A thread to talk about NBA Podcasts / Personalities / Announcers / Shows / Broadcasters / Commentators

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.

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

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:wrfbvl6vluqrpei4yk5nvqlg/bafkreic6stbbcd2kscopwl77i3jabmc36c3z2cxb77pgcopyd2ekybfhvu@jpeg

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

These ESPN RV commercials were the best 🤣 pic.twitter.com/KkFBbQE0uj

— ThrowbackHoops (@ThrowbackHoops) May 30, 2024

we used to be a proper country

i remember almost all of those lol

every one of those is good and holds up lol.

“no one touches the shaqtus”

i cant even remember shaq being with espn

Those are so good.

i was wondering if this was the case

Confirmed via the Athletic pic.twitter.com/KSVo8Wz35e

— Timberwolves Muse (@Wolvesmuse) May 31, 2024

everyone loves draymond

it is kind of weird, like are you supposed to go yukk it up with a guy who choked out one of your coworkers?

tnt couldve considered not putting a choker on air imho

the narratives are bad but the metanarratives are worse, who likes this stuff i dont understand

https://i.imgur.com/JQNY4YP.png

https://i.imgur.com/KgbO5ze.png

stop the backlash backlash

https://i.imgur.com/cWdPgkW.png

the word narrative should be disallowed, you should have to say story

https://i.imgur.com/1zNtXyY.png

i just like to watch my stories

*me firing up my television to watch the nba finals* looks like it's time for muh progrum

Lmao

Stephen A. Smith: "Who talks about the WNBA, who talks about women, who talks about women's sports more than First Take?"

Monica McNutt: "Stephen A., respectfully, with your platform, you could have been doing this three years ago if you wanted to."

Stephen A.: "Wow." pic.twitter.com/szQXOPQ3h4

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) June 3, 2024