NBA Daily Mailbag | Morning Shoot Around
episodePreviously titled “Do the Pistons rely on Cade Cunningham too much? | Morning Shoot Around” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 3, 2026
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What are the key updates in the NBA today?
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I am muted. Hey, good morning, everybody. What's happening? Good morning. Good afternoon. Welcome to the NBA daily morning shoot around. I'm Dave Dufour unmuted. Now here was Zena Kata and Espera Henney going to do a little mailbag edition of the show. Um, Kind of looking ahead, thinking about the playoffs, only six weeks to go. Before we get to the questions, guys, something that we didn't hit on the show this morning, S, the NBC throwback broadcast, the NBA on NBC. I mean, you guys didn't grow up with this necessarily. So I'm very curious about your opinion of it first. Did it mean anything to you guys?
Yeah, I mean, like, I think from the perspective, well, I'll just give you my experience. I used to have NBA TV as a kid. And a lot of my base knowledge of basketball was like, I'm sick. Like I am today. I I'm off from school. So on a Tuesday, I'm watching Hakeem do a dream shake versus throwback. Right.
The old NBA classics and stuff.
That's exactly.
I mean, ESPN classics used to be a big thing.
Totally. That does not exist. I don't know if NBA TV does that anymore, or if it's as accessible because cable no longer is a, is a worthy platform.
Yeah.
Yeah. But ultimately, that was what allowed me to learn more and also watch those old NBC broadcasts. So I know like.
So you had a little bit of a through line.
Yeah, totally. Yeah. So seeing that was just like, oh, I remember when I was a kid and I had that nostalgic feeling, you know, mine was more so just appreciation for the voices.
Right.
How did the NBA on NBC impact basketball culture?
There is I think there was and still is, but for sure back then. an appreciation for like creamy voices, for voices that just felt very recognizable, but also like home and very like you're hanging out with the guys. And I think that Doug Collins and Mike Fratello, like they have those kind of voices. Bob Costas, of course, he was our guy for years on NBC through the Olympics, through everything. So it just felt very recognizable and like at home.
Also, it's a different style. You know, I'll give my experience. I mean, look, I grew up with these guys calling the big games. Mike Fratello, by the way, they gave him, you know, he did the Telestrator, which they just don't really do on broadcast. And I thought that was pretty fun. You know, the czar of the Telestrator. And you listen to Doug Collins, and even the way that they sort of called the game was different. Doug Collins is awesome. Yeah, he's really good. I mean, you know, his pronunciation of Victor Weminyama. Whatever. It's fine.
He just kind of rolled through it.
Yeah, he was trying. But, like, it's, you know, he's trying to catch up. But I thought he was great. He added a lot to the broadcast. And listening to these guys that I heard as a kid talk about Victor Wiminyama in particular, because he's the future of the NBA. And the way that Doug Collins was describing him playing defense, I thought a lot of the people who were doing –
you know the color analyst job could probably learn from the way that he simplified talking about the game that's what i felt as a person that does and wants to do more color analyzing um it it wasn't even just women yama at one point he broke down carter bryan's game and just talking about like how he plays with energy and like excitement like and it is that simple sometimes what you bring to the floor um Yeah, I really like that there's an appreciation for effort and but also being able to just like break down how that translates into good basketball as well.
Yeah. And then there's the old school approach where it didn't feel like anyone was trying to get their stuff in. Right. There was plenty of space for all three guys to breathe. You know, Bob Costas was really good. I thought it laying off when Mike Fratello and Doug, I don't know. It felt like a throwback sports broadcast, but that's actually the thing about the NBC coverage this year, like which we talked about on and off is that. NBC presents the NBA as a sport, not as a drama, which is kind of what we've been used to. And it's been a pretty refreshing season.
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