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Costas later did play-by-play for Chicago Bulls broadcasts on WGN-TV during the 1979 – 1980 NBA season.
Within two years RotoNews had become one of the top ten most trafficked sports sites on the web, according to Media Metrix, ranking higher than such sites as NBA. com.
In 1996, STATS, Inc., a major statistical provider to fantasy sports companies, won a court case, along with Motorola, on appeal against the NBA in which the NBA was trying to stop STATS from distributing in game score information via a special wireless device created by Motorola.
His son Kenny Albert also began to work as a part-time play-by-play announcer for the Knicks since 2009, whenever the older Albert's successor Mike Breen ( whom he later followed on the NBA on NBC broadcasts and now works on ESPN and ABC aside from his role at MSG ) is unavailable.
Marv Albert was the lead play-by-play broadcaster for the NBA on NBC for most of its run from 1990-2002, calling every NBA Finals during that timeframe except for 1998, 1999 and 2000.
Marv 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.
In 2005, Albert officially became the lead play-by-play man for the New Jersey Nets franchise and started calling their games in the 2005 – 2006 basketball season on the YES Network, often teaming with Brooklyn native and NBA veteran, Mark Jackson.
He also hosts a basketball-focused interview show on NBA TV, which also airs later on YES.
Since 2003, Albert has also been providing the play-by-play voice on the NBA Live video-game series on EA Sports, a role he fulfilled until NBA Live 10.
Al also called national NBA games on the USA Network during its brief tenure in the early 1980s.
Consequently, NBC – for whom Albert worked for over 20 years – fired him shortly before the 1997-98 NBA season began on The NBA on NBC.
Bob Costas took over for Albert on the basketball side in the 1997 – 98 season before stepping down after the 2000 NBA Finals for Albert's return.
In 1957, rookie center Bill Russell joined the Boston Celtics, who already featured guard Bob Cousy and coach Red Auerbach, and went on to lead the club to eleven NBA titles in thirteen seasons.

NBA and TNT
Indeed, TNT has become his primary commitment ever since his longtime employer NBC lost the NBA broadcasting rights in 2002, and may have played a role in his departure from the Knicks ' broadcast booth.
Taco Bell and the NBA agreed on a 4 year deal allowing them to advertise on ABC, TNT and ESPN, and NBA-themed promotions.
On the opening game of the season, broadcast on the TNT Network and featuring the debut of James and Bosh in Heat uniforms, the game was the most-watched NBA contest ever on cable television.
In theory, TNT Plus was to have been the sole carrier of Turner's NBA and NASCAR coverage from that point forward, while any providers still carrying the original TNT would have seen replacement programming instead.
TNT Sports ( under the Turner Sports division ) mainly consists of NBA basketball games and NASCAR races.
He also has nicknames for individual players such as The Nash Rambler for Steve Nash, Captain Kidd for former Suns Captain Jason Kidd and the Matrix for now-former Sun and current Dallas Mavericks player Shawn Marion ( although the origin of that nickname is generally attributed to former NBA player and TNT analyst Kenny Smith, not McCoy ).
Caray also called play-by-play for the first two seasons ( 1990 – 91 ) of the TNT network's Sunday night NFL coverage as well as TBS ' coverage of the NBA and college football, and anchored TBS ' coverage of the 1990 Goodwill Games.
The 2004 NBA All-Star Game also cleaned up its act, despite being broadcast on cable television channel TNT that was not under Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) regulation as with all other cable channels, having halftime performer Beyoncé Knowles perform " Crazy in Love " rather than " Naughty Girl ", which they feared would incite controversy given its sexual content.
In addition to The Rage and The Dead Matter, Midnight Syndicate's music has been featured in television programs such as Barbara Walters ' 10 Most Fascinating People of 2002, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Today Show, Monday Night Football, NBA on TNT, Syfy's The Possessed and Halloween-themed specials on the Travel Channel.
Brown remained with CBS until the end of their NBA coverage following the 1990 NBA Finals, then worked on the local broadcasts for the Philadelphia 76ers and the Detroit Pistons before joining TNT in the early 1990s.
Currently, they also serve distributor for television and / or movie product released by Lifetime, HBO, CNN, Cartoon Network, Turner Entertainment Co., truTV ( known as Court TV until 2008 ), TCM, TNT, American Girl, King Features, Peanuts, Sesame Workshop, National Geographic Society in the U. S., and product from the NBA, NFL, and NHL.
On January 27, 2011, Morgan appeared on the NBA on TNT pregame coverage of the Miami Heat and the New York Knicks nationally televised live basketball game.
The network is financially backed by the National Basketball Association ( NBA ), which also uses NBA TV as a way of advertising their out of market package NBA League Pass, and partner channel TNT.
Turner Sports relaunched the channel on October 28, 2008, using analysts carried over from NBA on TNT.
The show is live six days a week, not airing on most Thursdays due to NBA's coverage of The NBA on TNT.
NBA TV International shows one or two games per day, but the NBA playoffs and most US nationally televised games ( e. g. Sunday afternoon on ABC, Thursday evening on TNT, Wednesday / Friday on ESPN, Monday / Tuesday / Saturday on US NBA TV ) are not shown, and instead are sold to local TV channels in each territory.
NBA TV Canada carries some of the same lineup of games from US NBA TV, ESPN, and TNT instead of the secondary game package found on NBA TV International.

