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Chapter 1: What are the NBA broadcast partner power rankings?
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Chapter 2: How does NBC's studio show compare to others?
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We are back for real ones. The moment everyone's been waiting for, the real ones press box crossover that we seem to do every year. I got Joel Anderson. I got Brian Curtis. We are here to give our first ever power rankings of NBA studio shows.
Chapter 3: What are the highlights of Amazon's NBA coverage?
I'm very excited. And we have another segment that we're going to do at the end where we create our own studio show. I got the best in the business, the Avengers of media journalism and media criticism. How are you guys doing?
I mean, I don't normally get to get on Netflix, man. This is a big deal for me. I'm gonna tell my mom. My mom may engage in some of this content because she's got that Netflix subscription. So I'm just honored that you would have us on. Yeah. We usually prefer the Dream Team to the Avengers, just FYI, but we're good with that too.
Oh, okay. Okay, okay.
Chapter 4: How does ESPN's studio show perform during the postseason?
Avengers is more my generation. That's 2024. You guys are 92. I forgot. I apologize. We are the last. All right, let's get right into it, man. Let's talk about NBC first as our first studio segment show in our power ranking. Let's start with the studio show. We got Maria Taylor. They have combined her with Carmelo Anthony, Vince Carter, and Tracy McGrady. Let's start with Joel.
What have been your thoughts on that pairing? Give me a little bit of your power rankings and how you feel about them and a best out of 10.
So it's, it's interesting because those three players you mentioned are probably, if I, if there was some sort of ranking of like the coolest players of like the arts or whatever.
Chapter 5: What elements make a successful studio show?
They would probably be it. You know, like Vince Carter, who, you know, was the dunk champ. Tracy McGrady, who, I mean, the only guy I've ever seen throw the ball off the backboard and dunk it in a regulation NBA game. And Carmelo could just get buckets. But I just, I feel like they're still figuring it out. Like, and what I think I do is I want to listen more to Vince's and Tracy's podcast.
Because sometimes I listen, I see clips of it and I'm like, They still, like, for being cousins or whatever, it just hasn't translated yet, and I don't quite know what that is. And, like, Carmelo is always just very chill in a way that I'm just like, he doesn't project a lot. So there's not a lot of enthusiasm. It's just like they always got to be like, are you guys awake?
You know, are you guys excited about this at all or what? Maria is a pro. Like, I mean, and she's been doing this forever. But of the, I mean, I don't think, are we doing, we're not ranking them yet, are we?
Not yet, not yet. Not yet, okay. It seems like you're giving it away, but not quite yet.
Not yet, okay, yeah. Well, I mean, but I feel like it has a ways to go. I don't think it's bad. I think the idea of pairing Vince and Tracy, cousins who have already a rapport with each other, is a solid one. I guess I'm just interested to see what happens with Carmelo. Because even on his own podcast, again, clips, I'm just like,
He seems like a fun person to hang out with, but not necessarily somebody I got to listen to talk on TV. Is that fair, Brian? I think it is. That show kind of reminds me of that Nets team that got KG and Paul Pierce and all those veterans and just like, we're just going to roll it out and see what happens. Yeah. What if we got the 2008 Celtics, but like, as they're old? Exactly.
And, you know, studio shows are kind of like basketball teams where you need people that play different roles. And we got three scorers. I guess four if you count Maria Taylor. We got three scorers on this show.
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Chapter 6: How do the guests envision their dream NBA studio show?
And I'm just kind of like, these are all kind of the same person. Where's the guy who's playing a different role, who played a different role in the NBA, could bring that to TV? I mean, first of all, I listened to them game four. They were at halftime. They were on the court, game four of the Western Conference Finals. And I couldn't hear them. They're on the court talking.
They're all talking very, very softly. The audio wasn't great. And Joel hit on a great point, which is that we've now hit in 2026, which is like, what if these guys are better on their own podcast than they are on the network studio show? And what is their podcast getting out of them that NBC isn't getting out of them? And that totally feels like what's happening on NBC right now.
They've got interesting people. It's an interesting idea, but they're just not maxing it out.
Well, I think the interesting point that you just – that Joe put out and, you know, Brian, you kind of put the exclamation point on is, I mean, they're really just – it's crazy to see –
Chapter 7: What role does play-by-play commentary play in NBA broadcasts?
a former player actually act like themselves as during their playing days when they're behind a mic, right. Where they have to get theirs. And I feel like when we talk about Carmelo, he is a guy that you have to build a world around. And I think that's why I like his podcast so much. Right.
Because it's not, it's, it's Carmelo's world is that he is controlling as opposed to him wanting to fit into a system, which is a bit poetic considering his basketball career in the backstretch of his basketball career. Right. And, and, Whenever I see them, even in Game 4, I believe it was Game 5 as well when they had a segment on the court with Chet Holmgren.
And all of the guys were trying to get their points across over each other or trying to make themselves seem like what they think a former NBA player is supposed to be on a show like this.
Chapter 8: How can the NBA improve its game presentation?
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it's not rocket science all you really have to do is just be one of the guys you just want to you just got to be some somebody that people want to hang out with and i feel like this group doesn't really hang out with each other and it shows because they're always just trying to like get talk over each other and try to figure each other out and then try to outwit each other but they're not they're talking they wind up talking at each other as opposed to talking to each other joel
Yes. I get that. I think that I, and to your point, I think it's a great idea. They're just like, oh, they're homies. Like, you know, these are their cousins. They're very similar. I bet they like have great, great conversations off air. So I get that. They're like, well, maybe we can have their personal chemistry and it will translate on TV. And it just hasn't happened.
And to your point about Carmelo, I bet, Carmelo throws a fantastic party. I bet you can like even on his podcast, like he can get Mero on there to talk about Desus. I hadn't heard Mero talk about Desus anywhere else. Right. He can get people to come on there and they're excited to meet him. But on a show where he's like got to do more than just like show up and be cool.
I feel like that's kind of what the problem is right now. One thing I heard in talking to somebody from NBC before the season started is when they were thinking about what are we going to do on our studio show? They thought about it like this. They said, okay, we don't want a Stephen A character on our pregame show creating an international incident with somebody in the NBA. So let's not do that.
We also don't want a Sham Sharania type character who is making the show about something Giannis might or might not do in a month rather than the game that's going to start in 20 minutes. So let's not do that. Now we can all three agree. Those are both good things not to do, but the problem is what are you going to do? What is this show about? What do you remember?
And when I watch that show, a lot of the times it's all like he talks and he talks and she talks and here we go. And at the end of it, I'm like, I don't remember anything you just said.
The best moment I feel like from them wasn't even them talking. It was, I believe it was in Portland a few weeks or a few months ago when they were just all shooting around. I don't know if you guys saw this segment, but Ahmad Fareed was basically just took a handheld mic and just interviewed them as they shot around. And I think that was like.
I was riveting just to be able to see somebody do that, both from Farid's standpoint, because that's really hard to do, to actually make television while you are in a non-controlled setting. And he was able to do that. But I think if I have a critique or a note, it's like, get them doing that. Get them playing, or maybe get them active. You see that on the NFL a lot, where there's a lot of...
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