Following its highest score NBA Playoff in two decades, ESPN decided to take a hatchet in his game coverage of the league. Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy are no longer with the network. The one who replaced them at No. 1 commentator team with Mike Breen are Doris Burke and Doc Rivers. Ryan Ruocco, Richard Jefferson, and JJ Redick is the team No. 2. Jalen Rose is no longer on ESPN, he will be replaced on NBA Countdown by Bob Myers, and Malika Andrews took the host seat instead of Mike Greenberg. All this change though, and the legend Hubie Brown was signed to call another season of NBA basketball games.
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That apple pie smell that takes you back to the kitchen of childhood is Brown talking about the painted area during an NBA broadcast. He may not have a video game franchise like John Madden, but Brown is NBA’s GOAT in-game analyst. No disrespect to “The Czar” Mike Fratello, but in the USA, CBS, Turner, and ESPN, Brown is the teacher who keeping the class hanging on his every word.
One of my favorite clips to go back to is the Game 3 fight between the New York Knicks and Chicago Bulls in 1994. Most people’s favorite part of that fight is the concerned look on NBA Commissioner David Stern’s face. while he was watching the brawl taking. put a few rows in front of him. Mine was when Brown noticed a Chicago Stadium security guard getting rough with John Starks. Brown and his broadcast partner yelled at the guard on live television to remove Starks. What a time.
True hoops fans know that no one can sherpa a spectator through a game like Brown. When that replay starts running, you keep your eye glued to whatever part of the previous action he wanted to talk about because it was time to learn about a damn basketball. He’ll break down terms from your little league basketball teams like the chest pass and jump shot, and apply them to a Ph.D. lecture on the game.
Although he is good at explaining the game, sometimes he just says “wow,” like one of us. The beauty is that even though he is grayer than I am alive, he is not rude like other old-schoolers. announcers. He clearly enjoys watching basketball. He doesn’t pine for a different era or use his supposed superior knowledge to talk to the audience and about the players. Brown is just as amazed as the viewer at home when a player dunks or Stephen Curry buries a 33-foot 3-pointer.
The man is the best, and thankfully the people at ESPN realize this. Until he is healthy enough to do so, Brown will have to call NBA basketball games.
A great teacher is priceless. The knowledge gained will be used forever. For most of us NBA fans, no color commentator has a better course than the greatest basketball professor ever. Thank goodness ESPN decided to continue his class.