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

its trenchant opinions and ax grinding time baby

he was good last year IMO. this year he went the way of "old media" and started making it about annoying and hot takes for engagement. maybe he'll settle down and get back to basics.

he USUALLY always come back after being a dummy like this and admits to being a dummy. but we'll see. its crazy the rudy thing was a pretty safe bet but the wolves have surprised us all.

ILH historians will note that I love dray’s game and will defend him on the court forever. but he’s also a clown on the court and a wannabe buffoon perk off the court

I think it's a bad vibe to have currently active players being analysts during the playoffs

tbf that’s been happening across sports for years now. it might just be a bad idea to have draymond doing it

yah I don't know I can't be objective I hate him so much

lol

He’s really got barely anyone on his side anymore besides some teammates, his fam, about 55% of warriors fans and a few people at Klutch

lol cmon doing stories on magic tweets

https://clutchpoints.com/magic-johnson-reveals-what-sparked-timberwolves-epic-game-7-comeback-vs-nuggets

GUYS YOU'LL NEVER GUESS

is it defense

shhhh

haven’t seen any of the major guys tweet about it but it sounds like inside is officially over

damn rip

people arent giving jaylens shot enough credit and the stats back that up

https://x.com/ykb_app/status/1793117296539705613

Jaylen Brown's double bang was just the 7th of Mike Breen's career 🗣️

Here's all 7: pic.twitter.com/6clqJs8Xty

— YKB (@ykb_app) May 22, 2024

wild how already truly awful and dated the tight shirts long baggy pants era looks in that curry/okc clip

ha yeah was thinking the same they should fx those sleeved jerseys out of the historical record

enes kanter's (refuse to use his other name) shrug in the curry clip still gets me all these years later

yeah its good

NBC contacted artist John Tesh about bringing back the iconic NBA on NBC theme song “Roundball Rock.” via @LeBatardShow.

Are you excited for it to potentially come back? pic.twitter.com/2NSqtCSLHZ

— NBA Retweet (@RTNBA) May 21, 2024

this is what the shaq stans on this board want to keep from us

finally some good news in the world

fox college basketball had the rights to it for a few years which means fans tuning into rutgers-northwestern got the roundball rock bumper

Charles Barkley says morale sucks amid the uncertainty of "Inside the NBA" moving forward. And discusses the possibility of hiring the crew to his production company, continuing to do the show, and selling it. pic.twitter.com/gLoiKm7SM3

— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) May 23, 2024

that nate jones guy on twitter was pretty vociferously saying that latter scenario will happen. who knows if he's right but what he's saying makes sense logically

I think Amazon cuts a deal with Turner to continue to produce the show for them. https://t.co/Ur9dP6c3w0

— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) May 22, 2024

Zaz still has to pay for operations to produce Turner NHL, MLB, and NCAA studio shows, so it makes sense to draw a profit from Amazon for something they will continue doing anyway (producing sports studio shows). Amazon pays talent salaries and production fees + profit to Turner. https://t.co/3Kab6q4bro

— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) May 22, 2024

Inside the NBA is not NBC’s style at all, and NBC takes pride in producing their own sports shows. Amazon is more likely to farm out production. However, I could see Inside being more of a fit on Peacock. NBC has done less serious sports programming on there (Kevin Hart + Snoop) https://t.co/u6OtgMRuxv

— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) May 22, 2024

makes sense but seems unlikely just in the sense that ive never seen an arrangement like that, at least not for something as big as the nba, if companies are shelling out billions for a sport theyre prob ready to just roll their own shows too, guess you never know with amazon not being a tv network but they do still produce a ton of stuff

inside will prob just turn into a podcast, sad!

