Adam Silver praises Prime NBA crew, says he’s been ‘frustrated’ by coverage from other networks: “I would say has frustrated me in the past about some coverage when it’s sort of reduced to one side wanted it more or this side played harder.”
cough espn cough
Compared to Amazon and NBC, they look so outdated with their NBA, and all of sports, coverage. They’re still relying on the shock jock 2010s/early 2020s hot take style that was popular years ago and is clearly on the way out. Fans now want in depth analysis of the games, players, coaching decisions in-game, etc. Not MJ vs. Bron Part 245423465473743889432276367994227
Ok, but who do you think is better though? MJ or LeBron?
Kornet
Excuse me. Did I ask who the goat is?
White Mamba you say?
The Dark Lord’s name can not be uttered.
You mean Kolek
Doesn’t matter the Knicks won. The only question remaining is >!How does this affect LeBron’s legacy?!<
So you’re saying Lebron will join the Knicks next for a chance of a repeat?
Once you’ve tasted from the Cup, you’ll never be satisfied with anything else
It’s true. I thought the NBA Cup was a mickey mouse ass championship until my team won it and now it’s on the same level as a real championship.
I WANT IGUODALA
Ossie Schectman! First player to ever score points in an NBA game. Oh and he was a Knick too!
Nico Harrison
Sports fans want that but the Disney broad audience is clicking on those Stephen A said what!? thumbnails.
Stephen A’s bot army is keeping him paid.
They also started adding emojis to their titles and of course capitalizing words on their videos on their YouTube page too the last few years to get more engagement
It’s a shame it doesn’t feel like league revenue is driven by appealing to actual basketball fans. That’s why this prime crew is surprising.
It’s absolutely sports fans doing that too lmao
Dirk, Nash, Blake, and Udonis have been entertaining. I like their individual perspectives and ability to relate to today’s players.
Bro, is that the regular crew?! OF COURSE it’s gonna be good! Are you kidding?! Dang
Yes, they have high basketball IQ people on there that are also charismatic. Who’d have thought thatwould work?
Well time to start tuning in to nba prime lol
Initially I was shocked their pre and post was so long but now I love it and leave it on in the background while I’m doing chores.
ESPN right now feels like they’re on the same path of Sears. They had the opportunity to improve their network, make the improvements necessary without straying away from its core programming and somehow have absolutely fumbled in the last decade or so
If only. Sears didn’t allow you to bet on if cooking ware would go on sale that week.
We’ve circled back to just wanting highlights. The early debate show format wasn’t bad when it was multiple contributors that rotated based on their expertise and nobody was trying to go viral. When it was like 70-30 just highlights vs debate and talk they had it just right. Part of the blame is on social media and the benefits of blowing up online but they really have taken it too far.
It’s kinda funny Iger came back to the mouse and immediately told Marvel more quality over quantity but hasn’t sent the memo over to ESPN
But it’s also what the league allows.
Look at NFL Live vs NBA Today - it’s night and day difference in how they talk about and analyse the game. No hot takes, actual film breakdown, schematic teaching. The people on there actually talk the game and it’s strategy.
Shit, look at Mina Kimes. She never played but is mad respected for her knowledge and study of the game. Who on NBA Today do we really look at like that? The occasional Legler appearance?
But the NFL also has a say in how they present.
I was so impressed with the Peacock coverage, Robbie Hummel sounds like Jay Bilas and I really wanted to hate Austin Rivers but can’t. Some of the camera shots of the bench in-play were also interesting. ESPN is so so bad in comparison, fans don’t deserve this.
Shock jock sports has been around way longer than 10 years.
The only people who pay for ESPN are outdated boomers
Daytime ESPN is only on in places like automotive service centers. There’s just no substance to it, even local sports talk radio has more to say.
It’s incredible how bad the ESPN product is outside of a few good commentators.
Why SAS and Perk have any platform is so confusing.
They are just a mirror man. The engagement with bravado and sports conspiracy and soap opera storylines blows any real analysis away. As a society we need to look deeper as to why that is.
