Mike Breen on Coming Back From COVID and Calling the NBA Finals.

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🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Bryan is joined by play-by-play announcer Mike Breen to discuss his career transitioning from radio to television, the differences between calling regular-season and postseason NBA games, working in a three-man booth alongside Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy, and the responsibility that comes with calling the Finals. Host: Bryan Curtis Guest: Mike Breen Associate Producer: Erika Cervantes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Chris Murn, me and my buddy Kevin O'Connor, aka Kevin O'Everything,
0:07.0	post an NBA podcast called The Miss Match.
0:10.2	They call it The Miss Match because I'm awesome and Kevin is such a gigantic nerd.
0:14.5	No, no, that's not why at all Chris, they call it The Miss Match because I have a brain
0:19.6	and you're a loud mouth bozo.
0:21.5	Good grief.
0:23.0	Anyway, listen to our amazing NBA podcast The Miss Match.
0:28.0	Or don't, we really don't care.
0:29.6	We're probably going to win a million awards either way.
0:31.9	Chris, we do care, so let's say that.
0:34.6	Please subscribe and listen to The Miss Match only on Spotify.
0:38.2	Did you really call me a bozo?
0:55.3	I am the Gypsy King with a Unification Fight Looming Against Usick.
1:10.6	Hello media consumers, welcome to Pressbox, Brian Curtis of The Ringer here along with producer
1:25.1	Eric Aservantes.
1:27.2	During the NBA finals, you might have heard me talking about how much I missed the presence
1:31.3	of ESPN's Mike Breene.
1:34.4	Missed his voice, missed the airline pilot like control he brings to a basketball game,
1:40.4	missed his catchphrase, bang!
1:42.4	Well, after sitting out two finals games for a positive COVID test, Breene is back on
1:47.8	television and now he's on this podcast too.
1:51.2	Brian and I talked about what it was like to watch the finals rather than call them, he
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