VC-pilled nate jones has a lot of ideas

that shit you retweeted was so bad lol

those tweets were proof that no matter what opinion you come up with there’s someone out there who actually holds it.

kevin hope you dont mind this crossover event but ilh needs to know

my three-part plan to fix the NBA:

1) subsidize their primary in-sport rival
2) erect as many barriers as possible for average fans to watch the games
3) bring back mark jackson https://t.co/zCH3UvUn5j pic.twitter.com/w0av40rFi3

— 𝒌𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒏 𝒌𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓 (@radiokeller) May 22, 2024

well he's not the only one who has posited the idea that NBC or amazon could contract turner to produce the show

espn just contracted out college football games to turner, which has never broadcast college football before, this stuff is all getting really incestuous

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5513081/2024/05/22/college-football-playoff-tnt-sports/

The TNT games will be produced by ESPN and use ESPN broadcasters, but be branded TNT Sports, according to a source with direct knowledge of their plans. TNT could produce ancillary programming around the games, which could include a new show like, “Inside the College Football Playoff.” ESPN will get to choose the first two first-round games before TNT gets to make its selection.

ESPN, WBD Sports and Fox are teaming up for a stand-alone streaming product, named Venu, which will be available to consumers this fall and, according to executives briefed on the plans, will be priced in the $45-$50 per month range.

By working with Warner Bros. Discovery, ESPN is able to keep the entire playoff under the Venu umbrella.

nate jones is probably off wrt to the amazon aspect of it all. but it's extremely easy to read this and envision inside the nba produced by turner on "Venu" attached to espn's nba games

maybe amazon could just hire the inside guys

except for shaq

btw good chuck moment, why is everyone talking about this vacuous marketing "face of the league" bs recently who gives a shit

Charles Barkley with the PERFECT response to Kenny Smith’s horrible take ☘️ pic.twitter.com/hgQYTsoQne

— 𝙍𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙮 ☘️ (@CelticsRiley) May 23, 2024

maybe amazon could just hire the inside guys

― lag∞n, Thursday, May 23, 2024 5:38 PM (three minutes ago)

barkley is gonna be hired by one of the networks in an overall sports capacity prob making the most money in the history of sports TV

yeah sounds right

would be pretty funny to see chuck talk about a sport that he doesnt know anything about and hasnt done the reading

That talk show he did with Gayle King went nowhere. I'm not sure if non-NBA people get the appeal.

would be pretty funny to see chuck talk about a sport that he doesnt know anything about and hasnt done the reading

― lag∞n, Thursday, May 23, 2024 5:52 PM (seven minutes ago)

they've been putting him on ncaa tournament broadcasts for years! how much college basketball do you think he watches

That talk show he did with Gayle King went nowhere. I'm not sure if non-NBA people get the appeal.

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, May 23, 2024 5:57 PM (two minutes ago)

non-nba and non-sports people are different categories. i don't think anyone will be asking him to do political roundtables anymore. but he almost left turner on his own to go announce LIV golf, both espn and NBC are pretty heavily invested in golf. espn will clearly just throw any big personality on TV to talk about every sport these days, stephen a has been doing stuff on first take like talking about football games that never actually happened, saying that a wide receiver who retired two years ago needed to step up etc and the fans of that stuff don't seem to care

It would kill me to see him yelling at Stephen A every day, yuck. That seems beneath him. Golf or WNBA or college basketball would be cool.

I think making his own thing is probably the best path... or getting the gang back together somehow. I certainly don't see him moving to LA or Connecticut to work on site at ESPN.

i don’t mean to say he’ll literally end up on first take, i don’t think that would happen. i’m just saying that the ESPN apparatus is very welcoming to big personalities who command attention from the audience whether they know what they’re talking about or not

ESPN would have him out there for the biggest SEC football games of the year, because he’s an auburn guy, regardless of whether he has a single informed or intelligent thing to say about i.e. georgia vs alabama

yeah SEC football is a good fit

what i first thought of too

clip they played of shaq and kenny beefing 20 years ago was so good

bad news for the mavs, wolves in 6

The Mavericks look like they're gonna win the NBA Finals. Elite defense and elite role players, led by two elite closers in Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving. And by the way, Jason Kidd is coaching his ass off these playoffs.

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) May 25, 2024

all podcast guys are are like "i talked about this yesterday on [podcast or tv show] and" who cares man just say the thing

lowe is the worst about this cause the person he talked to is always perk and we dont want to hear what perk has to say thats why we dont watch the show