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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

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

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, May 9, 2024 2:39 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah he said thats your opinion the classic sign of not caring

for the record here’s a great hack I learned: you don’t actually have to listen to the studio shows. good chance to use the bathroom, make some food, post on ilx etc

but we’re talking about a moment where there’s an actual chance things get shaken up.

ok obama. feel free to live in the fantasy world where whatever comes after this show will be better i'll be here living in reality

for the record here’s a great hack I learned: you don’t actually have to listen to the studio shows. good chance to use the bathroom, make some food, post on ilx etc

― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, May 9, 2024 2:58 PM (nineteen seconds ago)

if you wanna have a nihilism contest about who cares the least about this topic you can go ahead and take that ribbon dawg bcuz i actually do like having something fun to watch after a big basketball game

ok obama. feel free to live in the fantasy world where whatever comes after this show will be better i'll be here living in reality

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, May 9, 2024 2:59 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

funny I was about to make a hacky political comparison but…inside is biden :(

who I hope wins I guess

if you wanna have a nihilism contest about who cares the least about this topic you can go ahead and take that ribbon dawg bcuz i actually do like having something fun to watch after a big basketball game

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, May 9, 2024 3:00 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

me too! hopefully we can get something like this in the future

ftr I wasn't super upset about the Shaq thing I just thought it was dumb and oafish, which I guess it's to say it's Shaq

this segment makes it even more dumb, Shaq's of course root in all this is feeling like he should have won more MVPs in the 90s...Ernie is getting really upset and trying to hold it together which I always love lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KHKSixfmZo

shaq has always been bad at his job but hes been noticeably weird this yeah he seems angry frustrated hes been making a bunch of odd sexual innuendoes on air, trying to make jokers mvp interview about himself, looking at the stat sheet of a game and saying i dont who this is but he had a good game

maybe hes just letting his freak flag fly knowing that the show is prob gonna be canceled

sometimes shaq gets chuck going in a good way, more often than not he is a bottleneck for conversation and a buffoon. show is not perfect, i still enjoy watching it, and i shudder at the thought of what amazon or nbc's attempts at studio programming will be

amazon should have an ai generated halftime show

i still watch inside its the best nba show but its a shadow of its former self

i think that's a fair assessment. most tv shows w/ this lifespan can only be really good for so long

the difference is that when a normal tv show falls off there's other good tv to watch instead. there is no other good post game basketball programming to watch

actually scott van pelt on sportscenter after games is pretty good usually. him and tim legler do good film breadown segments, it's def the kinda entertaining but smart programming that people want to see on tv. but you're only getting like 10-15 mins before he moves on to other sports etc

the van pelt sports center is good, im sure its not easy to make a good sports talk show but it is possible, as to whether the desire is there doesnt seem like it

SVP is my go to sports show now. i watch some inside still but its not must watch any more for me. the gap between those two and anything else on the national media landscape is massive. espn really should just be trying anything new just throw caution to the wind and see what works. i liked that tnt gave KG that weird segment a few years ago... even tho it didnt really work. but just more stuff in the spirit of that experiment.

we should be on year ~20 of payton and c webb but they just didnt want us to have nice things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5AodJFb29o

lmao they were too good that was the problem

I don't disagree with @BillSimmons' sentiment here — and I said as much on the No Dunks pod — but Shaq, Chuck, and Kenny NEVER attend any 'Inside the NBA' pre-show meetings. pic.twitter.com/pwQ46Ihkut

— J.E. Skeets (@jeskeets) May 10, 2024

it brings me no pleasure to note that bill simmons is otm

yeah you can tell they dont go to the meetings by how they dont know who the players are

bill thinking shaqs running his bits by producers

that’s actually good though

nba should just buy the rights to roundball rock and all the broadcasts could use it

richard jefferson letting us know he has a son named phoenix

gotta memorialize this kevin harlan greatness. standing up and barking toe to toe with murray has me on the floor

kevin harlan the god pic.twitter.com/QECaAsvK8b

— Brian Floyd (@BrianMFloyd) May 13, 2024

FML but this is tuff as hell with Jamal Murray & Kevin Harlan pic.twitter.com/EqVojCFGVB

— CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable (@cjzero) May 13, 2024

lol that harlan can even come close to pulling that off is a testament to him

This angle they showed before the second half started is the nuts. Look at Reggie and J-Crawford. pic.twitter.com/x8TRtjEhnf

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) May 13, 2024

commentator pet peeve theyre way too quick to say a guy is "down" "injured" its disturbing and the guy is usually not really down or injured last nights game ian eagle said chet was down holding his head and chet ran into view before he was finished

so how is the “hey let’s see what other ideas the TV execs have, imagine all the possibilities in a world without shaq & chuck” feeling about this scintillating vince carter/draymond combo

i appreciate draymonds commitment to his beef with gobert

lol, draymond will ride his rudy beef til the wheels come off

Dray had a good little rant about Halliburton post-game

Boy he kept going back to Rudy. Just hammering him over and over.

Yes he did haha

draymond repeatedly airing out his personal problems with gobert on national tv is embarrassing for him but i will watch it

“When you lose the belief… it’s over. They don’t believe they can win anymore, which means this series is over.”

Draymond sounds off on Gobert and the T-Wolves 👀 pic.twitter.com/c0U7LLOxKw

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) May 15, 2024

"im a truth teller" lmao

Draymond: "BBQ chicken is happening...I'm a truth teller and right now the truth is, Rudy Gobert don't stand a chance against Joker." pic.twitter.com/SJvNrfTm4n

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) May 15, 2024

tbf to draymond i can understand why rudy having four dpoys while he has one would upset him it is a farce

I find Draymond's voice unpleasant

hes not a pleasant person

I've always really liked Draymond. I think it's because I wasn't really exposed to him much until the last couple of years.

lmao