NBA: Stern to address homerism on local tv brodcasts

[Dro210]

Just ing retire already.

This

And Sean Elliott is awesome

[phyzik]

The difference between Elliott and other homer broadcasters is that Elliott at least acknowledges that he wears black and silver tinted glasses. He knows he's a homer. He even makes fun of himself about it a lot of the time. I doubt the majority of other homers even realize that about themselves. Also, when Elliott activates his homerism on a call, then see's the replay, he will more often than not back pedal on his initial response and say it was a good call.

All I think this is, is Stern's dictatorship trying to stop people from questioning the refs many bad decisions in regards to the recent youtube video's that appear to show blatant favoritism to The Lakers in order to get them into the playoffs. I'm not saying the video's are right on their premise, but some of those calls looked to be extremely questionable.

Here's one such video.

[spurraider21]

Best announcer is Joel Meyers. I have special love for him since he used to be the Raiders radio voice and then became the Spurs TV guy. Plus I heard him for a while when he was doing Lakers games. He does Pelicans games now

[Pelicans78]

Best announcer is Joel Meyers. I have special love for him since he used to be the Raiders radio voice and then became the Spurs TV guy. Plus I heard him for a while when he was doing Lakers games. He does Pelicans games now

He's fantastic. Huge upgrade adding him when the Pelicans moved to Fox Sports New Orleans. He does a uva job. The Pelicans had homer announcers the previous 10 seasons.

[Latarian Milton]

if a forum bans poster for talking bad of the home team, is it homerism too?

[lefty]

if a forum bans poster for talking bad of the home team, is it homerism too?

then we would get 404 error message

[mercos]

To much ref questioning for Stern's liking if I had to guess. You hear that a lot more on local broadcasts than you do on national broadcasts, where bad calls are frequently ignored.

[HI-FI]

probably the same reason Stern screwed over Stan Van Gundy from getting a job with ESPN. there's only so many truth bombs Stern will tolerate.

[Venti Quattro]

I hope this gets Billy Mac out of a job and Joel Meyers back into the LA crew.

[whitemamba]

I hope this gets Billy Mac out of a job and Joel Meyers back into the LA crew.

ing this! joel meyers was the man, shame hes with NO now days

[irishock]

Billy Mac is even worse than Tommy tbh

[callo1]

Good pairing LA has been blessed with quality sports broadcasting on the local front: Chick n Stu, Lawler and Walton, Vin Scully Jon Miller we get talent ...

Elliott is horrid, Heinson worse and the Blazers, Rockets and Cavs announcers wretched.
No one is saying Elliott or the homers need to be completely unbiased, but they feed in to small market penis envy and conspiracy theorists with their ranting.

But I say leave them be ...Listening to Sean/Tommy moan and groan when a big shot or call goes against them is high comedy. Besides Tommy aint changing now ...

Lol, Stu is as blind of a homer as there is in the league...a pile of rotting feces.

Sean may be a homer, but he has no pretense in doing so. He does so with a tongue and cheek approach 95% of the time, whereas Stu really believes his moronic self.

In addition, Sean actually had a career with the team he calls games for, unlike the fecal matter Stu, who had 2 scrub years playing for the Lakers, and calls the games like he was a HoF career player on the squad.

It is the job of the local broadcasters to show bias towards their own team, but don't act like Stu's ass is golden, he shows Every bit as much bias, but is actually serious in doing so.

[Venti Quattro]

Lol, Stu is as blind of a homer as there is in the league...a pile of rotting feces.

Sean may be a homer, but he has no pretense in doing so. He does so with a tongue and cheek approach 95% of the time, whereas Stu really believes his moronic self.

In addition, Sean actually had a career with the team he calls games for, unlike the fecal matter Stu, who had 2 scrub years playing for the Lakers, and calls the games like he was a HoF career player on the squad.

It is the job of the local broadcasters to show bias towards their own team, but don't act like Stu's ass is golden, he shows Evert bit as much bias, but is actually serious in doing so.

shut the up

Stu Lantz is a million times a better commentator than Sean Memorial Day Miracle Elliott

[callo1]

Lol @ 2 scrub years and he acts like the Lakers GOAT

[callo1]

shut the up

Stu Lantz is a million times a better commentator than Sean Memorial Day Miracle Elliott

Keep drinking that Purple 'n Piss Koolaid...if you run out, grab another cup from Uncle Stern...he always has more ready and waiting.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

I'd be upset about this I thought for a second that the league was going to do anything beyond lip service to the perceived problem. A couple of years ago they were going to crack down on whining to the refs. This year was going to be the year that flopping got addressed.

[FkLA]

Why would the Lakers let Meyers go? Best in the business tbh.

And yall are stupid if yall dont realize being such a huge homer is a part of Elliotts sense of humor. Dude is a goofy guy, taking cracks at guys on the team all the time on air. If youve watched enough Spurs games youll also have heard the 'Ill take it' or 'Im not complaining' line followed by a chuckle after a bad call goes in the Spurs favor...which is an acknowledgement that the call was wrong. Hes not unbiased by any means, but his homerism is kind of overblown imo.

[Thread]

They're all in bed together. And there is way too much money involved to permit anything but homerism. It's no longer a mom&pop business. "Independent" Media won't even denigrate the product. They've been told, and most are partially if not fully owned by the teams. It's like incest, kissing your sister, but, getting paid for it.

[spurraider21]

Stu Lantz is unbearable. His ass has been carried by Chick Hearn and Joel Meyers. Now that Sunderland is back their broadcast sucks again. Their radio is actually worse. John Ireland is funny but is a self admitted homer, or "shameless Laker apologist" and Mychal Thompson is the radio version of Stu Lantz