Rate the announcers!

[ludda]

BOSTON is one of the worst, i remember during the game vs the Jazz where the Celtics barely won, they kept inferring that the Jazz were lucky the game was so close.

[freemeat]

Clyde and Breen are great. I do like Joel Myers and Stu Latz of the Lakers though, they are entertaining and not too biased. I agree Heinshon is the worst. The Grizzlies, Nuggets, Jazz, and Heat all have real bad, homer announcers as well. Knicks, Hawks, and Kings have the best crews IMO.

The Knicks crew is pretty good.

I have to disagree about Joel Myers and Stu Lantz though. Lantz, especially, is a complete re .

All he does is project what players are "saying" when they score or make a play.

Kobe makes a jump-shot and you have to hear something like, "and Kobe says 'take that' Paul Pierce" or some stupid . It's like clock-work getting something really dumb out of that guy.

[PacerFan]

I hear you and respect your opinion. I just think that is a case of an old man having fun and trying to be funny. He doesn't strike me as an all out homer who is a complete idiot. I understand how that could rub people wrong, I however tend to enjoy it.

[FromWayDowntown]

I'm getting tired of Sean Elliott.

Sean must have said that he thought Dwight Howard was good or something.

[freemeat]

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Mike Breen i can stand... the guy with him pissed me off badly... really one sided towards New York the whole ing game... not professional... even was treating the spurs as if they were a sub par team

I think you were hallucinating. Clyde wasn't homerish at all - he was smooth, funny, and called the game fairly. Were we listening to the same broadcast?

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

So far I think Clippers and the Knicks announcers impress me the most.

The Mavs and Trailblazers announcers have been annoying from what I remember.

The Laker ones got on my nerves the most though.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

The Lakers announcer (Joel Myers) was the Spurs play by play guy for a couple of years.

He sucks badly. I love the Clippers play by play guy (Ralph Lawler), but it was way better when Walton was his color guy. Boston is by far the worst, with Sacramento being a pretty distant second.

Yeah, I remember Joel Meyers, used to like him when he did our games. I have to say the whole Lakers crew are just e - Bucher is also on Kobe's member.

I think the main thing to remember is that all of these guys are paid to be homers. They are supposed to be homers, but the best ones don't let their homer status keep them from realizing when their team makes mistakes or gets away with bad calls. The absolute worst ones actually advocate injury and are mean spirited towards the opposition.

[m33p0]

i like the way bill walton would make a call saying that the refs got it wrong only to be proven otherwise by the replay and then follow it up by praising the refs as if he never doubted them for second.

[Que Gee]

The Warriors guys are real good. Take a listen tonight if anyone can. They get on the Warriors just as much as they would get on a visiting team. They let it be known when "their" team is getting thumped. Not afraid to call out BS calls by refs either, which more announcers need to do.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

The Warriors guys are real good. Take a listen tonight if anyone can. They get on the Warriors just as much as they would get on a visiting team. They let it be known when "their" team is getting thumped. Not afraid to call out BS calls by refs either, which more announcers need to do.

Hmmmm, I had high hopes, but I thought the Warriors guys were only okay, and quite homerish at times. Especially during the fourth Q, they were total homers. D+

[baseline bum]

Those games were always the best to listen to. Walton gushing with his usual hyperbole -- my all-time favorite was the night that Walton called Corey Maggette "clearly one of the 5 best defensive players in the league," only to later call him "clearly one of the 5 best defensive players ever." The best part was listening to Lawler deal with those things as if Walton ever meant them.

Still, Walton used to crack me up with statements like "I don't know about you, Ralph, but my seatbelt is firmly and securely buckled" as a relatively close game came down to the wire. I guess Lawler has some thing about telling fans to fasten their seatbelts, and Walton would almost always beat him to the punch.

One time Lawler mentioned Corona as a sponsor, to which Walton replied that he badly needed one to stomach the way the Clippers were playing at the time.

[Armando]

Heat announcers are the worst.

[freemeat]

I'd rather smell a dirty fart than have to listen to Stu Lantz talk. He's a complete moron.

[lefty]

Heat announcers are the worst.

