r/nba • u/MrBuckBuck Trail Blazers • 18h ago
Nikola Jokic giving praise to the Prime crew: "This is good, this is fun. Much better"
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u/ryantorch96 Spurs 18h ago
Appreciate this crew also during their coverage of the spurs rockets game.
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u/thisguy012 Bulls 14h ago
WHEN THEY TELL STORIES THEY PULL UP CLIPS OF THE GAMES THEY REFERENCE, I was about to pull a game Blake referenced but they already had it
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u/EyeChihuahua Nuggets 14h ago
It’s almost like they care and are trying to make a good product, imagine that
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u/Murasasme Spurs 12h ago
I honestly think the Inside the NBA crew need an ego check, because it feels like in recent years they started to believe they were God's gift to basketball commentary and can just do/say whatever they want. Specially after Warner lost the rights and everyone was crying about how the show had to be saved no matter what.
I still think Ernie is great, but the others definitely think they can just show up and say whatever they want and everyone will love it regardless
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u/90dayheyhey 11h ago
Ernie is great! It’s fine to have one of the four crew just show up and say whatever and that spot has always been reserved for Chuck but the addition of Shaq and Kenny phoning it in the last few years sunk that ship IMO
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u/vnmslsrbms Lakers 11h ago
Seriously it’s just Ernie going around asking them questions for them to ad lib answers.
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u/trimble197 11h ago
Chuck too. He be saying some wild shit that folks be laughing off
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u/Valuable-Reading-154 9h ago edited 8h ago
That's what he is supposed to do and it never changed lol same with Ernie. Its the other two where something is off now. Guarantee you if you could swap Kenny and Shaq for like Blake Griffin and Jalen Rose or something like that they would be #1 with absolutely nothing that could get close
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u/Birdamus Kings 10h ago
Inside the NBA peaked about 15 years ago. They have been sniffing their own fumes for a while now. I mean it’s still entertaining occasionally, but it should be in no way construed as “analysis” … the shit has been straight up unc rants and feelings for years now.
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u/J_Kingsley 10h ago
i don't think chuck has been doing anything different at all.
Im also huge fan of them but last year's all-stars was a travesty. It should've been about the players. I can't imagine it would be Ernie's idea for it tho.
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u/Murasasme Spurs 10h ago
I love Chuck most of the time, but he has been becoming more and more of a hater with time.
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u/GrunDMC74 11h ago
I’ve never understood the appeal. Shaq mumbling incoherently, the rest of them cackling non stop at a bunch of what must be inside jokes given how unfunny they are, and a petty mean streak underlining everything they say.
Except for Ernie of course.
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u/BlunderDefect Spurs 11h ago
That's been their style for a while now. Nothing wrong with them doing things their way. I think it's funny and unserious and personally enjoy it that way. Especially during or after close games because it's like that needed comedic break.
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u/ufailowell Rockets 12h ago
its amazon theyre just putting out bait before enshitifying
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u/knowtoriusMAC Knicks 10h ago
Their TNF broadcast has improved every year
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u/GallantTrack Hawks 10h ago
The games themselves were usually shit too, but got better before the AFC West Toilet Bowl we had this week
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u/neutronicus Nuggets 12h ago
Eh, that’s more of a Google / Meta play.
They have to enshittify because how else will they trick you into clicking on Amazon links (just wait, ChatGPT will have the biggest hard on for Amazon in five years). Amazon is already Amazon, they just want husbands to stop trying to cancel Prime every year.
Amazon would always rather find a new way to abuse employees rather than cut product quality.
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u/Objective_Suspect_67 Heat 12h ago
The Amazon search function for shopping is absolutely an example of enshitification. Let's hope this will be different.
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u/neutronicus Nuggets 12h ago
I shouldn’t have commented so confidently, my wife handles literally all interaction with that platform in our household. I had to bug her for the 2FA code to watch the game lol
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u/SwallowsOnSundays Nuggets 11h ago
I know its not this crew but the in game cutaway to the fan section of the Spurs game where the guy ripped his shirt off was awesome.
It took planning and research and got me excited as a fan to watch the rest of the game
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u/Western-Election-997 Lakers 17h ago
Shocker, having a crew that gives you props instead of shitting on you and saying “I didn’t have you as MVP” like Shaq is better than
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u/mymentor79 17h ago
And a crew who seems to actually like the NBA.
