Yeah if the Spurs turn around and win the series New Yorkers might march on Washington DC and burn the place to ash

Pat and big perk as the commentators??? You can’t make this shit up anymore

Not our fault the nba sucks up to the orange fuck

I’m pretty sure Danhausen cursed Pat McAffee so you could be on to something

We should’ve gotten Clyde on the main broadcast 😭

If the Spurs pull an ‘04 Red Sox the city might burn down.

They need Danhausen to remove this curse as well now

I don’t understand ESPN. The Finals is probably, at worst, their second biggest product depending on how big the CFP is (I’m more a CFB fan than NBA fan but I don’t have the viewer numbers to tell you for sure the CFP is a bigger “product” than the Finals).

And they have what is objectively a B-team calling the Finals. Breen is good, but I think Jefferson is a much better studio guy than an in-game analyst.

And they do this all the time before eventually just shelling out for the best talent.

Oh the Booger-Mobile didn’t work out and we can’t get a good MNF crew? Fuck it, chuck a bag at Joe and Troy.

Nobody likes our NBA pre-game show? Fuck it, chuck a bag at Ernie, Kenny, Chuck and Shaq.

Could be the best drinking game of all time.

Have a shot of [insert tequila brand here] every time Pat says something stupid, or Kendrick mispronounces Wembanyama.

In a separate unrelated development [insert tequila brand here] is the newest sponsor on the NBA finals.

In theory I cannot understand how anybody can tolerate Pat McAfee for more than 10 seconds. He makes anything he touches unwatchable.

But, he actually resonates heavily with the 18-25 bro crowd.

jaxson dart

With beer and friends on mute :)

People who tune in to See Trump

AJ Hawk will be locked in

Just wait till Jason Kelce shows up

Alcoholics, the unemployable, angry loners …

We just need Booger McFarland in his sideline chair and it would be perfectly terrible

Prob a mix of casual misguided fans who think first take is a good way to learn sports and men with fragile egos who think listening McAfee makes them a bro sports analyst.

And then some people just doing it for entertainment value

“Yo man, they need to score the ball then get back and lot let them score the ball”

It’ll be a hit in the Guantanamo torture dungeons

I’d rather watch the Spanish language telecast, and I don’t speak Spanish.

Fully expect some promo or interview with Trump from Magafee. Ruined WrestleMania and now on course to ruin a more historical sporting event for the Knicks.

I would rather watch three monkeys throwing their feces at a dogs playing poker painting.

Can’t think of another time any sporting event felt this rancid purely from factors unrelated to the game itself, next we’re gonna hear carrion vultures were spotted circling MSG

ESPN saw New York having fun and decided to cut that off immediately

The biggest home game for the Knicks this season, year, century, and millennium and this is what happens surrounding it. This sucks.

Agreed. What a clown show …

The Greatest NBA Finals : Live from Saudi Arabia

“Telephone, Telegram, Tel Aviv… Lakers in 5.”

Section 224 of the NDA has this buried in there - The NBA and Israeli Basketball Premier League are inextricably merging along with our militaries. Deni Avdija is now our Secretary of Defense, and Pete Hegseth is the starting wing for Portland.

Basically. 

I’m hearing Bibi is sitting courtside for game 4.

Adam Silver trying to think of anything else he can do to curse the Knicks so the series keeps going.

the NFL fans who have nothing to watch at the moment

Trump

Trump, I bet.

The redneck crowd, smaller in the NBA space for sure

Thinking Basketball just had Katz on and did what I thought was the best Knicks-oriented breakdown I’ve heard so far

Macri my goat man, if nothing else the knicks have to get it done for macri 😭 

Give me whatever cast Tim Legler is on

I like like Andrew Claudio and the Knicks Film School guys

Macri is not like Lowe, Begley or Katz

I’d throw Hahn in there as well tho

This is the way

Zach Lowe picked us to make the finals pre season. And picked us in this series. I trust him immensely

yeah perk is the problem child here

I was at Frost Bank on Wednesday and saw Perkins and 3 others doing a podcast or something in the arena. Michael Wilbon was sitting close by too.

Cause the nba going to tell the refs to tie this series up and they don’t want capable commentators on it.

Nah he ruined that shit too. We hate him over there. they couldn’t just leave him on a once in awhile thing and decided we all thought Pat was the funniest coolest guy we’ve ever seen and the fans turned hard

Trump coming, Mcafee and perk announcing. Jesus

Bros.

They are trying to draw in a different audience with Trump attending and now Mcafee, NBA is trying to grab some of that conservative crowd back and draw them to the NBA.

Trying to cash in on a young conservative viewership numbers for this game since Trump is there.

Propaganda enthusiasts

I mean, a non-NBA audience. They want to show huge viewership numbers throughout the series for advertisers. So they are looking for any way to juice those numbers.

McAfee has his own audience and there are some casual sports fans that may or may not tune in, but will tune in because they want to watch the McAfee stream.

People who have to take a second to think about the order of the letters that come after K.

And they paid millions for the right to do so while firing staffers, reporters, and commentators who are actually serious individuals.

The Pat McAfee Show around like 2020 was one of the few new moneymakers in sports media.
Then ESPN, WWE and a ton of other companies jumped all over him, slapped his face on everything, and eventually made the fans start to get annoyed by him.

Now they’re stuck still trying to push him even though a ton of people don’t like him

SAS has to be worse, no?

he was slandering Kerr for wearing Harvard shirt that one time. said he lost the playoffs because of that

Yeah, Adam silver and James Dolan