Lead play-by-play voice, Kevin Harlan, says NBA has ‘very special place in my heart'.
With reports swirling now for weeks that TNT will be squeezed out of the new NBA television deals, a lot of the focus has been on the potential end ofBarkley made his feelings on how TNT’s parent company, Warner Brothers Discovery, has handled its relationship with the NBA very clear, the future of TNT’s lead play-by-play man, Kevin Harlan, would also be up in the air if WBD loses the NBA.
Harlan continued, “The NBA was my first job out of college. The day I graduated, I got a call from the Kansas City Kings to be the radio voice and TV voice when I was 21. So, that was my first job, the NBA. Harlan currently works for CBS and Turner. Could he end up working for CBS and NBC? Or CBS and Amazon? Harlan wasn’t ready to get into specifics on that, but he made it clear that he would like to keep calling the NBA no matter what.
“I still have two very good employers at CBS and Westwood that I love working for and doing the NFL and still get a little college basketball in, but I'd be lying if I said that the NBA didn't have a very special place in my heart and I hope in some form or fashion that I continue with Turner and if not with Turner, we'll let the the fates guide me.”
“Turner still has Major League Baseball, they still have the NHL, they've got a lot of different things going, they do these golf specials every once in a while, they have the NCAA tournament, but at the same time, the NBA is kind of a core thing. It's kind of the heart and soul of the division. We just had a production meeting about an hour ago and I look around the room and see these people that work so hard and we're all, you know, it's an uncomfortable feeling.
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