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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

get him

got dressed down on his own show you hate to see it

ESPN just shining today

Kendrick Perkins: “Not one single series did [the Celtics] sweep [any team].”

Shannon Sharpe: “Indiana!”

Perkins: “Oh yeah, they just swept them. I’m sorry... But they’re supposed to sweep these guys.” 😅

(via @espn)pic.twitter.com/vnbEvCGBQA

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) May 29, 2024

really dont understand why perk decided to hate the celtics, hes burned through all the championship good will with the fans, cant imagine the team and org care for him too much at this point, its just weird hes trying to prove hes real or something, he used to be on the local celtics shows all the time mightve been smart to keep that in his back pocket

lol haslem trying not to laugh at perks buffoonery

why is perk on television I will never understand

its cause of his sweet accent

I do like the accent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E86fWIO35Xc

what the heck

haha, the moses moody moment, a real gold classic

it’s like espn wanted their version of shaq and got perk instead

steve was grumpy on the dunker spot today he said he wasnt feeling well maybe he has allergies

pretty good discussion about TV stuff (mixed in w/ a lot of complaining) on the simmons/rusillo pod w/ bryan curtis. one point that curtis made that is simple but true is that barkley ultimately will have all the power here, and if he decides that he is a package deal w/ the rest of the 'inside' guys then the show will survive. if he's fine leaving and going somewhere else and taking the biggest check or whatever regardless then the show very likely won't survive in its current incarnation