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PostPosted: Sun Aug 18, 2019 5:21 pm    Post subject: Rachel Nichols and Maria Taylor to host "NBA Countdown"; Paul Pierce and Chauncey Billups out

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Rachel Nichols and Maria Taylor to host ‘NBA Countdown’

Things just keep getting better for NBA fans when it comes to national TV broadcasts.

It was announced in August that TNT would be doing away with the “Players Only” broadcast that appeared on NBA TV. Those broadcast crews were roundly criticized as being meandering and uninformed when it came to the product on the floor.

Now fans are getting more of what they want in the form of Rachel Nichols and Maria Taylor.

According to a report from Richard Deitsch, Nichols and Taylor will be the hosts of ESPN’s pregame show, NBA Countdown.


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ESPN news: ESPN is planning to name Rachel Nichols & Maria Taylor as the hosts of NBA Countdown for this upcoming season. Formal announcement should come in coming weeks. The expectation, via sources, is both will host the show. They'll split the assignment in some manner.

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· Aug 16, 2019
ESPN news: ESPN is planning to name Rachel Nichols & Maria Taylor as the hosts of NBA Countdown for this upcoming season. Formal announcement should come in coming weeks. The expectation, via sources, is both will host the show. They'll split the assignment in some manner.


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Nichols will continue to host The Jump. Regarding other staffers on the show: Chauncey Billups will move from studio to work as a game analyst. Jalen Rose will be back on NBA Countdown. I’m not sure about Paul Pierce for this season.

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Paul Pierce and Chauncey Billups Won’t return as analysts on the pregame show next year, leaving just Jalen Rose. That means there are a couple of spots open, and we don’t yet know who ESPN will fill them with. Nichols will reportedly continue to host her regular show “The Jump”.

As the league continues to get more popular, it makes sense that broadcast partners listen to the audience. Nichols is an NBA favorite, so having her be more visible makes a lot of sense.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 6:49 am    Post subject:

Rachel Nichols is the worst host ever
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 10:34 am    Post subject:

danzag wrote:
Rachel Nichols is the worst host ever

Her face is less green than Paul Pierce even if he leaves his wheelchair at home...
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 5:04 pm    Post subject:

I don’t particularly like any of those folks BESIDES Chauncey so sorry he’s out of a gig. (Paul Pierce on the other hand...)
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 7:02 pm    Post subject:

Am I the only one who found Michelle Beadle annoying?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 10:58 am    Post subject:

Paul Pierce is kinda like Barkley lite, speaks whatever pops in his head but with a lil more filter
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 8:22 pm    Post subject:

Beadle stunk and Nichols stinks. Pierce was so awkward on the air it was embarrassing.

I like Billups but he got caught up in the mix.

So it will be Momo East (Nichols) and new random ex players?

Maybe bring in Gottlieb to make the whole mix bearable.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 9:28 am    Post subject:

Hard to replicate the chemistry of the TNT studio hosts. Unfortunately, for ESPN this will change nothing.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:19 am    Post subject:

lakersken80 wrote:
Hard to replicate the chemistry of the TNT studio hosts. Unfortunately, for ESPN this will change nothing.

ESPN/ABC's shuffled their lineup every year or two since 2004 (although better or worse, their in-game has been consistent with Breen/Jackson/JVG). TNT's only added Shaq (and Emmy awards) in those 15 years.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:24 pm    Post subject:

Nothing changes for me, just will continue to ff until game action every single game.

I know part of it is just getting older but I used to get legitimately excited for a lot of the pre-shows. Nearly every sports show period is pretty bad at this point though.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 6:15 pm    Post subject:

hype wrote:
Nothing changes for me, just will continue to ff until game action every single game...


LOL!

I know that's exactly right...
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 08, 2019 8:41 am    Post subject:

TDRock wrote:
I don’t particularly like any of those folks BESIDES Chauncey so sorry he’s out of a gig. (Paul Pierce on the other hand...)


Agreed.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 9:53 am    Post subject:

lakersken80 wrote:
Hard to replicate the chemistry of the TNT studio hosts. Unfortunately, for ESPN this will change nothing.


Also, Shaq and Barkley have a lot more freedom on TNT then the guys on ESPN do, since it's a Disney owned company.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 1:04 pm    Post subject:

TDRock wrote:
hype wrote:
Nothing changes for me, just will continue to ff until game action every single game...


LOL!

I know that's exactly right...


Yup, ESPN's whole NBA presentation has always been substandard since the very beginning.
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