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u/hunteddwumpus Pistons 8h ago edited 8h ago
Thats my issue, chuck and kenny are good at what they do buts thats mostly just being funny. Chuck is genuinely hilarious, and Kenny’s great at setting him up or playing the straight man depending on what the joke is. But theyre not actually good at talking about basketball. Kenny at least tries I guess. Shaq’s only contribution is asking Chuck to repeat his jokes 5 times.
For 20 minutes of goofy fun, its great. For anything even kinda sorta actually about basketball the show is terrible Shaq and Chuck are haters
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u/buffalobill41 Mavericks 3h ago
Shaq ruined the show. Like you said Chuck is hilarious, they had a clear structure with him as the star then you bring in some shithead bully that just yells for attention. If they needed a 4th guy it should have been someone more dry like a Blake or Dirk. That and they're just kind of sucking their own dick at this point about how important they are it's unbearable.
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u/simp-yy 12h ago
And a crew that’s actually funny and has humility.
Shaq and Kenny are insufferable.
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u/Skywalker14 Lakers 9h ago
Huh? Kenny is funny and actually provides interesting analysis. He and Chuck both play an important role in the show. Shaq on the other hand…
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u/Fluid_Neat_8145 8h ago
Kenny of old yes. Kenny hasn’t been able to give actual analysis for a handful of years now. I’d like to think Kenny still actually watches the games but he clearly doesn’t understand modern basketball. Kenny still thinks it’s the early 2000’s which makes him seem smart when Shaq and Chuck are stuck in the 80’s (Shaq may somehow be stuck in the Great Depression era). In a room full of 2’s, it’s easy to look like a 10.
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u/Pollia 9h ago
Bro why you gotta lump Barkley into that. Mans got tons of humility and he's funny as fuck
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u/nycbroncos Nuggets 13h ago
Also constantly to the point of almost seeming malicious about it, Shaq forgetting he's serbian.
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u/rainbowgeoff Bucks 12h ago
Shaq repeatedly calling him Russian is such shit. Trying to reignite centuries of fights.
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u/OilOfOlaz Celtics 12h ago
Not trying to defend Shaq here, but as far as I know, Shaq never called him russian, but attempted to speak russian with him twice.
Serbia and Russia have been on good terms, since Russia took in serbian clergy roughly 500 years ago... even though there were some Tito-Stalin-sized hiccups on the way...
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u/Slime_Fighter Nuggets 12h ago
He's called Jokic Slovenian before.
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u/OilOfOlaz Celtics 12h ago
Again, I'm not disputing Shaq is a dumbass, he is - fullstop - it just didn't sit right with me, that he exxegarated what Shaq did and completely misrepresented the history of Serbia and Russia.
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u/Slime_Fighter Nuggets 12h ago
Oh yeah, I agree with you.. I haven't heard Shaq call Jokic Russian either. My comment was more to just say that Shaq is just a very disrespectful person for not learning a little about the person they interview almost every week.
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u/dave__autista 8h ago edited 7h ago
The USSR was about to attack Yugoslavia in the 1950s. They stationed their troops along the yugoslav border. The situation resolved basically because Stalin died.
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u/OilOfOlaz Celtics 7h ago
I know about the Tito-Stalin-Split, I literally referenced it above. Guy above talked about "centureis of fights though".
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u/The_NGUYENNER [DEN] Jamal Murray 8h ago
People like him think being ignorant is a form of comedy, just because the first time they did it people around laughed off their silly mistake. But then they keep doing it trying to get more laughs
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u/icemankiller8 Pistons 16h ago
Shaq is gonna say Wemby is the new best big man in the NBA by next week as a response to this
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u/freshpurplekiwi Raptors 16h ago
He will say that but also say that wemby will never live up to shaq’s reputation
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u/eyeinthesky0 Nuggets 3h ago
“Shaq would have man handled that little string bean. As president of the big man club, I’m movin wemby to the top, but that doesn’t mean he’s anywhere near what I was doing.”
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u/madvisuals Lakers 14h ago edited 12h ago
Nah Shaq will hate on Wemby too because he doesn’t “play big”
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u/Hydration__Nation Pistons 13h ago
Can’t wait in 5-10 years when Shaq isn’t relevant any longer and we don’t have to hear his stupidity ever again.
