How do you feel about openly biased local announcers?

[Kblaze8855]

Personally….I don’t mind. I watch a lot of league pass so I hear a lot of them. Nobody is ****ing with Johnny Most of course



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Who may well have believed the Pistons were belched up from some dark pit in hell to bring woe upon the Earth.

But a lot are still clearly homers. They had to tone it down because these days the whole country and World can see the local broadcast and it used to just be for the locals unless you were the bulls and everyone could watch on WGN.

Id like a return to the days when the local guy might call your power forward a gutless bastard for a flagrant. Adds a layer of personality.

The whole concept of local games seems to be going away though as NBA sales more and more media packages to get as much coverage as they can. And I don’t think Amazon is gonna hire the next Johnny Most.

Its all lame studio shows and people pretending to be unbiased from here.

At least the Charlotte “Him diddly Dee!” guy gives some personality. I see a lot of people don’t like him either though.

[Neal Romer]

I always used to see people complain about this and never understood why.

These broadcasters are directly or indirectly team employees. It's not any secret who they want to win, so why bother hide it. I think it's more fun to hear frankly when theyre riding for the team.

National broadcasters I understand have to remain neutral, even someone like Mike Breen who is also the Knicks home broadcaster. When it's a national game, stay neutral. When it's your own team's local game? Of course pull for them to a reasonable degree. Anyone who would actually be offended and upset by this because 'they like the other team' needs to really evaluate their priorities.

[tontoz]

Heinsohn was the biggest homer i can remember. Most of the time the homer announcers dont bother me but he was ridiculous.

[Kblaze8855]

He was probably trying to follow in Johnny most footsteps. But it doesn’t bother me for the reason the post above yours mentioned. Tommy was drafted by the Celtics in like 1957. He played a whole Hall of Fame career there. I think he coached them at one point. he probably worked there for 60 years. I don’t expect him to call the game and pretend he doesn’t have a rooting interest.

[highwhey]

it's whatever, most are biased. there are few people like Eddie Johnson who can criticize his team's own players and praise the opponents. I mean, saying Jokic's game is beautiful while criticizing Nurkic for missing a layup against a mismatch is just being a basketball fan.

[Wally450]

Heinsohn was the biggest homer i can remember. Most of the time the homer announcers dont bother me but he was ridiculous.

He had been a member of the Celtics since the 60s, so he was everything green. Near the end, I would put another channel on if the Celtics were on national television.

[1987_Lakers]

Growing up, I liked the Kings announcers even though they were biased. "If you don't like that, you don't like Kings basketball"

Warriors announcers have always sucked. Biased, but came off as cringe.

Lakers actually have a very unbiased broadcast team. They will call out the refs if a call favored the Lakers when it shouldn't have, you rarely see that.

[1987_Lakers]

Heinsohn was the biggest homer i can remember. Most of the time the homer announcers dont bother me but he was ridiculous.

I've seen a bunch of CBS Finals games from the 80's where Heinsohn was calling Lakers-Celtics games with Stockton, he actually wasn't that biased from what I remember, must have became a homer once he started to call games locally.