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American retired sportscaster

Marv Albert
Albert calls a game for TNT in December 2008
Built-in	Marvin Philip Aufrichtig (1941-06-12) June 12, 1941 (age lxxx) [1] New York City, New York, U.Due south.
Education	Syracuse University New York University
Years agile	1962–2021
Spouse(s)	Benita Oberlander Heather Faulkiner
Children	four, including Kenny
Sports commentary career
Genre(south)	Play-by-play
Sports	Basketball American football ice hockey boxing

Marv Albert (born Marvin Philip Aufrichtig; June 12, 1941) is an American retired sportscaster. Honored for his work as a member of the Basketball game Hall of Fame, he was commonly referred to as "the vocalisation of basketball". From 1967 to 2004, he was too known as "the voice of the New York Knicks". Albert worked for Turner Sports as the lead announcer for NBA games on TNT until his retirement at the stop of the 2020–21 season.

In addition to working extensively in both professional and college basketball, he has experience calling a variety of other sports, such as American football, ice hockey, horse racing, boxing, and tennis. Albert has called the play-by-play of eight Super Bowls, nine NBA Finals, and vii Stanley Cup Finals. He has also called the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for TNT with Jim Courier and Mary Carillo and has worked as a co-host and reporter for ii Earth Serial (1986 and 1988).

Albert hails from a family of broadcasters. His brothers, Al and Steve Albert, and a son, Kenny, are also play-by-play sports commentators.

In 2015, Albert was inducted into the broadcasting Hall of Fame.

Early life [edit]

Albert was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City, where he went to Abraham Lincoln Loftier School.^[2] His family members owned a grocery store on Brighton Beach Avenue between 3rd and fourth Streets known every bit Aufrichtig. He attended Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications from 1960 through 1963.^[3] In 1962, he served equally the vocalisation of the AAA Syracuse Chiefs.^[iv] He graduated from New York University in 1965.^[v]

Broadcasting career [edit]

National Basketball game Association [edit]

Afterward getting his start by existence a brawl boy for the New York Knicks, Albert worked his first Knicks game as a broadcaster on January 27, 1963, on WCBS Radio. He was filling in for his mentor, Marty Glickman, who was abroad in Europe. The game was against the Celtics at the Boston Garden. Beginning in 1967 and lasting 37 years, Albert served as the vox of the New York Knicks on radio and telly before being allow get past James L. Dolan, the chairman of the MSG Network and Cablevision, later on Albert criticized the team's poor play on-air in 2004. It was said that Albert's loftier salary was also a factor. His son, Kenny Albert, has been a role-time play-by-play announcer for the Knicks since 2009, filling in whenever the elderberry Albert's successor, Mike Breen, is unavailable.

NBC Sports [edit]

Albert was the atomic number 82 play-by-play broadcaster for the NBA on NBC for most of its run from 1990 to 2002, calling every NBA Finals during that timeframe except for 1998, 1999, and 2000, which were called by Bob Costas in the wake of Albert's abort for sexual assault. Albert resumed his previous position for the 2000–2001 season and called Game 4 of the 2002 NBA Finals, which was the terminal NBA telecast on NBC. During his time on NBC, Albert connected every bit the lead play-past-play man for the New York Knicks on local MSG Network telecasts and began calling national games for TNT in 1999, as well. When he regained the lead broadcaster position on NBC, he connected to call play-by-play for both networks until the end of NBC'southward coverage in 2002.

TNT [edit]

Albert continued to be the atomic number 82 play-past-play announcer for National Basketball Association games on TNT, a position he causeless in 1999. Indeed, TNT had become his principal commitment e'er since his longtime employer NBC lost the NBA broadcasting rights in 2002 to ABC and ESPN, which may have played a role in his deviation from the Knicks' broadcast booth.^[6] The Knicks reportedly wanted Albert to have a salary commensurate with his reduced Knicks schedule but also weren't happy nearly Albert making what Knicks management felt were overly disquisitional comments about their squad despite their losing record.