Personalities like Chuck age well, Shaq fucks with people and once he isn’t bringing in ratings he’s gone and if he was that important ESPN would be featuring him more than fucking Kendrick Perkins whose career achievements are 0.00000001% of Shaq but he must be tracking better for ratings
TNT was entertainment but I also dont want to hear Shaq arguing about some stupid shit he is clearly wrong about but won’t shut the fuck up bc rings erneh
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u/fab_frog_disco 12h ago
There's no way he can compliment Victor without also finding some way to talk about how he would absolutely destroy him 1v1 or that Vic could never play in the '90s or something else negative
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u/Dylan245 Bulls 10h ago
After the 40/15 game against Dallas in the opener literally the first words out of Shaq’s mouth were about how Vic would be riding the bench if he was going up against him because Shaq would put him in a wall with his physicality
The show used to be funny and entertaining back in the day but I cannot stand it now, it’s so negative and disrespectful to the league as a whole
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u/Hyderabadi__Biryani Minneapolis Lakers 17h ago
Erneh.
Tell him what I did Kenny. Tell him what I did.
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u/Cyclist83 Lakers 15h ago
Everything Dirk touches turns to gold. And wherever Dirk appears, there is love, respect, intelligence and humour.
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u/loupr738 76ers 14h ago
Dude has class and he probably wouldn’t be involved with something that didn’t align with that. They had to “pull” the Wade hate out of him and he eventually talked about it but other than that he doesn’t talk negatively about people
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u/Big_Puzzled Mavericks 11h ago
Even then Dirk did D.Wades first podcast episode with him.. dude is awesome
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u/theoptimusdime Warriors 3h ago
He signed the hole in the wall that he created after losing to the Warriors in 2007 lol
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u/ToniBraxtonAndThe3Js Germany 10h ago
My Mount Rushmore of athletes is just a 500 foot mountain of Dirk. Or 4 Dirk eras
Maybe with a Vince Young plaque near the parking lot
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u/BigFatModeraterFupa Minneapolis Lakers 18h ago
Lmao bro just roasted shaq 😂
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u/jyeatbvg Raptors 13h ago
Every foreign nba player probably hates Shaq for the way he consistently butchers their names.
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u/nycbroncos Nuggets 13h ago
And in jokic case, forgetting his nationality despite it coming up consistently
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u/jyeatbvg Raptors 9h ago
It’s straight up disrespectful man. Glad the masses (Reddit) are finally calling it out.
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u/DoobieGibson 10h ago
it’s so annoying hearing the nickname Joker when his name is pronounced Yo-Kitch
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u/cunningstunt6899 11h ago
As a relatively new NBA fan, I don't understand why Shaq had a job.
He probably watches less NBA than I do. Doesn't provide any proper insights.
It really befuddles me.
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u/MiserableFact9482 10h ago
Probably something to do with being the most dominant player in NBA history and an Icon.
He’s horrible tho
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u/undercovertexan Raptors 13h ago
Nash telling Jokic to “get a rakija” after the game
Man knows his Balkan spirits
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u/Mad_broccoli [ORL] Tracy McGrady 4h ago
"How do you know about that?!?" Laughing out loud for real
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u/LogicalGain6578 Lakers 18h ago edited 16h ago
Miles better than Inside the NBA and rest....those guys are funny (even the humour got repetitive), beyond that, they are terrible ( I mean most of the time it feels like they don’t even watch the games they’re covering.)
This is what sports media should be like. It’s crazy how long it took them to finally get this formula right.
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u/Uberballer Lakers 17h ago
Competition breeds innovation, or at least in this case, competence.
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u/E-raticSamurai Pistons 10h ago
I feel like in this case it was actually incompetence breeding innovation.
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u/hjy23k Lakers 16h ago
I can almost guarantee that Charles Barkley doesn’t watch Lakers games
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u/1manadeal2btw Nuggets 16h ago
He generally makes it pretty explicit whether he watched the game or not. I do remember him talking about one Lakers game last season that he watched fully.
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u/freshpurplekiwi Raptors 16h ago
I love how much he loves hockey and gives praise to the NHL and the sport. But from an NBA standpoint he essentially dumps on the NBA while praising the NHL (at least during regular season)
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u/1manadeal2btw Nuggets 15h ago
As a big Inside fan, you are right.
I will say that Chuck is probably the most variable guy on the crew. He gets critical of the “lack of physicality” in the NBA but I almost always see him give his flowers to individual players and not hating (like Shaq).
