You may have heard Black Tray – yes, he really does introduce himself like that – interject his patented “shouts to (fill in the blank)” one-liner before on ESPN’s The Basketball Analogy podcast.
In recent episodes, he’s chimed in with a facetious “shouts to bullying” and “shouts to gentrification.” And just Monday, he fired a “shouts to the real MVP, Solange. Off of that elevator scene, we got three great albums.”
Yes, this type of analysis can be found in an ESPN production.
The episodes he appears in – better known as Black Opinions Matter Monday – conflate NBA and pop culture to a degree where the audience knows Tray’s unmistakable fandom for Tupac and the Bulls.
He recently gave CSN Chicago a shout to discuss being sold on the rebuild, players he irrationally loved to watch play and, of course, Gar/Pax.
You introduce yourself as Black Tray to people, right?
Black Tray: “Absolutely. Absolutely.”
Why?
BT: “I mean if people are going to hear it,…
