Jason Whitlock Is Absolutely Right Thinking Doris Burke Shouldn't Be in the NBA Broadcasts

ESPN has spent the summer sending everyone and their mothers to the unemployment line including Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson—two-thirds of their main NBA broadcast team. Mike Breen remains but he will be joined by recently fired Sixers coach, Doc Rivers and Doris Burke.

Well Jason Whitlock—an expert on being fired by ESPN—has shared why he thinks Doris Burke won’t work in the broadcast booth:

“I absolutely love Doris Burke. She does a really good job, but she is not qualified to be the No. 1 broadcaster on the NBA. All of that is out the window. You place a woman in this spot – Doris Burke is good, but if you think she’s woman enough to criticize these multimillionaire NBA players and coaches, it’s not gonna happen. When one of those players looks over and glares or tries to intimidate”

“What’d you say? What do you know?’ And again, I know she played a little basketball but not in the NBA.”

Jason Whitlock makes a really strong point here.

How are we supposed to get the best criticism of these players if Doris Burke is physically threatened by them?

Just look at Whitlock’s entire career. He’s made hundreds, if not a thousand dollars, exclusively from taking shots at people he knew he would never be in a room with and be physically confronted about.

Whitlock is talking from experience here. If he was doing the NBA broadcast, he’d spend the whole game dickeating all the players out of fear of repercussions.

All of those corny ass videos he posts suddenly make all the sense in the world.

Jason Whitlock can sit in his rancid basement covered in Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups wrappers and stare into his webcam calling Colin Kaepernick a coward for kneeling during the National Anthem with the confidence of Robert Kraft walking into a rub n tug joint with a crisp $20 bill because Whitlock knew he would never actually have to see Kaepernick and answer for all of his slander.

How is Doris Burke—who has been working men’s basketball broadcasts since 2003, like, literally two decades now—supposed to continue doing these broadcasts giving earnest critiques knowing her life will be in constant danger?

Jason Whitlock is correct and surely isn’t projecting his own fears and telling on himself for being a gigantic pussy who is terrified of ever having to face any of the people he has spent years discrediting in order to get high fives from Fox News dweebs who can go to bed feeling less racist knowing there’s a black guy out there saying all the dogwhistle shit they themselves get in trouble for saying.

I’m just glad Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson can finally relax and retire their brass knuckles after years of fighting NBA players they talked about during games just like Jason Whitlock thinks the world works.

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