A thread to talk about NBA Podcasts / Personalities / Announcers / Shows / Broadcasters / Commentators

Stuff like: who the best or worst broadcasting teams are / which podcasts are worth checking out / which nbatv shows are good / how bad inside the nba is / etc.

listening to the Kyrie episode of JJ Redick's podcast and kyrie is a weirdo. anyway in a snippet of it JJ said the rim on one side of the court (at the England arena) was crooked. 76ers shot well in the first half and Boston in the 2nd half. idk thought that was interesting

the minn broadcast team is good like everyone says. i actually learn stuff from those guys.

yeah i like them. i like the pdx team as well.

So my top pods are:

listen to every one p much
Lowe Post
Woj Pod
House of Strauss – New pod with Ethan Strauss and his wife Allie (some hoops but kind of all over the place)
JJ Redick
bill simmons when he has hoops talk
warriors plus/minus with tim kawakami and marcus thompson

listen to some but not all
The Ringer NBA show — with Network and those peeps
Talk Hoops with Zach Harper
Basketball Friends — Haberstroh and other people
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show — Ben Golliver & Andrew Sharp
The Hoop Collective — all kind of espn writers
RealGM Radio — Danny Leroux pod

i love the TBF guys. THC is a pretty pale imitation at this point.

agree

plz post juicy nuggs from podcasts in here plz thanks in advance

actually we require that you listen to the full pods to be able to comment itt

rude!

i love the basketball jones/the starters weekly pod, but I could understand if it is way too silly for some. Road trippin is occasionally entertaining. The Ringer's NBA pods should be much better than they are. Give Shea Serrano a podcast, simmons!

I fully admit to watching the starters daily nba tv show most days please do not ban me

lol those guys are living the life props to them for turning hoops fandom into a career. havent really listened to them since the TBJ days, I follow them all on twitter tho.

i can only (sporadically) get into the tv show around all-star game and playoffs, but yeah they are inspirations

I mostly like the constant dunking on leigh ellis and his constant Dad ways

bill simmons on Lowe's pod just released, im sure to discuss the Rox/Clips dramz

it was p good. but they are mostly talking midseason awards or w/e. think lowe is going on simmons' pod tomorrow.

anyone watch the rachel nichols show the jump?

i'd like to but it's on at a time where i am never watching tv

yeah the timing is rough, i let it run in the background when im at work sometimes. p good. she gets good guests.

Chris Paul watched ASG last yr and didn’t like lack of competition... he hated seeing Steph have fun especially when he laid down on floor during game after Giannis dunk. From @BontaHill show with @sam_amick

— warriorsworld (@warriorsworld) January 20, 2018

Didn’t know cp was a “play the game the right way” truther . What a dork.

lol cmon of course he is

How does kev stan for someone who hates fun so much?

Windhorst
"Right now, the best place for Isaiah would be in the G-League...He's costing the Cavs games right now. It would be better if he was costing the Charge games."

shd be standard to rehab in the minors after a big injury, players shd be into it, chance to get yr groove back in a low pressure situation

agree

congrats to zach lowe for finally figuring out a workable hair situation.
http://i68.tinypic.com/2hol79e.jpg
also his new pod w woj man between the two of them is just way too much stuttering! both really dry basketball nerds does not make for an entertaining podcast.

i need this magic sleep drink
https://www.si.com/nba/2018/02/06/nuggets-knicks-trey-lyles-blake-griffin-derrick-rose-som-sleep-drink

ESPN announced that they are expanding their Rachel Nichols hosted, The Jump, to one hour.

— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) February 20, 2018

Richard Jefferson on Simmons had a lot of great Cavs drama gossip

gotta check that

Ethan Strauss joining the Athletic might be enough to push me over the edge to sign up.

Hey nerds listen to the basketball movie podcast my sister has started doing w her friends

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/film-court/id1393865270?mt=2

Subd. I’ll check it out

Thanks; please thinkfluence all your friends so she becomes extremely successful.

breens greatest calls

Mike Breen Greatest Calls: A Thread pic.twitter.com/BeehE5aItT

— Ike (@ManILoveOhio) July 16, 2018

cant wait for this show

“I still regret giving my 14-year-old my name.” - @KingJames

This and more real, unfiltered conversation with @OBJ_3, @mavcarter, and more in UNINTERRUPTED’s unscripted series THE SHOP.

First episode dropping 8/28, exclusively on @HBO. pic.twitter.com/zIoxEgBnJn

— UNINTERRUPTED (@uninterrupted) July 26, 2018

Shams leaving Yahoo for the Athletic.

SVG joining ESPN

Our Andrew Marchand reporting Stan Van Gundy expected to join ESPN as studio analyst. Would love instead to see Mike Breen paired with the Brockport boys - Jeff and Stan https://t.co/tZQeTl3K3S

— Marc Berman (@NYPost_Berman) September 28, 2018

they gotta let those guys do a game together at some point.

