“It looks like a god*amn AAU tournament”- Bomani Jones slams NBA over Finals’ coverage

While the heated basketball Finals has started and fans have their eyes glued to the TV screens, checking scores of their favorite team and players, Bomani Jones, a popular sports TV commentator believes it hasn’t been interesting enough.

He said he has been frustrated with the NBA and its Finals broadcast this year.

Bomani Jones criticizes NBA’s Finals coverage

Speaking on his The Right Time with Bomani Jones podcast, Jones felt the NBA hasn’t made the Finals the special event it is, yet. He said,“One of my chief criticisms of ESPN’s coverage of the NBA is that they treat the NBA like the NFL. You can’t cover it the same way. People don’t want the breakdowns of strategic minutia in basketball the way that they want them in football, right? Basketball’s a little more loosey-goosey,”“It’s a little bit more free.

That’s how people are more likely to want to talk about it. You can’t do quick bullet-point discussions in the way that ESPN does. So when you come out here and you don’t have any signage on the court to indicate that it’s the NBA Finals, it already looks like a g*ddamn AAU tournament with the coaches wearing quarter-zips, and anybody wearing any old jersey that was clean.”

He added, “You can’t tell who the home team was just by looking on the floor.

You gotta make this feel like something.”“Sports are entertaining, not entertainment. Because the problem is if you treat sports like entertainment, then sports gets treated like the rest of entertainment right now, which is something that is not intended to be momentous, something that is not intended to be monumental, but simply something intended to occupy your time and attention, You don’t want sports to be that, You don’t want to be so cynical to strip away all the larger things and act like it doesn’t matter,” Jones said, in his podcast.Also Read: “Protecting Our Home Court”- Myles Turner Promises Fans That Indiana Pacers Will Bounce Back For NBA Finals Game 3Now that a tough game between Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder is over during Game 2, it’ll be interesting to see how Game 3 turns between the two teams, as they are not backing down.