{"id":654305,"date":"2026-03-12T11:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/654305\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:28:19","slug":"spero-dedes-on-march-madness-kobe-bryant-leaving-lakers-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/654305\/","title":{"rendered":"Spero Dedes on March Madness, Kobe Bryant, leaving Lakers and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this week\u2019s episode of the\u00a0Awful Announcing Podcast, host Brandon Contes interviews NFL on CBS and NCAA March Madness broadcaster, Spero Dedes.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon and Spero discuss a wide range of topics including preparing to call four tournament games in one day, Kobe Bryant\u2019s 81 point game, leaving as radio voice of the LA Lakers, and more.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the full breakdown:<\/p>\n<p>2:07: Bam Adebayo\u2019s 83 point game<br \/>\n7:54: NBA on TNT<br \/>\n12:50: March Madness<br \/>\n26:10: LA Lakers\/New York Knicks<br \/>\n41:34: Going to Fordham\/Working at WFAN<br \/>\n44:35: NFL on CBS\/Broadcasting calls<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoyed the show, subscribe and leave us a positive review on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/awful-announcing-podcast\/id448978343\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0hoThPrxcH4iIJyEIHV0DR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@awful_announcing?sub_confirmation=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, and wherever else you listen to our podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s episode of the\u00a0Awful Announcing Podcast, host Brandon Contes interviews NFL on CBS and NCAA March&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[67759,15892,7,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,6,84446],"class_list":{"0":"post-654305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-aa-podcast","9":"tag-awful-announcing-podcast","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-lakers","13":"tag-lakers","14":"tag-lalakers","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangeleslakers","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-spero-dedes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116215972039702438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}