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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

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.