Another important point: She’s always been deferential to those with longer analyst tenures than hers, especially Hubie Brown, and never politicked for the Finals job publicly. Burke has a ton of relationships with NBA executives and they obviously like her (or she would not have done the trophy ceremony for as many years as she did). While this rarely gets acknowledged, networks will typically not assign someone to a major event if the sports league and rightsholder partner does not want it. Such a major decision has to be vetted by a league partner. The process, via multiple industry sources, is expected to wrap up shortly. Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reported on Monday afternoon that Mark Jackson, the former NBA Finals analyst along with Jeff Van Gundy, is no longer at ESPN and that Burke and Doc Rivers will join Mike Breen as the new ESPN/ABC NBA Finals broadcast team.Ĭredit Marchand for his report, and Chad Finn of The Boston Globe too, who tweeted on July 17 that “there’s a good chance” that this exact move would happen. I’ve written about Burke’s place in the ESPN universe before, but it’s relevant again because now, 21 years after that SI column, she is at the doorstep - and about to open the door - of calling the NBA Finals as a television analyst. ESPN would be wise to find room on its roster for her.” In February 2000 she shone as an analyst on a Knicks game and has been excellent on both men’s and women’s college basketball telecasts. The 36-year-old ESPN hoops analyst and play-by-play voice for the WNBA’s New York Liberty is a superbly prepared broadcaster blessed with an innate feel for the game. Here’s a vote for a name that lacks cachet but not credibility: Doris Burke. “Over the next few weeks, ESPN will assemble its announcing teams for the 2002-03 NBA season, and the usual suspects (Brent Musberger, Marv Albert) will likely be paraded out like Thanksgiving Day floats. 1 NFL team (Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Cris Collinsworth!) and pondered whether the price of $54.95 for Mike Tyson-Lennox Lewis was worth it. Part of the column discussed Fox’s new No. Mariano Rivera ultimately had something to say about that.
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