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American retired sportscaster

Marv Albert
Albert calls a game for TNT in December 2008
Born	Marvin Philip Aufrichtig (1941-06-12) June 12, 1941 (historic period lxxx) [one] New York City, New York, U.S.
Instruction	Syracuse University New York University
Years active	1962–2021
Spouse(southward)	Benita Oberlander Heather Faulkiner
Children	4, including Kenny
Sports commentary career
Genre(s)	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 fellow member of the Basketball game Hall of Fame, he was commonly referred to equally "the voice of basketball game". From 1967 to 2004, he was also 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 end of the 2020–21 flavour.

In addition to working extensively in both professional person and college basketball, he has feel calling a diversity of other sports, such as American football, ice hockey, horse racing, boxing, and lawn tennis. Albert has chosen the play-by-play of eight Super Bowls, nine NBA Finals, and seven Stanley Loving cup Finals. He has as well called the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for TNT with Jim Courier and Mary Carillo and has worked every bit a co-host and reporter for 2 World Serial (1986 and 1988).

Albert hails from a family of broadcasters. His brothers, Al and Steve Albert, and a son, Kenny, are besides 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 High School.^[2] His family members owned a grocery store on Brighton Embankment Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets known equally Aufrichtig. He attended Syracuse University'south Newhouse School of Public Communications from 1960 through 1963.^[three] In 1962, he served as the voice of the AAA Syracuse Chiefs.^[4] He graduated from New York University in 1965.^[5]

Broadcasting career [edit]

National Basketball Clan [edit]

After getting his start by being a ball boy for the New York Knicks, Albert worked his beginning Knicks game as a broadcaster on January 27, 1963, on WCBS Radio. He was filling in for his mentor, Marty Glickman, who was away in Europe. The game was against the Celtics at the Boston Garden. Beginning in 1967 and lasting 37 years, Albert served as the voice of the New York Knicks on radio and television before being let become by James L. Dolan, the chairman of the MSG Network and Cablevision, later Albert criticized the squad's poor play on-air in 2004. Information technology was said that Albert'southward loftier bacon was also a factor. His son, Kenny Albert, has been a part-fourth dimension 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 lead play-past-play broadcaster for the NBA on NBC for virtually of its run from 1990 to 2002, calling every NBA Finals during that timeframe except for 1998, 1999, and 2000, which were chosen by Bob Costas in the wake of Albert's arrest for sexual assault. Albert resumed his previous position for the 2000–2001 flavour and called Game 4 of the 2002 NBA Finals, which was the concluding NBA telecast on NBC. During his fourth dimension on NBC, Albert connected every bit the lead play-by-play human being for the New York Knicks on local MSG Network telecasts and began calling national games for TNT in 1999, equally well. When he regained the lead broadcaster position on NBC, he continued to telephone call play-by-play for both networks until the finish of NBC's coverage in 2002.

TNT [edit]

Albert connected to be the lead play-by-play announcer for National Basketball game Association games on TNT, a position he causeless in 1999. Indeed, TNT had become his main commitment always since his longtime employer NBC lost the NBA broadcasting rights in 2002 to ABC and ESPN, which may accept played a role in his departure from the Knicks' broadcast booth.^[6] The Knicks reportedly wanted Albert to accept a salary commensurate with his reduced Knicks schedule but also weren't happy most Albert making what Knicks management felt were overly critical comments about their team despite their losing record.

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

On April 17, 2002, before long later on calling a game between the Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers on TNT, both Albert and color analyst Mike Fratello were injured in a limo blow in Trenton, New Jersey. Albert sustained facial lacerations, a concussion, and a sprained ankle. The 2002 NBA Playoffs was set to begin two days later, with Albert scheduled to call multiple games that week. Bob Costas filled in for those games, and Albert returned to call Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals betwixt the Dallas Mavericks and Sacramento Kings.

On May xv, 2021, it was reported that Albert had planned on retiring following the 2021 NBA playoffs.^{[7] [eight]} The news became official ii days later.^[4] The terminal game Albert called was Game 6 of the 2021 NBA Eastern Conference Finals, betwixt the Milwaukee Bucks and Atlanta Hawks.

New Jersey Nets (Yes) [edit]

In 2005, Albert officially became the lead play-by-play man for the New Jersey Nets franchise started calling their games on the YES Network, often teaming with Brooklyn native and NBA veteran Mark Jackson. With that, the Nets had employed all three Albert brothers during the franchise'due south history; Al started his broadcast career with the Nets during their ABA days, while Steve chosen Nets games during the tardily 1970s and 1980s. Beginning with the 2008–09 flavor, Albert was as well paired with his TNT broadcast colleague Mike Fratello on the Yeah Network. Nevertheless, with the Nets' struggles in the 2009–ten flavor, Nets management relegated Albert to secondary play-by-play. Since then, Ian Hawkeye has taken over the broadcasts. In 2011, Albert left the Yes Network to bring together CBS Sports for NFL and NCAA tournament coverage.

