Mike Breen had a chance to call last year’s Eastern Conference finals, even though the series was on TNT. The longtime Knicks play-by-play announcer on MSG Network has been a prominent fixture in the NBA as the lead play-by-play caller on ESPN. But last year, TNT’s Kevin Harlan offered Breen a chance to call the … Read more
As all sports-attached TV networks are conspicuously working off the same plan to remove the sport from our sports, we wonder: Who came up with the plan? Where was the research and surveys that told network execs that the sports-minded public prefers the worst images from games, the worst acts and actors in their sports, … Read more
Kevin Harlan experienced a wild sequence of events during Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals. Towards the end of the third quarter during Friday’s game between the Knicks and Pacers, star point guard Jalen Brunson dove into the TNT broadcast table while going for a loose ball, and Harlan managed to narrate all of … Read more