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!
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Saturday, 13 January 2018 04:50 (six years ago) link
I fully admit to watching the starters daily nba tv show most days please do not ban me
― Clay, Saturday, 13 January 2018 05:13 (six years ago) link
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.
― Spottie, Saturday, 13 January 2018 05:39 (six years ago) link
i can only (sporadically) get into the tv show around all-star game and playoffs, but yeah they are inspirations
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Saturday, 13 January 2018 05:56 (six years ago) link
I mostly like the constant dunking on leigh ellis and his constant Dad ways
― Clay, Saturday, 13 January 2018 06:04 (six years ago) link
bill simmons on Lowe's pod just released, im sure to discuss the Rox/Clips dramz
― Spottie, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link
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?
― Spottie, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
i'd like to but it's on at a time where i am never watching tv
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
yeah the timing is rough, i let it run in the background when im at work sometimes. p good. she gets good guests.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 02:43 (six years ago) link
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
― Spottie, Saturday, 20 January 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
Didn’t know cp was a “play the game the right way” truther . What a dork.
― Spottie, Saturday, 20 January 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
lol cmon of course he is
― lag∞n, Saturday, 20 January 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
How does kev stan for someone who hates fun so much?
― Spottie, Saturday, 20 January 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
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."
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
agree
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
congrats to zach lowe for finally figuring out a workable hair situation.http://i68.tinypic.com/2hol79e.jpgalso 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.
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 03:52 (six years ago) link
i need this magic sleep drinkhttps://www.si.com/nba/2018/02/06/nuggets-knicks-trey-lyles-blake-griffin-derrick-rose-som-sleep-drink
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
ESPN announced that they are expanding their Rachel Nichols hosted, The Jump, to one hour.— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) February 20, 2018
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 03:32 (six years ago) link
Richard Jefferson on Simmons had a lot of great Cavs drama gossip
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 03:42 (six years ago) link
gotta check that
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link
Ethan Strauss joining the Athletic might be enough to push me over the edge to sign up.
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Friday, 13 April 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
Hey nerds listen to the basketball movie podcast my sister has started doing w her friendshttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/film-court/id1393865270?mt=2
― devops mom (silby), Thursday, 5 July 2018 02:01 (five years ago) link
Subd. I’ll check it out
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Thursday, 5 July 2018 05:32 (five years ago) link
Thanks; please thinkfluence all your friends so she becomes extremely successful.
― devops mom (silby), Thursday, 5 July 2018 05:35 (five years ago) link
breens greatest calls
Mike Breen Greatest Calls: A Thread pic.twitter.com/BeehE5aItT— Ike (@ManILoveOhio) July 16, 2018
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Monday, 16 July 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
cant wait for this show
“I still regret giving my 14-year-old my name.” - @KingJamesThis 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
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Thursday, 26 July 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
Shams leaving Yahoo for the Athletic.
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
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
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Friday, 28 September 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
they gotta let those guys do a game together at some point.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 28 September 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
For sure
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Saturday, 29 September 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
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.
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 17 March 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 17 March 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link
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.
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 17 March 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
yeah he's awful.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 17 March 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
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.
― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 00:31 (five years ago) link
windy has a sense of humor but like any good midwesterner it's extremely dry.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link
espn shuffling nba countdown again:
SOURCES: BEADLE, PIERCE, BILLUPS OUT AT ESPN’S “COUNTDOWN”
only Jalen is staying on
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
i like chauncey, paul is awful obvs
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
jalen, u cant fire jalen
chauncey is fine just boring. beadle seemed fine? idk the whole show needs to be re-thought. try something totally different.
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
that show is really and truly wretched... jalen actually is prob the only good one
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 12 June 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
honestly i really enjoyed scott van pelt's coverage of game 5 on his special edition of sportscenter they should just give postgame to him
beadle seemed really disengaged most of the time. none of them had any chemistry.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
agree. i love the final sportscenter with ScottVP. great format
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
yeah its good
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
players only is done.
Via sources: TNT will no longer air the Players Only NBA broadcast. Turner Sports will likely do some Players Only content but as far as games for the 2019-20 season, the Players Only broadcast on TNT is no more.— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) July 24, 2019
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
a not-bad idea that was horribly executed.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
i did enjoy some players only broadcasts but when it was bad it was insufferable... they also did it too often. would've liked to see them tweak a bit but oh well
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
yah you both are otm. kinda wish they tried to hone it to a good spot and adapt it rather than dump it completely but the naysayers were pretty harsh on it from the start.