For sure

my fav hoops pod rn is brian windhorst's espn pod w/ the other espn basketball ppl. it's basically the old truehoop podcast but w/ all good/smart writers and no "personalities" like amin or the more talk radio-ish guys that used to be on the truehoop pods. windhorst is kind of a garbage writer but as a moderator of conversation he's good bcuz he is very very knowledgeable about the league.

i listen to it cause brian is good but i actually hate the combinations of guests who rarely seem to have any chemistry. other than bontemps whose grumpiness i enjoy they can be a drag.

it's a little worse now bcuz jackie macmullan is out... sometimes it's a weird crew. kirk goldsberry in partic is not very good.

yeah he's awful.

windy is cool enough. he knows a lot for sure, seems really plugged in. i havent listened to his pod recently ill get back into it. dude lacks any sense of humor tho.

windy has a sense of humor but like any good midwesterner it's extremely dry.

espn shuffling nba countdown again:

SOURCES: BEADLE, PIERCE, BILLUPS OUT AT ESPN’S “COUNTDOWN”

only Jalen is staying on

i like chauncey, paul is awful obvs

jalen, u cant fire jalen

interesting piece about how you become a credentialed photographer for an nba player

https://www.celticsblog.com/celtics-features-profiles/138519/celtics-photographer-bri-robinson-neemias-queta

I'm off work sick today and just watching some First Take and half falling asleep. it's really wild how much Draft Kings has taken over, they have picks on all these props bets like every 5 minutes.

lol now Peter Rosenberg is on "analyzing" WrestleMania what in the world

espn is so washed

I started checking out when ESPN Sportstalk Radio in NYC started treating wrestling as a serious endeavor.

espn's manosphere pivot is deeply embarrassing for them

Pat McAfee is in the WWE now

RIP Oscar Schmidt, but speaking of ESPN being embarrassing...

https://i.postimg.cc/XqrnPZTN/seminole.jpg

i didnt know he played for them

did you know this was supposed to be a gap year for the celtics? but then the celtics said nah we ain't doing that? and then jayson tatum said hey can i play too? i had no idea! thanks nbc/peacock for letting me know!

blake griffin has become a genuine celeb hes in every commercial hes on halftime a real smooth operator seems destined for a network morning show, i was pondering this because the lemon pepper wings song is stuck in my head

overexposure is always a risk but he's got a very easy and likable manner on camera

yeah hes good at being on tv

maybe he learned a thing or two on the la standup circuit

i admit to appreciating the blake, udonis, whoever at third chair, often dirk, post game chats

i think they're great. just chill guys watching the game together.

hornets crew on the bos-phi game tonight

Shaq is really pathetic, my god

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFNGP2JqDW0

he should retire to focus on making commercials

loved the nothing but respect pod with henry abbott from a couple days ago

Edwards has tried multiple treatments over the last several days, including hyperbaric chamber sessions, to expedite his timetable. He will go through his pregame warmups with the plan to play. For the Wolves, an unforeseen healing period over the last 24 hours that has Edwards… https://t.co/jSgnSxUrwc

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) May 4, 2026

did they bring the germans to minnesota?

they used scandinavians

diet germans doin diet kobes on ant's knee, perfect

this t mac, vince carter & carmelo panel is not pleasing to me. inverse relationship between how cool those guys were as players and how cool they are as television personalities

[worst person you know made a great point onion article guy] Nick Wright had a good observation about how bad Draymond is on Inside the NBA is rooted in the fact that, unlike Chuck, he can't laugh at himself.

he needs to breathe, just unwatchable

forcing draymond upon us like this is seriously so upsetting and again shows how much the people who run the NBA media hate fans. he's so awful

windy detailing the draft lottery drawing number by number is pretty funny

i was gonna say that the version he told was actually fascinating and would be a more fun television show than what is actually broadcast

like i think it's already more or less lost to history that in the wemby draft when they did the number combos the way windy lines out the final two teams left for the no 1 spot were the spurs and the wiz, even tho the wiz ended up 8th that year

off topic I like Jamal Crawford on the broadcast team

they've started televising the NHL draft lottery number by number

see that's sick

xp of all the new ex players being thrown onto TV he is the best, i think. certainly in that role anyway

which made my team losing the lottery all the more painful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qMFgms5fdI

I didn't actually watch it this year but they show the live percentages, it's an entertaining way to show the lottery. might even quiet down conspiracy talk, though the Maple Leafs winning was the NHL equivalent of the Mavs getting Flagg after the Luka trade.

lol incredible presentation the nba needs to do that

that is really good lol

picked these up at Walgreens

https://postimg.cc/v4Phs5gb

https://i.postimg.cc/FKvB0Zhd/PXL-20260513-121546447.jpg

the number of products shaq endorses is unprecedented theyve got him selling stuff at the hardware store

they weren't that Shaq-a-licious tbh : /

he really will do anything

He wants some of that Kobe Beef money.

the gummies weren't molded very well so you can't really see Shaq's features so they just look like a deformed blob of gummy

ian eagle dropping “SPIDA BITE! at the end of the first quarter!” after mitchell made the half court buzzer beater is why he’s one of the greats

otm

Yah that was nice

o_O

https://awfulannouncing.com/nba/the-oklahoman-publishes-deletes-op-ed-oklahoma-city-thunder-israel.html

that shits so funny they shouldve kept it up how often the the oklahoman get national attention they couldve run another one that said the clippers are palestine

were they wrong though…