Therefore, I ask TNT to please take them off air-if not for my sake, then for the sake of Chris Chiozza, a decent man robbed of the valor he has earned. The good news for the network is that Albert and Webber do not appear particularly attached to what they do and nobody is particularly attached to them at the moment. If they are preparing for these games and this is the result, they're really bad at their jobs and should lose them.
If they aren't preparing for games, they're bad at their jobs and should lose them. And like any other broadcaster, Albert and Webber are surely given lists of the players in the game and their numbers and headshots, and ample time to study those in advance. But their predicament right now is no different from any other NBA broadcaster's. Former NBA basketball player and TNT commentator Chris Webber, seen here calling a game in 2014. Now, the 49-year-old lives on a farm in the greater Atlanta area with wife Erika Dates, whom. Watching a game on a small monitor probably makes their problems of misidentifying players and zoning out of games-which both predate this season-more frequent. Webber lived in the basketball spotlight and embodied his celebrity status for three straight decades. TNT has doubtless equipped them with swanky at-home broadcast set-ups, but there's no good substitute for calling a game up close or for the engaging energy of a fan-filled arena. That Albert and Webber have been forced to call games remotely this season due to COVID-19 protocols can't be helping matters. Evaluated entirely on that lone, minimal criterion, the Albert-Webber broadcast is extremely bad! Whether, say, an encyclopedia entry is written inelegantly might be a debate worth having, but what does it really matter if it’s filled with all the wrong facts? Someone watching TNT may want to be entertained or charmed, but probably what they value most is the service of knowing simple things like who just scored and who is on these teams and what the heck is actually going on.
But the stripped-down function of a sports broadcast is information delivery. Alchemical things like tone and banter and rapport read differently to different people what is grating overenthusiasm to one person can be something stultifying to the next. No broadcaster will be universally loved, sure. It has just been confirmed that the former five-time All-Star has agreed to part ways with his employer effective immediately. Leaving aside that the two are catastrophically boring-I go back and forth on whether they each compound the other’s dullness and ought to be separated to diffuse it, or whether the two are best contained in one unit, like some highly toxic fumes-there's no real reason for TNT to keep offering its viewers a broadcast team so obviously unwilling or unable to do its job. Chris Webber will no longer be covering games for TNT.
He retired following the 2008 season, and joined TNT soon after. Marv Albert referring to Chris Chiozza as Landry Shamet multiple times (nice sequence, Chris) /0ddVEPYp6P- Jackson Frank January 8, 2021īy now, even a pretty casual basketball fan is familiar with the agony of a game called by the Albert-Webber pair, but last night's felt like a new low. Chris Webber has long been on TNTs A-Team for NBA broadcasts, but that tenure has.
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