Its like radio. Same old mainstream junk thats dumbed down and easily digestable for the masses instead of good quality that you have to dissect a little bit.
It helps when the people covering the sport actually watch the sport and understand the nuances of the game so they can speak more to what’s going on versus someone who barely watches and has to resort to “you can tell they wanted it more tonight” lol
Even the Amazon crew in their first year are certainly not perfect and have their issues, but at least the folks on the halftime and post game panels actually know the game and try to explain what is going on in them in the best ways they can. It’s definitely much more appreciated and far better than talking head idiots that argue with each other and say dumb shit every day like “if Steph Curry doesn’t win one more championship his entire career will be a complete disappointment”
This is wild because the ones that say this are also former players.
Amazon is clearly going for basketball substance, but let’s not pretend NBA on TNT wasn’t the same trash “analysis” as ESPN.
It wasn’t for a several years. It started to slide when they hired Shaq (who was god awful in his first few years) and in recent years where they don’t watch the games and have extremely outdated takes. People just don’t remember what the original show was like because the current form has so much more coverage
When I was a kid and really watched the NFL and had time to watch the games Skip always rubbed me the wrong way.
His takes were always out of context and if you didnt watch the game the subtle nuances about what stat he would pull is hard to refute unless you didnt watch.
They have just made it 100% worse and now yeah thats all its distilled into just hot takes. Literally Unsportsmanlike job is to make up and que up hot takes for Get Up.
There was a great piece on ESPN and how with the 24 hour news cycle they essentially just fabricate news and it starts with the AM shows throwing out a what if.
I’m late to the party here so this is probably gonna get buried. But ESPN is being run like a company/brand that is winding itself down. There’s an interesting podcast I listened to a while ago where the guest was a guy who had made his entire career by buying businesses that were on the way out and squeezing them for every last drop of money left that they could produce. Think phone book companies after the iPhone launched.
As a general rule, if you invest, you want to see your entire investment return to you in about 10 years (not exactly this, but it’s about right and makes the math easy). So, large blue chip companies all other things being equal are expected to pay their shareholders approximately the value of the shares in dividends over the course of 10 years. Means that a company should be worth about 10X its annual profits. If a company is worth 15X, 20X, 100X its annual profits, that means that the investment class at large views it as a company that is going to see increases in its annual profits. If a company is worth 8X, 5X, 2X it’s an annual profits that means that it is viewed by the investment class as a company that is about to see declining profits.
So in the example, this guy talked about of buying phonebook companies, the phonebook companies were worth approximately their annual revenue (1X), and so he was buying them thinking that they would limp along for at least a few more years and he’d get (2+)X his investment back. Since it’s a dying industry, the longer you can keep the lights on, the lower you can keep the costs, while maintaining your revenue sources the more you’re going to get out of it. You have to be aggressively cutting costs in these industries and shrinking things down because you know that next year your revenue is going to be smaller than the year before. It’s a wild fucking world to live in.
But taking a look at ESPN’s cable business. Their revenue stream is advertising and cable subscriptions. The value of the advertising is directly proportional to the number of cable subscriptions. So as the cable subscriptions are declining, ESPN is going and cutting any contributors or commentators who cost money, stuffing as many ads as possible into every break, and filling the time that they are not showing games with the lowest-cost engagement they can manage. Why pay for multiple hosts when you can give 3 people’s salaries to SAS and have him do 6 shows?
ESPN is obviously not as desperate as the phonebook industry circa 2012, but they are absolutely pushing the limits of maximum advertisement and minimum costs. The absolute half-hearted investment that ESPN is making in any of their talent or business lines means that the executives at Disney running ESPN view it as a dying business model and brand.
To piggyback off this: it’s important to remember that, because of the economics of cable TV packages, ESPN was charging cable companies an absurd slice of the overall pie. But it was worth it, because ESPN was a massive draw, so ESPN/Disney vacuumed up a huge amount of money from its cable dominance.
