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

Stuff like: who the best or worst broadcasting teams are / which podcasts are worth checking out / which nbatv shows are good / how bad inside the nba is / etc.

listening to the Kyrie episode of JJ Redick's podcast and kyrie is a weirdo. anyway in a snippet of it JJ said the rim on one side of the court (at the England arena) was crooked. 76ers shot well in the first half and Boston in the 2nd half. idk thought that was interesting

the minn broadcast team is good like everyone says. i actually learn stuff from those guys.

yeah i like them. i like the pdx team as well.

So my top pods are:

listen to every one p much
Lowe Post
Woj Pod
House of Strauss – New pod with Ethan Strauss and his wife Allie (some hoops but kind of all over the place)
JJ Redick
bill simmons when he has hoops talk
warriors plus/minus with tim kawakami and marcus thompson

listen to some but not all
The Ringer NBA show — with Network and those peeps
Talk Hoops with Zach Harper
Basketball Friends — Haberstroh and other people
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show — Ben Golliver & Andrew Sharp
The Hoop Collective — all kind of espn writers
RealGM Radio — Danny Leroux pod

i love the TBF guys. THC is a pretty pale imitation at this point.

agree

plz post juicy nuggs from podcasts in here plz thanks in advance

actually we require that you listen to the full pods to be able to comment itt

rude!

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!

I fully admit to watching the starters daily nba tv show most days please do not ban me

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.

i can only (sporadically) get into the tv show around all-star game and playoffs, but yeah they are inspirations

I mostly like the constant dunking on leigh ellis and his constant Dad ways

bill simmons on Lowe's pod just released, im sure to discuss the Rox/Clips dramz

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?

i'd like to but it's on at a time where i am never watching tv

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

big elon guy huh

clown shit

sure did.

my logic is clear: i'm not complaining if i get a *really* good player, even if someone drafted later turns out better.

i grew up in houston. no one ever said "should've taken jordan." ayton ain't olajuwon, but luka ain't mike, so i think the analogy holds. https://t.co/z2JHzdq87G

— bomani (@bomani_jones) May 16, 2022

hahah that's really dumb

bomani is incapable of admitting hes wrong

correct

I generally don't follow the drafts, was Ayton considered a bad pick at the time?

he was the consensus top pick m/l but with a ton of the more informed people saying hey you might want to check out this kid who won the euroleague mvp at 19

the really crazy pick was bagley at 2

tho when you consider the ancient balkan blood feud aspect it starts to make sense

there was lots of talking head types being like "well you can't pass up a 7 footer this skilled!" ayton also put up legit good stats at arizona, and there was the local angle, he seemed like a pretty safe pick (which has turned out to be true) and because luka was not in our faces the way american prospects are where lots of ppl feel like they have informed opinions i think the feeling was mostly "hey can't blame them for picking ayton." i don't remember there being tons of prominent voices being like "this will be a disastrous decision that the suns will regret for decades." people *did* say that about the kings and the hawks, but i think ayton seemed like "modern" enough of a center that the suns generally were given a pass pretty much up until two days ago

it was a classic example of picking fit over best player available. the suns had book so they needed to pair him w a center. it is interesting to think about booker and luka on the court together. seems like a match made in heaven, booker is better off ball.

the really crazy pick was bagley at 2

― lag∞n, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 5:47 PM (five minutes ago)

if i'm not mistaken it seemed like they were insulted by whatever interactions they were having w/ luka and perhaps some of the other top guys and really gravitated towards bagley because he told the kings he would be excited to be picked by them. which turned out to be a career killing decision for him, but the kings never seemed to stop and think like "maybe this guy is happy to get picked by us because nobody else in their right minds would draft him number 2."

reportedly divac also doesnt like lukas dad

it was a classic example of picking fit over best player available. the suns had book so they needed to pair him w a center. it is interesting to think about booker and luka on the court together. seems like a match made in heaven, booker is better off ball.

