Inside the NBA later this week with a four-part documentary series,
The Inside Story, that covers the evolution of the iconic studio show from its inception to now.
Full disclosure: I appear in the documentary as one of the many talking heads who explain why the show works so well.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize the chemistry between Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Shaquille O’Neal is special. And that chemistry is on full display in this exclusive clip in which the fellas discuss the one time many, many years ago that Johnson got angry with the co-hosts.
SI Media Podcast, during a conversation about Jim Nantz’s current negotiations with CBS,
The Ringer’s Bryan Curtis made the point that viewers don’t watch sports just because of the announcers.
Fans are going to watch NFL games, the NCAA Tournament, the NBA playoffs, etc., no matter who is calling the action. This is true for the NFL draft as well.
So with ESPN needing a host for this year’s draft after parting ways with Trey Wingo, the network reportedly has turned to Mike Greenberg.
You’d think the network would want to use someone who has a connection to the NFL or college football, but that isn’t nearly as important as the opportunity for cross-promotion Greenberg provides.
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. Every NBA fan knows former Timberwolves star Kevin Garnett was a legendary trash-talker. However, there was a time when that trash talk came back to burn him.
Appearing on Wednesday’s
Jimmy Kimmel Live! Garnett revealed that when he was 19 years old, his teammate J.R. Rider got off to a hot start during a game against the Bulls and that got Garnett chirping at Michael Jordan. Garnett says he’s paid for it ever since.
“I was playing great, probably the best I ever played in my life at this point, and it’s against the Bulls and J.R. Rider is having an unbelievable game, too, and I’m feeling 19,” Garnett explained to Kimmel. “I’m like, ‘Yeah, keep going, you’re killing him. Woo!’ In the short form of it, I woke up a sleeping dog. … It just turned bad, Jimmy, it turned really bad. And it turned bad quick.”
Feb 15, 2021
1. Just when you thought there would never be something that could unify this country, along comes Lorraine Grohs.
If you were on the internet at all over the weekend, you’d know that Grohs is the person demanding an apology from Tom Brady for throwing the Lombardi Trophy from one boat to another during the Buccaneers Super Bowl celebration last week.
Grohs was offended by the “disgraced” and “disrespectful” treatment of the piece of metal because her father, Greg, is the master silversmith who crafted the first Lombardi Trophy.
In what is completely unprecedented in the history of the internet, everyone is in agreement that Grohs’s request is, to put it kindly, bizarre. I have literally not seen one person on Grohs’s side in this matter.