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Originally Posted by fleury
Doesn’t exactly address the need to talk about the obvious every minute. It’s not to say they should’ve ignored it, but talk about it and move to the game. It was over the top. I know it’s not the politically correct thing to say about the commentary but it is what it was.
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The Raptors barely tweeted about the game. Everything is about Kobe today, especially in basketball. Not only that, the Raptors game started like half an hour after the news came out. The players were visibly shaken and emotional and the atmosphere in the arena was charged with grief.
It's easy to sit in an armchair and question certain choices made in the broadcast, but you have to remember that the commentators were there, privy to that emotional atmosphere first-hand, and their job was to comment on the events in the building. And despite the game being played, the shadow the death of Kobe cast has greatly overshadowed everything today.