The Sixers broadcast team ranks incredibly low in latest NBA rankings

We have real problems in Philadelphia sports right now. The Knicks series. The Flyers being on the brink of elimination. Andrew Painter’s development. Joel Embiid’s health. These are all things that deserve actual conversation and actual attention.

But today I need to address something that every Sixers fan who has ever sat through a home broadcast already knew deep down in their soul. The Sixers’ local TV crew is one of the worst in the entire league and the rest of the country just confirmed it with receipts.

Awful Announcing released their annual fan-voted local NBA broadcast rankings based on roughly 11,000 individual votes from fans across the country. The Kate Scott and Alaa Abdelnaby combination finished 29th out of 30 NBA teams. Twenty-ninth. Out of thirty. For the third consecutive season.

Sixers broadcast crew ranking compared to the rest of the NBA

The 2025-26 Awful Announcing local NBA announcer rankings https://t.co/F40IIfMbCb

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 8, 2026

Twenty-nine out of thirty. Three years in a row. At some point NBC Sports Philadelphia has to look at this and acknowledge that the product they’re putting on television is objectively bad according to the people who are forced to watch it.

This isn’t a small sample of angry Twitter users. This is 11,000 votes from fans across the entire league and the Sixers’ booth finished ahead of one team for the third year running.

Here is the part of this story that actually stings a little.

The Awful Announcing writeup specifically noted Taryn Hatcher’s departure from NBC Sports Philadelphia at the end of 2025 as “a significant blow to the broadcast’s overall quality.”

Taryn was genuinely great at her job. She was polished, knowledgeable, and brought an energy that the rest of the broadcast desperately needed. She was one of the few reasons to keep the local feed on instead of switching to the national broadcast. She’s gone now. The team finished 29th again. Connect those dots however you want.

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I’ve been critical of Kate Scott and Alaa for a long time and I’ve caught heat for it. People tell me I’m being unfair or that Kate is improving or that Alaa has been around forever and deserves respect. Cool. The fanbase voted them 29th out of 30 teams.

Three years in a row. That’s not my opinion anymore. That’s a consensus. The people who watch this broadcast every night have spoken repeatedly and the answer keeps being the same. It’s bad. It has been bad. Nobody at NBC Sports Philadelphia seems interested in fixing it.

I don’t want to spend any more time on this today because the Sixers have a game to win tonight. Game 3 against the Knicks at Xfinity Mobile Arena with the series at 0-2. That matters a hell of a lot more than broadcast rankings but the next time someone tells me I’m wrong about the local crew, I’m going to point them to the Awful Announcing poll and let the 11,000 votes speak for themselves.

Twenty-ninth out of thirty. Three straight years. Embarrassing.

Now let’s go win a basketball game.

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