1. Marv Albert was born on Marvin Philip Aufrichtig; June 12,1941 and is an American former sportscaster.
35 Facts About Marv Albert
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Marv Albert has called the play-by-play of eight Super Bowls, nine NBA Finals, and seven Stanley Cup Finals.
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Marv Albert has called the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for TNT with Jim Courier and Mary Carillo and has worked as a co-host and reporter for two World Series.
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Marv Albert was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City, where he went to Abraham Lincoln High School.
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Marv Albert attended Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications from 1960 through 1963.
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Marv Albert was filling in for his mentor, Marty Glickman, who was away in Europe.
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Marv Albert continued to be the lead play-by-play announcer for NBA games on TNT, a position he assumed in 1999.
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The Knicks reportedly wanted Marv Albert to accept a salary commensurate with his reduced Knicks schedule but weren't happy about Marv Albert making what Knicks management felt were overly critical comments about their team despite their losing record.
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Marv Albert sustained facial lacerations, a concussion, and a sprained ankle.
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The 2002 NBA Playoffs was set to begin two days later, with Marv Albert scheduled to call multiple games that week.
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Bob Costas filled in for those games, and Marv Albert returned to call Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals between the Dallas Mavericks and Sacramento Kings.
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On May 15,2021, it was reported that Marv Albert had planned on retiring following the 2021 NBA playoffs.
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In 2005, Marv Albert officially became the lead play-by-play man for the New Jersey Nets franchise started calling their games on the YES Network, often teaming with Brooklyn native and NBA veteran Mark Jackson.
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In 2011, Marv Albert left the YES Network to join CBS Sports for NFL and NCAA tournament coverage.
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Marv Albert hosted the Dazzling Dunks and Basketball Bloopers VHS tape by NBA Entertainment in 1988.
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Since 2003, Marv Albert has been providing the play-by-play voice on the NBA Live video-game series from EA Sports, a role he fulfilled until NBA Live 10.
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From 2011 to 2015, Marv Albert announced NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship tournament games, the result of longtime tournament broadcaster CBS handing off some of its coverage to Turner Sports.
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In 2022, Marv Albert appeared in the Playoffs on NBA Lane short film alongside ESPN sideline reporter Malika Andrews.
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Marv Albert handled the radio call of the Rangers' Stanley Cup-clinching victory in 1994.
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Marv Albert famously coined the nickname "Red Light" for radio analyst Sal Messina, a former Rangers goaltender.
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Over his years as the Rangers' broadcaster, Marv Albert missed a large number of games for other commitments.
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From 1973 to 1976, Marv Albert called radio broadcasts of New York Giants football games, succeeding Marty Glickman after the latter started broadcasting for the New York Jets.
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Marv Albert was the lead play-by-play voice of the Westwood One radio network's NFL coverage from the 2002 to the 2009 seasons, calling Monday Night Football as well as numerous playoff games and every Super Bowl from 2003 to 2010.
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On June 4,2010, it was announced that Marv Albert was leaving his NFL on Westwood One duties.
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On June 6,2011, it was announced Marv Albert was joining CBS Sports to call play-by-play for The NFL on CBS.
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On May 29,2014, Marv Albert stepped down from calling The NFL on CBS to focus more on his basketball duties for TNT and CBS.
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Marv Albert spent 13 years as the sports director of the network's flagship station, WNBC-TV, in New York.
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Marv Albert made 53 guest appearances on David Letterman's late-night talk show for NBC and CBS.
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Each time Marv Albert appeared, he brought with him a group of clips featuring sports bloopers and outstanding plays, which he narrated and dubbed the "Marv Albert Achievement Awards".
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Marv Albert appears on "Perfect Sense, Part II", on Roger Waters' 1992 album, Amused to Death, commentating on a military attack in the manner of a sports report.
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Marv Albert's voice is imitated in the popular video game NBA Jam.
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Jack Black and his bandmate Kyle Gass derived the name of their band 'Tenacious D' from a term used by Marv Albert to describe the tenacious defense of the New York Knicks in 1994.
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Masden, a VIP liaison for Hyatt Hotels, claimed that Marv Albert called her to help him send a fax from his Dallas hotel room, where she found him wearing "white panties and garter belt".
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Marv Albert pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery charges, while a felony charge of forcible sodomy was dropped.
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Marv Albert described her recorded conversation with the police on the night of the incident as "an Academy Award performance".