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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

chauncey is fine just boring. beadle seemed fine? idk the whole show needs to be re-thought. try something totally different.

that show is really and truly wretched... jalen actually is prob the only good one

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.

agree. i love the final sportscenter with ScottVP. great format

yeah its good

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

a not-bad idea that was horribly executed.

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

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.

i think they'd just need to be more selective about the scheduling... it was a cool vibe for those middle of the season thursday night west coast TNT games that are like blazers vs rockets or whatever. but sometimes they'd get a good game where you actually wanna hear real announcers and it would be like, why'd anyone think this was a good idea

by good game i mean big game

yeah there was one where there was some crazy shotmaking going on between two good teams and i think on a big go ahead bucket greg anthony was like "well that was a really nice look there ... well executed" or some monotone platitude and all i wanted was a breen BAAAAANG or w/e

yup all otm

Matt Barnes is the future imo

barnes is good breaking down the game and what not from the little postgame and The Jump clips ive seen but not sure about entertaining for a 2.5 hour broadcast. its really a hard skill, even the best at it get bad after a while (van gundy).

an idea for players only would be to rotate different guys in and out like a quarter at a time or something

Players only being gone is good but questionable stuff is going on. They got rid of The Starters, Kamla gone. Seems like cost cutting for no reason.

tim macmahon has in a week gone from anointing ant as the next mvp to saying that kyrie is better than him, rough

unfortunate that bontemps isnt on this ep to take his victory lap

RIP Bill Walton, one of my favorite players and personalities.

oh damn rip big man

:(

He was one of the real ones.

last time i saw bill walton in the flesh he was holding court in a tie dye t-shirt in the lobby of the dolby theater in la during a neil young concert. the world is a lesser place in soooooo many ways without him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KkrccHEAqg

RIP, what a character.

from r/gratefuldead:

"He was at dead & co last year at dodger stadium. Walked straight into GA and disappeared. A man of the people!"

His stat line for Portland in the finals against Philly: 18.5 points, 19 rebounds, 5.2 assist and 3.7 blocks while shooting 54.5% in a six-game series against Philadelphia.

Going to crank some some GD later.

I met bill once when I was 15, I was interning at the blazers corporate office and he swung by. I was introduced to him and he bent all the way over to shake my hand and in his signature bellow he said “Clay! What a name! It suits you!” and then turned his attention to something else law. I’ll never forget it.

rip, 71 too young for anyone but especially for a guy who seemed to enjoy life so much

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i remember that robert horry one from the broadcast, untouchable

Walton's peak as a player was really before I knew sports. I kinda remember him being on that later Celtics team but NBA back in those days was hit or miss on TV, heck the playoffs were not even on regular TV at all and were shown on a delay.

I do know that Walton really honked off a lot of 'Merica love it or leave it crowd as I remember if his name came up or when he was early in his broadcast career that dads or various older dudes would sometimes comment on him. Though some of those people I talk about that liked bball were way too much influenced by Bobby Knight for their own good and BK did not like Walton at all.

As the years went on and you see more interview segments to me Walton seemed to me like a pretty genuine dude both in his general humanity, as an athlete and a big fan of the Dead.

Far ye' well big red, listen to the river sing that sweet song to rock you away.

did not realize steve jones jr of the dunker spot was steve "snapper" jones jr

BK did not like Walton at all.

I'd say this was to Walton's credit.

Knight, truly the piece of shit coach's piece of shit coach

just a blatantly bad guy

"that took a long time for much ado about nothing" -svg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hUFo1e_szc

seriously what the fuck is up with Shaq? this is their tribute to Bill Walton and when it's his turn he starts going on about how he use to be mad at Bill for criticizing him then all this nonsense about him being part of Shaq's stupid "Big Man Alliance" and "G14 status" or whatever the fuck that means

I’m not really bummed about Inside ending because it started sucking like even before Shaq came aboard, imo, I blame twitter or something

there’s no way we can possibly discuss this topic any further….

Dwyane Wade joining Noah Eagle on NBC's men's Olympic coverage.

Hmm, if NBC gets the NBA, Mike Tirico-Wade No. 1 team? 🤔

— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) May 29, 2024

shaq because hes huge baby bitch has a whole thing with bill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6mdpajKuAc

shaq has so many weird beefs theres a compilation of all his episodes of that show

he hates bigs who challenge his all time standing

wade has generally always come off to me as a stiff phony, not optimistic about this direction at all. i think basketball TV is headed into a bad place in the amazon/NBC era
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, May 29, 2024 8:48 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

wade is very boring

good dad tho, i root 4 him as a visible and outspoken trans ally

yeah that has been really great to see

for sure he’s forever good in my book for that

the prospect of mike tirico and dwyane wade calling nba games is really dire shit

feel like itll just be really dull but not as bad as the bad tv guy, tho it could also be bad