In basketball, his most famous telephone call is his simple "Yes!" for a basket, rendered in many variations of volume and length depending on the situation.

On April 17, 2002, before long later calling a game betwixt the Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers on TNT, both Albert and colour analyst Mike Fratello were injured in a limo accident in Trenton, New Jersey. Albert sustained facial lacerations, a concussion, and a sprained ankle. The 2002 NBA Playoffs was set to begin 2 days later, with Albert scheduled to call multiple games that week. Bob Costas filled in for those games, and Albert returned to call Game i of the Western Briefing Semifinals between the Dallas Mavericks and Sacramento Kings.

On May 15, 2021, information technology was reported that Albert had planned on retiring post-obit the 2021 NBA playoffs.^{[7] [8]} The news became official ii days later.^[4] The terminal game Albert called was Game 6 of the 2021 NBA Eastern Conference Finals, between the Milwaukee Bucks and Atlanta Hawks.

New Jersey Nets (YES) [edit]

In 2005, Albert officially became the lead play-past-play man for the New Bailiwick of jersey Nets franchise started calling their games on the Yeah Network, often teaming with Brooklyn native and NBA veteran Marking Jackson. With that, the Nets had employed all three Albert brothers during the franchise's history; Al started his broadcast career with the Nets during their ABA days, while Steve called Nets games during the late 1970s and 1980s. Beginning with the 2008–09 season, Albert was also paired with his TNT broadcast colleague Mike Fratello on the YES Network. Notwithstanding, with the Nets' struggles in the 2009–10 season, Nets management relegated Albert to secondary play-past-play. Since then, Ian Eagle has taken over the broadcasts. In 2011, Albert left the YES Network to join CBS Sports for NFL and NCAA tournament coverage.

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Albert hosts a basketball-focused interview show on NBA Television receiver, which besides airs on YES.

Albert also hosted Dazzling Dunks and Basketball Bloopers VHS tape past NBA Entertainment in 1988.

Since 2003, Albert has also been providing the play-past-play voice on the NBA Live video-game series from EA Sports, a function he fulfilled until NBA Live ten.

From 2011 to 2015, Albert announced NCAA Men's Partitioning I Basketball game Championship tournament games, the consequence of longtime tournament broadcaster CBS handing off some of its coverage to Turner Sports.

In February 2016, Albert and Turner Sports appear that he would no longer call NCAA Tournament basketball games, stating that calling four games in one day during the first round, and a full of half-dozen matches in three days during the first 2 rounds, was besides much for his 74-year-old vocalization to handle. Albert said that he "felt information technology was the wiser move to go primarily NBA at this stage."^[9]

Outside basketball [edit]

New York Rangers [edit]

In add-on to the Knicks, Albert had a lengthy tenure (commencement in 1965) calling the games of another Madison Square Garden tenant, the New York Rangers. He handled the radio call of the Rangers' Stanley Loving cup-clinching victory in 1994.

He also famously coined the nickname "Red Light" for radio analyst Sal Messina, a erstwhile Rangers goaltender. His signature play-by-play phrase was "kick save and a beauty."

Over his years every bit the Rangers' broadcaster, Albert missed a large number of games for other commitments. Many other broadcasters filled in, including several who later served long stints for other NHL teams, including Howie Rose, Mike Emrick, and John Kelly, every bit well as Albert's brothers Al and Steve. It was Albert'southward absenteeism from Game 7 of the Rangers–Devils Briefing Championship game that led to Rose's famed Matteau, Matteau, Matteau call.

Albert left the Rangers later on the 1994–95 season. At the same time, Rose took the job as a play-by-play announcer of the New York Islanders. Albert'south son, Kenny, replaced him and has been the radio voice of the Rangers ever since. Kenny likewise calls NHL and Olympic ice hockey for NBC Sports and has served as the national radio voice of the Stanley Cup Finals since 2016.