― Spottie, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 5:55 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ppl saying they shdnt take luka cause they already have a dribbling scorer was wild as if its not ok to have two of those guys

i wanna say there was a number of guys in that draft who refused to work out for the kings, shit like that. bagley was the guy who was like "i would LOVE to be drafted number 2 overall even if it's by the kings!"

same tbh

ppl saying they shdnt take luka cause they already have a dribbling scorer was wild as if its not ok to have two of those guys

― lag∞n, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 3:02 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hey you know what the suns couldve used in the 2022 playoffs...

i bet they woulda rather had brunson than ayton in that series

this kid who won the euroleague mvp at 19

― lag∞n, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 5:46 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

what an insane accomplishment btw way more impressive than say winning the ncaa player of the year as a freshman a thing thats only happened three times (kd, ad, zion) (tho obvs its gone from unheard of to merely unusual during the one and done era)

luka's euroleague stats as a teenager were miles better than the euroleague stats of guys who became very solid nba pros

a guy like nikola mirotic was putting up numbers half as good at age 24 that luka was at 18

yeah it actually makes for a more stable projection than college. teams just invented reasons not to draft him, didn’t think he was athletic enough, stuff like that. really should’ve been one of the easiest picks in draft history. again i give the mavs front office a lot of credit for betting on luka to the tune of 2 first round picks when everyone else around them didn’t even wanna draft him period. and of course 2 first round picks for luka now looks like one of the heists of the century, i don’t think you could legally trade enough first round picks to even acquire luka at this point, i think he’s quite literally untradeable. i have no idea what you could even come up with to give the mavs to even make them consider trading him.

that’s the thing. with a lot of euro prospects, you’re projecting future production from young guys who barely see the floor but doncic was just as young as many of those highly-drafted projects and he was the literal mvp

lmao

What is happening here?@kendrickperkins brought the handcuffs out for the Warriors’ performance and @mollyqerim and @stephenasmith were quite thrown off 😂 pic.twitter.com/fOcZVTaTFb

— First Take (@FirstTake) June 3, 2022

I saw a lot of screen shots of that outfit on the timeline today and was too afraid to hit play on any of the videos

it was very funny. i love perkins

sneaking suspicion alcatraz paid him under the table for it but i guess it’s all in the game

BRIAN WINDHORST: Steph has not yet been great. Steph could easily put up fifty or sixty three-poi--
TIM BONTEMPS: I will kill you. I swear to fucking god I will fucking kill you.
TIM MCMAHON: Now hold on. Let this stupid dipshit finish his dumbass point for idiots.

— Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant) June 14, 2022

i love them

haha that is the exact dynamic

Lmao

hahaha

I'm waiting for when Draymond does his podcast at halftime.

fuck that, go live during the game

strap on a gopro and see if the refs say anything

"THIS BLOCK WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE GOOD FOLKS AT MAILCHIMP"

Can’t think of many worse at this than Broussard

Who says no to this trade scenario? 🤔

Nets receive:
⚫ Jimmy Butler
⚫ Bam Adebayo

Heat receive:
🔴 Kyrie Irving
🔴 Ben Simmonspic.twitter.com/yjgSvvCr2i

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) June 25, 2022

i say no, personally

I clicked on this just to see what my guy Brian was saying and two minutes later I’m consumed by the question of what’s going on with the Utah Jazz. It’s my only quest in life to find out. This is perfect television. https://t.co/Cf4mDdo22E

— Kevin Clark (@bykevinclark) July 1, 2022

^^^as good as advertised

masterful

danny bout to blow it up over there, extremely believable

ngl i had to read the comments to understand wtf he was talking about

lmao agatha christie ass basketball reporting

hahah otm

lmao

here for it tbh

exquisite television

that windhorst clip is incredible and he was otm!

windy is otm quite often

i know ESPN did not just do an entire segment based on a ja morant “quote” from ballsack sports 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/UqihKpMddW

— Molly Morrison (@mollyhannahm) July 11, 2022