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Time of India
2 days ago
- Sport
- Time of India
'It looks like a god*amn AAU tournament'- Bomani Jones slams NBA over Finals' coverage
'It looks like a god*amn AAU tournament'- Bomani Jones slams NBA over Finals' coverage (Image Source: Getty) While the heated basketball Finals has started and fans have their eyes glued to the TV screens, checking scores of their favorite team and players, Bomani Jones, a popular sports TV commentator believes it hasn't been interesting enough. He said he has been frustrated with the NBA and its Finals broadcast this year. Bomani Jones criticizes NBA's Finals coverage Speaking on his The Right Time with Bomani Jones podcast, Jones felt the NBA hasn't made the Finals the special event it is, yet. He said, 'One of my chief criticisms of ESPN's coverage of the NBA is that they treat the NBA like the NFL. You can't cover it the same way. People don't want the breakdowns of strategic minutia in basketball the way that they want them in football, right? Basketball's a little more loosey-goosey,' 'It's a little bit more free. That's how people are more likely to want to talk about it. You can't do quick bullet-point discussions in the way that ESPN does. So when you come out here and you don't have any signage on the court to indicate that it's the NBA Finals, it already looks like a g*ddamn AAU tournament with the coaches wearing quarter-zips, and anybody wearing any old jersey that was clean.' What the NBA is getting WRONG with the Finals | Bomani Jones He added, 'You can't tell who the home team was just by looking on the floor. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Many elders are abandoned by their families, you can help! HelpAge India Donate Now Undo You gotta make this feel like something.' 'Sports are entertaining, not entertainment. Because the problem is if you treat sports like entertainment, then sports gets treated like the rest of entertainment right now, which is something that is not intended to be momentous, something that is not intended to be monumental, but simply something intended to occupy your time and attention, You don't want sports to be that, You don't want to be so cynical to strip away all the larger things and act like it doesn't matter,' Jones said, in his podcast. Also Read: 'Protecting Our Home Court'- Myles Turner Promises Fans That Indiana Pacers Will Bounce Back For NBA Finals Game 3 Now that a tough game between Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder is over during Game 2, it'll be interesting to see how Game 3 turns between the two teams, as they are not backing down.
Yahoo
19-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Nolan Gorman makes play after deflection
Should the Warriors be concerned entering the play-in? | Good Word with Goodwill Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill is joined by Bomani Jones to discuss Golden State's performance down the stretch and the team's outlook entering Tuesday's play-in tournament contest against the Grizzlies. Hear the full conversation on 'Good Word with Goodwill' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. 2:03 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Did the Lakers ‘find something' in impressive win over Denver?
Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill is joined by Bomani Jones to break down the Lakers 123-100 defensive win over the Nuggets and recent adjustment under head coach JJ Redick. Hear the full conversation on 'Good Word with Goodwill' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. View more I've never seen Nikola Jokic look swarmed like that. Like everything was contested. The Lakers didn't appeal to him with size. They just appealed to him with length and covering up passing lanes and everything else. Is that a market the Nuggets not being as good as I thought? Or does this mean that the Lakers have legit found something? In the last month of the season on the defensive end, even adding Lukaontri and getting rid of Anthony Davis. What I wonder about though, as we have watched Denver largely own the Lakers over the last couple of years, if this is a matter of the Lakers have made. A significant alteration to which their team is. And this is the first time that Denver is seeing it. Let's say that that was game one of a seven game series and we started saying it's one game, now it's time for Mike Malone to make the adjustment, right? Now is that time for him in theory, right, to make the adjustment. It almost feels like you're saying a first round exit is more likely than a wrong. To the finals. Oh, but I'm not. That's the thing. I think what happened was we just saw them lose a game to a team with a coach for whom, look, at this point, beating the Nuggets meant a lot more to the Lakers than beating the Lakers meant to the Nuggets because the Nuggets have been their true real live nemesis, you know, at this point, right? But looking at it right now. If the season ended today, the Nuggets would play the Clippers in the first round. No, I do not think the Clippers are going to beat them in the first round. If it turned into Lakers, Nuggets 45, I still don't know what exactly the Luca, LeBron, that whole team combination is going to look like. I don't know. Right? Um, but I'm not, I'm not there yet for them. I don't feel like I, let me tell you something. If JJ can turn them into a very good defensive team with the pieces they have right now, wow, he should have been coaching 15 years ago. Close
