[Highlight] Brooklyn Nets announcer on Grayson Allen: “I can’t look at him and not think of Ted Cruz.”
Broadcasting crews for tanking teams are always the most fun to listen to, they really get the freedom to just say shit
The Nets always have brilliant commentators
We grabbed Michael Grady from your B team and he’s probably been the best Wolves commentator since Harlan. Maybe it’s a Brooklyn thing or you’ll just have a great talent acquisition team.
He was primarily the sideline reporter for Brooklyn too, now he’s a full-blown play-by-play commentator for you guys
To be fair before his Brooklyn gig he was the PA announcer for the Pacers, so he basically is the jack of all trades when it comes to NBA media
Grady’s the shit
he really is
He’s been crushing it on the Prime games, was not familiar with him before this season. His calls are great
Prime really has managed to create probably the best basketball broadcast out there. I was a little suspicious coming in as it was a streaming service but their coverage overall has been genuinely great. Grady helps with that obviously but their overall team has been top notch.
True Renaissance man
I miss Grady so much
I used to tell people if I couldn’t be a Nets fan I’d be a Wolves fan… Until you stole Grady from us 😞
Of course I’m biased but I think Grady is top 5 commentator
Post the list
I’m not original commenter, and I’m late, but I’ll try:
In my mind there’s a clear top 3 (Breen, Harlan, Ian Eagle) and a bunch of really good contenders for 4 and 5. I’d go Eric Collins and Grady for their ability to get hype.
But there’s a lot of other good ones that are your more typical “steady, knowledgeable, objective” types. I’m a fan of Folliwill, Amin, Denari.
Unfortunately, GSW announcers are not sniffing my list.
EDIT: Was only considering play-by-play announcers here.
YES/Nets have so many talents move on to bigger roles going even further back.
Michelle Beadle was a sideline reporter and got the bag from ESPN right after for talk shows. Mark Jackson started with Nets and eventually became the lead ABC color commentator.
Grady is the one I felt happiest for and miss the most though. Just seems like a wonderful dude who works hard to do well at his dream job.
It’s a New York media thing. We just happen to benefit from a lot of talent in media needing/wanting to come to New York.
Grady a cool guy I wish we still had him
Still bitter about that, I loved that guy.
It’s a New York thing. Pretty much every group of commentators for our teams are ranked very highly except for the Yankees
Yeah I was about to say even when they were on top of the world very briefly their caster still were (IMO) the best in the league.
Ian Eagle, Sarah Kustok, RJ were amazing
Ryan Ruocco is the B team. That’s how stacked they are.
Going back to the Spencer Ross and Bill Raftery days.
I’m a Knicks fan but I’ll always have a ton of respect and love for Carrino and the Capper.
Congrats to Tim Capstraw on 2,000 Nets games called by the way!
As a suns fan, I listened to their broadcast tonight for the first time and absolutely loved them. Fantastic job brooklyn.
I agree they are great non-bias for either team to watch which is rare. Also was cracking up at the “off the face” official review comments lol.
They were awesome tonight.
I remember when the Wolves were awful we would have a “top 5” every night in the 3rd quarter. Sometimes it was related to the game, and sometimes it was like “top 5 guys named Rob” because the Wolves had traded for Covington.
Those were the good days. $5 Wednesday college night games.
$5 dollars? Nah, free tickets from Arby’s when the Wolves would hit like 6 3s or something.
the suns used to have \(5 lower bowl seats back in like 2017-2018. i could go watch the KD warriors destroy my favorite basketball team for like \)12 after fees. simpler times
I visited Phoenix (I live overseas) around that time, and emailed the Suns ticket office, and they just straight up gave me lower bowl tickets to four games for free.
Lmfao that rules
The Wolves had a deal as recent as 2022 where it was \(20 a month and you got a ticket (albeit this is upper deck) to every game. The whole season was only \)100
I remember when the Wolves played at the Metrodome. Upper deck seats were dirt cheap.
Yep, $5 college night, they would give you seats behind the back boards to be loud during free throws. Watching JJ Barea, Rubio, Alexy Shved, Chase Budinger, Nikola Pekovic, Luke Ridnour, K-love, and Greg Stiemsma get torched by the Spurs was good times.
$20 in Feb 2017, including I think a full Carl’s Jr. Cheeseburger combo.
That part was nice, but these are definitely the good days (basketball-wise at least…)
Rob Ballard
Rob Williams
Rob Halford
Robert De Niro
Rob McElhenney
I submit Rob Thomas for consideration as a member of the council of Robs
It’s a shame Ian Eagle got stolen from us. And sometimes even Ryan Ruocco won’t be present…
Ian and Ryan still do the nets broadcast, not as often but better than nothing. We also have his son.
Ian is too good to not do national broadcasts.
Meanwhile the Knicks have Mike Breen
Ruocco and Kustok are great together tbf
His son Noah did Clippers radio broadcasts for a while. I enjoyed listening to him. Maybe he can join the Nets team at some point in the future?
