NBA on ESPN Radio

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NBA on ESPN Radio

Genre	National Basketball Association
Running time	150 minutes (approximate)
Country	USA
Home station	ESPN Radio (1996-)
Starring	Jim Durham Dr. Jack Ramsay
Air dates	January 21, 1996 – Present

The NBA on ESPN Radio is a broadcast of National Basketball Association games on the ESPN Radio network. Games on ESPN Radio are distributed on over 200 radio stations in the United States and Canada. The program began on January 21, 1996 and the current contract runs through the 2007-2008 season.

1 Overview
2 Broadcasters
- 2.1 Controversy
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Overview

As the primary national radio partner of the NBA, ESPN Radio televises games on a weekly basis including some of the league's marquee events:

Thursday night regular season games.
Sunday afternoon games (since 2004).
Christmas Day games.
All Star Game festivities.
Most of the NBA Playoffs, including all of the Conference Finals and NBA Finals.

[edit] Broadcasters

Since the debut of NBA games on the network, ESPN Radio games have featured the lead broadcast team of Jim Durham on play-by-play and Dr. Jack Ramsay as the color commentator. Other broadcasters have included Kevin Calabro, Brent Musburger, Tim Legler and Will Perdue. Musburger has called several NBA Finals for ESPN Radio, his last being the 2004 NBA Finals.

[edit] Controversy

In June 2006, ESPN announced that Mike Tirico would replace Jim Durham on NBA Finals games starting in 2007. Initially, Dr. Jack Ramsay said that he would retire.

“

Working with [Jim Durham] is a pleasure, he's the best play-by-play guy in the business, and I will miss very much not working with him. But we were not going to work the Finals together, and I didn't want to do it with anybody else.

”

Ramsay did not retire; as of the 2006-07 NBA season, he is still working regular season games with Durham. It is still unclear if Ramsay will work the 2007 NBA Finals with Tirico or not.

[edit] See also

ESPN National Basketball Association coverage
- NBA Wednesday
- NBA Friday
NBA on ABC
NBA on NBC
NBA on TNT
List of NBA Finals broadcasters

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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