http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/the..._campaign=the-nba-local-tv-announcer-rankings Sent from my Baller-Ass 5.5" iPhone 6+......... FAMS
8. Portland Trail Blazers – 2.70-Mike Barrett (play by play) -Mike Rice (analyst) Most popular grade: A (45.93% of voters) Analysis: A lot of As — the third-highest raw total — for this unabashed homerific crew. Barrett and Rice, to their credit, work in top notch word play and funny anecdotes whenever possible. Blazers fans, known to poo-poo how little national media attention their team gets, showed up for their guys — good for them. Reader comments: “I have always enjoyed the banter between Mike Barrett and Mike Rice. They have great energy together. It probably helps that they have worked with each other for a while too! They will crack jokes occasionally and i don’t mind when broadcasters do that because it means that they are comfortable working together.” – CUbsfan
Wow--didn't realize Alaa Abdelnaby was doing color for the Sixers. Looks like their fans don't like him much.
Having purchased the NBA league pass every year it has been available. and forced to listen to all of these broadcasters, I think the vote was pretty accurate. Especially the bottom 5. (All horrible) I have noticed that the worse the team is, the better the crew seems to be. For example the Clippers announcers were much more entertaining (and less annoying) when the Clippers sucked.
Haha. There's something about Texas and OKC ignorance and homerism. As evidenced by how the fans act at games. It baffles me that Spurs fans have to be led by the hand by so much piped in noise and direction from the production crew.
Lawler is a legend, with a delivery from a different era. I can listen to him any day, and remember Schonley.
I have this fear that, right when Blazers games finally become available to non-Comcast subscribers, Rice will retire and be replaced by Antonio Harvey. [Shudder] I will kill my TV if that happens.
I still like him, but just not as much as before. It's really hard to like anything about the Clippers these days. Maybe I am letting my irritation with their team influence my opinion. That and the fact I live in LA and listen to them more than most of the others.
MB and Rice are great..... maybe if they weren't being held back by their production staff, they might reach #1!
It was awesome when it was Lawler and Bill Walton. Yeah, Houston and OKC are the worst for sure. Houston because they are just fucking idiot homers and OKC because they dumb down the analysis because Thunder fans don't know shit about basketball.
Mike Smith brings the announce team down, he makes kind of outlandish statements, but his bball knowledge is pretty good actually.
