Bill Hazen is a Chicago-based sportscaster and currently the president of Bill Hazen Productions. He is the host of Stadiums USA on SB Nation Radio. [1]
Hazen was the television play-by-play voice of the Houston Rockets, Chicago Bulls [2] and Indiana Pacers. He also called games for Marquette University basketball and Southern Methodist University football and has done various other sports including Major League Baseball and NFL football. Hazen is currently a broadcaster with the Fort Wayne Mad Ants of the NBA Development League. [3]
Hazen is a graduate of Butler University. He resides in Chicago, Illinois.
Greg Gumbel is an American television sportscaster. He is best known for his various assignments for CBS Sports. The older brother of news and sportscaster Bryant Gumbel, he became the first African-American announcer to call play-by-play of a major sports championship in the United States when he announced Super Bowl XXXV for the CBS network in 2001. Gumbel is currently a play-by-play broadcaster for the NFL on CBS as well as the studio host for CBS' men's college basketball coverage.
John Harding Lucas III is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is currently an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Baylor and Oklahoma State.
The NBA on ABC is an American presentation of National Basketball Association (NBA) games produced by ESPN, and televised on ABC. After the ABC Sports division was integrated with its cable sister network in September 2006, broadcasts have since primarily used the NBA on ESPN branding and graphics instead of NBA on ABC name.
Norman Allen Van Lier III was an American professional basketball player and television broadcaster who spent the majority of his career with the Chicago Bulls.
Stephen Graham is an American former professional basketball player coach. Graham's twin brother, Joey, was his college teammate and has also played in the NBA. He is currently a player development coach with the Denver Nuggets.
Joel Meyers is an American sportscaster who is the play-by-play announcer of the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also is the lead host of "Above the Rim", which airs weekdays from 10am-1pm ET on SiriusXM NBA Radio. He is also the preseason play-by-play announcer for the New Orleans Saints.
Joseph E. Meyer is an American professional basketball coach and former men's college basketball coach. He was the head coach of the Fort Wayne Mad Ants, the Indiana Pacers' affiliate in the NBA Development League. He is currently the circuit's all-time victories leader. He was previously the head basketball coach of the DePaul Blue Demons from 1984 to 1997. He currently provides color commentary on radio broadcasts of Northwestern University Men's Basketball games on WGN-AM in Chicago.
Wayne Larrivee is an American sportscaster. Larrivee is currently the radio play-by-play voice of the Green Bay Packers on the Packers Radio Network alongside color commentator Larry McCarren and calls college football and basketball for the Big Ten Network on television. Despite his current job with the Packers, Larrivee has long been associated with Chicago sports, having spent time as the voice of the Chicago Cubs, over a decade as the voice of the Chicago Bears and nearly twenty years as the television voice of the Chicago Bulls.
The Fort Wayne Mad Ants are an American professional basketball team of the NBA G League based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and are affiliated with the Indiana Pacers. The team plays their home games at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. The Mad Ants won their first and only championship in 2014, when the G League was known as the NBA D-League. In September 2015, the Indiana Pacers purchased the Mad Ants.
Robert James Fitzgerald is an American sports broadcaster who is currently the TV play-by-play announcer for the NBA's Golden State Warriors on NBC Sports Bay Area and was a co-host of the radio talk show Fitz and Brooks on KNBR with Rod Brooks.
Eric Collins is a play-by-play sports announcer, currently the voice of the NBA's Charlotte Hornets on Bally Sports South.
Matt Bouldin is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Gonzaga University.
Marquis Devante Teague is an American professional basketball player for Kolossos Rodou of the Greek Basket League. He was one of the top-rated high school basketball players in the class of 2011.
Julyan Ray Stone is an American professional basketball player for Scafati Basket of the Lega Basket Serie A. He played college basketball for the University of Texas at El Paso.
WGN Sports was the programming division of WGN-TV, an independent television station located in Chicago, Illinois, United States—which is owned by the Nexstar Media Group—that was responsible for all sports broadcasts on the station, some of which were previously also broadcast on its former national superstation feed, WGN America.
Carl Keith "C. J." Fair, Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Al-Nasr Dubai of the UAE National Basketball League. He played college basketball for Syracuse University.
D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera is an American professional basketball player who last played for Koroivos of the Greek Basket League. Born in Indianapolis, he played high school basketball for North Central of his hometown and Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia. Having enrolled in Georgetown in 2012 he played for the Hoyas until 2016. After graduation from college Smith Rivera had a brief stint in the NBA Development League.
Walter Lemon Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Ottawa BlackJacks of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL). He played college basketball for four years with the Bradley Braves.
Marcus Jermaine Simmons is an American professional basketball player who played in the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the USC Trojans.
Adam Amin is an American sportscaster. Amin joined Fox Sports in June 2020 as a play-by-play announcer for MLB and NFL games after previously working for ESPN from 2011-2020. He is also the television play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Bulls of the NBA.