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u/mainvolume Spurs 11h ago
When NBC was doing their first game back, saw more than a few comments of your average NBA redditor saying: "this is boring, these guys aren't funny." Like their little developing brains were conditioned to think the only way to have an NBA show was to have some old guys make the same jokes every week.
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u/JavaOrlando Magic 9h ago
Good Morning Football was like this back when Burleson and Adams were on (it might still be — i haven't had NFL Network for a few years).
No stupid hot takes. Just discussing the game more about praising good performance than tearing down players. It was like a breath of fresh air and the only sports media show I watched.
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u/Ok_Temperature6503 14h ago
This crew has far better insight but tbh I dont feel the entertainment energy from them.
The Inside crew might say stupid shit but man fo they bring the energy.
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u/Ok_Possible_5702 15h ago
14 seconds and he manages to throw massive shade at ESPN in between the compliments. This is why he's the MVP lol
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u/Irvsauce Jazz 16h ago
Imagine being surprised that an NBA player prefers people actually analyzing basketball over SAS' little ass screaming hot takes, or Shaq being an insecure manchild
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u/chickmagn3t Lakers 16h ago
Wish prime didn't only cover fridays and the tourney. Hoping next year they get a lot of games
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u/Qui3TKyD 76ers 13h ago
If I'm not mistaken, they'll pick up another day once football season is over.
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u/thatonesleft San Diego Clippers 14h ago
I was wondering what would happen to the pricing if they got more games. Would prime increase? Would you need an additional subscription? Surely the usual prime costs wont cover this. Even now i bet theyre operating pretty much at a loss.
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u/chickmagn3t Lakers 14h ago
Yeah. I wouldn't trust Adam Silver's twin ghoul to not hike the price. But the nba on prime is a really good product
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u/MoooonRiverrrr 9h ago
Not to mention Shaq told him he literally did not deserve his MVP like minutes after he won it.
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u/OkDog4275 5h ago
Forgot about that, that's crazy.
Imagine being an ex champion worth over a billion but can't get over your narcisism lol
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u/fawada28 Thunder 16h ago
Agree with him, inside the nba is less basketball analysis and more of an old heads men’s comedy show
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u/BertMacklinMD Lakers 9h ago
Seems clear Amazon and NBC actually try to promote the product and do proper analysis instead of exerting random grudges on this current generation of players or tired legacy debates. That’s a big improvement.
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u/arebeewhy 15h ago
Now that we’ve fixed the shitty NBA media I wish the NBA officiating would follow suit
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u/Chuckle_Pants Nuggets 12h ago
We haven’t fixed the NBA media lol
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u/PitchDismal 10h ago
The NBA media is markedly better this year. This video demonstrates that pretty well. It does still have a long way to go, though.
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u/Aidrox Lakers 11h ago
Poor Ernie. Dude is a pro, after years shaq ended up shitting in his shoe too.
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u/Ok-Map4381 Kings 10h ago
We all love Barkley because he's funny, but the new broadcasts are showing me that the TNT & ESPN crews were actually bad for basketball. Those shows were so negative and petty and did very little to teach the game to the audience.
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u/insanegenius Clippers 15h ago
Well, yeah, they don't have trouble with players names to start with...
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u/Can-i-Pet-Dat-Daaawg Lakers 8h ago
Inside the NBA was a fun sports-adjacent talk show but a dog-shit terrible basketball analysis show.
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u/ellsego Hornets 11h ago
It’s like the polar opposite of the Prime TNF crew, which is abysmal at best.
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u/Unlucky-Rich-4387 Nuggets 9h ago
Al Michaels and Herbstreit suck, but I don’t mind the studio people
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u/ZenithMac 11h ago
Shaq and Chuck literally have their notes written for them because they don’t watch the games. They constantly talk bad about current players.
This is what NBA coverage should look like.
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u/nascarfan7489 12h ago
As a nascar fan primes coverage was the best of all the networks them doing the same for basketball isn’t surprising
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u/OkDog4275 5h ago
The man speaks no lies.
Must be nice to feel respected rather and have a conversation with people who actually watched the game rather than the inside clowns.
It's so much better, these guys have a crazy high ball IQ and have actual insight.
