Mike Breen laments end of work with Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy at ESPN
"For me it was such an honor."
"For me it was such an honor."
Smith continues to lament the losses of Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson at ESPN.
"It's just so distasteful."
"I'm like those coaches that have coaching trees, I'm the broadcaster who now has a coaching tree."
"That was not Jrue Holiday’s wife."
"They've been the backdrop, they've been the soundtrack to our basketball lives, even before we were actually in the NBA."
Breen is a huge Mets fan.
"You never know til a guy’s in the position, but I think he has all the characteristics to be a great head coach."
"If this helps, I am thrilled."
Breen never knows for sure when he is about to say bang so MF loud.
"By the end of the three days, Bill wasn't my friend, he was my father's friend."
"That's what the job entails and you hope everybody understands."
"I've done it so much over the years that it just becomes another game in terms of having to work."
"DiVincenzo a three... BANG! BANG!!!! Knicks take a one-point lead with 13 seconds remaining!! The Garden is SHAKING right now!!"
"That's your problem, you're reading NBA Twitter."
"Like I said, that's a long time."
Everyone from Mike Breen to Jason Bennetti to Bill Raftery offered glowing praise of Eagle in a new profile at The Ringer ahead of Eagle's first Final Four call.
"I wouldn’t want anything but honesty from the Knick announcers when I was watching as a fan—and I think that’s what the fans want."
"There was never a fight for airtime, there was zero ego involved. It just clicked from day one."
ESPN suffered multiple minutes of silence as the mics went out in their NBA broadcast booth thanks to technical difficulties.