The problem is that, rather than reinvest in boring stuff like “improving broadcast quality”, they went off in a bunch of weird tangents. They bolstered Page 2, which is great and all (except for Scoop Jackson), but online advertising revenue is anemic compared to broadcast. They gave Bill Simmons Grantland, which, again, makes them look great, and it gave us Rembert Browne, but was a vanity draw rather than a revenue generator. Hell, they bought FiveThirtyEight.com, which all these years later I can only cackle at.
But they pretty much thought their regular sports coverage was on autopilot and didn’t really need adjustment. And they also still had some notions about journalism, which is why they kept Bob Ley underneath the stairs to bring out once in a while.
But once the cable industry began cratering and they no longer had all this money to throw around, they cut, because quality is always the first victim. And they cut. And they cut some more. And they kept cutting as revenue plummeted, and now they’re just an overgrown sports radio network, because that’s the cheapest sports content you can produce. And so ESPN has gone the way of so many other once-great brands: hollowed-out and meant to evoke the greatness of the past as cheaply as possible.
And (to a lesser extent, but still) Inside the NBA. Prime/NBC have been so fucking refreshing.
I see Inside the NBA as a comedy show now that involves talking about the NBA. I still think it’s funny personally cause of the characters, but after watching NBC and Amazon coverage these past two months, that show too seems outdated and a 2010s/early 2020s product (though not nearly as outdated as the litany of hot take ESPN shows).
It’s gonna feel a little weird when Inside the NBA returns after we’ve all been immersed in much better NBA coverage by other networks.
They peaked two decades ago.
Pre-Shaq for sure
Yeah it hasn’t been good for anything besides comedy for a long while. Which is ok in spurs. I just don’t like if they trash players (Shaq)
Yeah honestly (and I hate saying this), but they probably should have just put a bow on that show and called it good.
I miss it less than I thought I would (Amazon is so good as a serious shoiw) but I think it makes sense for them to now have a condensed schedule. Less might be more after so many year, might feel like a fun treat.
Nah you’re absolutely right. I remember some people on here and other places were already getting annoyed with the show by the end of its run so last season was the best time for it to wrap up. It would have been left behind as a mostly fun product that eventually ran its course by the end. Now, with how much better basketball coverage is on the other networks, the show is gonna be seen as even more outdated by today’s evolving standards.
“What a game! Congratulations to the Knicks for winning the NBA Cup. Now over to Stephen A. Smith who will yell incoherently about LeBron for the next 20 minutes.”
“And that’s when I told LeBron I did not say those things and I explained”
Four hours later
“And that’s when I told Manny Pacquiao how to really punch”
Inside the NBA is even worse
I give them a pass because I consider them a comedy show lol
Fair but I think it’s worse when the guys shitting on the product are well respected legends/HOF’ers
The amazon crew is so good about not shitting on players too. Even if theres criticism, they phrase it as “id like to see them do such and such better” or something
Nah. They’re at least fun. ESPN is like Inside the NBA with zero humor.
Yeah, I don’t get why everyone is saying ESPN when I think he’s talking about Inside the NBA. That show has been mostly Chuck and Shaq hating on anything remotely different from when they played for a long time.
Inside the NBA at least created memories. Does anyone actually remember a moment from ESPN?
Charles Barkley actively trashes the league. And as much as we love him for keeping it real, that can’t be good for business.
Shit, he might also be talking about ESPN and TNT
I mean the guys on TNT sometimes they don’t even sell the games that they’re supposed to be covering and act like it’s a waste of time
And ESPN, they are all sensationalism no substance
So I get why he would be saying these things and I feel like it’s about both networks
NBA finally realized that letting the media shit on their product isn’t the best marketing strategy.
