Portland Trail Blazers television analyst Lamar Hurd opened up to Demi Lawrence of the Portland Business Journal about his experience covering the Blazers, his admiration of Damian Lillard, and his take on this summer’s controversy about the team possibly keeping broadcasters at home to cover road games remotely. The Blazers have since rescinded those plans, but Hurd indicated to Lawrence that he was not against the possibility in the first place.
Hurd told Lawrence that remote broadcasts were actually more “doable” than most fans believe. He indicated that the initial remote attempts, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, were bare bones, but that within a few months they had more options in place and a better product:
Last season, in January and February, we actually did several remote games, and not everybody remembers that, and a big reason is because some of those things that were problems in 2020 like the audio and no crowd, that wasn’t a problem last season.