Celtics broadcast team make Awful Announcing’s 5 least-liked crews

Tommy Heinsohn, Mike Gorman and Brian Scalabrine may be treasures to Boston Celtics fans, but it seems they might annoy opposing audiences.

The Boston Celtics have found themselves in a top-five list it might not be so great to brag about.

That list would be Awful Announcing’s 2019-20 local NBA announcer rankings, which uses a reader-driven poll to determine the least-liked and worst-graded local broadcast team for each franchise of the NBA’s 30 teams.

The best local broadcast team went to the team that covers the Brooklyn Nets, featuring Ian Eagle and Ryan Ruocco on play-by-play, and analysts Sarah Kustok, Richard Jefferson and Jim Spanarkel.

The broadcast teams of the New York Knicks (I guess it’s good they have something going well for them), Memphis Grizzlies, Portland Trail Blazers and Dallas Mavericks round out the top five in that order.

The Celtics find themselves 26th overall with Celtics legend Tommy Heinsohn and fan favorite Brian Scalabrine doing analysis with Mike Gorman on the play-by-play for NBC Sports Boston.

They lead only the broadcast teams of the Golden State Warriors, Oklahoma City Thunder, Cleveland Cavaliers and Houston Rockets as the league’s worst in descending order.

Interestingly, in addition to a number grade of 1 through 30 in order of least to most favorite local broadcasting team, teams were given a letter grade as well — presumably for how good the teams were at their jobs.

Of the five least-liked broadcast teams, Boston’s was the only one to get a “B”, the rest mostly “C” down to an “F”. Seven other teams scored in that range, and six higher with an “A” — the Knicks, Griz, Blazers, Mavs, Nets and Toronto Raptors.

Presumably, at least some of the negativity arises from banner envy.

And perhaps a bit of Tommy’s tendency to see things with a bit of a green sheen could play a role as well, but it’s nice to see even opposing markets rating Boston’s broadcast team among the league’s upper third or so with the letter grades.

Whatever they mean, exactly.

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