Basketball analysis should be left to the basketball experts. In the same breath, superhero talk should be left to those who know the source material best. The tone-deaf commentary was one of the biggest issues in ESPN’s Marvel-inspired broadcast during Monday evening’s NBA matchup between the Warriors and Pelicans. Without some moments of insight from Marvel Entertainment podcast host Angélique Roché, the whole thing might’ve been a colossal train wreck.
With growing fandom of the genre following the success of the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe on the big screen, and more recently on Disney+, one would think a crossover of this magnitude — in a game featuring two of the league’s brightest stars in Stephen Curry and