NBA and with
Costas has teamed with Isiah Thomas and Doug Collins for NBA telecasts ( from 1997 – 2000 ) and Sal Bando ( 1982 ), Tony Kubek ( from 1983 – 1989 ), Joe Morgan and Bob Uecker ( from 1994 – 2000 ) for baseball telecasts.
He is the NBA ’ s all-time leading scorer, with 38, 387 points.
During his career with the NBA ’ s Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships and a record six regular season MVP Awards.
The 2002 NBA Playoffs were scheduled to begin two days later, with Albert scheduled to call multiple games that week.
* 1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
Through this period, the NBA continued to strengthen with the shift of the Minneapolis Lakers to Los Angeles, the Philadelphia Warriors to San Francisco, the Syracuse Nationals to Philadelphia to become the Philadelphia 76ers, and the St. Louis Hawks moving to Atlanta, as well as the addition of its first expansion franchises.
The 1992 Olympic basketball Dream Team, the first to use current NBA stars, featured Michael Jordan as the anchor, along with Bird, Magic, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Scottie Pippen, Clyde Drexler, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Chris Mullin, Charles Barkley, and Christian Laettner.
In 1995, the NBA expanded to Canada with the addition of the Vancouver Grizzlies and the Toronto Raptors.
Before the start of the 2010 – 11 season the NBA had an exciting summer with one of the most anticipated free agent classes of all time.
Donaghy claimed in 2008 that certain refs were friendly with players and " company men " for the NBA.
The 2011 – 12 NBA season, scheduled to begin November 1, 2011 with a matchup between the defending champion Dallas Mavericks and the Chicago Bulls, was postponed due to a labor dispute.
The NBA originated in 1946 with 11 teams, and through a sequence of team expansions, reductions, and relocations currently consists of 30 teams.
The Boston Celtics have won the most championships with 17 NBA Finals wins.
The success of men's basketball, in addition to men's golf and baseball, continued into to the 1960s with players Eddie Miles, Clint Richardson, and Tom Workman, all of whom went on to successful careers in the NBA.
Hasheem Thabeet is a Tanzanian-born NBA player with the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The record itself stood until February 14, 2010 when the 2010 NBA All-Star Game broke the indoor sporting event record with an attendance of 108, 713 at Cowboys Stadium.
* Professional basketball players Steve Nash ( who was an award winning player " MP3 " according to Ali G and unable to speak proper English due to being Canadian ), Ben Wallace ( who he accuses of " playa-hating "), Shaquille O ' Neal ( who he argued with about the meaning of the NBA, Ali thinking it stood for Nationwide Basketball Society ), Tim Duncan ( from whom tried to get a pair of free sneakers ), Robert Horry, Dwyane Wade ( who he didn't realise was an NBA player, claiming he had snuck in to " hang with mah man Shaquille O ' Neal "), Richard Jefferson ( whom he called Thomas Jefferson his son ), Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Reggie Miller
The Connecticut Sun, Seattle Storm, and Tulsa Shock are the only current teams to play without sharing the market with an NBA team ( although the Storm shared a market with the Seattle SuperSonics before that team's relocation ).

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