New Broadcasters

[thegrahamcrackr]

http://www.nba.com/suns/news/broadcast_teams_031024.html

Well, Bender is still play by play for home games.

Leander does play by play for road games.

McCoy for Radio.



Kempton is the Color Analyst for road radio broadcasts

Cotton is color analyst for home radio broadcasts.

EJ is color for both home and road tv broadcasts.

Chambers and Del Negro will also do color for home tv broadcasts.



Is it just me or did they make this the most dificult assigning possible?

 

[jbeecham]

It would be nice if they'd dump Bender and have McCoy do TV for home game play by play. I also liked hearing Cotton's commentary which will only be on radio now :-(


I could just mute the tv and listen to the radio while I watch games, but the delay sucks.

 

[elindholm]

Are the Suns incapable of hiring staff who aren't former Suns players?

 

[thegrahamcrackr]

Originally posted by elindholm
Are the Suns incapable of hiring staff who aren't former Suns players?

very much so......maybe that is why mediocre players love phx so much. They know they have job security well beyond their playing careers

 

[Joe Mama]

If they would just get rid of Gary Bender I would be more than happy with that crew.

Joe Mama

 

[scotsman13]

do you call a player who played for the suns for less then a year a former suns player? tim kempton. man it must be hard getting good color guys. ...... well i guess it is. look at how has walton be doing the games?

 

[thegrahamcrackr]

vinny del negro was with the suns fo soooooo long as well

 

[carey]

Arg, my worst fears confirmed.

Tim Kempton, an eight-year NBA veteran, will provide color analysis for all road games.

He was just god awful the other night when we played Portland.

 

[Wally]

Originally posted by Joe Mama
If they would just get rid of Gary Bender I would be more than happy with that crew.

Joe Mama

Who would say "Maybe that'll get em going?"

 

[ASUCHRIS]

I love listening to Eddie Johnson. I find him much better than kevin harlan, who is just a loudmouth. Eddie's analysis is always right on, and it seems that he is always saying what I am thinking. I do find it hilarious at the end of the game when he says, "defense is in order." when is defense not in order?

 

[carey]

Originally posted by Wally
Who would say "Maybe that'll get em going?"

Or, "All of a sudden now!"

I think we have the makings of a Gary Bender drinking game. Maybe that'll help..

 

[Wally]

Originally posted by carey
Or, "All of a sudden now!"

I think we have the makings of a Gary Bender drinking game. Maybe that'll help..

Bender...... Kind of has a drinking connotation, don't you think?

I'd like to hear more from EJ - my favorite.

 

[ASUCHRIS]

Originally posted by carey
Or, "All of a sudden now!"

I think we have the makings of a Gary Bender drinking game. Maybe that'll help..

lol, another benderism - "don't let him get started".....about any player on the opposing team that makes more than one shot in a row...

 

[RichDawg]

Anyone remember the early 90s home broadcasts with Greg Allen & Joe Gilmartin? Talk about a crew that put you to sleep...

 

[BC867]

Originally posted by RichDawg
Anyone remember the early 90s home broadcasts with Greg Allen & Joe Gilmartin? Talk about a crew that put you to sleep...

I used to run into Joe Gilmartin at the Paradise Valley Mall food court. Yes, he did put you to sleep.

Only chuckling to yourself at how bad his wig looked kept you awake. But he was a nice guy. And Phoenix was less cosmopolitan then.

'Poor guy was squeezed out of a job when the Republic & Gazette became the Republic.

 

[green machine]

We're looking at getting an interview with Tom Leander sometime next week to have for our radio show...