He is on the Nets team! But NBC already yoinked him back and he only calls a few games for the Nets here and there now 😔
Cursed by good commentators!
Eh, the Nets have consistently had one of, if not the best, broadcasting crews for years now… It’s just a top notch production.
Except the Kings 🤦♂️
I like when they just start telling eachother about their hobbies or what they did the other day. Adding in game stuff in between a fishing story.
For real lmao that’s always interesting to hear about
thats an insane thing to say but its true lmao
I mean, even Ted Cruz knows it lol. Someone told him to post a picture of himself playing basketball (I have no recollection as to why) and he just posted a picture of Grayson in response. Might be the only funny thing that lizard person has ever done.
He’s funny sometimes. He’s awful, but he’s quick at times. And I fucking hate Ted Cruz.
“I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.” -Sen. Al Franken
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham once remarked, “If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.”
From Al Franken, Giant of the Senate. Brilliant book.
I wouldn’t “simply hand it” to Ted Cruz with a gun held to my head
issuing a correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the U.S. senator Ted Cruz. you do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to him”
Thats what makes people like Cruz extra slimey. He knows he’s a piece of shit, but he plays dumb for his base. He could be a better person, but he knows degenerate behavior keeps the lights on and the Cancun flights on deck.
He’s smart, which means he knows better, which is worse.
Also he whooped Kimmel when they played ball. There’s not many things I respect about Cruz but there’s that
You and Al Franken would probably agree about all of this.
> Might be the only funny thing that lizard person has ever done
You don’t remember the Cory Chase thing then
Was this when he was campaigning in Indiana and called it a “basketball ring”?
Edit: sweet Jesus this was 10 years ago
Real talk, Ted Cruz has done and said some lowkey funny things over the years. If he wasn’t an all-encompassing gaping orifice of a human being, I think he’d probably make for an almost likable person. But sadly, somewhere in his life he chose to be the world’s largest douche
That reminds me of when Brad Stevens and Pete Buttigieg dressed up as each other for Halloween
“If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you” - Lindsey Graham
Or, as Al Franken said “I like Ted Cruz better than most people and I fucking hate Ted Cruz”.
Theyve literally taken photos together. Its not a new thing. Its been said since he was drafted.
Might be the meanest thing anyone has ever said about someone.
Honestly, “you look like Grayson Allen” would be pretty cruel too unless you actually looked like Ted Cruz.
Now I can’t fucking unsee it lmao
just one more reason to hate this guy
Ted Cruz and Jeremy Renner lovechild
Can’t unsee
Which one carried do you think
Was this really a thought you felt needed to be shared with the world? Because at the very least, I wish it hadn’t been.
Lizard people lay eggs.
Cruz, thats probably why he went to cancun, cheaper and more accepting doctors
Don’t give me hope.
If only there was a place to discuss his resemblance to Jeremy Renner, and all things Jeremy Renner.
Alas, that no such fortuitous platform exists. We must settle for something plebeian, something lesser, something that is not the Jeremy Renner of apps.
cursed
He said this on live television? Lmfao
that a person looks like another person?
Saying a player looks like the Zodiac Killer is crazy
You’re not supposed to say “T*d Cr*z” when children might be listening.
Backslash before the first asterisk to fix that
WHAT WILL HE DO NEXT
Yea I think saying a player looks like one of the more controversial/polarizing political figures in the US is hysterical
You forgot, hated, cowardly, spineless, cruel, disloyal and sniveling.
He won’t even support his own wife over his political aspirations. He’s one the worst people that’s not actually committed a felony, that we know of.
Well, except all those people he killed back in the day.
…and the other guy is Ted Cruz!
boom-TISH!
Capper has been doing Nets coverage (usually the half time show) for longer than anyone else with the franchise, he has run out of any fucks to give lmao
Everyone else thinks that too
He out of line but he’s right
Not from USA, just curious, why is it out of line?
Saying people look like Ted Cruz is a felony in the US.
Ted Cruz is a nasty man, inside and out.
Grayson Allen also not a great dude.
He’s been not a great person. Just think Donald Trump but an actual politician.
Oh shit! For years I’ve thought he really looks like someone but I could never think of who. Fuck Ted Cruz
Fuckkkkkk Rafael Cruz
How dare you not use his preferred name!?!?
Nobody wants to be called the Zodiac Killer.
Have you ever seen Ted Cruz and the Zodiac killer in the same room?
It’s a pretty baller nickname for Grayson
Shoutout Capper. Just had his 2000th consecutive Nets game a few days ago
He was around when Jason Kidd was still on the Nets roster. Dude has been calling games for over two decades now.
The lifer local with job security is my favorite kind of color guy.
That’s why I miss Mike Gorman and Tommy Heinsohn so much, especially Heinsohn. With rare exception he was associated with the Celtics in some capacity from when he was drafted in 1956 almost all the way until his death in 2020.
I know a lot of people didn’t like his homerism but the man was a Celtic for over 50 years, if that didn’t give him the right to homer takes then I don’t know what does.
A punchable face? I can see it.