New York Giants [edit]

From 1973 to 1976, Albert called radio broadcasts of New York Giants football games, succeeding Marty Glickman after the latter started broadcasting for the New York Jets.

Monday Night Football [edit]

Albert was also the pb play-by-play voice of the Westwood One radio network's NFL coverage from the 2002 to the 2009 seasons,^[ten] calling Monday Night Football as well as numerous playoff games and every Super Bowl from 2003 to 2010. On June iv, 2010, it was announced that Albert was leaving his NFL on Westwood One duties.^[11] He was succeeded by Kevin Harlan.

NFL on CBS [edit]

On June 6, 2011, information technology was announced Albert was joining CBS Sports to call play-by-play for The NFL on CBS.^{[10] [12]} Albert was usually teamed with Rich Gannon on broadcasts.

On May 29, 2014, Albert stepped down from calling The NFL on CBS to focus more on his basketball duties for TNT and CBS.^[thirteen]

Other network duties [edit]

Other NBC Sports duties included play-by-play announcing for the NFL (by 1983, Albert was the No. 2 play-past-play man behind Dick Enberg, usually alternating the secondary NFL function year to year with Don Criqui), college basketball (teaming with Bucky Waters on Large Due east/ECAC games), horse racing, battle (ofttimes working with Ferdie Pacheco and subsequently, Sugar Ray Leonard when NBC relaunched battle nether the Premier Battle Champions umbrella),^[fourteen] NHL All-Star Games (Albert called the NHL All-Star Game with John Davidson on NBC from 1990 to 1994), and Major League Baseball game, as well equally hosting baseball studio and pre-game shows (including NBC's coverage of the 1986 and 1988 World Series alongside Bob Costas). He also spent 13 years equally the sports managing director of the network's flagship station, WNBC-Tv, in New York.

Albert too chosen regular-season and playoff NHL games for the syndicated NHL Network in the 1976–77 flavor, and, from 2000 to 2002, he helped phone call TNT's coverage of the Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament.

In popular culture [edit]

Albert made 53^[15] guest appearances on David Letterman's late-night talk evidence for NBC and CBS. Each fourth dimension Albert appeared, he brought with him a group of clips featuring sports bloopers and outstanding plays, which he narrated and dubbed the "Albert Achievement Awards." The music accompanying the bloopers was "12th Street Rag."

Albert was placed every bit No. 14 on David J. Halberstam's list of Top 50 All-Time Network Television Sports Announcers on Yahoo! Sports.^[sixteen]

He appears on "Perfect Sense, Function II", on Roger Waters' 1992 anthology, Amused to Expiry, commentating on a armed forces assail in the manner of a sports study.

Albert'south voice is imitated in the popular video game NBA Jam. The announcer was modeled on Albert, although at that place is no mention of Albert in the game and the announcer was actually voiced by Tim Kitzrow.^[17]

Honors and awards [edit]

• Cable ACE Award – half-dozen times.^[18]
• Brusque Gowdy Media Award – awarded past the Naismith Memorial Basketball game Hall of Fame, 1997.^[19]
• American Sportscasters Clan Sportscaster of the Year (Play-by-Play) – 1996.^[20]
• Emmy Award – for national sports: five times; for New York: iii times.^[18]
• Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame – inducted in 2006.^[21]
• National Jewish Museum Sports Hall of Fame – inducted in 1992.^[22]
• New York Country Sportscaster of the Year – xx times.^{[xviii] [22]}
• National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Clan Hall of Fame – inducted in 2014.^[23]
• WAER Hall of Fame – inducted in 2017.^{[24] [25]}

Sexual set on [edit]

