Basketball fans are going to be treated to listening to the iconic voice of the sport for at least a few more years.
Today Turner Sports will announce that broadcasting legend Marv Albert has signed a new multi-year contract extension with the network to continue as the lead voice for the NBA on TNT. He will continue to call NBA regular season games, playoff games, and the All-Star Game for the network. Awful Announcing has confirmed that the new contract is for more than two years, which would take Albert beyond 50 years of NBA broadcasting as he started with the New York Knicks in 1967.
Albert has been very busy the last few years and has shown very few signs of slowing down. In addition to his NBA on TNT duties, he’s called games for the NFL on CBS and is an active commentator for Turner/CBS’s NCAA Tournament coverage and PBC boxing for NBC.
But even with all those extra duties, Albert will first and foremost always be known as the voice of basketball and this new contract ensures he’ll likely be involved with the sport whenever he’s ready to hang up the microphone. Much like Vin Scully or Brent Musburger, Albert has been able to still call games at a high quality well into the latter years of his announcing career.
Albert was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2015 and is currently in his 18th season with the NBA on TNT.
