Given that Reggie is my favorite player, I’m genuinely conflicted about his post-NBA analyst work. Sometimes, he’s rather insightful and does a good job of providing recently-left-the-League insight without overly involving himself. But he also makes some odd remarks at times and has a brand of humor/concept of social interaction that can occasionally be somewhat grating — something especially evident when he’s alongside Kenny, Chuck and EJ in Atlanta and coming off like that college kid you were friends with but never really wanted to tell about a party. He’s sort of like the McLovin of Inside the NBA.
There may be no better microcosm to depict this duality than TNT’s new “Reggie’s Mailbag” feature.
Here, he answers a question about the Rockets with some great stats on the number of games played by Yao, TMac and Tru Warier over the past few years and generally makes a few good points. But some element of the whole thing that I can’t quite put my finger on also makes the segment fairly awkward. Or maybe its just his clunky cue-card reading skill and me being overly critical. Who knows?
Regardless, the real point here is that hearing the games played stats for Houston’s big three laid out is interesting and it’s worth two minutes of your time to hear what Reggie has to say about the squad — a team he has predicted will win the West. And the secondary point is that I’ll probably be linking to these things regularly unless they start being horrible.
But for some reason, NBA.com still won’t let you embed videos, so you’ll have to click this link.
And if you wanna ask dude a question, send it to: reggiesmailbag@turner.com.
After further deliberation, Reggie's post-NBA career is going fantastic.
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Why does the coaches and the announcers have a button that says CD?
Thanks
Hello Reggie, when you are out giving your play by play of the game, does it bring memories? And do you miss it?
Reggie, What is the difference between a team foul and a personal foul?