ESPN NBA analyst Doris Burke

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Episode 342 of the Sports Media Podcast features ESPN NBA analyst Doris Burke, who joins Doc Rivers and Mike Breen on ABC/ESPN’s NBA lead commentator team. Burke will becomes the first female analyst to call NBA Finals games on network TV with the promotion. In this podcast, Burke discusses how and when she learned she would be getting one of the lead analyst chairs; her surprise that Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson were departing ESPN; her relationship with Doc Rivers; her chemistry with Breen and Rivers; why she will be nervous at next year’s NBA Finals; the power teams in the league including the Bucks, Celtics, Nuggets, and Suns; her thought on an in-season tournament; the prospect of Victor Wembanyama; the talent in women’s college basketball and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:08.2	This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
1:13.4	We have a terrific guest this week. It's Darst Burke, who has had a remarkable broadcasting career over her three plus decades in basketball.
1:23.6	It's somebody who has been a pioneer when it comes to a woman in sports broadcasting,
1:31.5	including being the first woman to serve as a game analyst for the NBA finals when she did on ESPN Radio.
1:37.8	ESPN named her to the position of national NBA game analyst in 2017. That made her the first woman to serve full-time in that capacity.
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