Richard Jefferson made waves on Sunday when he claimed during a broadcast of a game between the New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets that
he retired because the Knicks were the only team to offer him a contract, and that indicated to him that his time in the league was up.
The thin-skinned Knix of course took the bait and put out word they never offered RJ a contract. Not sure it requires a full article mocking the Knix front office, but one exists:
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/knicks-deny-ever-offering-richard-jefferson-a-contract-which-makes-them-look-even-worse-than-before/Only reason I'm referencing it is I caught the 2Q & 3Q on YES, and RJ was pretty entertaining doing the color commentating (even quipping that at first he thought that was racist, until he learned broadcast lingo).
He joked a lot throughout the game, but also kept enough focus on the game. It was an amusing, interesting performance. I didn't hear that jab at the Knix, but given the context of what I heard, it's pretty clear it's an RJ joke. Apparently later in the game he admitted it wasn't true.
The Nets replay was at 2:PM here and the MSG replay at 3:PM.
And I ended up watching much of both.
I prefer Clyde and Breen.
But one thing interesting was how different the very last play -- Nets up 3 and inbounding at midcourt -- was handled by each network. YES kept the camera on the Nets huddle, and so the announcers were aware that Dinwiddie had an idea, even tapping his chest and saying I've got this coach. A nice set-up to the eventual play where Harris just banked the ball off a Knick. And then Dinwiddie is laughing and everyone congratulating him.
Meanwhile Breen went clueless. He came upon the idea that the Knix only hope was causing a 5 second violation. And repeated this 2 or 3 times. But all the Nets needed to do was have the ball touch any player on the court for 0.2 seconds and then no shot could be taken. And it's down on their end. So a 5 second violation was never gonna happen. The inbounder just needed to toss the ball near some players in the frontcourt, and once it's touched game over.
YES knew what was up, and completely MSG flubbed it. They had no idea what Nets were going to do or that Dinwiddie was behind it.
Anyway, Yes