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NBA Telecasts

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AARINSEATTLE

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I was watching a classic NBA game between the Boston Celtics and the San Francisco Warriors from 1964 yesterday on ESPN Classic and the annoucer of the game was the late Marty Glickman. I'm wondering who used to do the broadcasts did the NBA in those days? I do remember when I was an infant that the telecasts were on ABC until 1973 then it went to CBS later that year till 1990. Someone please help me out here.
 
> I was watching a classic NBA game between the Boston Celtics
> and the San Francisco Warriors from 1964 yesterday on ESPN
> Classic and the annoucer of the game was the late Marty
> Glickman. I'm wondering who used to do the broadcasts did
> the NBA in those days? I do remember when I was an infant
> that the telecasts were on ABC until 1973 then it went to
> CBS later that year till 1990. Someone please help me out
> here.

IIRC, the main play-by-play guys were Keith Jackson on ABC and Dick Stockton on CBS. In the '50s they were on NBC with Curt Gowdy doing the games.
 
The 1964 NBA game on ESPN Classic may have been either:

(1) a local telecast (but I doubt it; I thought Glickman was in New York at the time and was probably not the local TV play-by-play man of either team),

(2) a network telecast (didn't NBC carry NBA some playoff games in the early 1960's?), or

(3) a syndicated telecast of some sort.
 
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