To Get Their Minds Off The Terrible Blazers Performance Broadcasters Stared Discussing The Weather Report

The Portland Trail Blazers were trounced so handily that the most thrilling aspect of the telecast was the in-game weather report.

To Get Their Minds Off The Terrible Blazers Performance Broadcasters Stared Discussing The Weather Report

Asking about the weather is maybe the best indicator that “we have nothing interesting to talk about.” And it was clearly visible on Root Sports Northwest in Portland on Thursday night as the Oklahoma City Thunder was humiliating the Blazers in a way never seen before.

On Thursday, the Oklahoma City Thunder crushed the visitors with an incredible 139-77 score. Halfway through the third quarter, Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault made the decision to enforce his own mercy rule by benching the starters. Officially, it became the fifth-largest winning margin in NBA history for any game.

After Portland fell short of Oklahoma City 123-65 in the fourth quarter, Kevin Calabro and Lamar Hurd, the Trail Blazers announcers, left the broadcast early to go to the studio show. However, not for the analysis of games. They proceeded to Jamie Hudson and Antonio Harvey, the studio hosts, to get the weather report.

Talk about sports instead than the Blazers down by over sixty points. Or give up the game to talk about the impending snowfall? Fittingly, the Portland broadcast went with the latter.

Amazingly, the Trail Blazers’ deficit was just 12 points at the end of the first quarter, but things rapidly got worse. By halftime, The Thunder had the game in the bag.

It’s therefore not surprising that the Portland-area broadcast of the game became impatient with the play during the fourth quarter.

“First off, I do want to clarify, not certified as a meteorologist,” Hudson said after the broadcast went split screen to get a weather report from the Portland Trail Blazers pre and postgame show hosts. “I’m a weather anchor, but I’ve been trained for this for the last year.”

In addition to being a studio host for the Trail Blazers, Hudson works as a sports and weather anchor for Portland’s CBS station KOIN News, so receiving her view on the area’s coming winter storm wasn’t altogether unusual. Seeing it occur for over five minutes during an NBA broadcast was just odd.

This network has not only made an otherwise miserable situation somewhat enjoyable, but it has also shown an amazing concept.

A weather forecast, a show providing culinary advice, or any other helpful segment may have to share the screen with the team if a small-market network finds itself in an unsalvageable scenario. In this manner, supporters can experience a dopamine surge that they would obviously not experience while seeing a crushing defeat.

 

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