Deservingly so. Allen’s a dirty player.
Man I’ve been thinking this for years can’t believe more people didn’t see it before having it spelled out. It is genuinely unsettling to me.
I think it’s just b/c people haven’t really been talking about Grayson Allen much for a few years, when he first came into the league lots of people were definitely making Ted Cruz jokes.
Yeah I mean I would hope so cause it’s so obvious, the first thing I thought of when he came into the league was Ted Cruz
Both assholes
False equivalency. Grayson Allen may be a dirty player, but Ted Cruz is evil incarnate.
it’s been like half a decade since he’s been dirty, at some point y’all need to drop it and accept that people change sometimes
Oh my god how have I never noticed this
Would be a perfectly reasonable reaction for Allen to swing on em for that lol
“You might hate me, but I am right”
-that announcer
Capstraw is our C-team announcer, so please forgive us 🙏
Fucking hilarious, though
I really really liked the announcers. I watch the “all possessions” version of the games on leaguepass so I miss moments like this, but I really liked what I saw all game long
outjerked
Zodiac killer strikes again.
The Zodiac Tripper 😭
Damnnnn he might have to take this one lol
That’s Ted Can-cruz
Grayson looks 16 and 46 at the same time
Funny how the young Ted Cruz is such a dirty player. I will never forget when this POS injured Caruso.
Tim Capstraw would be regarded as a hell of a color commentator if he didn’t work for the Nets
both are extremely punchable
Draymond is that you
You have to run away and hide on an island far away now, right? There is no surviving a burn that bad.
IDK about an island but definitely a tropical seaside getaway.
Maybe some place like Cancun?
As someone who’s very familiar with Ted after getting banned on Twitter for sending him too many veiled threats id have to agree he does look very similar
Don’t mind Tim Capstraw, he’s old..lol
Similar personalities…
Oh, that is devastating.
Does he go to Cancun when the going gets tough?
I do not like that man Ted Cruz
I can’t look at Ted Cruz and not think of his own daughter fighting to get away from him and Piggy calling his wife ugly.
Probably going to be our highlight of the year
Holy shit….man’s just got buried by the announcer.
He’s our little Zodiac Killer
It’s crazy that every single person knows that this is not a compliment lol
L M A O
Rude
this is one of the most vicious insults i could imagine being levied against me
Being compared to a young Donald Trump would be pretty bad.
Lol, can’t unsee it now
Damn. I hate Grayson Allen now. Way to go, broadcast crew.
I always hated Grayson Allen. Now I kind of feel sorry for him. No one deserves to be compared to Ted Cruz.
Besides, Grayson Allen looks like a guy who is about six months from doing a “Falling Down”
Just as likeable too
That’s the distinguishing Senator from Cancun! Always see that man every time there’s a national disaster.
And just as likable.
You got a dog wife Ted!
“Thank you, sir. Can I please have some more?”
That’s SO mean! I don’t think Allen looks like a slimeball coward at all.
There is a Cancun joke in there somewhere
Jesus fucking Christ
Damn it that makes me hate him even more
“I can’t look at him and not think of the zodiac killer”
He has a chin and jaw line at least and doesn’t have to grow a beard to hide his strange face
They actually met each other at the Ted Cruz vs Jimmy Kimmel Blobfish Basketball Classic:
https://imgur.com/a/PdUnvKH#s3ZnTcy
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/16/ted-cruz-jimmy-kimmel-grueling-blobfish-basketball-classic/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKWLeJcPRSQ
They’re both entitled, bratty punk ass douchebags….so there’s that…
Brooklyn Nets announce crew even when Ian Eagle isn’t there is still top tier in the NBA.
That’s ironic. I can’t look at Ted Cruz and not think of The Zodiac Killer
Y’all have face blindness. He looks nothing like Cruz.
I cannot unsee this
Why did I have to see this post. I will never unsee this now. Lol
That’s one of the most savage things I’ve heard an announcer say.
LMFAO
Man just catching strays out of nowhere
I don’t recall Grayson Allen sucking a tiny orange cock while crying like a little bitch.
Did I miss that interview?
Ew, don’t even speak that cucked fascist’s name.
Poor bastard.
I am not sure who should feel worse. Grayson for looking like a republican sycophant villain, or Ted for looking like an NBA pariah.
…and I thought I couldn’t dislike Grayson Allen any more.
He’s right! Fuck both of them.
What an incredible insult to call this man Rafael Cruz
This really explains why he has such a punchable face.
Like a little? Still a stretch though. Plus, Ted Cruz is vile and hated by everyone who knows him.
I will never not see that now.
This is the lite version of when Ortiz said Cam Schlittler’s name sounds like Hitler during playoffs coverage lmao
This is amazing!
Thanks…NOW I CANT…
if I was playing against him I would want to foul him so hard because of his resemblance to Cruz
Oh no, I can’t unsee it!
no way lmao
They both are pricks
Don’t insult Grayson with comparing Raphael the Canadian who could only hold a political job in a failing education state.
Same