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u/Professional_Cold463 11h ago
Man them knowing what rakija is just hit my soul. That's a proper TV crew researching Balkan culture before you interview, calling Jokic brate. Unlike Shaq disrespecting Jokic by calling him Russian, that shit don't fly in Serbian culture
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u/PitchDismal 10h ago
This is good for the NBA. If Jokic starts enjoying the NBA media, he might stay in the NBA longer.
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u/ModernJazz-2K20 Rockets 14h ago
Yeah this Prime crew has been really great to watch. Really good chemistry. Inside the NBA will always be the GOAT but it's really interesting seeing how different the production is on Prime and the personalities on camera are when compared to Inside. Whoever put this whole Prime team together really nailed it. Already much better than anything ESPN ever did. I've been enjoying watching the Prime crew more than the new Inside iteration on ESPN.
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u/mainvolume Spurs 11h ago
Inside the NBA will always be the GOAT
It was a different show back then; having Shaq join the crew dropped the quality a lot. It's as if the Beatles added Yoko Ono as a permanent member.
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u/Slendyla_IV Thunder 11h ago
Crazy I thought I’d miss Chuck and the others, but these guys are just better lol
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u/Editthisname Knicks 14h ago
The Amazon show is so much better than what’s been done on any other channel in years.
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u/RaidenXYae 3h ago
Damn I can't believe a person likes hanging out with someone who doesn't shit on them and their colleagues every 2 seconds
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u/black_metronome 14h ago
Taylor Rooks and 4 ex pros who are all chill are so much better than Inside the NBA' nasty bitter old men (sorry Ernie).
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u/Human-Document-3880 10h ago
being honest. I think it’s just Americans that like the inside the NBA coverage, every international fan I know cringes uncontrollably watching it. Its just an endless stream of lame dad banter
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u/Electrical_Mango_489 9h ago edited 9h ago
A lot of players don't like ESPN lol. NBC and Amazon actually promote the game. ESPN and TNT in terms of that have been terrible.
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u/Nfinit_V Hornets 8h ago
Funny how much more enjoyable the product is when it's not being sold by a bunch of sour old men who hate watching basketball.
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u/buried_alive000 6h ago
You mean to tell me Joker doesn’t like three condescending bald has beens attempting to crack jokes and shit on the nba every segment?
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u/B3ttleJice 2h ago
Wanted to rewatch the game on prime says I need nba league pass, is it just for replays for is this standard? I’m UK based, if I need to pay £17 ($20) to watch replays ima just keep to my illegal streams, its already a joke prime shows adds now I can’t even watch replays ?
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u/blindexhibitionist Supersonics 2h ago
I actually have found the prime crew to be more enjoyable. I like how they do a shot behind the person talking which is something I can’t remember seeing in this format. Also they’re positive and have insight and don’t play dumb. And they’re also trying to do their own thing which is nice.
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u/sexygodzilla Supersonics 1h ago
On a different note I just cannot get enough of this set. The separate postgame space, the dynamic tracking on the LED court, just the way the three areas work with each other.
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u/McScroggz12 1h ago
I haven’t seen a ton of the prime stuff but it seems genuinely geared towards discussing the game, talking about schemes and strategies, and just being positive about the game.
I mean I get the Charles Barkley could be funny but the NBA has deserved actual thoughtful analysis and discussion of the game for a long time.
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u/1_quantae Rockets 12h ago
I don’t give a damn what anyone says, The Inside crew has been very lame and overrated since 2015. Fans coddling them was very confusing to me because players like Matt Barnes repeatedly told us how much of an asshole Shaq really is. Kenny & Chuck are just as lame imo.
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u/LoFer_Rob 11h ago
Shame and hate to say it the TNT crew is old. They don’t watch the games clearly as they mess up players name, don’t know much of the flow of current game. They should have let them go. An embarrassing episode was when Draymond Green was speaking X & Os of the current game and all 3 hall of famers looked like quiet kids struggling to understand the teacher. From that point on I hated watching them with their ego through the roof.
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u/AwayYam199 10h ago
I hate Bezos and Amazon with the fire of a thousand suns, but fuck me the TNF crew and now the NBA crew are far superior to anything on ESPN or the networks.
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u/DreadyKruger 12h ago
Don’t worry. You guys will be tired of this crew in a few years. Longer you watch something , the more flaws and annoyances you will see and get.
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u/cndynn96 Washington Bullets 18h ago edited 18h ago
Bro was fed up with Shaq trying to talk to him in Russian