Walton and Tolbert Hired By ABC / ESPN

NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Please have mercy on us!

 

I actually like Tolbert. Do you know if Inside the NBA will still exist. I hope they can have it on ESPN, but it's unlikely. If it's Turner Sports only, then it would be one night a week.

 

I didn't see the second name, only the first. Actually I don't mind almost anybody BUT Walton.

 

Are u guyz joking? Surely you jest. Bill Walton is great! His Walton-isms have become part of my everyday jargon. "That emoticon was the single greatest emoticon in the history of ClutchCity.net!"

Seriously tho, I think he's pretty funny...no complaints from me.

 

He is an acquired taste. . . like beer.

I use to hate him . . but once i stopped taking him serious
and laffing AT HIM and WITH HIM . .. he is more fun

Rocket River

 

I agree w/ hoopgod Walton's cool. "Hoooorible Shot!" Teeeerrrible decesion!" I love Walton. Yeah he hated on Hakeem in the Rockets but damn that was like 7yrs ago and he was wrong and he knows it. He's funny and he's not afraid to call players out (CWebb, KG, Stackhouse, etc.) They need to hire Snapper Jones so they can continue to argue w/ eachother throught the games.

 

He insulted Hakeem? Please refresh my memory...i can't seem to remember well. I always thought Walton was one of Hakeem's biggest fans...and always seemed in awe of him..

 

That's what I remember too...Walton's a big fan of low post players.

 

I liked watching Snapper and Walton go at...It was usually Jones making Walton look silly on one of his comments

 

OK, Walton's a dumbass and a doorknob, but he's good for a laugh now and then, even intentional laughs. Like when someone airballed, BADLY, and you hear Walton say as only he can, "Ouch! Watch your face. "

My roommate and I LOL and used it for the rest of the NBA season. Airball? "Ouch, watch your face."

 

Tolbert is about as good an announcer as he was a player.

I a m just praying nobody picks up PJ Carlesimo. He has a radio face and a silent movie voice.

 

Walton sucks and Tolbert isnt much better.

 

The fact that Walton generates publicity by eliciting strong reactions/opinions from a lot of people (be it positive or negative) is probably one reason why ABC/ESPN hired him.

As for my personal stance on Walton, it's pretty much identical to ROXTXIA's. The dude is a fool but he can be funny at times.

Tolbert on the other hand is just yawn-inducing.

I'm glad that Sir Charles is staying on with TNT.

 

At least ABC didn't hire Ahmad Rashad.

 

Just great....just ****ING GREAT!!!!!!!!!

 

Nobody has picked up that hack Peter Vecsey yet, have they. What a tremendous toolbox that guy is.

 

From a <a href="http://slate.msn.com/?id=2066912">Slate article about Walton</a><blockquote>
Then there's his delivery. Walton speaks in a deep, oafish drawl, as distinctive as Howard Cosell's rat-a-tat and equally as grating. To compensate for a lifelong stutter, Walton also overpronounces words, which gives his speech an arrogant twist.

But for all his drawbacks, at least he has a pulse. The NBA's other TV analysts—Danny Ainge, P.J. Carlesimo, Hubie Brown, etc.—are safe, dull types who do for the viewer what a sedative does for the insomniac. They're underopinionated. Where Walton blabs too much, they commit the far greater TV sin of speaking too little.
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I don't think Walton is as great as this writer does, and haven't heard Walton's work for the Clippers. But the slap-fighting with Snapper is super-lame, so splitting them up can't help being an improvement.<p>
Tolbert is a moron, almost as dumb as Jayson Williams, whom he replaced (sort of). Surely there's an intelligent and outgoing cager under the age of 40 who could do a better job.<p>
Am just now thinking that David Robinson would probably be great if he doesn't have bigger fish to fry when he retires.

 

Walton comes from John Wooten's school of basketball, which means you win as a team. The NBA is turning into a playground league where everything is about I and ME. Who has the biggest contract?, who has the best sneaker deal?

Walton is old school and speaks out about these highly skilled athletes who have no clue how to win at the NBA level. Walton's best work is during Clipper games. On NBC, he spent too much time having fun with "Snapper" Jones. He has more freedom during Clipper games and runs with it.

Tolbert is just awful.

 

Preach it, my brutha. You are correct.

I really, really, really hope that no one hires this drunk-toupee-abrasive-a$$hole. Maybe he saved Dick Ebersol's life in The Nam or something. I'm making fun of Vecsey and his inexplicable employment for the NBA, not of vets; I really don't know what possessed anyone to give this guy a leg up in the world.