Lisa Salters' awkward mic shot during postgame interview

journalismJun 9, 2026214,009

During an ESPN postgame interview, Victor Wembanyama, 7'4", towered over reporter Lisa Salters, making it difficult to keep both in the broadcast frame. The camera repeatedly left Salters partly out of view and placed the microphone below Wembanyama's chin, forcing visible angle changes and mic adjustments. The moment highlights a production challenge when interviewing an extremely tall athlete and points to easy fixes like raising camera height or using an extended microphone for clearer, more composed shots.

John

@johnbull.wtf

I'm crying 😭😭😭 It's just Lisa Salters arm sticking up

Lisa Salters interview Wemby post game interview where all you can see is her arm sticking up

30133h ago

David Leigh Roth46

Gotta get her one of those old school Gene Rayburn mics

Swanson Ritner30

Fetch the Tracy Wolfson Ladder

Kate Jagger18

Here. Down here. Im Down here

Charlie Griefer17

How does a person even be 7' 4"? That's nuts.

Geoff15

We were all dying in my house trying to figure it they had a ladder for the camera manor some telescope contraption to get that angle

Bryan Murphy12

She's standing on a 6' ladder

cgj845.bsky.social7

It's like the Triumph the Comic Insult Dog microphone......

Julius Steele4

"Hey Wemby, my eyes are down here..."

Plain Simple Garak4

Need the zoom out view

Matthias Bergmann, the Anti-Fascist Abomination 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️3

Just hand him the damn mic 😂

ELIZE2

Same here, I'm dying over here 😂

Chris or Mikey2

And you still could barely hear him.

JBV2

Lisa Salters needs a longer arm.

Cast Adrift 🫘2

Another inch or two and they would have had to put Salter into a fire truck basket.

Cast Adrift 🫘2

Does this mean that abc/espn has to pay for all of her? Or just the hand?

Charles Boehm ⚽️

@cboehm.bsky.social

Lisa Salters is a pro's pro, handling an interview with an extraterrestrial 2 feet 2 inches taller than her But the camera work here got me weak

4633h ago

Erin6

Did they use a drone? lol

Philo of Alexan2

Can we get a stool or something

Jerry Chen

@jcsalterego.bsky.social

just out of frame lisa salters is using a pilot's oxygen mask to operate at such a high altitude

2243h ago

DQ ♐

@dqdoo1.blacksky.app

Lisa Salters holding the mic like the statue of liberty

733h ago

Snowden St.

@snowden.st

shout out Lisa Salters doing her damn best to capture audio

a hand straining to get the mic to the nameplate on the jersey

733h ago

◥◤Kriston Capps

@kristoncapps.bsky.social

watching any normal human side by side with Wemby is hilarious but Lisa Salters isn't even in the frame with him

313h ago

marcus

@worow.bsky.social

all that disney money and they can't get lisa salters a step stool

223h ago

yakob goulet

@jkebob.bsky.social

They’re wrong for making 5 foot Lisa Salters interview Wemby 😂

193h ago

Oh, The Freemanity!!!

@freemanity.blacksky.app

THEY CANT EVEN FIT LISA SALTERS INTO THE SHOT, WHEN THAT MIC WENT UP I LOST IT 😂😂😂😂😂

173h ago

Matt Keliher

@mattkeliher.bsky.social

Earlier in the playoffs, Lisa Salters thanked Karl-Anthony Towns for always bending to her level during the interviews, which is the polite and normal thing to do. We love a respectful KAT.

132h ago