Albert was accused of sexually assaulting a 42-year-former woman named Vanessa Perhach in 1997.^[26] Perhach defendant Albert of throwing her onto a bed, biting her, and then forcing her to perform oral sexual practice subsequently a February 12, 1997, argument in his Pentagon Metropolis hotel room. DNA testing linked Albert to genetic fabric taken from the seize with teeth marks and from semen in Perhach'southward underwear.^[27] During the trial, testimony was presented from another woman, Patricia Masden, who told the jury Albert had bitten her on two different occasions in 1993 and 1994 in Miami and Dallas hotels respectively, which she viewed as unwanted sexual advances.^[28] Masden claimed that in Dallas, Albert called her to help him transport a fax from his hotel room, where she found him wearing "white panties and garter chugalug".^[29] Albert maintained that Perhach had requested he bite her and denied her accusation that he had asked her to bring some other human into their sexual affair. He described the recorded conversation of hers with the police on the night of the incident as "an Academy Award performance".^[26] After tests proved that the seize with teeth marks were his, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery charges, while the sodomy accuse was dropped.^{[30] [31]} Albert was given a 12-calendar month suspended sentence.^{[32] [33]}

Consequently, NBC – for which Albert worked for over 20 years – fired him soon before the 1997–98 NBA season began on NBA on NBC. Bob Costas took over for Albert on the basketball side^{[ definition needed ]} in the 1997–98 season. NBC rehired Albert fewer than two years after. Albert's final NFL broadcast for NBC was the Baltimore Ravens-New York Giants game aslope Randy Cross and Len Berman. Tom Hammond would eventually motility up to the #2 team (behind Dick Enberg, Paul Maguire, and Phil Simms), while Dan Hicks would primarily call games with Hammond's old partner, Jim Kelly.

Broadcasting partners [edit]

• John Andariese
• Butch Beard
• Beak Chadwick
• Chip Cipolla
• Doug Collins
• Cris Collinsworth^[10]
• John Davidson
• Boomer Esiason
• Mike Fratello
• Walt Frazier
• Rich Gannon
• Richie Guerin
• Matt Guokas
• Grant Hill
• Sam Huff
• Magic Johnson
• Steve "Snapper" Jones
• Steve Kerr
• Dick Lynch
• Paul Maguire^[x]
• Kevin McHale
• Sal Messina
• Reggie Miller
• Earl Monroe
• Ferdie Pacheco^[34]
• Nib Parcells^[10]
• Cal Ramsey
• Bob Trumpy
• Jeff Van Gundy
• Bill Walton
• Bucky Waters
• Chris Webber
• Sam Wyche

References [edit]

