{"id":94301,"date":"2016-02-09T14:44:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T20:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=94301"},"modified":"2016-02-10T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T23:00:43","slug":"marvelous-marv-tnt-agee-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=94301","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Marvelous&#8221; Marv, TNT agree, new contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AlbertsMarv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-94431\" alt=\"AlbertsMarv\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AlbertsMarv-300x202.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AlbertsMarv-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AlbertsMarv-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AlbertsMarv-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AlbertsMarv.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Veteran announcer Marv Albert has agreed to a multiyear contract extension with TNT (CSi 24) \u00a0to call NBA games.<\/p>\n<p>Albert will no longer work the NCAA Tournament under the new deal announced Tuesday. Turner Sports&#8217; NBA broadcasters have been part of the college basketball postseason during the company&#8217;s partnership with CBS. But Albert says four games a day in the early rounds was too much strain on his voice, forcing him to take off some NBA telecasts to recover.<\/p>\n<p>Albert will call this weekend&#8217;s NBA All-Star Game in Toronto, his 21st year providing commentary for the event. He&#8217;ll continue to work regular-season and playoff games for the network.<\/p>\n<p>The Hall of Fame broadcaster has been associated with the NBA for nearly 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Turner Sports executive Craig Barry calls Albert a &#8220;legendary broadcaster&#8221; and &#8220;a true icon in the industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Albert is in his 18th season as a play-by-play commentator for TNT. He has won five national Sports Emmy Awards and was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Veteran announcer Marv Albert has agreed to a multiyear contract extension with TNT (CSi 24) \u00a0to call NBA games. Albert will no longer work the NCAA Tournament under the new deal announced Tuesday. Turner Sports&#8217; NBA broadcasters have been part of the college basketball postseason during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94306,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94301\/revisions\/94306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}