1. Video feed cuts out at times, audio delayed at times. The whole production feels so amateurish for a multi-billion dollar gig.

2. For a poor example, look at this Water Polo Jokic video

1. “No no, pick up” (r/nba thread, memes)

2. How ESPN missed out on an entire minute of game time due to its ads (Thread) despite its half-time show being pretty much all ads (Thread)

1. Ads are fuckin all over the screen (from this amazing r/nba post about ads on screen)

2. We now have split-screen ads during Free throws (read Here, here, here, here), split-screen ads during inbounding the ball (here), shitty deceptive ads (here) and fucking ads during the fucking game while watching in person.

3. And add in the steady drift of NBA players becoming NASCAR drivers. Mark my words, Adam Silver will not stop until we get to [this nightmarish future] (https://www.nbcsports.com/sites/rsnunited/files/styles/article_hero_image/public/archive/assets_article/northwest/2016/04/15/westbrooksonic.jpg)

4. And fucking sports betting ads (which is gonna wreck this league in the coming years…).

1. This is the latest piece of bullshit that allows the NBA to virtually insert ads into on-court empty spaces + can do different ads for different markets.

2. Look at this bullshit (Source)

3. Now look at how the Bucks Cream City jerseys are banned now because it overlaps with virtual ads (watch a video of this actually beautiful jersey that is now banned). Similarly Philly can’t wear their actually symbolic Parchment jerseys because it overlaps with virtual ads (read here)

4. Virtual Ads colliding with players: When will the racism stop?! Watch Alex Caruso's body merge into the court anytime he goes near an ad/logo.

1. Doris Burke? Mark Jackson? Seriously? Who in their right mind thinks that Mark Jackson is part of a good commentary product in 2023?

2. Or you get the folks at Utah/Philly where they straight are having their parallel talk show and forget that there’s a game in progress? Look at this shit where they are chatting about sticking faces in tight places when there’s actual plays happening on court. Why do teams fly in these commentators, get them great seats, all for them to ignore whatever is happening in front of them?

3. Despite his heavy-breathing and failing eyesight today, at least Marv Albert is a legend, but it’s just sad that he’s one of the better ones today. (Shout out to the folks at Charlotte Hornets who have heavily penetrated the jittery coke-addicts demographic of NBA fans)

1. Kendrick Perkins/Skip/SAS/Max is the best TV faces we could find? And why does the league even tolerate folks like Woj/Shams, who are they helping out? If Bill Simmons is one of the smarter names in a media market, you know that the media market is dumb af.

2. And lastly, games fucking never start on time (710pm start for a 7pm game is just not okay man). The game starts at tip-off, not when some the ads begin ffs.

Fuck this shit man