Episode 67: My Top 5 Greatest NBA Broadcasters.

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Grant Napear

Football, Basketball, Sports

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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I love this. I'm going to share with you my top five picks for best NBA broadcasters. You may agree with me or not but I'll give you backup and observations on why I chose who I chose. I'll give you a few in my notes here. #4) Joe Tait..."Have a good night everybody." #3 Bill King...think about this, he called the A's games, the Raiders games and the Warriors games. "Holy Toledo!" And he's a recipient of baseball's highest honor for broadcasters, the Ford C. Frick award. How about #5? Al McCoy. The radio broadcast voice of the Phoenix Suns since 1972. Yeah, that says 1972! He's the longest tenured NBA announcer with 49 years on the air for the same team. And, for all you load management folk, Al has only missed, get this, one game in the entire 49 years. One. That's suiting up and coming to play every day. "Shazam!" Play along and see if you can figure out who I have at the top. You can probably get there on your own but you'll have to listen to find out who it really is. And let me know yours. Hit me up on twitter or comment on YouTube. @grantnapearshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now, Grand Nation. So great to have you here on if you don't like that. Today we're going to talk about some of the great NBA broadcasters.
0:25.8	I'm going to give you my top five,
0:28.4	and I've got a tie for fifth,
0:30.4	so I'm going to give you six names of who I think are the greatest
0:37.6	announcers in the history of the NBA. Today's podcast is brought to you by New Works Plumbing of Sacramento for your plumbing needs and repairs and remember their expert technicians are available 24-7.
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1:15.0	Plumbing.com. Right before the playoffs began, it was announced that this would be the last
1:21.0	playoffs, the last year, for the great marvelous Marv Albert. Marv is retiring at the age of
1:30.2	80 and what a career Mar of Albert has had. He has done a variety of sports, but he's best
1:37.5	known as the great NBA announcer. Many consider him the greatest basketball announcer to ever live.
1:46.0	His first game was January 27th, 1963.
1:50.2	The then voice of the New York Knicks, Marty Glickman, got stranded in Europe because of a snowstorm.
1:56.0	And Marv and his brother, I believe it was his brother, Al, got their equipment.
2:02.0	They went up to Boston. They had trouble getting through security in the Boston Garden because they looked so young and they were young and they wouldn't let them in and Marv had to plead with the guy, hey here's my radio equipment, I'm announcing the game, and the rest is history.
2:18.4	Marv did his first ever game after being a ball boy for the New York Knicks again on that January day of 1963
2:26.6	and Marv became the full-time voice on radio of the New York Knicks back in
2:31.5	1967 for 37 years until the idiot absurd
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