Sports: Broadcaster Marv Albert retiring after NBA Eastern Conference finals

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Broadcaster Marv Albert retiring after NBA Eastern Conference finals
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NEW YORK -- Marv Albert is retiring after the NBA's Eastern Conference finals, ending a broadcasting career spanning nearly 60 years.
Albert will call the series for TNT. He has been with Turner Sports for 22 years, 19 as an NBA play-by-play announcer.
Albert, known for his signature "Yes!" call, turns 80 next month. He has covered everything from football and boxing to hockey, baseball and tennis.

But he is linked most to basketball, having called 13 NBA Finals and 25 All-Star Games for NBC and Turner, along with the Dream Team's romp to the gold medal in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.\

"There is no voice more closely associated with NBA basketball than Marv Albert's," NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement released Monday by Turner Sports.
Albert began his Hall of Fame career in 1963 in radio, becoming the voice of the New York Rangers in 1965 and the Knicks two years later. He began doing Knicks games on TV for MSG Network in 1986.

Albert also called eight Super Bowls and eight Stanley Cup Finals.

"My 55 years of broadcasting the NBA has just flown by and I've been fortunate to work with so many wonderful and talented people," Albert said. "Now, I'll have the opportunity to hone my gardening skills and work on my ballroom dancing."


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Marv Albert is retiring after the NBA's Eastern Conference finals. Known for his signature "Yes!" call, Albert's broadcasting career has spanned nearly 60 years, with the past 22 spent with Turner Sports.
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In February 1997, a woman accused Albert of throwing her on a bed in a Virginia hotel, biting her on her back, and forcing her to perform oral sex. He said the act – including the bite – was consensual.

In the competitive tabloid city of New York, this was manna from heaven. Imagine if your 10 most embarrassing Google searches were revealed to the public. That was the Albert scandal in a nutshell. It was like The Maury Povich Show, starring America’s most famous sportscaster.

Some of the tawdry details that emerged before, during and after the trial:

** Testimony that Albert wore women’s underwear, panties and a garter belt

** Accusations that he bit women, including one whom he allegedly asked for three-way sex.

** A story involving a transvestite and a prostitute-dominatrix.

** A woman claimed she escaped only when she ripped off his hairpiece.

As the trial went on, it seemed to get weirder and weirder. Every day, Albert showed up, often accompanied by his fiancée and wearing that ridiculous hair piece. The trial eventually came to a merciful halt. Albert pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery charges in exchange for dropping a forcible sodomy charge. and was given a 12-month suspension sentence and was ordered to continue his mental-health counseling.

No jail time. Yes.
 
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In February 1997, a woman accused Albert of throwing her on a bed in a Virginia hotel, biting her on her back, and forcing her to perform oral sex. He said the act – including the bite – was consensual.

In the competitive tabloid city of New York, this was manna from heaven. Imagine if your 10 most embarrassing Google searches were revealed to the public. That was the Albert scandal in a nutshell. It was like The Maury Povich Show, starring America’s most famous sportscaster.

Some of the tawdry details that emerged before, during and after the trial:

** Testimony that Albert wore women’s underwear, panties and a garter belt

** Accusations that he bit women, including one whom he allegedly asked for three-way sex.

** A story involving a transvestite and a prostitute-dominatrix.

** A woman claimed she escaped only when she ripped off his hairpiece.

As the trial went on, it seemed to get weirder and weirder. Every day, Albert showed up, often accompanied by his fiancée and wearing that ridiculous hair piece. The trial eventually came to a merciful halt. Albert pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery charges in exchange for dropping a forcible sodomy charge. and was given a 12-month suspension sentence and was ordered to continue his mental-health counseling.

No jail time. Yes.
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wouldnt have survived this today
 
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