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

Albert also hosted Dazzling Dunks and Basketball Bloopers VHS record past NBA Amusement in 1988.

Since 2003, Albert has also been providing the play-past-play vocalisation on the NBA Live video-game series from EA Sports, a part he fulfilled until NBA Live 10.

From 2011 to 2015, Albert announced NCAA Men's Division 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 announced that he would no longer call NCAA Tournament basketball games, stating that calling four games in i day during the showtime round, and a full of vi matches in three days during the first two rounds, was too much for his 74-year-one-time voice to handle. Albert said that he "felt it was the wiser move to go primarily NBA at this stage."^[9]

Exterior basketball game [edit]

New York Rangers [edit]

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

He as well famously coined the nickname "Red Light" for radio analyst Sal Messina, a former Rangers goaltender. His signature play-by-play phrase was "kicking relieve and a beauty."

Over his years as 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, equally well as Albert's brothers Al and Steve. It was Albert's absence from Game 7 of the Rangers–Devils Conference Title game that led to Rose's famed Matteau, Matteau, Matteau call.

Albert left the Rangers after the 1994–95 flavour. At the same time, Rose took the job as a play-by-play announcer of the New York Islanders. Albert's son, Kenny, replaced him and has been the radio voice of the Rangers ever since. Kenny also calls NHL and Olympic water ice hockey for NBC Sports and has served as the national radio phonation 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 game [edit]

Albert was also the lead play-by-play vocalisation of the Westwood One radio network's NFL coverage from the 2002 to the 2009 seasons,^[x] calling Monday Night Football game also as numerous playoff games and every Super Bowl from 2003 to 2010. On June 4, 2010, information technology 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, it was announced Albert was joining CBS Sports to call play-past-play for The NFL on CBS.^{[x] [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.^[13]

Other network duties [edit]

Other NBC Sports duties included play-past-play announcing for the NFL (by 1983, Albert was the No. two play-by-play human being behind Dick Enberg, unremarkably alternating the secondary NFL role year to year with Don Criqui), college basketball (teaming with Bucky Waters on Large East/ECAC games), equus caballus racing, battle (often working with Ferdie Pacheco and after, Saccharide Ray Leonard when NBC relaunched boxing under the Premier Boxing Champions umbrella),^[14] NHL All-Star Games (Albert called the NHL All-Star Game with John Davidson on NBC from 1990 to 1994), and Major League Baseball, likewise as hosting baseball studio and pre-game shows (including NBC'due south coverage of the 1986 and 1988 Earth Series alongside Bob Costas). He also spent thirteen years as the sports manager of the network's flagship station, WNBC-Idiot box, in New York.

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

In popular civilization [edit]

Albert fabricated 53^[15] guest appearances on David Letterman's late-nighttime talk show for NBC and CBS. Each time Albert appeared, he brought with him a grouping 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 Idiot box Sports Announcers on Yahoo! Sports.^[16]

He appears on "Perfect Sense, Office II", on Roger Waters' 1992 album, Tickled to Decease, commentating on a military attack in the mode of a sports report.

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

Honors and awards [edit]

• Cable ACE Award – 6 times.^[18]
• Curt Gowdy Media Award – awarded past the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 1997.^[19]
• American Sportscasters Association Sportscaster of the Yr (Play-past-Play) – 1996.^[20]
• Emmy Award – for national sports: five times; for New York: three 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 State Sportscaster of the Year – twenty times.^{[18] [22]}
• National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame – inducted in 2014.^[23]
• WAER Hall of Fame – inducted in 2017.^{[24] [25]}

Sexual attack [edit]

Albert was defendant of sexually assaulting a 42-twelvemonth-sometime woman named Vanessa Perhach in 1997.^[26] Perhach accused Albert of throwing her onto a bed, biting her, so forcing her to perform oral sex activity after a February 12, 1997, argument in his Pentagon Urban center hotel room. Deoxyribonucleic acid testing linked Albert to genetic material taken from the bite marks and from semen in Perhach's underwear.^[27] During the trial, testimony was presented from another woman, Patricia Masden, who told the jury Albert had bitten her on two dissimilar occasions in 1993 and 1994 in Miami and Dallas hotels respectively, which she viewed every bit unwanted sexual advances.^[28] Masden claimed that in Dallas, Albert called her to help him ship a fax from his hotel room, where she found him wearing "white panties and garter belt".^[29] Albert maintained that Perhach had requested he bite her and denied her accusation that he had asked her to bring another man into their sexual thing. He described the recorded chat of hers with the police force on the night of the incident equally "an Academy Award performance".^[26] After tests proved that the bite marks were his, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery charges, while the sodomy charge was dropped.^{[30] [31]} Albert was given a 12-month suspended sentence.^{[32] [33]}

Consequently, NBC – for which Albert worked for over 20 years – fired him shortly 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 later on. Albert's final NFL circulate for NBC was the Baltimore Ravens-New York Giants game alongside Randy Cross and Len Berman. Tom Hammond would eventually movement upward to the #ii squad (behind Dick Enberg, Paul Maguire, and Phil Simms), while Dan Hicks would primarily call games with Hammond's onetime partner, Jim Kelly.

