Marv Albert recently signed a multi-year contract extension to call NBA games for TNT, it was reported by Awful Announcing today, meaning that the 74-year-old will make it to his 50th year of broadcasting sometime in 2018. It’s reported that the deal is for at least two years.
These days Marv is pretty much up there on the broadcasting summit with Vin Scully and a few others — I actually saw the Scully comparison today on a site that will remain nameless. Perhaps the author is too young to recall 1997, when Marv was embroiled in a huge sexual assault scandal that nearly, and should have, snuffed out his career for good.