Bob Costas appears on NBA on NBC coverage for the first time since 2002
NBC makes ESPN look like such a joke.
Agreed
Unfortunately, they still gave ESPN the Finals. Not looking forward to more Richard Jefferson on the call….
Really hate RJ. Terrible commentator and is the most company man broadcaster besides Doris
I don’t want to hear a bunch of hot take merchants doing the live broadcasts but that’s all ESPN employs these days. Props to NBC and Amazon for focusing on actual insightful commentary.
Reggie miller is worse
Far, far worse
ESPN makes ESPN look like such a joke
Honestly, the moment they did the first “rivalry recap narrated by Marv Albert”, I just keep thinking how the fuck could we get any better here
Yeah it’s crazy what actually caring about the broadcast quality and not squeezing every second in for ads, does to your program.
NBC has great commentators, video quality is pretty great, and the general vibe screams they care. ESPN is the exact OPPOSITE
Until they do the Olympics
well that’s because ESPN is a joke, 720p ass picture quality
They do now.
But watch NBC 90s games on YouTube. No scoreboard, weird camera angles. Just a lack of energy.
Okay? That was 30 years ago. Also, nobody had constant scorebugs until the late 90s, early 2000s.
You clearly haven’t been watching NBC.
NFL made a call to take him off NBC due to his concussion monologue. glad to see him back with the NBA!
Hopefully he does only NBA. Because uhh… his Baseball commentary when he was on TBS from 2022-2024… it’s not Giancarlo’s fault.
It’s more that he should never do actual in-game commentary. He’s still fine in a studio setting.
What does Fring got to do with this
Draymond is on his way out, pointing toward the heavens. We can only ask, or wonder, that he is asking some departed relative for forgiveness for this atrocious performance
I think it will be okay as long as he is in studio. He’s no longer fit to announce something live
ICE is a domestic terrorist organization.
What does that have to do with Bob Costas?
Costas not a fan of Latinos like Giancarlo Stanton?
it’s not his fault
Oh is he? Where did that come up? Genuinely first time hearing that
Oh it’s nothing serious, just making fun of how Costas was calling Yankees games and trashing Stanton’s ability to run
Bob would agree
Probably, he’s a cool dude
Shh, R/NBA is reddit sub. That means it’s subject to become a political battleground at any given moment.
No need to say r/NBA, it’s 90% of Reddit at this point
How will this affect LeBrons Legacy
Pizza
You have to be a bot. This has nothing to do with this thread
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Bad faith counterargument
Not at all, just lunatics like yourself crying about pedos and traffickers being arrested. Which I find hilarious because people are always calling trump a pedo yet when pedos get arrested they cry for their release
Love how you are somehow turning this into a defense against Trump pedo accusations. You have like 2 brain cells.
Projecting much?
Whatever makes you feel better about the president’s private police force
Are we doing that? Are you sure?
Feel free to supply any statistics on the ratio of actual criminals being snatched up by ICE. I’m guessing you won’t look it up because it will shatter your worldview. Probably just pull up a single example and pretend that’s all they’re going after. Because they are arresting and detaining people at immigration courts doing the right thing, immigrants that have temporary protected status that was revoked for no reason, hard working people who overstayed visas, or just regular old US Citizens. This hunt ICE is on is not what you’ve been led to believe it is.
Lol I should’ve peeked that post history prior 🤡
he’s one of those far right gamer dorks that exist purely online
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Those intro storylines in the 90’s playoffs were genuinely poetry.
We need more poetry and less statistics in sports broadcasting. I’m dead serious.
Let’s highlight the beauty and emotion and intensity within the game.
And less betting
So true, we need that!
Goosebumps, bruh. I’m really old because I remember their sign-off in 2002.
Same !
Facts. NBA on NBC was a staple in the 90s.
This is fucking with my head. I grew up with Bob Costas, Marv Albert, Mike Fratello, etc. Costas looks exactly as he did in my memory. Mofo did not age. But I’m also shocked to see he’s only 73. I’d have guessed he was 93 or dead.
the GOAT NBA announcer
Those pregame monologues were so goated
Not even close. I thought Costas’ calling of Jordan’s epic last moments as a Bull was atrocious. I would have loved to hear Marv and Kevin Harlan do this game (But Marv was too busy biting people and it was before Kevin’s rise.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyRile_FrkI
I thought the call of the last shot was great.
