How NBA Finals Announcer Mike Breen Found His “Bang!”

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🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Hall of Fame announcer Mike Breen is back with his infamous “Bang!” call for the NBA Finals. The first two games went sadly “Bang!”less (as Breen was out due to Covid), and frankly they didn’t feel the same. That’s because Breen has called more NBA Finals games than anyone. So ahead of the Warriors-Celtics Game 4 tonight, we got the origin story of his single-syllable exclamation, and how his Hall of Fame career took shape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Curry sets fires puts it up.
0:01.7	Bang!
0:02.9	There it is.
0:04.2	Open fires away.
0:05.4	Bang!
0:06.2	Way downtown.
0:07.2	Bang!
0:08.5	So short and yet so satisfying.
0:12.4	James step back, three-pointer.
0:14.4	Bang!
0:15.4	Smart to Tatum.
0:16.6	Sets fires, three-pointer.
0:18.4	Bang!
0:19.2	Yeah!
0:23.2	When the modernist poet T.S. Eliot wrote The Hollow Men,
0:27.0	his famous work about the startling desolation
0:29.0	of Europe after World War I.
0:31.3	He was definitively not thinking about the NBA playoffs.
0:36.0	That is true.
0:37.5	But the final stanza of that poem I'd argue.
0:40.9	It actually applies equally well to the startling landscape
0:44.8	of professional basketball.
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