Awful Announcing Podcast: Bobby Marks on Adrian Wojnarowski, John Calipari, JJ Redick, and more

Host Brandon Contes interviews ESPN NBA Front Office Insider and former assistant GM of the Brooklyn Nets, Bobby Marks. Brandon and Bobby discuss a wide range of topics including working with Adrian Wojnarowski and Bobby’s reaction to Woj’s retirement, working with John Calipari at the Nets, how JJ Redick will handle the media with the Lakers, and more.

Here’s the full breakdown:

• :37: How’s Bobby doing with Hurricane Milton?
• 1:58: Reaction to Adrian Wojnarowski’s retirement
• 4:04: When Bobby found out
• 4:40: How was Woj to work with?
• 6:34: How was Woj like at the Bergen Record?
• 8:06: Jeff Passan potentially switching from MLB to NBA
• 9:58: Shams Charania now at ESPN
• 11:36: Leaving the Nets to work with Woj
• 13:52: Woj bringing Bobby to ESPN
• 14:38: When sports media could be a career
• 16:34: Working in an NBA front office
• 18:14: What did Bobby want to do in college?
• 19:11: Working with John Calipari
• 20:01: Going from getting Calipari’s car from Jets practice to being a capologist?
• 21:44: Who was looking at all the cap numbers back then?
• 22:54: What happened to Calipari at the Nets?
• 24:30: Can Calipari come back to the NBA?
• 25:38: Rod Thorn
• 27:03: Letting Kenyon Martin go
• 27:38: Vince Carter trade
• 29:17: Were the Nets ever in on Shaquille O’Neal?
• 29:41: Star player or trade that the Nets were doing and never happened?
• 30:26: Did signing LeBron James in 2010 seem realistic?
• 31:34: Working for Mikhail Prokhorov
• 34:14: Prokorhov pushing the move to Brooklyn
• 35:14: Paul Pierce-Kevin Garnett trade
• 38:39: NBA contracts compared to NBA revenue
• 39:54: Reaction to player contracts with the health of the NBA
• 41:15: Mikal Bridges trade
• 42:12: GM or coach recommending players to Bobby that surprised him
• 43:17: What changed between the Knicks and Nets to talk trades?
• 44:27: Knicks offseason moves
• 45:36: Will Steph Curry or LeBron James ever compete for a title again?
• 46:29: Bronny James’ future
• 49:19: JJ Redick -50:21: Is Redick going to get sick of the media?
• 50:55: Can fans handle more serious info than sports media gives them credit for?
• 53:28: Zach Lowe
• 54:33: What makes Lowe great?
• 55:00: Doing “NBA Today”
• 56:03: Stephen A. Smith

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