Episode 11: Neil Funk, Chicago Bulls play by play announcer recalls highlights of his 29 years with the team.

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Grant Napear

Sports, Football, Basketball

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This is a special conversation for me as Neil was calling the Chicago Bulls games for most of their Championship teams. He lived through "The Last Dance" as a participant, not a bystander. Nearly 40 years as a play-by-play guy and 29 with Chicago. Oh what a great time that must have been watching Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen do their thing. We'll talk about many of the "greats" he got to see, get a little personal with him and close out with questions from you, the listeners. I think you're going to enjoy today's show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	He was playing in a NBA game for the championship.
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0:57.0	My guest on today's podcast began his broadcasting career in Danville, Illinois.
1:03.6	And not too long after that, he was with the Philadelphia 76ers
1:07.8	beginning in 1976.
1:10.2	From there, he went to do the Kansas City Kings
1:12.2	for a couple of years, then back to Philadelphia in 1982.
1:17.0	The Nets for three years, and then he became the radio voice of the Chicago Bulls in 1991.
1:23.0	2008, they moved him over to TV.
1:26.0	He has just retired after 29 years with the Chicago Bulls.
1:31.0	He estimates that he's done 240 post-season games.
1:36.5	It's an absolute pleasure to welcome Neil Funk to the podcast.
1:40.7	Neil, great to catch up with you how you enjoying retirement.
1:43.6	Well, I think everybody in the United States is retired right now.
1:47.3	Things like that anyway. So, yeah, it's been a little different. Let's put it that way. I never, in my wildest imagination, thought that my
2:00.3	broadcast career was kind of kind of end the way it did but it is what it is so
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