I think a lot would depend on how well the broadcast team gets along. By all accounts that I’ve heard, Scully Porter and Jerry Doggett were all nice guys who didn’t have ego problems with each other. I get the same vibe from Bob and Jim and Nick and Daryl.

But I think Bob’s motivations are not so much about wanting to call an SCF game with the Kings in it, but about being part of an organization that achieved the ultimate NHL prize. I remember that episode of Bill MacDonald’s old Sports Roundtable show on FSW when he got Bob, Vin Scully and Chick Hearn together — Vin wore one of his World Series rings, Chick wore one of his NBA Championship rings, and all poor Bob could do was quip that he had a wedding ring.

Like I said on JFtC the other day, Bob has been around and knows how it is with local broadcasters and championship series. If you want to be sure of working a championship series, get a national network contract. As a Dodgers fan, the only reason I got to hear Scully call the 1988 World Series on TV was his NBC contract. When he didn’t have a national contract and the Dodgers made the playoffs, he would crowd into the radio booth with Ross Porter. and take some innings. As a Lakers fan, I always had to put up with… I want to say Dick Stockton or Brent Musburger, or some wooden-head like that calling the Finals on TV. Chick got to call the games, but only for radio, and only because he “simulcasted” during the regular season and did both TV and radio anyway.

The Kings would still have a radio broadcasting team at the SCF, wouldn’t they? I’d be surprised if exclusive national radio rights for the SCF have been sold. So Nick and Daryl will be there. It would be impolitic for Bob and Jim to displace them entirely. But what if, say, Bob and Jim called periods 1 +3 with Nick and Daryl doing period 2?