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

rich paul getting a podcast on the ringer is super humiliating

bontemps crush on jj reddick is funny called him a very bright guy today while the other two were gently trashing him, recall him saying jj was a brilliant basketball mind, its prob cause jj is the cool guy version of bontemps

hot take: impossible for there to be a cool version of bontemps bc to be bontemps is to be inherently uncool

jalen brunson third in baller of the year goofy shit

huge accomplishment beating the celtics who had four of their starters injured then getting smoked by the pacers

i like brunson a lot because hes fun to watch but hes not nearly a top guy, you get what high volume production at good but not great efficiency and bad defense, clear second to third tier guy

I think that’s fair

Agree he’s basically Luka

what if you had a team of two lukas, crazy to think about

i bet they would wind each other up about bad calls until they went insane

Noah Eagles voice does not match his face

― Spottie, Tuesday, October 21, 2025

he has a good voice, but it's funny how much he looks like his dad de-aged to be 16.

so it turns out stephen a smith does indeed suck

what pos and furthermore what a dumbass

i had to search what happened and it turns out this guy who routinely sucks decided to suck more, super glad i had canceled my espn sub a few months ago

of course im not watching the kellerman/rich paul pod but im very glad it exists to feed the messy drama machine. seems like everything rich paul has done is so calculated and this just seems like the most hair-brained idea imaginable for someone in his position to go on air and just start throwing out trade ideas lmao.

I’m sure the lakers really appreciate one of lebron’s little minions popping off about which of their players they should trade

zach lowe leaving espn but still doing podcasts w/ richard jefferson is the definition of hustling backwards

it's... let's say interesting... that rich paul brought up JJJ basically at the exact same time that, amid ja discussion on the hoop collective podcast on monday, macmahon kinda quietly implied that JJJ would agitate for a trade if the grizz dealt ja and were going into rebuild mode

of course im not watching the kellerman/rich paul pod...

― You better go listen to lemonade and pray about it (Spottie), Tuesday, January 13, 2026 2:01 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

ive watched some clips of it and its insanely bad paul acting like hes a super genius and kellerman playing along asking leading questions eyes wide at the glory of the answers

not sure why it exists what its supposed to be for but rich paul is not interesting or insightful he is drunk on rich guy juice tho

he made a presentation

https://i.postimg.cc/QdzngsVZ/rich-paul.jpg

can he tell us when adele's next album is gonna drop?

the chart lmaoooo

kellerman outside of anything boxing has always been rage inducing and yeah the clips ive seen of paul are just dry as a bone.

surprised hes doing this always seemed like he had a very high opinion of himself as a master broadcaster

Timing
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Crack Epidemic

in the video he say not just the crack epidemic but hiphop too, yeah it mightve been better to write hiphop

jjj otm
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-pH_rLWoAAhBIX?format=jpg&name=900x900

hahaha, jjj is the voice of reason we need

that's a clever way of saying "rich paul isn't wrong"

In the next cba you’ll be able to trade players for podcasts to make the money match

that's a clever way of saying "rich paul isn't wrong"

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, January 14, 2026 3:09 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

is it?

if someone of rich paul's stature ignites a firestorm by saying that you don't want to be on your team and you get asked about it by a reporter and your response is:

“There’s just a lot of podcasts,” Jackson said. “At first, I didn’t think it was real. You have to figure out if it’s real, usually now, and I’m not as versed technology-wise as these people younger than me. I was figuring out if it’s AI, deepfake, all that stuff. That’s all I had, I didn’t really have much of a reaction.”

then you're either quite obtuse or are purposefully avoiding refuting the assertion because you agree with it

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-nI6SbbsAAToYi?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-nI6ScaAAAlffQ?format=jpg&name=large

thats what hes doing

why does lebron want to trade reaves maybe hes jealous that lakers fans like him more

maybe he just thinks itd be a good trade which maybe it would be

not sure what you’re talking about. rich paul (who is his own man) was the one who brought that up

thats his whole thing

nba media loving the knicks struggles, and tbf whats not to love

thirsty to talk about any other franchise than the lakers

gotta talk about the other franchise sometimes

ny and la, the two genders

lolzz

it’s pretty tasty for them to play so bad coming off that dolan interview

yeah have to admit that is a pretty funny coincidence

guy hadnt spoken to the media in years

ny and la, the two genders

― cam'ron winter (m bison), Friday, January 23, 2026 5:08 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

omg

great job everyone

Peacock reported losses of $552 million during Q4 2025, a 48% increase compared to the streamer’s losses in Q4 2024, which totaled $372 million. The spike was expected as NBC began making payments on its new 11-year deal with the NBA last quarter. That agreement, which includes a package of exclusive games for Peacock, averages out to approximately $2.5 billion per year over the course of the deal, though rights fees begin at a lower price point and increase over the deal’s term.

Watching games is a nightmare and it’s made me slightly less interested in engaging this season