Dissemination partners [edit]

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

References [edit]

1. ^ "Today in history". ABC News. Associated Printing. June 12, 2014.
2. ^ Corcoran, Tully. "KU attracts Brooklyn star" Archived 2016-03-02 at the Wayback Machine, The Topeka Uppercase-Periodical, Oct 26, 2007. Accessed September 17, 2009. "Lincoln Loftier School in Brooklyn, North.Y., is as well high school basketball what Odessa Permian High Schoolhouse, in Texas, is likewise high school football game. Basketball game rules there. Stephon Marbury starred at that place. Marv Albert went there. Even Jesus Shuttlesworth, the fictional baller played by Ray Allen in He's^sic Got Game went there. Kansas jitney Bill Self may exist spending a bit of time at that place in the next year, as well. Lance Stephenson, a 6–v, "395"-pound junior guard from Lincoln who is the No. four overall player in the class of 2009 recently contacted Self well-nigh his involvement in Kansas."
3. ^ Katelyn, Faubel (September 17, 2014). "Sportscaster Marv Albert '63 visits Newhouse, discusses his love 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 near 60 years in sportscasting". Syracuse Mail service-Standard . Retrieved 17 May 2021.
5. ^ "CNN/SI – Turner Sports – NBA – Marv Albert". Archived from the original on 2012-02-12. Retrieved 2008-09-xv .
6. ^ Pickman, Ben. "Report: Marv Albert Won't Phone call NBA Games On-Site in Restart". Sports Illustrated . Retrieved 2020-07-30 .
7. ^ Marchand, Mushnick, Andrew, Phil (May xv, 2021). "Marv Albert retiring later on NBA playoffs". New York Post.
8. ^ Casselberry, Ian (May fifteen, 2021). "Marv Albert will reportedly retire afterward the NBA playoffs, ending well-nigh 60 years at the mic". Awful Announcing.
9. ^ "Marv Albert, Turner agree 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 Ane football play-by-play gig". newsday.com. Newsday. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
12. ^ Vanderberg, Marcus. "Marv Albert Joins The NFL on CBS". Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved vi June 2011.
13. ^ Yoder, Matt (29 May 2014). "Marv Albert stepping abroad 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's battle announcing team". Awful Announcing.
15. ^ "David Letterman by the Numbers: Kickoff Top 10 Listing, Near Frequent Guests, Who Was on His Get-go Show". The Hollywood Reporter. 30 April 2015.
16. ^ "The elevation 50 network Tv announcers of all time". www.yahoo.com . Retrieved 2020-07-31 .
17. ^ IGN: Breaking into the Manufacture: Tim Kitzrow
18. ^ ^{a b c} Nets Broadcasters Archived 2006-10-31 at the Wayback Automobile
19. ^ Curt Gowdy Media Awards Archived 2008-07-05 at the Wayback Auto
20. ^ [1] 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 Machine
23. ^ "Costas, Elway to Present 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 Top Broadcasters Earn WAER Hall of Fame Honors". SU News. September 15, 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
25. ^ "Ed Levine, Marv Albert Amongst New WAER Hall of Famers". Insideradio.com. September 14, 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
26. ^ ^{a b} "Marv Albert Calls Accuser A Liar". Durant Daily Democrat. 7 November 1997. Retrieved thirty October 2011.
27. ^ "Albert Case Merges Sexual practice, Significance; Lawyers Look Trial To Expect at Social Issues". The Washington Post. 21 September 1997. Retrieved 30 Oct 2011.
28. ^ Mihoces, Gary (25 September 1997). "New witness' allegations 'carbon copy,' judge says". USA Today . Retrieved 30 October 2011.
29. ^ "Surprise witness 'belts' Marv". Reading Hawkeye. 25 September 1997. Retrieved xxx October 2011.
30. ^ "24 10 7". Infoplease.com. 1941-06-12. Retrieved 2012-11-08 .
31. ^ CNNSI archive of video news coverage
32. ^ Court Tv Online – Marv Albert Sexual Assail Trial Archived 2006-05-30 at the Wayback Machine
33. ^ Davis, Patricia (nine October 1998). "Marv Albert's Record Cleared in Bitter Instance; Judge Dismisses Accuse a Year After Trial". The Washington Post . Retrieved 30 October 2011.
34. ^ Guzzo, Paul (November 17, 2017). "Ferdie Pacheco, the 'Fight Doctor' and Muhammad Ali'south physician, dead at 89". Tampa Bay Times . Retrieved June 27, 2021. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (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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