Harpring to join Jazz broadcast team.
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Absolutely correct. The Jazz are up there with having the least biased commentators around. I'll see how Harp is in that department, but he didn't seem that bad to me last year.
Houston, Denver, Portland, Dallas, San Antonio, and Boston (due to the king of all homers Tommy Heinsohn) are brutal to listen to. Just brutal.
billyshelby
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Here's another thing I like about Ron Boone. The dude is 64 years old. But he looks like he's maybe half way done. If the over/under on Ron Boone is 119 years, I'm taking the over.
billyshelby
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Here's another thing I like about Ron Boone Part II: He told a story once about how his granddaughter gave him a tie for his birthday and he showed it off on TV. That's unbearably cute and I respect that.
billyshelby
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Here's another thing I like about Ron Boone Part III: This is my own deal because I can't explain it or recreate it. I'll never find it, either, so it's one of those memories that is lost to humanity except me. And it's kind of stupid, too. But the Jazz were playing the Bulls I think when Nocioni was still on the team. Nocioni spins baseline, shoots, and scores from about 15. When you're watching it, you think the shot looked a little funky. It dawns on you, the happy Jazz viewer, at about the same time as it dawns on Boone that the shot actually banked from like a 4.7 degree angle and it looked like he meant it. Boone says, classic monotone, pure wonderment: "No. No. He. Did. Not. Did he just bank that?" Boler chimes in like a monkey but they check the replay and he did. Booner is amazed--THAT'S what I like about him. He's not all caught up in his job as an 'expert', he still sees it as a beautiful game where amazing athletes do unbelievable things.
da more stoopider da bedder eh biley?
billyshelby
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Well there, Moe, now that you mention it I might've left a story around the corner dat I found and put in my back pocket which I might showya if you share a jug a wine wit me. Ever hear the one about what Ron Boone found when he cut a hole in the stall of a bathroom at a rest stop on I-15?
Stifle Tower
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Boone has always been a class act. I admired him as a member of the Utah Stars. Yes, Utah HAS won a basketball championship. I just wish the Millers would pay tribute to the first pro basketball team in the state. Instead, all traces of the Stars were wiped clean the instant the Jazz came to town (and I realize that was not the Millers' fault). I'll never forget Boone, The Big Z, Jimmy Jones and Willie Wise. And then later, some kid right out of HS named Moses Malone. Loved going to those ABA games with my dad.
Sorry though, cj, I guess that's where "hopper ball" originated. A lot of big hair, bad clothes and flashy players in the ABA: Dr J., the Iceman, David Thompson, George McGinnis, Artis Gilmore.
Sorry though, cj, I guess that's where "hopper ball" originated. A lot of big hair, bad clothes and flashy players in the ABA: Dr J., the Iceman, David Thompson, George McGinnis, Artis Gilmore.
GVC
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Big T's the whitest of them all.
I am ashamed to admit that I just now learned this wondrous news. I am thrilled beyond words and can't believe I denied myself this happiness for several days.
gregbroncs
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Man if he would replace Boone completely that would be great.
Teri, you know I love you, but ****ing a lady, you have absolutely no taste.
Listening to Harpring last night was incredibly painful. Like someone mentioned, he feels like he needs to explain every last detail of whatever just happened. Furthermore, he's a ****ing homer and I hate homers.
Someone, please, call the clown with big shoes to pull Harpring off the stage with his cane...please.