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

this could be a response to a bunch of stuff (actually just a clip of barkley on stephen a smith's podcast) but i wonder if the NBA ever thinks about the fact that like 80 percent of the media personalities around the league spend all their time about how bad basketball is.

this tnt tuesday set has a high table instead of a desk and theyre on those high bar chairs then they gave them lil plexiglass boxes to rest their feet on, odd

i stooped and listened to bill simmons talk about the celtics only to find out he calls joe mazzulla joe mazz lmao, idk if thats a thing that other people call him or just a simmonsism but i think if youre gonna do it youve gotta go all the way... joey mazz

ayyyy i'm coachin here

look at this fuckin delicious slob play im drawin up right now

i had to skip that bc i can’t deal with simmons talking about jaylen brown

i usually skip all simmons but youtube kept showing it to me and i was weak

what does he say about jaylen he was pretty positive in this one i think, i wasnt hanging on every word tho

I was listening to him and Ryan Russillo once a couple weeks ago and Russillo offhand mentioned going to a Tool concert by himself and that is some seriously sad shit

there is a bit in the most recent bill & rusillo pod from sunday where rusillo begins to make an analogy -- i forget the context now but it doesn't matter -- to when you go out for dinner with a friend after the friend has been golfing, and you can tell that the friend is hammered, because he was golfing, but the friend is saying at the dinner table that he isn't hammered. you could tell like 10 seconds into this that it dawned on him that nobody would have a flying fuck what he was talking about but he had to keep going... it was a nice window into his interior life

lmao good stuff

im not really familiar with his work but i recall someone on twitter collected all his stories of bad things his friends have done to him slept with his girlfriends etc i dont remember all of it but it was a long list, their conclusion was rusillo is not a person people like or respect and that hes prob not a good guy

not sure why he put that info out there hes an oversharer or something he wrote book idk

I really only know him from Ringer stuff but he isn't too bad. He at least tries to make arguments and analyze stuff.

His podcast backgrounds suggest that maybe he is a bit OCD? Never a thing out of place or a sign of any life whatsoever.

Bill/Ryen is high in unintentional comedy. Reading /r/billsimmons afterwards also funny.

Dunking on KOC is low hanging fruit but just thought folks like to know he has a column today about Milwaukee that says

The national TV game against Boston on March 20 is the big one. If the Bucks are still rolling then, the national discourse will undoubtedly be about who the true favorite is in the East. Truth is, it might already be the Bucks.

he loves being wrong

w/ prose as nimble as a battleship

Truth is, it might already be the Bucks.

But almost certainly it's not. We won't get into that now.

russillo is pretty open about the life damage that results in someone becoming a 50 year old unmarried podcaster/aspiring and so far unsuccessful screenwriter

yeah I haven’t dived too deep into his biography or whatever seems like a reasonably nice meathead on the podcasts at least

i definitely want to read one of his screenplays and hate the hell out of it

listened to lowe y mares talk about the nuggs they went through some potential playoff matchups talked about okc for five mins and dont think they mentioned shais name once, seems like an oversight

the amount of Gilbert Arenas garbage I'm seeing on Twitter constantly now really sucks

perfect guy for the X app

theres only one must listen player hosted pod

Donovan Mitchell tells Thanasis Antetokunmpo on The Thanalysis Podcast that the TD Garden is one of his favorite arenas to play in:#Celtics pic.twitter.com/4Pnb0nSqkc

— The Celtics Files (@CelticsFiles) March 1, 2024

“do you have any like favorite arenas”

thanasis hits hard on the court, not so hard as an interviewer apparently

thats the type of perspective you only get from a player

You would think Thanasis couldn't be worse at podcasting than basketball, but you would be wrong.

i had to block the name "gilbert arenas" on twitter, felt like he was being forced on me every 5th post and hes reached that perk level of nba talking head dumb ass

yeah I need to, muting Kanye and Yeezy helped a lot

nba media discourse is cooked. 2/3 of the way through his first season and theyre already trying to push him to a bigger market lol

ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne: “Victor is here and he wants to win... I don’t know how patient he’s going to be (with the #Spurs)… I don’t think he wants to sit here at the bottom of the lottery standings.” #PorVida #Wemby #Wembanyama #NBA pic.twitter.com/CXKXjFJAaL

— Dusty Garza (@Dgarza888) March 5, 2024

lmao at suggesting the Spurs should have made huge move to get Dame, be serious

lol come on

oh my god. ramona. no. NO!!!!

does anyone honestly believe wemby won’t be patient with the spurs? lol. even putting aside just the baseline absurdity of the topic being applied to a rookie, that dude is spur up and down. come on now.

lmao at suggesting the Spurs should have made huge move to get Dame, be serious

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, March 5, 2024 12:06 PM (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

if he's serious about winning he should come to the team that has Dame already

I don’t think he wants to sit here at the bottom of the lottery standings.

keen piercing insight here. but that's the only one of the bunch. the rest is a crock.

an NBA media thing i’ve been clocking a lot lately are ESPN guys specifically lowe & windhorst making remarks on their podcasts about how when they go on TV they’re forced to talk about the lakers and warriors, so instead on today’s episode we are going to talk about xyz. as someone who doesn’t watch ESPN talking head shows this suits me well i just find this de facto hostage position these guys take to be a bit absurd. like, im sorry that you are ambitious and ambition at ESPN means being turned into a puppet who talks about 3 topics but… not really my problem!! exercise some agency, boys

yeah or like just... make the podcast longer or record another one to talk about what you want to talk about?

I don't think these guys are the ultimate arbiters of the content they produce

yup. the producers have a plan going in to a broadcast and the 'talent' is expected to follow it. worth noting that espn is disney and disney doesn't hesitate to fire people who don't toe the line.

I don't think these guys are the ultimate arbiters of the content they produce

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, March 5, 2024 12:21 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

feels like more of a recent push tho.

it's hard to pick but i think my least favorite talking head discussion is "who's on your Mount Rushmore of [insert here]"

lol yeah i don’t need “the concept of television”explained to me, but thanks guys. i understand the role of the producer. that is not my point

an NBA media thing i’ve been clocking a lot lately are ESPN guys specifically lowe & windhorst making remarks on their podcasts about how when they go on TV they’re forced to talk about the lakers and warriors, so instead on today’s episode we are going to talk about xyz. as someone who doesn’t watch ESPN talking head shows this suits me well i just find this de facto hostage position these guys take to be a bit absurd. like, im sorry that you are ambitious and ambition at ESPN means being turned into a puppet who talks about 3 topics but… not really my problem!! exercise some agency, boys

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, March 5, 2024 2:00 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

another version of this--lowe frequently alludes to the stupid shit kendrick perkins decides to say on tv because he has to engage with it in good faith over there, even though most 9 year olds would have more intelligent things to say than perk

he needs to step it up should adopt a nerd stephen a persona and tell perk what he really thinks

feels like more of a recent push tho.

Oh hey, here's the post I was actually responding to. It must have been buried by being directly prior to my post.

FWIW I noticed this tic a lot the previous year, but I agree that it's ramping up.

he needs to step it up should adopt a nerd stephen a persona and tell perk what he really thinks

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 5, 2024 3:04 PM (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is basically JJ’s steez now

ha that is true, he needs to dial up the showmanship tho