Dave Portnoy was not amused by the amount of passion from the Amazon Prime Video broadcast booth during Friday’s NBA playoff game between the Celtics and 76ers. Portnoy was livid by the announcing crew’s enthusiasm during the first-round Game 3 matchup, posting a video on X captioned, “This may be the worse annoucing (sic) crew … Read more
Amazon Prime said the technical difficulty during its stream of the Hornets-Heat Play-In Tournament game was caused by “a hardware failure in our production truck” on Thursday night. “The broadcast of the Miami Heat at Charlotte Hornets experienced a temporary disruption due to a hardware failure in our production truck,” an Amazon spokesperson said, per … Read more
Knicks fans will be missing Mike Breen and Clyde Frazier in their opening-round playoff series against the Hawks. For the first time ever, the NBA is pushing all local network broadcasts out of the playoffs in favor of the national television networks, which paid a hefty price for the rights to air the playoff product. … Read more
Drake Maye’s packed offseason continued Thursday night. Fresh off a trip to Japan earlier this month with wife Ann Michael Maye, the star Patriots quarterback rolled up to the Spectrum Center in Charlotte to support his hometown Hornets during their 114-103 win over the Knicks. Sitting courtside next to Ann Michael, the 23-year-old Maye waved … Read more
Look away, Nets fans. The dramatic manner in which Kobe Bryant spurned the Nets in the 1996 NBA Draft and ended up with the Lakers is set to hit the big screen. The movie, tentatively titled “With the 8th Pick?” was acquired by Warner Bros. and comes from screenwriters Alex Sohn and Gavin Johannsen. The … Read more
Even Muggsy Bogues is surprised. But now he has a challenge for Kevin Durant. Bogues, who was famously the shortest player to play in the NBA at 5-foot-3, recently found out that his career offensive rebound percentage is actually better than Durant’s current mark. Across his 14-year career from 1987-2001, Bogues recorded a 2.3 offensive … Read more