It’s good for views in the short term
But when you do it for extended periods of time it degrades the product
My wife got into the NBA when we started dating. Over the last 5ish years she hasn’t really engaged as much and I asked her about it and she mentioned how “sports talk” is too negative. I’ve loved the Prime crew so much, I wonder if that could get my wife back into the NBA.
let us know if dirk fixes your marriage
I will
If your wife looks like Lil’ Kim you’ve got a shot.
mr heal yo girl
I’d let Dirk fix my marriage
dont let wife know you really tuning in for Taylor Rooks….lol
When you first started dating? You guys are married now, she don’t give a fuck lol
letting the media their business partner shit on their product
FTFY.
I always wondered how far they would let Chuck go on Insisde, and the answer was there was no limit. How can they let him say that paying for League Pass is highway robbery lmfao
I mean it is highway robbery if you are a fan of popular team that’s on tv all the time or a fan of your local team since you’ll just be blamed out all the time
League pass would be fine at that cost if you could actually watch the games. It would even be fine at that price if I could watch all of my own team’s games.
I tried it once and I was like damn basically can’t watch anything live.
MLBtv actually lets you watch stuff live but I can’t watch any of the California teams because they are “in market” like I’m gonna drive 9 hours to San Diego.
Then the NBA should basically put the NBA on TNT crew out to pasture. Because all those guys do is shit on the game.
I mean, there are some games where Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal will flat out communicate that the game that everyone’s about to watch is a waste of time.
The league is passing those guys by and the only thing they actually care about is protecting their legacy as players.
It’s annoying. I’m stunned that anybody actually wants to listen to them anymore when their schtick has gotten so old.
Nobody ever watched inside the nba for the analysis. That was never the point of that show. What it does, it does best.
Shitting on the game?
Are you saying that it’s not funny when Barkley doesn’t watch the games?!!?! /s
I always found its hilarious that Charles Barkley would roast load management while this guy was too lazy do even the most basic aspect of his job and watch the games
NASCAR had the same experience with Amazon.
you definitely get the feeling that the NFL would send unmarked vans to these dudes houses if they did half of the blatant shitting on the game that a lot of NBA guys do
Prime wanted it more. They commentated harder.
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No days off(for the delivery drivers)
No time for piss breaks, no patience for piss takes.
They have to poop their pants like Paul Pierce.
First in last out on the broadcast schedule
Let them deliver packages to my daughter type
Prime has the clutch gene
Sophisticated production team.
If we slow it down there (like the delivery service sometimes), you can see exactly where ESPN would have asked a question about LeBron or the Lakers even though they weren’t playing that day
Oh you know Doris would’ve made several gushes over LeBron during the game and one or two for SGA
Oddly enough, with about 2 minutes left in the game, one of the commentators said “let’s see who wants this more”
Yeah. I was cringing at Wade. He was saying that every play.
Yeah but Wade was saying it on loose ball and hustle plays, which felt appropriate. He was calling out guys sprawling, fighting for jump balls, diving out of bounds. Despite Silver’s take here those effort plays do typically just reveal who wants to try harder.
Bezos got that sneaky athletic, first in last out mentality
Not even hiding it. Respect.
Might be the first time I respected Adam Silver, didn’t expect him to say something like this
I think he also did a pretty good job handling the Covid shutdown and the Bubble
And he was basically hailed as a national hero when he kicked Don Sterling out of the NBA.
That was a freebie though. Any man not in the white house would be smart enough to take that opportunity once the tapes were released. Wouldve hurt the NBA brand too much to keep him around.
“Any man not in the White House” as a baseline of cognitive function, nice.
That was the catalyst for a lot of people across the whole world to realise the severity of covid and take it seriously. He was under no pressure to shut it down yet but he did the right thing, and then still gave the season as good a conclusion as possible.
Agreed. That was the moment it hit how serious covid was for me. I was watching the Mavs game when they showed Cuban reacting to the news.
The bubble was lowkey some of the best NBA pure basketball product I’ve seen
And we knew it while it was happening. It made it so perfect
Thats why its funny to watch people try and degrade that championship. Like sure buddy, you wouldn’t be saying that if your favorite team won or if anyone other than a lbj team won.
Didn’t he make these comments before in the past? Or am I having really vivid Dejavú?
He’s definitely said it repeatedly over the past couple years. But it seems it’s more magnified now that there’s something tangible to compare it to,
Well he is also justifying his decision to split the coverage right as he was criticised for extra cost to fans
he’s right. Amazon embarrassed the other networks tonight. great production all around.
Facts. I was very pleased watching their coverage and ESPN should take notes, but they won’t because it’s E$PN
I enjoyed Ian eagle and Dwayne wade. Stan is eh. I do think 2 guys during the game is enough. These guys though are just fantastic.
I like Stan even though he talks too much. I feel like his brother is too negative while he isn’t.
I loved JVG’s random 10 minute rants in a boring game but then they became the only thing he would talk about
There was a game JVG did with Mark Jackson years ago during the holiday season where he was being especially curmudgeonly. Jackson, in an attempt to get him to chill out a bit, started calling him out on it, “man, you are being so grumpy. We need to get you in the holiday spirit. How’s your Christmas shopping going?”
Without missing a beat, JVG starts bitching, “iPods are too expensive!”
I lost my shit- just coughing laughing at how committed that dude was at being so fucking grumpy.
Old man yells at iCloud
I’m a big Stan guy, and it’s because he does a lot of research for every matchup and truly loves the game. He really won me over when the twolves started getting their first national games and he came in and knew everything about the team, and how the team worked, who were the sneaky key pieces. It was clear he did a ton of film and homework prior to the game.
Svg is the best to me. For example guys like Reggie or Jeff Richardson literally act like game is 1v1 or 2v2. Says same shit over and over, only talks about stars etc. Svg is opposite of them. Doesnt glaze every little thing stars do and dont act like game is 2v2. Imo Ian Eagle and Svg best combo. To my ears at least.
SVG would rather talk about his morning eating breakfast than talk about the game that’s currently happening. He just uses his job to rant about his life and past years as a coach, it’s ridiculous.
So you want more of “He wanted it more”?
SVG is GOATED. His brother too. They say what’s on their mind and they are massive basketball fans. And have insane knowledge about the game from all viewpoints.
Are we listening to the same broadcast? All I heard tonight was SVG describing what was happening on the court at a high level but still understandable to the average listener with a few personal anecdotes peppered in
Yup. In one year they put together a better TV production than companies that have been doing it for years. From the first prime game I turned on I was struck by how much more I enjoyed their commentary and production value.
Wade is good about hyping the product. I don’t think he adds much as an analyst.
It’s my favorite nba show now. Inside the NBA just doesn’t have the same feel to it. I like how they’re not trying to copy every other show. They’re just doing their own thing and experimenting.
That’s the realest shit he’s ever said
Adam “the fans love offense. they also love defense” Silver
Channeling his inner Magic Johnson with that insight.
Silver is calling out ESPN
He’s gotta be thrilled that Amazon and NBC have been so great and fans are noticing it, must be vindicating
Is NBC good? I’ve only watched a few peacock games where the commentators were on the respective benches and couldn’t actually see the game
The national tv games with the main crew are really good, the peacock only games can be hit or miss
Production is top notch and video quality looks much crisper than ESPN/ABC. Showcasing the player intros was a great decision too.
The format you’re describing is a little weird but I think it’s got potential. It might be a bit different as a Wolves fan since Austin Rivers has been on our bench and has played with a number of the guys, but he’s added insight into Wolves players in addition to player perspective and a look into what’s happening amongst the bench
If the pacing is right and the talent is right, I think it could be a really cool product so long as it’s not every game
Good
Their analysis is dreadful.
Was pretty funny when SAS got exposed scrolling on his phone instead of watching one of the finals games last season.
And the company still chooses to make him the face of the network. Tells you all you need to know
Dude was talking about how great Quentin Grimes was playing for the Knicks after he got traded away from them. Not too long ago he was saying the Knicks messed up getting Brunson and should have been all in on Donovan Mitchell. It sucks that they’re painting him as “the Knicks guy” when he quit on them long ago and is on the bandwagon.
You mean you dont want to hear Stephen A talk about his hate for lebron
ESPN genuinely doesn’t know anything about basketball and they don’t care about it
They don’t know anything. They also ruined hockey after taking it from NBC
Their baseball coverage is also wet shit from a butt
Basketball? Is this some new type of Football?
Nowadays football is the only sport they actually bother to cover like they want you to watch and not hate. In all honesty, I know everyone looks back in nostalgia at the days when they would cover random sports in the 80s, or even fun shows like Sports Science or Outside The Lines in the 2000s. But even in the early 2010s you had actual sports analysis of cfb, nba/ncaa basketball, and even mma before they had a ufc deal. But unfortunately SAS and Skip were growing like a cancer that spread to every network, podcast, and YouTube channel with their yelling and outrageously wrong takes.
they seem to either actively hate (nba) or not care about (nhl, MLB) everything that isn’t the NFL or college football
I speak Silverian what he said was “Bitch ass ESPN just hating and doing the bare minimum, thank God there are OTHER GOOD NETWORKS that know how to do their work”
I wonder if Silver had to do it again if he would rather have it be NBC, TNT and Prime doing their coverage.
I put TNT right in with ESPN for what he said. If the cup was on TNT, we’d be cutting to Shaq and Barkley saying this doesn’t mean anything during the trophy presentation.
That side-eye from Dirk, lol. You could tell he was thinking, “Is he really gonna do this?”
amazon has clearly been the best broadcasting network this season but they still have issues, notably the audio problems
The website is terrible to use though. The UI is rough.
The volume control is annoying. Won’t even mute when I click it for me
The technical issues will likely improve with experience. The important part is that they’re not a bunch of wankers. That’s harder to fix.
I like how we can hear some of what’s going on on the sideline with like the coaches and stuff, but there have definitely been a few Prime games where I can hear way too clearly what some fans are saying (or screaming)
There has to be someone calling the shots at Amazon who has a kink for weird sports audio. It’s been years, and their NFL games still feel lifeless due to the lowered volume of the crowd (Geriatric Al Michaels doesn’t help either).
This crew of Taylor Rooks, Dirk, Nash, Blake Griffin, Haslem is peak
UD in particular feels like an absolute natural.
Had a lot of time to practice watching games and talking about them while sitting down
ESPN’s NBA coverage is so bad and so LeBron centric. I feel like they don’t talk about anything else except the occasional hot take on Steph Curry. Prime and NBC have been refreshing, and I think they’re part of the reason NBA viewership is rebounding (pun intended).
yea they also don’t s*** on their product like ESPN/Inside the NBA
The moment any one has an amazing performance Shaq has to shit on it to be like “this is the standard” or some bullshit to make sure he’s still relevant or something
Insecure as fuck, I’m sick of him
Shaq openly admitting he doesn’t watch the NBA is all the proof I need that we need a change. Yes, some Inside the NBA moments are funny, but when he said he didn’t watch the Pistons, I just feel like he’s purely there for the money and has no passion or love for basketball.
what are they genuinely even going to talk about when Lebron and Steph retire. like, debates about SGA’S legacy or something? Jokic’s all time ranking among centers?
Mark Cuban was speaking to Skip Bayless, who was telling Mark that his team just didn’t want the championship enough to win it. Mark asked Skip to explain a how a zone offense worked, and Skip backed right off.
First thought went straight to that video. Mark called them out regarding those exact phrases of “wanted it more” and “played harder”. Sayings it’s ridiculous and “straight horse you know what”
I will always love that interview. Mark’s main point was that the media (and especially Skip) always spoke in generalities to mask their lack of knowledge about the X’s and O’s. It was never about deconstructing the game or having meaningful educational discussions. It was/is all just sensationalism.
Meanwhile, SAS was just sitting there not knowing what to say and when to interject lmao. Speaking of SAS, this also reminds me of what Max Kellerman said about SAS when discussing his departure from First Take on The Ringer. Basically saying what we all know about SAS playing a character.
