Some updates on who will broadcasting the NBA playoffs:
Sux that Marv will be out.

Harlan given the first round off.

Courtesy of the Miami Herald:

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TNT will be without four of arguably its top five NBA announcers when it begins its coverage of as many as 29 first-round games on Tuesday.

Here’s why: Marv Albert, as many readers know, and TNT mutually agreed he would sit out the NBA re-start because at 79, he’s in an age group especially vulnerable to COVID-19.

Kevin Harlan and Reggie Miller, who were ubiquitous on TNT seeding games, were given the first round off so they wouldn’t need to spend two consecutive months in the bubble. They’ll be back for later rounds. We’ll miss Harlan’s exuberant call in the first round.

Ian Eagle, who teamed with Stan Van Gundy on TNT seeding games, is unavailable to Turner during the first round because he’s also the TV voice of the Brooklyn Nets, who play Toronto in the first round.

So Van Gundy - during the first round of postseason - instead will work with Spero Dedes, the steady CBS NFL/college basketball announcer who has done NBA games for Turner in past years.

Chris Webber, left off TNT’s schedule for seeding games, has been summoned to the bubble to work first-round games with TNT staffer and Milwaukee Brewers TV voice Brian Anderson.

TNT also is using Pelicans velvet-voiced play-by-player Joel Meyers (the former NBC NFL announcer) and Golden State Warriors announcer Bob Fitzgerald to call first-round games, with former Heat guard Jim Jackson and ex-NBA point guard Greg Anthony as game analysts.

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