Mark Jones Archives

Jay Bilas gets first NBA Playoffs broadcasting assignment

Bilas will join Mark Jones and Jorge Sedano on ABC for Timberwolves-Lakers.

During a UFL broadcast on Sunday, ESPN's Mark Jones made a joke about the live betting total going down mimicking his 401(k).

"We can dribble. My bad. My bad."

"Mark Jones may need to brush up on his Bay Area bridges."

"This guy, you're looking at Google of basketball right there, Hubie Brown."

"Your play-by-play announcer is the guy that drives a lot of the narratives, the predominant storyteller of a broadcast..."

"At the moment where maybe we needed one against a coach, it didn't happen."

"Shane just turned to me and said, 'You saw what he did?' I did see it!"

"They should just invite everyone down from the upper balcony."

The network will deploy six broadcast teams for the postseason.

In the last seconds of the Spurs victory over the Kings, Victor Wembanyama got away with an obvious over-the-back on Domantas Sabonis.

"Deion Sanders at 15? Really?"

"I tell you what, that turkey leg has been passed around, folks."

"He said, 'I think I'm going to try and get a ticket tonight for the Clemson game.'"

"Mark Jones is the Jackie Chiles of Broadcasting."

"That's what he told us."

"In the words of BossMan Dlow on the sidelines, Colorado... pockets full of cheese and fresher than Febreze right now."

"Oh wow … he was deep in his bag, like the fries were at the bottom."

"That's going to be a pejorative, hurtful, deleterious turnover."

"He hit that like a stimulus check?"

"It's a combination of the BET Awards, when you look at the luminaries on the sidelines, and a football game."

While Bird certainly qualifies as "great," the 66-year-old Basketball Hall-of-Famer thankfully doesn’t fall into the "late great" category.

"One can only be called a sellout and a c**n and all of this other stuff but so much before you feel compelled to respond."

"Big Penix energy."