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

“no one touches the shaqtus”

i cant even remember shaq being with espn

Those are so good.

i was wondering if this was the case

Confirmed via the Athletic pic.twitter.com/KSVo8Wz35e

— Timberwolves Muse (@Wolvesmuse) May 31, 2024

everyone loves draymond

it is kind of weird, like are you supposed to go yukk it up with a guy who choked out one of your coworkers?

tnt couldve considered not putting a choker on air imho

the narratives are bad but the metanarratives are worse, who likes this stuff i dont understand

https://i.imgur.com/JQNY4YP.png

https://i.imgur.com/KgbO5ze.png

stop the backlash backlash

https://i.imgur.com/cWdPgkW.png

the word narrative should be disallowed, you should have to say story

https://i.imgur.com/1zNtXyY.png

i just like to watch my stories

*me firing up my television to watch the nba finals* looks like it's time for muh progrum

Lmao

Stephen A. Smith: "Who talks about the WNBA, who talks about women, who talks about women's sports more than First Take?"

Monica McNutt: "Stephen A., respectfully, with your platform, you could have been doing this three years ago if you wanted to."

Stephen A.: "Wow." pic.twitter.com/szQXOPQ3h4

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) June 3, 2024

get him

got dressed down on his own show you hate to see it

ESPN just shining today

Kendrick Perkins: “Not one single series did [the Celtics] sweep [any team].”

Shannon Sharpe: “Indiana!”

Perkins: “Oh yeah, they just swept them. I’m sorry... But they’re supposed to sweep these guys.” 😅

(via @espn)pic.twitter.com/vnbEvCGBQA

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) May 29, 2024

really dont understand why perk decided to hate the celtics, hes burned through all the championship good will with the fans, cant imagine the team and org care for him too much at this point, its just weird hes trying to prove hes real or something, he used to be on the local celtics shows all the time mightve been smart to keep that in his back pocket

lol haslem trying not to laugh at perks buffoonery

why is perk on television I will never understand

its cause of his sweet accent

I do like the accent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E86fWIO35Xc

what the heck

haha, the moses moody moment, a real gold classic

it’s like espn wanted their version of shaq and got perk instead

steve was grumpy on the dunker spot today he said he wasnt feeling well maybe he has allergies

pretty good discussion about TV stuff (mixed in w/ a lot of complaining) on the simmons/rusillo pod w/ bryan curtis. one point that curtis made that is simple but true is that barkley ultimately will have all the power here, and if he decides that he is a package deal w/ the rest of the 'inside' guys then the show will survive. if he's fine leaving and going somewhere else and taking the biggest check or whatever regardless then the show very likely won't survive in its current incarnation

shd do the package deal without shaq

https://i.postimg.cc/L54rFXS9/Screenshot-20240607-075236.png

damn dogg why u gotta do me like that

lol what did you do!

I don't know! I definitely never had any kind of back and forth with him, very odd

maybe you were out there dissing tesla self-driving or something

a part of the twisted KOC saga i was unaware of until recently is he started is career on celticsblog.com and now hes always doubting the celitcs picking against them etc trying to compensate or maybe just cause hes dumb, anyway celtics fans despise him

https://i.imgur.com/gMZjzOG.png

btw note the embedded tweet in the reply, what a fuckin loser my god

https://i.imgur.com/pSuUSwJ.png

celtics blogging is an auspicious place to start an nba journo career, zach lowe's first gig was celticshub.com. of course not entirely coincidental, since i'm pretty sure it was simmons who gave koc his first national scale gig and audience. he employed lowe too but i think lowe was at si before grantland. shocking that i would suspect bill simmons of homer-nepotism, i know

i didnt know lowe started at celticshub thats wild down there in the celtics content minor leagues

media trying to make a thing out of jaylens hand resting on washingtons back is sad stuff they should get a life

Gotta have something to argue about and to make the series seems closer than it’s been

i can understand it from the talking heads but the game broadcast coming back from commercial after time expired and doing a whole bit about it where breen was like that is a big foul and then that was the end was a bad look imo

it was very dumb

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GPuqOkVXcAA4jIs?format=jpg&name=large

lmao the quote

lmao i think more ppl should compare themselves to jesus christ, trump, perk, kanye, it p much lets me know they have nothing to offer but their public humiliation kink

peak perk wow

pontius pilate to jesus christ: your blocked

if u think abt it the resurrection was about overcoming cancel culture and defeating the woke mob

ive been saying that

take, yeet, this is my body *shares edgy memes*, which is unwoke for you: this do in remembrance of me (user _godsson69 logged off)

father forgive them, for they know not what they share, like, and subscribe

is this the thread to say that mpj, once again, should shut the fuck up?

oh no what did he do now