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Watching raps vs pacers. The pacer commentators are commentating but hyping both teams up. What other teams have unbiased commentators?

To me there are two types of bias:
1. Being more excited for the home team's success
2. Being slanted on how fouls are called, who is at fault when there is trouble, etc.

I don't expect or even want #1 when it's the home broadcasting crew (I do for national crews though). The home crew is for the home fans and paid by the home team and I expect them to act that way.

What annoys me in when crews are always getting on the refs in a biased manner. There are certain crews that do that and I don't listen to them.

Pistons Blaha & Kelsey.

I like the lakers commentators. The heat are doing a good job in the game im watching rn. harden is struggling with the foul rules and they are doing their best not to ridicule him too hard.

The lakers guys will root for the home team but call it even

The warriors are top 5....

Worst local broadcast crew.

Who says no?

Homer announcers are the worst.

Except mine.

They are paid to be homers.

thunder were really bad in the warriors game the other night. not a fan of either team, but they were just straight up hating....

WESCO wrote:The warriors are top 5....

Worst local broadcast crew.

Who says no?

No they are the worst.

Knicks even with Clyde. Breen does a good job.

I think the Knicks as well. They're my favorite commentators hands down. Hard to go wrong with Breen and his famous "BANG" and the vocabulary of Clyde is entertaining (and funny sometimes).

After what I heard the Philly commentators say "they could care less about Giddey" after he had a hard fall a few days ago, they're top of my list for the most biased and worst.

The few times I've seen Sean Elliott on a Spurs game it was Tommy Heinsohn levels of homerism.

IQ_baller wrote:Watching raps vs pacers. The pacer commentators are commentating but hyping both teams up. What other teams have unbiased commentators?

not the raps

whatever team Matt Pinto currently works for is the worst. Last I heard he was doing Thunder radio.

Believe it or not the Lakers commentators are actually really balanced. They don't hesitate to criticize their own guys.

Maverick41 wrote:I think the Knicks as well. They're my favorite commentators hands down. Hard to go wrong with Breen and his famous "BANG" and the vocabulary of Clyde is entertaining (and funny sometimes).

Clyde is a treasure. Last year during a Knicks-Celtics game, he described Marcus Smart as "loquacious and pugnacious." And when Tremont Waters was going off on the Knicks, he said, "I like the fluidity of Waters."

floppymoose wrote:To me there are two types of bias:
1. Being more excited for the home team's success
2. Being slanted on how fouls are called, who is at fault when there is trouble, etc.

I don't expect or even want #1 when it's the home broadcasting crew (I do for national crews though). The home crew is for the home fans and paid by the home team and I expect them to act that way.

What annoys me in when crews are always getting on the refs in a biased manner. There are certain crews that do that and I don't listen to them.

That's spot on. I don't think anyone cares that the home team announcers wants their team to win. Usually it's just the excessive crying about fouls that's the worst. On a lesser note it's the outright dismissal of the other team's players, though I don't hear that one as often.

Granted, I rarely hear other team announcers anymore now (and by "now" I mean the last 7 or whatever years) League Pass has the option of picking what broadcast you want. In fact the only time I seem to hear them is when the Jazz are playing on NBAtv and they pick the other crew.

Breen

The Net's Commentators ( Miami Game) was fantastic. Knowledgeable and called it how it was. Good Stuff.

I know Miami's Commentators will not make this list, ours are hella slanted.