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

i also didn't know Mazzula was a big born again Christian but that explains some of his weirdo energy

hes catholic

Another pod

Steph Curry’s Unanimous Media to launch a new podcast hosted by Steph and Dell Curry called Heat Check 🔥 The pod launches this Thursday.

(via @MarcJSpears) pic.twitter.com/kRfjvlQhNM

— TheWarriorsTalk (@TheWarriorsTalk) June 11, 2024

doesn't feel like curry really has the gift of gab like a lot of the other podcasting players and ex-players do. any time i've heard him interviewed he's 100% professional and also 100% non-riveting. Maybe old Dell will bring a spark though, who knows

just read a descriptions and it's look's like it's just going to be an auto-hagiography of steph

"it looks" i mean, not "it's look's" haha

I’m done with player pods.

"the headline should be that the celtics melted down on offense in the most predictable way" --zach lowe

really that should be the headline for a game which they won to go up 3-0 in the finals, im thinking more third graph

hes doing a whole segment on the this hes very passionate about it, havent been able to get through one of his pods in a while, sad

it just feels like where the game is now, big leads barely mean anything anymore, like a 15 point lead can evaporate in a few minutes, teams are gonna make runs

there's just too many super gifted offensive players on a bunch of teams

think it was more the Celtics just breaking down on offense like for 5 minutes they barely got a shot off

its was a real bad stretch but thats why you go up by 20, and then they pulled it together and won the game

wtf is lowe’s problem, i haven’t listened but heard he was dissecting luka’s fouls like the zapruder film

hes got bristol brain, baby, incurable

dallas never led or even tied lol

i forwarded past the those first two segments of the luka fouls and the celtics cold snap where he seemed depressed over the whole sitch, and now hes cheered up and is complimenting the celtics saying he always believed in them shouldve started that way then dug into the details after, weird stuff

dallas never led or even tied lol

― call all destroyer, Thursday, June 13, 2024 12:59 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

they were up the whole first half!

no i meant in the famous run following the 21 point lead

Haven't listened to this Lowe-cast, and honestly probably won't.

I had the same experience others had upthread with his Finals preview, where he started with a capital-S SERIOUS "WHICH TEAM HAS MORE AT STAKE?" question. Then he was pre-emptively super-defensive about the question itself, then started talking about some dumb shit that Perk said on TV. Had to shut it off!

I listened to his podcast religiously from like 2017 to 2022 but I feel like something changed around then that I can't quite put my finger on.

Maybe I don't really feel like I learn anything from him anymore, plus he's like 20% more manic and shticky than he used to be. And the constant mentions of what his ESPN TV colleagues think, as has been covered well upthread.

I tend to skip to the guest with TLP but I like his guest segments a lot. They usually have room to talk, whereas THC is the same ten jokes over and over mixed with small servings of very good analysis.

xp manic and schticky is right, he also talks way more than he lets the guests talk. he usually has some good points buried in there but it’s a lot.

it is really weird the whole groupthink that developed over the course of this season where somehow the team that was by far the best team in the nba all regular season by any objective/statistical measure was somehow not the favorite the win the championship

people saw the 2021 jazz and the 2022 suns and have now overcorrected into thinking the statistically strongest team is always a paper tiger

also boston playing in the weaker east was a factor, even though they went 23-7 against western teams during the regular season

i don't think it was misguided groupthink to say that denver should have been considered the favorites. i think at any point in history any title team returning their starting 5 of guys all still more or less in their primes has had a claim to being title favorites. and if denver played boston in a 7 game series maybe they would beat them

yes Denver for sure I was more thinking of how people across the board were picking Dallas

Yeah, it's totally fair to have had the Nuggets as favorites to repeat. That said, I do think a lot of people saw Boston's regular season success as a mirage on some level. I mean, more than half of the ESPN experts picked the Mavs to win this series

well…I think it was also a bit of a case of not understanding basic probability. even if the nuggets were the best team this year, which is arguable, they still had to make their way through a loaded west to even have the chance to play the celtics in the finals. you can hypothetically be a 3-1 favorite three series in a row and you’d still be well under 50% to make it through all three.

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…

and it turned out it wasnt just the celtics path to the finals that was easy, the finals was easy too

yeah I don’t want to get too much in the business of discounting individual championship runs, the celtics have def earned it this year. but there’s a pattern that seems like it’s bad for the league esp now that lebron is out of the east/irrelevant

on the other hand in the aforementioned 25 years, the east has gone 8-17 against the west

it would be more fair and also more entertaining to de conference the league imho

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