Longtime NBA play-by-play man Marv Albert is contemplating retirement at the end of the season, he told Andrew Marchand of the New York Post.
Albert, 79, is in the final year of an eight-year contract with Turner Sports/TNT.
“I’m winding down,” Albert told Marchand. “I’m not sure when. I think that is certainly ahead. I don’t want to be dishonest about it. The day will come.”
Albert is currently calling NBA on TNT games from his home. He is scheduled to call the All-Star Game next month.
The longtime voice of the New York Knicks, Albert called his first NBA game on Jan. 27, 1963 on WCBS Radio as a fill-in for mentor Marty Glickman. Albert actually began as a Knicks ball boy before calling their games for 37 years.
He has been the lead play-by-play man on TNT since 1999.
“Since he will do the playoffs to end this season, he said he may not even definitively know when it is his final game, though he and TNT appear to be on the same page,” Marchand wrote.
