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needs to happen at some point

Now that the broadcast is over, I’ve gotta say, I don’t feel like the NBA and ABC did a good job at all making this feel like a big event. Finals logos and legends should just be everywhere. The Stephen A halftime show was a joke. Top to bottom, they’ve gotta reevaluate it all.

— Shehan Jeyarajah (@ShehanJeyarajah) June 18, 2024

kinda true tho i liked not having the big dumb logo sticker at center court, especially since players slip on it

I do think the celtics were the best and most complete team, but their road to the finals was probably historically easy…something that’s been more or less the case for east champs for 25 years now. at some point someone should do something about this imo…

― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, June 13, 2024 5:09 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

what do you even do about this though besides dropping the conferences, is the league gonna force new ownership in NY and chicago? theres not any fundamental reason the east should be worse, its mostly from that

lol cedric maxwell wandering around jumping in on multiple broadcasts to say how bout them celtics and somewhat incongruously see you later fakin lakers

lol I just listened to Lowe and was coming to post about Cedric, trash talking James Worthy lol

cornbread time

I hate that the Celtics officially have more championships than us now 🙄

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) June 18, 2024

simmons championship pod w/ dad… that’s an auto delete from me……

cool to see that jackie mac came thru the hoop collective postgame pod tho. heard her name mentioned i think on their last pod re an old story she had written and i was like, damn all this celtics talk and jackie mac is a ghost, at least nationally. didn’t feel right to me

not sure if anything is going on w/her other than taking retirement seriously but i miss her a lot for sure

for some reason i remember thinking that her split from espn seemed somewhat acrimonious but reading back about it now it seems like she just wanted to quit working. shoutout to her

Hopefully she’s perfected her Embiid impression.

i listened to jackie’s bit of the pod, apparently she’s been doing some local tv

thats a nice part time retirement job

that was a good pod nice freewheeling style

so many ladies in the background getting their pictures taken throwing confetti into the air

Just filed for the final time with @ShotDrJr. Tomorrow’s Tier 1 is sadly my last for @TheAthleticNBA. It’s been a great 5 years, first 2 full time and last 3 as a contributor.

Had great times working not just with Rob, but the GOAT @thatgonzalez

1/x

— Anchorage Man (@SethPartnow) June 21, 2024

damn we’re losing partnow

Tbh, he’s kind of annoying. I get tired of him dunking on randos on X because he’s smarter than them.

ESPN's opening bid for Stephen A is $18 million per year. He wants more. @Ourand_Puck https://t.co/pk6L14zQkX

— Bryan Curtis (@bryancurtis) June 21, 2024

18 million a year huh

lmao let him go to fox, jesus

ESPN getting rid of Jeff Van Gundy after being concerned he would jump back into coaching, only to replace him with Doc Rivers and JJ Redick, who both left within months for coaching jobs, is hilarious.

— Moneybagg Yo(hannes) 🇪🇷 (@AronYohannes) June 20, 2024

I’m old enough to remember when we needed to protect ‘inside’ because it was better than the alternative NBA product…but now that I think of it there are some big stephen A boosters within our quarters as well

it has been so long since inside was good, im starting to doubt it was good in the first place. there were definitely fewer hot takes and the shenanigans weren’t all in bold capital blinking letters.

it's only good now when Charles says something goofy and makes Shaq giggle not really for hoops

smh coward

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

weak

most of the Timberwolves/Pelicans halftime was spent.... discussing Bronny James

awful

cut into the game while play was going on to show Bronny walking into the building through the tunnels, this is going to be so bad

its so bad who even wants to talk about? what else is left to say?

in this instance i’m kinda willing to let them rock bcuz summer league is mostly a farce in general but this year in particular there is just nothing happening

whether bronny gets embarrassed out there is more compelling than “get your first look at alex sarr!”

i have discovered another outrageous case of nepotism jaelen house son of celtics great and current tv guy eddie house is on the celtics summer league team

whether bronny gets embarrassed out there is more compelling than “get your first look at alex sarr!”

Alex Sarr blocked three straight shots. Three. pic.twitter.com/2p87u6xisq

— Bijan Todd (@bijan_todd) July 13, 2024

agree with jordan, bronny is being a well paid punching bag for posting culture, thank u for your service

I was watching a Wolves game and I did want to them talk about our summer league players is that too much to ask?

but theres a nepo baby everyones favorite topic that is fun and interesting

good interview with shamgod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-YJ418udTI

nba player scores 12 points in a summer league game

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40586932/lakers-bronny-james-scores-12-points-las-vegas-summer-league-win

double digits baby

watching canada france and the halftime show is exactly a podcast with ronny turiaf as a guest

https://i.imgur.com/6l2xis3.png

and those two are announcing the game too, pure excellence from the nba app on youtube

amazing stuff from windy about 45 mins into the new hoop collective pod about playing golf in abu dhabi

in 130 degree weather

you won't have skip bayless to kick around anymore

https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/sports/skip-bayless-leaving-undisputed-in-fs1-bombshell/

im sure he'll find a way to be heard

Sharpe was arguably as compelling a debate foe for Bayless as Stephen A. Smith had been on “First Take” during his time at ESPN.

for sure

welp there you go not sure why that took so long

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTR3H8jaYAY3eOD?format=jpg&name=medium

I don't think the WB is going to feel that is the end of it.