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jfc. props to jb for laying it out like that. was this in response to a question about the league pass announcement or about ohtani? too many gambling stories to keep track of

windy story about lebrons short teammate was good, some nice pre fame lebron details, lol his editor accusing him of wanting to cover lebron because he played for windys high school

yeah that was great, he told that story well

kind of made me want to check out one of windy’s lebron books. I didn’t even realize that his hs coach is the coach at Duquesne now

the story was great as was the continuous barrage from mcmahon and bontemps about him going to the duquesne game lol

Perk just diagnosed the Clippers with an acute shortage of swag which will be solved by Westbrook returning

I can’t keep up with such technical analysis. Dumb it down for me Perk.

youre always going to be at a swag deficit with kawhi as your best player which you have to offset by just hooping

SWAG

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grear moment on the hoop collective pod today when they’re talking about mark cuban being described on TNT as the “proprietor” of the mavs. macmahon does his joke about needing to look up the word in the dictionary but then in trying to genuinely understand what it means for mark cuban to be the “proprietor” they actually read the definition on air. turns out *i* didn’t exactly know what proprietor means!

great** …

haha i did not know the technical definition of proprietor either, but now i know that mark cuban definitely is not meeting it

jj lbj pod is good cos he seems to be the only person that can rib him into admitting the funny stuff

This is my favorite player podcast moment of all time pic.twitter.com/ZIG0qoAJbV

— Jason Gallagher (@jga41agher) April 4, 2024

lol, reminds me of when a reporter asked tatum if he thinks much about when he dunked on lebron in the ecf his rookie season and he was like well yeah because i have a framed picture of it in my house

just came to post exactly what spottie did — it’s nice to see lebron loosen up a little, he almost seems human

Michael "Curious Mike" Porter Jr. doing the real journalism

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doing the lords work

i wonder how much advance research he did

Is MPJ a weird energy guy

his off the court stuff…not really sure what to make of it tbh. comes from an extremely fucked up family, the kind that are jesus freaks but also into pyramid schemes…might be the most normal one in the family tho tbh. I try not to pay attention to it too much

I’ve seen some questionable quotes from him but didn’t know about his fam. I need to do a deep dive

crying @ someone at ESPN pressing a big red button and making windhorst do a full hour long lakers and warriors playoff preview

also crying for myself, the listener

Was this like a Clockwork Orange type deal?

windy’s eclipse rant the other day was excellent lol

"now, why would the sun do that?"

that was great rant but he still he should show the eclipse more respect

yes the eclipse rant was great and also otm. know multiple people who are “driving up to maine” today lol cmon be serious you can see it on a livestream

it’s going to be like 92% coverage here, even if you’re super motivated to see it do you really need to drive 3 hours on a monday to get to the 100% part?

yes you do the zone of totality is 1000% cooler than the rest of the eclipse i drove up to wymoning from colorado for the last one and it was totally worth it, tho i did have a nice place to stay so it was nice anyway, today im already in the zone

reporting back is was so sick one of the most unusual and impressive natural phenomenon ive ever seen, recommend checking it out next time

love to be “in the zone”

thats what its all about baby

"In The Zone" with Trent Tucker is our Saturday morning NBA show on our local sports talk

ive seen him rise to the occasion occasionally --windy on reggie jackson

I am not his biggest fan but he’s going to have to eat 8-10 mins a game at minimum I’d think

Curious commentary from Reggie Miller wondering if the Lakers should miss a free throw instead of making both to go up four with 2.7 seconds left. pic.twitter.com/1DA6sZrDpK

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) April 17, 2024

*hmmm emoji*

a unique mind

“i’ve seen him rise to the occasion occasionally” was so classic

I like the Reggie/Harlan combo. Reggie is a funny man.

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its kinda funny to think back on those great reggie battles with the knicks and bulls with the knowledge that reggie is such an absolute goober. he was always a fun player to hate/root against but with hindsight have to think that for guys like ewing and starks and mj, the rivalries were less "fun" and more like "this mf guy"

ha true being fucked with by a guy whos lame and sucks is so insulting

actually you know what he doesnt suck hes fine hes just super lame

and he cant pronounce any players names even when theyre jones

xp i think that’s right. and back in the 90s we didn’t have the tools to always know who was lame so those reggie trolling videos took on a different tone.

honestly i don’t hate reggie like he doesn’t grate on me the way mark jackson or richard jefferson do/did. he’s just kinda dumb. or more than kinda. the clock thing last night being a great example

his biggest offenses as an announcer imho

1 can barely talk, consistently mispronounces very common words forget about at all unusual player names theres no hope, and just has a weird way of talking in general he has a flat affect like theres something amiss in his brain

2 is always way behind the action, theyll be some big play then the other team has the ball across halfcourt and hes like wow zion is really putting the team on his back, hes just never has his head in the game no sense of timing doesnt bring any emotional intensity, just very disconnected from the general goings on

3 is consistently wrong even about what hes currently seeing in a replay, but also about the rules of the game, strategy, whats normal in basketball, player evaluations etc

comparing him and jefferson is interesting cause jefferson is so unlikable but otherwise understands the job does it pretty well, where reggie has no personality and is deeply incompetent

“i’ve seen him rise to the occasion occasionally” was so classic

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its a great pod obvs and i know they have this adversarial schtick but i wish sometimes they would give each other a lil credit windy tells great stories has cool lines like that and theyre just on his ass immediately after, even just let it breathe a bit bontemps particularly is always stepping on everyones punchlines

At one point he said Zion was 6’3”