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
no i meant in the famous run following the 21 point lead
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:24 (one week ago) link
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.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:31 (one week ago) link
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.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 13 June 2024 18:22 (one week ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 June 2024 19:35 (one week ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 June 2024 20:35 (one week ago) link
people saw the 2021 jazz and the 2022 suns and have now overcorrected into thinking the statistically strongest team is always a paper tiger
― intheblanks, Thursday, 13 June 2024 20:43 (one week ago) link
also boston playing in the weaker east was a factor, even though they went 23-7 against western teams during the regular season
― intheblanks, Thursday, 13 June 2024 20:47 (one week ago) link
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
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 13 June 2024 20:53 (one week ago) link
yes Denver for sure I was more thinking of how people across the board were picking Dallas
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:04 (one week ago) link
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
― intheblanks, Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:05 (one week ago) link
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…
― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:09 (one week ago) link
and it turned out it wasnt just the celtics path to the finals that was easy, the finals was easy too
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:12 (one week ago) link
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
― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:14 (one week ago) link
on the other hand in the aforementioned 25 years, the east has gone 8-17 against the west
― intheblanks, Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:15 (one week ago) link
it would be more fair and also more entertaining to de conference the league imho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:18 (one week ago) link
needs to happen at some point
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Thursday, 13 June 2024 23:54 (one week ago) link
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
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 06:31 (one week ago) link
kinda true tho i liked not having the big dumb logo sticker at center court, especially since players slip on it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 12:54 (one week ago) link
― 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
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 13:20 (one week ago) link
lol cedric maxwell wandering around jumping in on multiple broadcasts to say how bout them celtics and somewhat incongruously see you later fakin lakers
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 13:29 (one week ago) link
lol I just listened to Lowe and was coming to post about Cedric, trash talking James Worthy lol
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 13:42 (one week ago) link
cornbread time
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 13:49 (one week ago) link
I hate that the Celtics officially have more championships than us now 🙄— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) June 18, 2024
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 14:15 (one week ago) link
simmons championship pod w/ dad… that’s an auto delete from me……
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 14:43 (one week ago) link
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
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 14:45 (one week ago) link
not sure if anything is going on w/her other than taking retirement seriously but i miss her a lot for sure
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 14:56 (one week ago) link
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
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 15:03 (one week ago) link
Hopefully she’s perfected her Embiid impression.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 15:23 (one week ago) link
i listened to jackie’s bit of the pod, apparently she’s been doing some local tv
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 16:13 (one week ago) link
thats a nice part time retirement job
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 16:15 (one week ago) link
that was a good pod nice freewheeling style
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 16:22 (one week ago) link
so many ladies in the background getting their pictures taken throwing confetti into the air
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 16:33 (one week ago) link
Just filed for the final time with @ShotDrJr. Tomorrow’s Tier 1 is sadly my last for @TheAthleticNBA. It’s been a great 5 years, first 2 full time and last 3 as a contributor.Had great times working not just with Rob, but the GOAT @thatgonzalez 1/x— Anchorage Man (@SethPartnow) June 21, 2024
damn we’re losing partnow
― brony james (k3vin k.), Friday, 21 June 2024 01:50 (four days ago) link
Tbh, he’s kind of annoying. I get tired of him dunking on randos on X because he’s smarter than them.
― Jeff, Friday, 21 June 2024 02:49 (four days ago) link
ESPN's opening bid for Stephen A is $18 million per year. He wants more. @Ourand_Puck https://t.co/pk6L14zQkX— Bryan Curtis (@bryancurtis) June 21, 2024
18 million a year huh
― brony james (k3vin k.), Friday, 21 June 2024 04:16 (four days ago) link
lmao let him go to fox, jesus
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Friday, 21 June 2024 04:42 (four days ago) link
ESPN getting rid of Jeff Van Gundy after being concerned he would jump back into coaching, only to replace him with Doc Rivers and JJ Redick, who both left within months for coaching jobs, is hilarious.— Moneybagg Yo(hannes) 🇪🇷 (@AronYohannes) June 20, 2024
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Friday, 21 June 2024 15:31 (four days ago) link
I’m old enough to remember when we needed to protect ‘inside’ because it was better than the alternative NBA product…but now that I think of it there are some big stephen A boosters within our quarters as well
― brony james (k3vin k.), Friday, 21 June 2024 15:36 (four days ago) link
it has been so long since inside was good, im starting to doubt it was good in the first place. there were definitely fewer hot takes and the shenanigans weren’t all in bold capital blinking letters.
― brimstead, Friday, 21 June 2024 19:27 (four days ago) link
it's only good now when Charles says something goofy and makes Shaq giggle not really for hoops
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 June 2024 19:42 (four days ago) link