Chris Russo butchers the names of all his co-workers on ‘First Take’
Chris Russo versus proper pronunciations of human beings is the greatest struggle of our lifetimes as he showed once again on First Take.
Chris Russo versus proper pronunciations of human beings is the greatest struggle of our lifetimes as he showed once again on First Take.
"No, you can't be the MVP and perform that way in these games."
“Brian is a legend in his hometown of Akron, and we are so proud of what he’s accomplished as a sports broadcast journalist and television analyst."
This week, ESPN announced plans beginning this Monday to air their popular podcast offerings on ESPN2 during weekday afternoons.
"We've never seen anything like this."
"There's no questionable decision about $62 million a year."
"Tainting the pool and saying that Miami's offer is unfair and saying...asinine things about Tyler Herro and Miami's assets, it worked."
"Now when I hear stuff that sounds outlandish, I don't close the door on it as fast. I will go down and investigate it a little bit."
"Nobody respects the chair."
"We’ll live if Lillard has to stay in Portland. It’s not the end of the world. The NBA is not going to cease!"
"The fact that we were able to get him to talk about those things within two minutes, I thought, was a great accomplishment. And I won’t let anybody put me off of it.”
On this episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast, host Brandon Contes interviews Brian Windhorst, ESPN senior NBA writer...
"Expense account and airline mileage legend."
"What’s going on over there?"
"Apparently someone in the hotel room next to me was not a Get Up viewer and not happy about the early wake-up call here in Phoenix."
"I regretfully made a mistake in today's story about Stephen Silas breaking down in tears after a game this season."
"At the risk of looking like Brian Windhorst and turning into a meme ..."
Windhorst also picked which of the memes/jokes was his favorite.
"LeBron doesn’t have personal relationships like that with reporters, he hasn’t for a long time."
"I have to get creative and avoid aggregation and so that was me avoiding aggregation."
Windhorst had to explain he meant it more as praise for organizational strength than a as some kind of slight.
"Maybe you should actually listen to people because you’re being a jackass."
"'The Box' doesn't have a name, it doesn't have a brand, you can't buy it in a store. But if you get 'The Box,' I can get everything. The problem is, I've got to get someone with a box, Scott, that will let me watch at 1 a.m. on Sunday morning when the Browns play the Titans."
Green was apparently not happy with what Windhorst said about him on NBA Countdown.