MARV Albert has been TNT’s lead NBA play-by-play broadcaster since 1999. It was recently hinted that Albert will be hanging up his sports commentating hat. How old is Marv Albert? Marv Albert is an American sportscaster. Honored for his work as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, he is commonly referred to as […]
MARV Albert has been TNT’s lead NBA play-by-play broadcaster since 1999.
It was recently hinted that Albert will be hanging up his sports commentating hat.
Marv Albert is an American sportscaster. Honored for his work as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, he is commonly referred to as “the voice of basketball”.
Albert is 79-years-old and hails from Brooklyn, New York. He will turn 80 in June.
From 1967 to 2004, he was also known as “the voice of the New York Knicks.”
He has been commentating on professional basketball games for 60 years and is considered by most the greatest NBA play-by-player of all time.
Albert worked his first Knicks game as a 21-year-old in 1963, filling in for another New York sportscasting giant, Marty Glickman, on WCBS Radio.
TNT and Albert are expected to formally announce his retirement plans soon, but a date is not yet confirmed.
He he will call his last game in the Eastern Conference Finals.
It’s still being determined who will be Albert’s partner for the playoffs after his former right-hand man Chris Webber would not be calling the playoffs.
Chris Webber parted ways with TNT, which is unrelated, according to The Post.
TNT is reaching out to people around the league to honor Albert with a tribute during this year’s postseason writes the Post.
Albert is currently married to Heather Faulkner.
The pair wed in September 1998 when Faulkner was 39 and Albert was 54.
Albert was fired by NBC the year prior after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge.
He was accused of throwing his former girlfriend, Vanessa Perhach, on a bed in a Virginia hotel room, biting her on the back more than a dozen times, and forcing her to perform oral sex.
Faulkner stood by Albert throughout the humiliating trial.
Faulkner is Albert’s second wife. In 1965 he married first wife Benita Oberlander, but the pair got divorced in 1992.
Albert has four children: Kenny, Brian, Denise and Jackie Albert.
Albert’s first child Kenny is also a sports commentator who reports baseball and football for Fox Sports, and Washington Capitals, and also of New York Rangers games.
Brian is a graduate of Columbia University.
Albert’s daughter Denise, who graduated from Boston University with a major in broadcast journalism, is also an analyst for NBA TV.
His other daughter Jackie is a pastry chef currently working in Manhattan.
