ESPN to have all-female broadcast for Heat-Celtics
ESPN will have an all-female broadcast on Friday night led by Doris Burke as the Miami Heat head to Boston to face the Celtics.
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ESPN will have an all-female broadcast on Friday night led by Doris Burke as the Miami Heat head to Boston to face the Celtics.
“I’m really excited. And really looking forward to this,” McPeak told The Athletic’s David Aldridge. “As a little mixed girl growing up, there was no representation for me in Canada. To have five women of different backgrounds, and three of which are Black women in sports on their televisions, is probably one of the craziest full-circle moments I’ve had in my career.” McPeak joins Leandra Reilly Lardner as female broadcasters who have called a regular-season NBA game. (Lardner did play-by-play for a Nets-Sixers game in 1988 for SportsChannel America.) Her assignment comes nearly...