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he has the most conventional cliche takes and delivers them like theyre the deepest wisdom

imo he was kind of a breath of fresh air in the early 2000s on espn bc most sports writers were stodgy white guys but he hasnt grown at all

― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Sunday, May 19, 2024 5:39 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think this is right, PTI was fun and the right mix of intelligent/irreverent at its peak, now he's just another old guy

yeah pti was ok i liked the list

Pti and around the horn was fun for a moment in time. Really hard to be a sports generalist and sound smart now there’s too many specifics that’s have lapped these guys 100 times over. Steven a gets away w it cos he’s an entertainer first and does a good job selling whatever he’s saying, but I’m not going to Steven a for sound takes and wisdom.

Specifics = specialists

it's been a tough playoffs for the espn superstar narrative machine that's for sure, even the one blueblood market left in the celtics they always seem oddly unenthusiastic about

yeah they shouldve gotten behind this celtics team instead of deciding they were tired of them now what do they have left luka, sad

theyll prob change their minds about the celtics over the course of the pacers series if its going well, what other choice do they have

celtics dominating the playoffs so far but in a boring way vs depleted teams is a funny conundrum for the talking heads

lol my god just watched 7 minutes of first take supposedly talking about the game for 7 minutes and they literally spent the entire time pontificating about miller's "dumb ass question" thing at the press conference

whats the dumb ass question thing

assume he meant malone — malone got frustrated about a question about the blown 20 point lead and muttered “stupid ass question” after giving a frustrated non-answer

tough out there

that was one of the most fascinating series weve ever had theres so much in there to dissect but alas

xpost - yeah they just talked about malone's conference and didn't really talk about the game

fuuuuuuuuuck noooooooooooooooo

Draymond Green will be part of TNT's "Inside the NBA" for the complete Western Conference Finals. He has not previously been part of the studio team for its on-site conference final coverage.

— Sports Media Watch (@paulsen_smw) May 20, 2024

its trenchant opinions and ax grinding time baby

he was good last year IMO. this year he went the way of "old media" and started making it about annoying and hot takes for engagement. maybe he'll settle down and get back to basics.

he USUALLY always come back after being a dummy like this and admits to being a dummy. but we'll see. its crazy the rudy thing was a pretty safe bet but the wolves have surprised us all.

ILH historians will note that I love dray’s game and will defend him on the court forever. but he’s also a clown on the court and a wannabe buffoon perk off the court

I think it's a bad vibe to have currently active players being analysts during the playoffs

tbf that’s been happening across sports for years now. it might just be a bad idea to have draymond doing it

yah I don't know I can't be objective I hate him so much

lol

He’s really got barely anyone on his side anymore besides some teammates, his fam, about 55% of warriors fans and a few people at Klutch

lol cmon doing stories on magic tweets

https://clutchpoints.com/magic-johnson-reveals-what-sparked-timberwolves-epic-game-7-comeback-vs-nuggets

GUYS YOU'LL NEVER GUESS

is it defense

shhhh

haven’t seen any of the major guys tweet about it but it sounds like inside is officially over

damn rip

people arent giving jaylens shot enough credit and the stats back that up

https://x.com/ykb_app/status/1793117296539705613

Jaylen Brown's double bang was just the 7th of Mike Breen's career 🗣️

Here's all 7: pic.twitter.com/6clqJs8Xty

— YKB (@ykb_app) May 22, 2024

wild how already truly awful and dated the tight shirts long baggy pants era looks in that curry/okc clip

ha yeah was thinking the same they should fx those sleeved jerseys out of the historical record

enes kanter's (refuse to use his other name) shrug in the curry clip still gets me all these years later

yeah its good

NBC contacted artist John Tesh about bringing back the iconic NBA on NBC theme song “Roundball Rock.” via @LeBatardShow.

Are you excited for it to potentially come back? pic.twitter.com/2NSqtCSLHZ

— NBA Retweet (@RTNBA) May 21, 2024

this is what the shaq stans on this board want to keep from us

finally some good news in the world

fox college basketball had the rights to it for a few years which means fans tuning into rutgers-northwestern got the roundball rock bumper

Charles Barkley says morale sucks amid the uncertainty of "Inside the NBA" moving forward. And discusses the possibility of hiring the crew to his production company, continuing to do the show, and selling it. pic.twitter.com/gLoiKm7SM3

— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) May 23, 2024

that nate jones guy on twitter was pretty vociferously saying that latter scenario will happen. who knows if he's right but what he's saying makes sense logically

I think Amazon cuts a deal with Turner to continue to produce the show for them. https://t.co/Ur9dP6c3w0

— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) May 22, 2024

Zaz still has to pay for operations to produce Turner NHL, MLB, and NCAA studio shows, so it makes sense to draw a profit from Amazon for something they will continue doing anyway (producing sports studio shows). Amazon pays talent salaries and production fees + profit to Turner. https://t.co/3Kab6q4bro

— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) May 22, 2024

Inside the NBA is not NBC’s style at all, and NBC takes pride in producing their own sports shows. Amazon is more likely to farm out production. However, I could see Inside being more of a fit on Peacock. NBC has done less serious sports programming on there (Kevin Hart + Snoop) https://t.co/u6OtgMRuxv

— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) May 22, 2024

makes sense but seems unlikely just in the sense that ive never seen an arrangement like that, at least not for something as big as the nba, if companies are shelling out billions for a sport theyre prob ready to just roll their own shows too, guess you never know with amazon not being a tv network but they do still produce a ton of stuff

inside will prob just turn into a podcast, sad!

VC-pilled nate jones has a lot of ideas

that shit you retweeted was so bad lol

those tweets were proof that no matter what opinion you come up with there’s someone out there who actually holds it.

kevin hope you dont mind this crossover event but ilh needs to know

my three-part plan to fix the NBA:

1) subsidize their primary in-sport rival
2) erect as many barriers as possible for average fans to watch the games
3) bring back mark jackson https://t.co/zCH3UvUn5j pic.twitter.com/w0av40rFi3

— 𝒌𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒏 𝒌𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓 (@radiokeller) May 22, 2024

well he's not the only one who has posited the idea that NBC or amazon could contract turner to produce the show

espn just contracted out college football games to turner, which has never broadcast college football before, this stuff is all getting really incestuous

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5513081/2024/05/22/college-football-playoff-tnt-sports/

The TNT games will be produced by ESPN and use ESPN broadcasters, but be branded TNT Sports, according to a source with direct knowledge of their plans. TNT could produce ancillary programming around the games, which could include a new show like, “Inside the College Football Playoff.” ESPN will get to choose the first two first-round games before TNT gets to make its selection.

ESPN, WBD Sports and Fox are teaming up for a stand-alone streaming product, named Venu, which will be available to consumers this fall and, according to executives briefed on the plans, will be priced in the $45-$50 per month range.

By working with Warner Bros. Discovery, ESPN is able to keep the entire playoff under the Venu umbrella.

nate jones is probably off wrt to the amazon aspect of it all. but it's extremely easy to read this and envision inside the nba produced by turner on "Venu" attached to espn's nba games

maybe amazon could just hire the inside guys

except for shaq

btw good chuck moment, why is everyone talking about this vacuous marketing "face of the league" bs recently who gives a shit

Charles Barkley with the PERFECT response to Kenny Smith’s horrible take ☘️ pic.twitter.com/hgQYTsoQne

— 𝙍𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙮 ☘️ (@CelticsRiley) May 23, 2024