NBC’s No NBA Champ

Thanks for Brian Lowry’s great column on NBC’s NBA broadcasts (“Some Ideas for Helping the NBA Smackdown,” June 6). I don’t think he went far enough. Whoever selects the camera and scene displayed to us doesn’t understand that NBC’s job is to broadcast the play-by-play first, including all information relevant to the action on the floor.

Under no circumstances should the play of the game be interrupted or hidden behind some day- or week-old interview with a talking head. Show us the score, quarter, time to go, who has the ball, time remaining on the shot clock, and fouls to give before the penalty, and keep it on in the corner of the screen full time except for timeouts and commercials.

The current NBC bunch simply talks too much and interrupts the flow of the game. We want to know what’s going on now.

WALT MEARES

Burbank