" Kaboom !" (just to annoy you)

[freemeat]

Ah...and the guys no one has mentioned yet:

Jay Howard and Bill Schoening

I grew up listening to Jay Howard. He was great. One night, when I was about eight years old, WOAI had a contest. You'd call in at halftime with the number of times he said "bang" on a made three-pointer. I won (the answer was 3).

I didn't like Schoening at first, but he's really grown on me a lot. I actually listened to a game when Manu was sitting last week and realized that I miss the occasional "that's a manu tres!"

[Armando]

" Kaboom !" (just to annoy you)

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

The Cavs crew were appalling, especially the colour guy Austin "AC" Carr. Not only did he talk utter bull the whole time (like saying that Duncan's glaring would have drawn a tech "in the old days" - patently false given that the refs have never been more tech happy than they are today during the entire history of the NBA), but then he repeated and kept repeating, with reference to Manu, that the Cavs "outta bust him one in the keister" or "put him down" when he got hot. The other guy wouldn't touch what he was saying at all, which was a minor credit to him.

Austin Carr, you are a ing joke and you should NOT be an announcer.

F-------

[T Park]

Sometimes I think he goes too far when he makes fun of people, or dogs on people's ablities or inabilities, and sometimes he doesn't pay the opponent's enough respect.
I remember the Orlando game last year when Howard beat us at the buzzer with the alley oop, Sean had already crossed Orlando out as a win in the second quarter when they were showing the schedule on the screen.

That really should've been a friggen win.

[remingtonbo2001]

I like Sean for the most part. It is a treat to have a former Spur as the color man. He really understands the game on so many levels.
Sometimes I think he goes too far when he makes fun of people, or dogs on people's ablities or inabilities, and sometimes he doesn't pay the opponent's enough respect.
I remember the Orlando game last year when Howard beat us at the buzzer with the alley oop, Sean had already crossed Orlando out as a win in the second quarter when they were showing the schedule on the screen.

Sean does that alot. I remember a few games against cellar dwellars, that Sean was already calling wins before the game even started.
Spurs would then find a way to loose. I think he's stopped this year.

[T Park]

Not only is Austin Carr an idiot, but he sounds horrible,

[Newton]

New York - fantastic! Realistic, balanced, fair and funny. Clyde has a smooth, whimsical voice, an excellent knowledge of the game, and an amusing vocabulary. The call guy does his job. A

Could not agree more

[baseline bum]

Those games were always the best to listen to. Walton gushing with his usual hyperbole -- my all-time favorite was the night that Walton called Corey Maggette "clearly one of the 5 best defensive players in the league," only to later call him "clearly one of the 5 best defensive players ever." The best part was listening to Lawler deal with those things as if Walton ever meant them.

Still, Walton used to crack me up with statements like "I don't know about you, Ralph, but my seatbelt is firmly and securely buckled" as a relatively close game came down to the wire. I guess Lawler has some thing about telling fans to fasten their seatbelts, and Walton would almost always beat him to the punch.

Walton's rants against Olowokandi during the Clipper games back in the day were classic.

[remingtonbo2001]

Ah...and the guys no one has mentioned yet:

Jay Howard and Bill Schoening

I grew up listening to Jay Howard. He was great. One night, when I was about eight years old, WOAI had a contest. You'd call in at halftime with the number of times he said "bang" on a made three-pointer. I won (the answer was 3).

I didn't like Schoening at first, but he's really grown on me a lot. I actually listened to a game when Manu was sitting last week and realized that I miss the occasional "that's a manu tres!"

It took me awhile to get used to Schoening as well. I used to love listening to Jay Howard. I think Bill has really grown into the position.

"that's a Manu-tres" is gold, btw. Best catch phrase he's come up with.

Wish I would've heard his call against Cleveland.

[Allanon]

Chick is still the best in my opinion. Stu Lantz was and is an OK sidekick.

Clippers were great with Walton going all crazy.

Chicago and Boston have the biggest homers.

Elliot's not funny.

Joel's too much on Kobe's knob.

Tom Tolbert gives good insight but he's kind of boring.

Jeff Van Gundy's a funny dude even though he looks like a deadbeat.

My favorite crew: The TNT crew - Ernie, Kenny and Chuck

Best NBA Broadcaster: Marv Albert

NBA on ABC sucks, bring back the NBA on NBC: