O'Conner published this three days ago in the Ringer power rankings

4. Los Angeles Lakers
10-7 record, plus-0.5 net rating
Preseason ranking: no. 5

Austin Reaves has been put in more of a pass-first role coming off the bench in recent weeks, averaging more than six minutes of possession time and more than six assists per game. Reaves is effectively a 15-6-6 guy right now, but I wonder whether the Lakers could be getting more out of him by ramping up his usage even more. Reaves allows the Lakers to use LeBron James as a screener in different ways—on top of his unfathomable on-ball dominance at 38 years old—which has led to some cutting opportunities in what’s becoming a juicy chemistry. And Reaves is also finding Anthony Davis in his spots, using his own gravity as an offensive threat to deliver the ball to AD. Following a slow start to the year, Reaves is becoming the third star the Lakers need. And soon, injured players will return to the lineup. Things are trending up.

i have a lot of love for hollinger & duncan, but i'm listening to the new org rankings podcast and they always do this incredibly maddening thing (hollinger in particular) when they talk about the sixers where they repeatedly praise morey for "getting out of" the ben simmmons & james harden situations and building "good" rosters but never mention that the whole point of trading for harden was to get embiid past round 2 of the playoffs and not only did they fail to do that, they failed in spectacular ways that brought shame upon the entire city of philadelphia. like, i just think the reality of what took place on the court should perhaps be mentioned maybe even just in passing

their ranking of the sixers org (have not appeared in the conference finals since the year 2000) ahead of the warriors org (4 titles in 7 years) was like, oh you guys really do have trouble seeing the forest for the trees when you get into transaction evaluation mode

the mind control moreys got over the basketball commentariat should be studied in a laboratory

I thought the rankings were only in the rough timeframe since their last org rankings, not last x number of years. Not that I agree with them, but if you're just looking at current state and the outlook, it is a more sound argument.

well they obviously do them yearly but listening to the convos they certainly seem to be taking the entire scope of the front office/organization's work into account, w/ some obvious weighting towards more recent history. but sixers-celtics game 7 was just this summer!