US EditionESPN Replaces Doris Burke with Tim Legler for NBA Finals Coverage
ESPN replaces Doris Burke with Tim Legler on NBA Finals team amid fan criticism and chemistry issues; Burke signs multi-year extension for other broadcasts.
- In 2024, ESPN removed Doris Burke from its primary NBA Finals announcing crew, naming veteran analyst Tim Legler to take her place in the lead broadcast team.
- Since becoming part of ESPN in 1990, Burke has been involved with NBA Finals coverage in various roles starting in 2009, and in 2024, she made history by becoming the first woman to serve as a TV game analyst during a championship final in a major U.S. professional sports league.
- Tim Legler, an ESPN analyst since 2000, will join Mike Breen and Richard Jefferson on the lead NBA Finals team, while Burke will continue calling games with Dave Pasch next season.
- Burke, inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame in 2018 with the Curt Gowdy Media Award, has mentored many female analysts and gained respect for her contributions to basketball media.
- ESPN's decision signals a restructuring of its NBA broadcast teams aiming for a permanent lineup, while Burke’s multi-year contract extension confirms her ongoing role with the network.
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Doris Burke has been dropped from ESPN's top NBA broadcasting trio, according to a report from Andrew Marchand of The Athletic. Burke has been working in broadcasting since 1990, and has been at ESPN since 1991, working men's and women's college basketball, doing radio broadcasts, doing sideline reporting, and eventually making her way into the booth as a game analyst. She worked the Finals in 2024, in a trio with Mike Breen and JJ Redick, and s…
ESPN Has Demoted Doris Burke From Their NBA Finals' Broadcast, Replacing Her With Tim Legler
Doris Burke is about as classic of an example as there is of a public figure who the world built up to level that was impossible to maintain. She was praised to a degree that was probably even unfair ...
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