SAS looked worse in the Cuban interview. He actually made the point that Mark knows the game so well because he owns the Mavericks and has access to the team lol.
Mark was tryna tell him it’s all on tape, I don’t have to own the team to understand basketball fundamentally.
Wasn’t it a zone defense? He was explaining how the Mavs stopped LeBron
Glad he said this. ESPN is a dumpster fire
Can’t go wrong when you have SVG slobbing on Adam Silver every minute of the broadcast.
Literally within 10 seconds the Knicks celebrating their cup win at the game of the game, SVG says that the real MVP is Adam Silver
They slob everyone, i mean they were doing it mid play slobbing Dylan Harpers dad and the work ethic, they gotta stop
Oh no! They praised a 5x NBA Champion for instilling work ethic into his lottery pick son. The horrrorrrrr
Go watch ESPN with their hating ass commentary. The rest of us will be over here enjoying the refreshing feeling of a NBA broadcast that isn’t based on shock takes and vitriol
And this is why organizations dont listen to fans, because then when they go the other way and cwlebrate the game you’ll just call them dickriders
Amazon definitely like to prioritize the actual game far more than the other networks.
ESPN made a decision to keep certain personalities like SAS and perk around and cut ties with awesome analysts like Zach Lowe. Only watched one espn game this year and it was only because they were broadcasting the magic
The prime coverage this year has been miles better than anything in the recent past on TNT/Espn. It’s about detailed basketball over clickbait and gags. It’s made me tune in more than recent years. Feels like the NBA players have picked up on this as well as they seem more engaged and discuss more details on prime.
he’s totally right, NBA on Prime crew just wanted it more
I hope whatever contract Legler signed at espn expires soon because he needs to be on a better network
Legs is one of the best in the business.
Well Adam. Stop doing media deals with bad media partners just because they give you money. it’s not that hard. Cut off the people who don’t cover the league well. And by the time the next media rights negotiations come around they will not only have a great offer but a plan to elevate their coverage of the league in a positive way.
I’d say it’s pretty hard to not deal with ESPN for the past 25 years if you’re a major sports league. That the NBA has been pursuing new deals with companies like Amazon is actually a pretty substantial step away.
You mean DAWGS per team isn’t a real coverage?
Damn Adam is glad Inside the NBA is gone…
Nah I don’t think so, Adam Silver is a big fan of Inside the NBA and wanted it to stay and is one of the reasons it’s still alive albeit sparsely.
Espn was like a bunch of idiots in the back row of highschool clasroom arguing and stupid kids trying to provoke each other. And fucking Brian windhorst as well
I’ve enjoyed the Prime crew.
Let em know Nosferatu
Exactly. Why have “experts” if they have nothing informative to say? The Prime crew has been way better at talking about the game than any network crew in many years.
the prime coverage has been great but something else that’s been great is being able to integrate league pass seamlessly. i wonder how many other fans have done that as well this season and if that’s contributed to the rise in viewership. i’ve watched so much fucking basketball this year
“FUCK SHAQ, FUCK CHARLES AND FUCK ESPN AS A MOTHERFUCKING CREW” - Adam Silver probably
Now let us actually watch games and I’ll be happy
I do appreciate this take from Silver and he’s right about the Prime gang. It’s more intellectual basketball knowledge over hot takes and picking sides
The Amazon Prime crew has quietly become one of my favorites to watch. Inside the NBA is legendary and I’ll always love that show but NBC and Amazon have shown how much actual game commentary we’ve been missing between Inside’s antics and ESPN’s embrace debate format. UD, Blake, Nash and Dirk with Taylor Rooks have surprisingly great chemistry. More of this.
Inside the NBA is like basketball lite. It keeps the attention span while being silly and rarely offers basketball insight.
ESPN is a product of just loud heads with no ball experience even at the high school level.
Why did NBC not bid for the Finals again?
Yeah prime’s coverage was great and should be commended. It’s always just easier to catch the game on the big streaming platforms