1. ^ "Today in history". ABC News. Associated Press. June 12, 2014.
2. ^ Corcoran, Tully. "KU attracts Brooklyn star" Archived 2016-03-02 at the Wayback Machine, The Topeka Majuscule-Journal, Oct 26, 2007. Accessed September 17, 2009. "Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., is too high schoolhouse basketball game what Odessa Permian High School, in Texas, is as well high school football game. Basketball rules at that place. Stephon Marbury starred there. Marv Albert went there. Even Jesus Shuttlesworth, the fictional baller played by Ray Allen in He'south^sic Got Game went there. Kansas bus Bill Self may be spending a scrap of time there in the next yr, too. Lance Stephenson, a half-dozen–5, "395"-pound junior guard from Lincoln who is the No. 4 overall thespian in the class of 2009 recently contacted Cocky well-nigh his interest in Kansas."
3. ^ Katelyn, Faubel (September 17, 2014). "Sportscaster Marv Albert '63 visits Newhouse, discusses his honey of broadcasting". Newhouse School Syracuse University. Syracuse, NY. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
4. ^ ^{a b} Herbert, Geoff (17 May 2021). "Syracuse alum Marv Albert retiring after nearly lx years in sportscasting". Syracuse Post-Standard . Retrieved 17 May 2021.
5. ^ "CNN/SI – Turner Sports – NBA – Marv Albert". Archived from the original on 2012-02-12. Retrieved 2008-09-15 .
6. ^ Pickman, Ben. "Report: Marv Albert Won't Call NBA Games On-Site in Restart". Sports Illustrated . Retrieved 2020-07-30 .
7. ^ Marchand, Mushnick, Andrew, Phil (May 15, 2021). "Marv Albert retiring after NBA playoffs". New York Post.
8. ^ Casselberry, Ian (May 15, 2021). "Marv Albert will reportedly retire after the NBA playoffs, catastrophe nearly 60 years at the mic". Awful Announcing.
9. ^ "Marv Albert, Turner concord to long-term extension". Newsday. February ix, 2016. Retrieved March 9, 2016.
10. ^ ^{a b c d e} Sandomir, Richard (June 6, 2011). "Marv Albert to Call N.F.L. Games for CBS". The New York Times . Retrieved 15 March 2017.
11. ^ "Marv Albert leaves Westwood 1 football play-by-play gig". newsday.com. Newsday. Retrieved xv March 2017.
12. ^ Vanderberg, Marcus. "Marv Albert Joins The NFL on CBS". Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved half-dozen June 2011.
13. ^ Yoder, Matt (29 May 2014). "Marv Albert stepping away from NFL on CBS to focus on basketball duties". Retrieved 29 May 2014.
14. ^ Yoder, Matt (9 February 2015). "Marv Albert and Sugar Ray Leonard are NBC'south boxing announcing squad". Awful Announcing.
15. ^ "David Letterman past the Numbers: Kickoff Acme 10 List, Near Frequent Guests, Who Was on His Kickoff Prove". The Hollywood Reporter. 30 April 2015.
16. ^ "The top l network TV announcers of all fourth dimension". www.yahoo.com . Retrieved 2020-07-31 .
17. ^ IGN: Breaking into the Manufacture: Tim Kitzrow
18. ^ ^{a b c} Nets Broadcasters Archived 2006-ten-31 at the Wayback Machine
19. ^ Brusque Gowdy Media Awards Archived 2008-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
20. ^ [one] American Sportscasters Association
21. ^ Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame
22. ^ ^{a b} Jewish Sports Hall of Fame – Marv Albert Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Automobile
23. ^ "Costas, Elway to Nowadays Albert, Reilly for Hall of Fame Induction". nssafame.com. April 7, 2014. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May eleven, 2014.
24. ^ "Three Pinnacle Broadcasters Earn WAER Hall of Fame Honors". SU News. September xv, 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
25. ^ "Ed Levine, Marv Albert Among New WAER Hall of Famers". Insideradio.com. September fourteen, 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
26. ^ ^{a b} "Marv Albert Calls Accuser A Liar". Durant Daily Democrat. 7 Nov 1997. Retrieved 30 Oct 2011.
27. ^ "Albert Case Merges Sex, Significance; Lawyers Expect Trial To Look at Social Issues". The Washington Mail service. 21 September 1997. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
28. ^ Mihoces, Gary (25 September 1997). "New witness' allegations 'carbon re-create,' judge says". U.s. Today . Retrieved 30 October 2011.
29. ^ "Surprise witness 'belts' Marv". Reading Eagle. 25 September 1997. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
30. ^ "24 X 7". Infoplease.com. 1941-06-12. Retrieved 2012-11-08 .
31. ^ CNNSI archive of video news coverage
32. ^ Courtroom Tv Online – Marv Albert Sexual Assault Trial Archived 2006-05-30 at the Wayback Machine
33. ^ Davis, Patricia (9 October 1998). "Marv Albert's Record Cleared in Biting Case; Judge Dismisses Charge a Year After Trial". The Washington Mail service . Retrieved 30 October 2011.
34. ^ Guzzo, Paul (Nov 17, 2017). "Ferdie Pacheco, the 'Fight Doctor' and Muhammad Ali's physician, dead at 89". Tampa Bay Times . Retrieved June 27, 2021. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)

External links [edit]

• Albert on 'Cuse Conversations Podcast in 2021
• Marv Albert at IMDb

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marv_Albert

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