Hey, it's Bill Simmons. We're not just reacting to the NBA playoffs on my podcast.

We're also doing the Ringer NBA show and the Miss Match podcast.

They are coming after some of these NBA play-off games.

Check it out Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights on the Ringer podcast network.

Hello, media consumers. Welcome to the press box.

Brian Curtis of the Ringer here, along with producer Isaiah Blakely.

The NBA final start tonight, and one thing I love to do this time of year

is look at the people who've been covering these two teams all season long,

especially when they're really good at their jobs.

Sean Grandy is the Boston Celtics radio play-by-play announcer.

He got that job 21 years ago, and he has been calling games with his partner,

Cedric Maxwell, ever since.

And this week, Grandy's job has a kind of structural advantage.

Contracts dictate that during the playoffs,

the Celtics TV guys have to step aside for ESPN to show the games.

But on radio, Grandy gets to keep announcing Celtics games all the way to the end.

It's fitting because radio has always felt like the medium that speaks most directly to the fans,

and Grandy and Maxwell don't have to leave them until the very end.

Grandy flew from Boston to San Francisco on Wednesday,

and that night we talked about what it's like to call the NBA finals,

about the concept of homerism, and about how Grandy got his first job in the NBA,

and it involves a snowstorm in Kevin Harlan.

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