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I’m surprised no one has brought this to their attention. It would be fine on occasion but it’s become like an every topic filler word

― Thybulle on the Dash (Spottie), Wednesday, February 26, 2020 9:53 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'm pretty sure russillo is aware that he does this. it's of a piece with his meta approach to talking about sports.

listened to JR Rider episode of All The Smoke and was like man I think I've been confusing JR Rider & Isaiah Rider my whole life. Googled him and discovered the shocking truth...

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5YvonzEDfQ

lol granny

I hope this doesn't sound condescending or like I'm playing into gender stereotypes but I really enjoyed hearing Jackie MacMullan talk about MJ on Zack Lowe's podcast and provide a feminine perspective. "You're a details guy, Zack, I'm all about the emotional experience". It does get a bit old to hear nothing but men give their takes on NBA past & present, which as a whole pay very little attention to emotional, personal, family history, etc matters.

she also had some good "bball breakdown" type nuggets, such as how Dennis Johnson was the 1st person who pointed out to her some of the things MJ was doing on defense

Chris Webber reportedly may be done at Turner after 2020-21 NBA season https://t.co/YGjFUSDdix pic.twitter.com/J7O6AeorjM

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 7, 2021

lol my first thought

Webber isn’t very popular with viewers, which is often indicated by “Chris Webber” being a trending topic on Twitter on the nights he’s calling a game.

the time has certainly come...

now do marv.

unfortunately article mentions pierce and jefferson as possible replacements

nooooo c webb come back

lol

perk got extended at espn today too. i guess they just want the loudest most clownish dudes out there.

Overdue but end of an era

A legendary career 👏

Hall of Fame broadcaster Marv Albert announces his retirement following TNT’s coverage of 2021 NBA Eastern Conference Finals. pic.twitter.com/2UyTfaG53y

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) May 17, 2021

his long second act should never have happened.

correct

my god marv is wearing a lot of makeup in the picture in that tweet

The @nytimes in talks to buy @TheAthletic
— Sources say NYT approached The Athletic following a @BenMullin report about a potential deal between The Athletic & Axios
— The Athletic has roughly 1.2m subscribers, a number of which on discounted rate planshttps://t.co/mlNJZ9VCwu

— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) May 25, 2021

ok will my nyt subscription work then lol

will https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome work tho

ooh thx

essential extension

it would be nice if there was one for a REAL BROWSER

there is a firefox one

withdrawn

feels like draymond is being groomed for the inside the NBA desk after he retires, thankfully he's very good at it

Yah he’s a natural

athletic had a long piece about that iirc, he's absolutely gonna be chuck's replacement

dray needs to study chuck for how to get the takes off in a smooth manner, right now he just says a bunch of off the wall shit looking for applause, hes a lil more shaq than chuck tbf

i dont think hes said anythign off the wall? that one booker thing but he was trying to get him to come to gs.

he did something out there a while ago that "got people talking" trying to remember what it was

he def has to grow as a personality and a thinker but conversing on camera for TV seems to come natural to him

yeah i dont think its fair to judge him at this point hes just moonlighting, setting him up to replace chuck also prob not fair

lol i mean look when chucks gonna fire one off he goes real low key

"I call him Anthony 'Street Clothes' Davis because he's always in street clothes"

Chuck has a nickname for AD 😅

(via @NBAonTNT) pic.twitter.com/Q2VkI5CwTh

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) June 2, 2021

lmao i was dying at that last night. inside is so much better during the playoffs

just a master class, no one wanted to ask him what he was talking about but they were already in too deep

the grim resignation from ernie that he’s the one they pay to ask such questions

lol yes

replacing chuck is probably an impossible job bcuz he created an entirely new role for an ex-player analyst that doesn't really feel repeatable, like threading this needle where your opinion is respected across the nba but also the whole shtick around you on TV is that you don't watch the games. it just seems like he's the only one that can really pull that off. draymond will have to figure out his own personality.

but i do think he brings his basketball intellect to the broadcasts in a real way, in the discussion on inside tonight about sixers-hawks he brought up how embiid was going to be able defend pick and rolls w/ his knee injury. it really felt like a good fusion between draymond the elite defender and draymond the announcer, whereas shaq was just, like, braying about how the hawks were going to win the series w/o raising any sort of intellectual point about the play

chuck is a regular at an expensive hotel bar in manhattan where a friend of mine works and she's struck up a bit of a friendship with him. she says he's a genuinely nice person who asks about her family, keeps track of the threads of their lives etc.

like threading this needle where your opinion is respected across the nba but also the whole shtick around you on TV is that you don't watch the games. it just seems like he's the only one that can really pull that off.

do you really think chuck’s opinion is “respected across the NBA” in 2021?

chuck is a regular at an expensive hotel bar in manhattan where a friend of mine works and she's struck up a bit of a friendship with him. she says he's a genuinely nice person who asks about her family, keeps track of the threads of their lives etc.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, June 3, 2021 9:15 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is cool btw and tracks with everything i've ever heard about the guy off-camera.

Yah phx folks have nothing but good to say about random encounters w him.

Jackie MacMullan, one of the most accomplished & respected journalists in sports, will retire from ESPN at the end of the month

Jackie appears Wednesday at 3p ET on #TheJump

Her final ESPN appearance is Tues, Aug. 31 on @AroundtheHorn

Thank you, Jackie!https://t.co/bI5gJJVCad pic.twitter.com/STfsIU5Uqk

— ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) August 18, 2021

sorta weird how she stopped going on ESPN basketball podcasts and started doing a bunch of appearances on bill simmons podcast, i feel like something happened there. i feel like the wording about how she's retiring "from ESPN" isn't necessarily accidental

she said some quasi racist shit about kyrie a few months back right

yeah, that was on bill's pod tho. she got pushed out of the rotation on windhorst's pod for whatever reason, can't remember the last time she went on lowe's pod either. maybe ESPN just told her they didn't want her on podcasts anymore and gave her the green light to be on bill's all the time

ah yeah maybe espn was just done with her and let her ~retire~ out of deference rather than fire her

i don't think there's any ill will--my guess is that she was planning to wind down her espn obligations and they wanted to highlight some other folks on windhorst's pod.

you can see it today in all the twitter tributes--jackie is pretty universally beloved and not a troublemaker.