Jordan. Open. Chicago with the lead? I heard that as brain dead, as he didn’t even call the play, just paraphrased it.
The game wasn’t finished yet?
I think your criticism is fair, if not a bit heavy handed. Marv or Harlan are better at play-by-play, but Costas was solid, and he had the GOAT Doug Collins seated next to him in that Finals who elevated him.
there’s no way you’re citing one of the most iconic moments in the history of the sport as a point of weakness? this is the type of legendary call that everyone remembers for years to come. it’s the 90s version of “BLOCKED BY JAMES”, “is this the dagger?” or “they do have a timeout, decide not to use it…” except it’s stylistically different because it was a different era.
costas allowed the moment to breathe and the tension within the stadium to speak for itself. he’s a storyline / narrative driven commentator and i think his quote “17 seconds from game 7 or from championship number 6” did a fantastic job of emphasizing the moment
One of the GOAT announcers in general.
One of my favorite announcer moments ever is from him in an MLB Game
Believe he did a few voiceovers earlier this season however on screen, yeah.
So wild, transported back in time. I’m finding Hollywood facelift-faces more and more ghoulish to look at though as they effect people I grew up watching on TV. When it was people from the 70s and 80s that I was only peripherally aware of it was just kind of odd looking. Now that it’s people that were major parts of my childhood, it really feels like someone cut their faces off and is wearing them like a skin costume.
it’s uncanny, like he didn’t age a day but you know he did so the effect is … uncanny.
This is awesome. Now give us Peter Vecsey grilling the players with the hard questions right before halftime.
Bob Costas? The voice actor from Cars (2006)?
This is great. Now a true Emeritus. Can’t wait to see him on Sunday Night Baseball.
Bob is a national treasure. He has born witness to so many incredible events in sports over the years
this is such poetry compared to espn’s asinine and relentless promotion of stephen a smith the sports-yeller.
This 48-year-old guy is actually 73
I’m actually surprised he’s that young.
And somehow Chris Berman is only 70.
In ten years maybe these guys can run for president.
I wonder if that was LeBron James coming to greet Bob as the camera was moving to the left for the regular NBA Showtime crew.
Iconic. Whether you love him or hate him, hearing Costas’ voice during the Olympics is something that still sends chills down by spine. Absolute staple of broadcast sports for the last 40+ years.
Is he scheduled to do any broadcasting for the upcoming Winter games ?
I never watch the Olympics so literally the last time I saw Bob Costas was 23⁄24 years ago. I thought he was dead.
More plastic than man at this point, but we’ll take it!
The professionalism is already so much comfier than anything ESPN has produced in decades
Fuck ESPN!
The last generation of great sports writers.
Hopefully he says some out of pocket shit tonight. Wish it was Embiid tonight, so we’d get a Giancarlo esque dialogue about his knees.
Iconic.
Well I hope he never does baseball commentary again lol
Uh I got bad news for you…
He’s only hosting the NBC baseball pregame show, not the in-game commentary
This is so damn cool
Is he calling the game tonight or was that it?
Timeless bro
Round Ball Rock!
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-Basketball gimme gimme gimme the Ball cause I’m gonna. Dunk It!
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So freaking great. I loved it.
Bob Costas looks like Mark Hamill
Why does he look so short
it’s beautiful
Bob Costas is so hoops
Is he sitting down here? It looks like he’s 3 feet tall lol
Costas’ presence is so calming. His voice makes me miss Vin
Bring back everything 90s. I want Squirt soda, Hootie & the Blowfish, and play parks with video game consoles in every McDonalds.
The accent just sounds nostalgic so perfect
this guy is just one of the sounds of basketball. so cool
“Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch.”
He’s completely washed unfortunately. Baseball fans know.
Him going off on Pedro Strop is all time.
That was a decade ago…that’s not the same guy
Him talking about Stanton in the playoffs still kills me