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 (four years ago) link
i like chauncey, paul is awful obvs
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 18:31 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
agree. i love the final sportscenter with ScottVP. great format
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
yeah its good
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:14 (four 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
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
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 July 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
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
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
yup all otm
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
Matt Barnes is the future imo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
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).
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
an idea for players only would be to rotate different guys in and out like a quarter at a time or something
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
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.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 25 July 2019 03:34 (four years ago) link
yeah wonder what their plan is, if anything
― big city slam (Spottie), Thursday, 25 July 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
Ros and Fratello out at nba/tnt
― big city slam (Spottie), Saturday, 27 July 2019 05:36 (four years ago) link
Fitz as Hannity I’m guessing because on his (recently canceled) radio show he would defend literally everything the warriors org did and would just really go over the top praising Myers/Jacobs/Kerr etc
― brimstead, Monday, 29 July 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
oh duh i totally read matts post wrong thought he was talking about jim barnett. fitz is a goof yeah.
― big city slam (Spottie), Monday, 29 July 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
Main issue with Fitz on KNBR is that they lost the Warriors rights to 95.7, so it was less of a natural fit having him on the network. Radnich "retiring" plus Greg Papa moving over just made it a good time for housecleaning. They absorbed Fitz's co-host Rob Brooks into Tom Tolbert's show, which has been pretty bad so far.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 29 July 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
Rod* Brooks
yeah I was irrationally bummed by the knbr shakeup
― brimstead, Monday, 29 July 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
Russillo leaving ESPN for the Ringer
So...the news is out. I’m headed to @ringer Want to thank @espn for the last 14 years. I grew up on @SportsCenter and then to be on the actual set, my name on a show...have to remind myself at times how cool that isExcited to try and limit Celts talk to 30mins w/ @BillSimmons— Russillo (@ryenarussillo) August 6, 2019
― big city slam (Spottie), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
he didn't already work for the ringer?
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 August 2019 02:59 (four years ago) link
he did dual duty but now it seems he’s going to be exclusive to the ringer
I like russillo a lot, he’s a pretty independent thinker, does his homework, and is funny. he’s always right on the edge of being arrogant and being in on the joke. he’s either a thoughtful meathead or the reverse, can’t really tell for sure
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 6 August 2019 03:03 (four years ago) link
love him yeah. he's the best bill guest for sure, they are pretty in sync when they do their pod
― big city slam (Spottie), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 03:05 (four years ago) link
him or lowe yeah
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 6 August 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link
yeah Lowe is only like once or twice a year tho
― big city slam (Spottie), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 03:15 (four years ago) link
i didn't know him before but i've grown to really like him over the course of his appearances on bill's pod....his sense of humor is very dry and weird and mostly based on really subtle and quick meta jokes about being a media talking head. he's also good on actual sports. i don't always agree with his nba takes but he definitely comes to them from an authentic place.
he did this bit on bill's pod a couple months ago about his worst year ever and it was just him factually describing shitty things happening to him as a broke and directionless dude in his 20s. it was so good it was almost poetic.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 03:16 (four years ago) link
yeah the 2002 rant was so good. I was in hermosa/Manhattan beach last week and was hoping id run into him roller blading or something lol.
― big city slam (Spottie), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 03:20 (four years ago) link
omg i just found it again, the part where he proposes to his elementary school teacher gf at the school in front of children and she says no is classic material
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 03:26 (four years ago) link
sometimes he and bill get a liiiittle too bro-y for me... but as far as basketball goes he def knows his shit
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 August 2019 03:26 (four years ago) link
one thing i do hate about them is they have this tic where they refer to anything as "the [x] thing" ... "and then the brogdon thing happened" "are we gonna talk about the griffin thing" and sometimes they'll just refer to a "thing" esp from the past where you're like wait that's a thing? i really hate it
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 August 2019 03:28 (four years ago) link
haha they def overdo the "thing" thing
― big city slam (Spottie), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 03:35 (four years ago) link
is it defense
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 21:12 (two days ago) link
shhhh
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 21:31 (two days ago) link
haven’t seen any of the major guys tweet about it but it sounds like inside is officially over
― brony james (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 16:28 (yesterday) link
damn rip
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 16:34 (yesterday) link
people arent giving jaylens shot enough credit and the stats back that up
https://x.com/ykb_app/status/1793117296539705613
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 18:35 (yesterday) link
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
― brony james (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 19:14 (yesterday) link
ha yeah was thinking the same they should fx those sleeved jerseys out of the historical record
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 19:17 (yesterday) link
enes kanter's (refuse to use his other name) shrug in the curry clip still gets me all these years later
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 19:41 (yesterday) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 19:45 (yesterday) link
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
― brony james (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 23:43 (yesterday) link
finally some good news in the world
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 23:45 (yesterday) link
fox college basketball had the rights to it for a few years which means fans tuning into rutgers-northwestern got the roundball rock bumper
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 23 May 2024 00:02 (fifteen hours ago) link