August 5 - Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b. 1916)

"For decades," Costas said of Albert, "he was probably the best basketball announcer anywhere."

Nantz had never displayed his predecessors' intimate connection with viewers as an efficient-but-bland golf, football and basketball announcer.

Hours later, he was dismissed by NBC, where he was a leading football and basketball announcer.

He has also served as the football and basketball play-by-play announcer at Western Carolina University.

This article is about the basketball announcer.

Albert is probably the greatest pro basketball announcer ever, but how much do the Nets and the YES Network really need him?

He graduated from St. John's University and was a basketball announcer on the campus radio station.

Still, no harm, no foul, as that basketball announcer back in L.A. said all the time.

Michael Baiamonte is an American professional basketball announcer.