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1. #Baseball commentator dying alone in a hotel room professional#
2. #Baseball commentator dying alone in a hotel room series#

When he regained the lead broadcaster position on NBC, he continued to call play-by-play for both networks until the end of NBC's coverage in 2002. During his time on NBC, he continued as the lead play-by-play man for the New York Knicks on local MSG Network telecasts and began calling national games for TNT in 1999, as well. Albert resumed his previous position for the 2000–2001 season and called Game 4 of the 2002 NBA Finals, which was the final NBA telecast on NBC. His son, Kenny Albert, has been a part-time play-by-play announcer for the Knicks since 2009, filling in whenever the elder Albert's successor, Mike Breen, is unavailable.Īlbert was the lead play-by-play announcer for the NBA on NBC for most of its run from 1990 to 2002, calling every NBA Finals during that timeframe except for 1998, 1999, and 2000, which were called by Bob Costas in the wake of Albert's arrest for sexual assault. It was said that Albert's high salary was also a factor. Dolan, the chairman of the MSG Network and Cablevision, after Albert criticized the team's poor play on-air in 2004. Beginning in 1967 and lasting 37 years, Albert served as the voice of the New York Knicks on radio and television before being let go by James L. The game was against the Celtics at the Boston Garden. He was filling in for his mentor, Marty Glickman, who was away in Europe. Broadcasting career National Basketball Association Īfter getting his start by being a ball boy for the New York Knicks, Albert worked his first Knicks game as a broadcaster on January 27, 1963, on WCBS Radio. He graduated from New York University in 1965. In 1962, he served as the voice of the AAA Syracuse Chiefs. He attended Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications from 1960 through 1963. His family members owned a grocery store on Brighton Beach Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets known as Aufrichtig. In 2015, Albert was inducted into the broadcasting Hall of Fame.Īlbert was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City, where he went to Abraham Lincoln High School. His brothers, Al and Steve Albert, and a son, Kenny, are also play-by-play sports commentators.

#Baseball commentator dying alone in a hotel room series#

He has also called the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for TNT with Jim Courier and Mary Carillo and has worked as a co-host and reporter for two World Series ( 19).Īlbert hails from a family of broadcasters. Albert has called the play-by-play of eight Super Bowls, nine NBA Finals, and seven Stanley Cup Finals.

#Baseball commentator dying alone in a hotel room professional#

In addition to working extensively in both professional and college basketball, he has experience calling a variety of other sports, such as American football, ice hockey, horse racing, boxing, and tennis. Albert worked for Turner Sports as the lead announcer for NBA games on TNT. From 1967 to 2004, he was also known as "the voice of the New York Knicks". Honored for his work as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, he was commonly referred to as "the voice of basketball". Marv Albert (born Marvin Philip Aufrichtig June 12, 1941) is an American former sportscaster.