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i.e., one inexplicable vote. Pierce floated the idea that it was LeBron who voted for him, which is lmao.

There's definitely some interesting data in that poll, I've been meaning to bring it to ilh. Thing that jumped out to me the most is how insanely Giannis' stock has plummeted. One measly vote for best defender, distant 5th (behind Tatum) for MVP, and a massive fall from being the runaway 52% winner last year of "who would you start a roster with" to just a single vote for that as well. Other things, the players seem to love Adam Silver, they still hate Rudy Gobert, and Thibs' reputation as grueling precedes him so strongly that it's gotta influence signing players.

Link to the full survey is here: https://theathletic.com/5433545/2024/04/22/nba-player-poll-2024-lebron-jordan-goat-celtics-nuggets-rudy-gobert-timberwolves/. Lmk if someone wants full text in that other thread though it will miss the very helpful graphs

full text would be nice thanks

Only reading it now, some nice gems, like guys being afraid to fight James Johnson, and nobody wanting to play for Thibs by a longshot.

just remembered was half asleep in front of the game last night when i heard chuck and the gang rapping a public enemy song, i was like i should wake up and figure out whats going on but i did not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9g0Hl1KD9c

i appreciate TNT for looking for solutions to the problem of putting reggie miller on TV but i’m not sure adding jamal crawford to the mix is the answer

its not good, theyre actually very similar

it’s wild bcuz i think SVG is easily the best in game analyst now on either network now, he’s as good as his brother at quickly calling out strategy stuff but w/ fewer of the antics. but then their main broadcast team goes entirely in the other direction in having zero ppl who can explain what is happening on screen

celtics fans were very mad at stan that last series idk what he got up to i watched the local broadcast

they should have the local guys do all the playoffs idk why its just the first round, mb its cause some people dont get nbatv

iirc the celtics were killing the heat but he was unimpressed by the celtics defense and thought the heat were missing easy shots

which may well have been partially true but isn’t that fun to refer to multiple times on a broadcast when the celtics are up by 25 or whatever.

yeah thats silly

Yah he’s mostly ok but can get fixated on stuff like that and it borders on him seeming like he’s choosing a side

he was the coach of the heat for a while iirc

imo stan's bias crossed a line throughout that series, nitpicking whatever the c's were doing run and praising the heat for hanging in when they were down 20 yes. hate to say but it soured me on him and while he is definitely one of the best in-game analysts in the national rotation in terms of the level of insight but i find him pretty joyless. hard to say why but his brother's misanthropy is endearing, and stan's is grating. makybe because jeff leans into and embraces it. i'm at the point that i would certainly take redick over him, and doris (though she also gets stuck on personal bugaboos). hope i never get to the level of preferring reggie tho lol

run=wrong

ok i think you guys need to take a breather lol i don't think svg has an anti-celtics bias

he doesn’t he was just being annoying

i'll accept that bias was the wrong word there but the particular narratives he got stuck on were a mismatch for what was happening on the court

i'm not all precious about this stuff and of all players jokic isn't going to give a shit but what is the point of shaq doing this on the broadcast? grow up

Shaquille O'Neal tells his "vice president of the Big Man Alliance" Nikola Jokic that he did not think The Joker should win his 3rd MVP this year pic.twitter.com/f5jAciL5Th

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 8, 2024

it was really disgraceful

shaw sucks so bad

shaq

single handedly ruined inside

cop, commercial whore, huge bore

seems like tnt is gonna lose the nba, inside the nba guys were joking about not having to worry about next year the other night https://theathletic.com/5478528/2024/05/08/nba-tnt-nbc-tv-deal-david-zaslav/

are you going to need prime to watch the games amazon gets if so im going to murder someone wld really fuck up the youtubetv/league pass solution

Yeah I can’t go back from LP on YTTV. The dvr is essential.

i also love that Shaq thinks any other human being on planet Earth gives a fuck about his "Big Man Alliance"

The further you look into Shaquille O'Neil's biography, the more and more you stumble upon gem after gem of insane stories like this pic.twitter.com/V3L7s60NpX

— Microplastics Exploder (@DiabolicalSpuds) May 9, 2024

what the shit

hahaha I want to go to this fake online school but I want to do it in person

David Zaslav really devoted to destroying all that is good huh

yeah what a performance

what is Shaq going to do with a Master's from the University of Phoenix

I think about that segment where Shaq insisted you save money on gas if you fill it up when it gets to half instead of waiting for it to get to empty

cop shit prob xp

Yeah I can’t go back from LP on YTTV. The dvr is essential.

― Jeff, Thursday, May 9, 2024 10:57 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

amazon lets you dvr, however... the experience SUCKS. watchign thursday night nfl games was so annoying i eventually just stopped (granted, most the thursday games werent that great anyway) but its hard to just casual watch that way. and with YTTV you can watch other stuff or bounce around easily or watch in multiview once you catch up live. gonna really suck if they do a lot through them or apple+ or whatever

having a bunch of nba games including the conf finals every other year be not on normal tv seems like a pretty big shift what if you live in a place that has bad internet you just cant watch some of the playoffs

I know inside will always have its late period contraristans, but it seems like for all the good years they had the show has run its course. time for a new era

sorry but what is wrong with this clip? that shaq told jokic he thought someone else was mvp? why is that offensive? joker himself doesn’t even care

if you’re pining for a new era should go check out some kendrick perkins and wilbon chatting it up on espn bcuz that’s gonna be your new era. enjoy

if you accept the premise that shaq’s unique blend of buffoonery, incuriosity, and self-centeredness is an indispensable part of basketball media, I can see wanting to give him a pass. but even by his own dreadful standards that was a mumbling and incoherent rant and a gratuitous show of disrespect

LOL

ok let's all take a deep breath here for a second

I’m not offended, seriously! just embarrassed that this once-great show is still somehow the standard even in its decrepit state. I agree the current alternatives are worse, but is this version of inside really worth preserving? why?

i survey the landscape of basketball programming on TV from espn to nba tv to tnt on nights when they rotate in other ex-players and i just laugh at the idea that you guys want the people in charge of these networks to create a new tv show for us all to watch. TNT's big new idea this playoffs was putting jamal crawford w/ reggie miller in the booth. watch anything ESPN puts on tv. who is saving us?

I understand that complaining about late inside has just been pissing into the wind for like a decade now. but we’re talking about a moment where there’s an actual chance things get shaken up. the show is obviously not getting better, and will just continue to get worse. now seems like a good time to appreciate the good times and move on

is this version of inside really worth preserving? why?

― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, May 9, 2024 2:51 PM (two minutes ago)

bcuz it's roughly 500000x more entertaining than anything else basketball related on TV aside from the games and if shaq is annoying sometimes it's ok i just change the channel and come back in a few minutes