{"id":54,"date":"2021-07-04T21:05:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T21:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoopdata.net\/?p=54"},"modified":"2021-08-11T09:31:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T09:31:38","slug":"a-man-who-gifted-the-game-of-basketball-with-his-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoopdata.net\/index.php\/2021\/07\/04\/a-man-who-gifted-the-game-of-basketball-with-his-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"A man who &#8220;gifted the game of basketball with his voice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Marv Albert\u2019s legendary career is officially over. With the Bucks winning the Eastern Conference finals by defeating the Hawks in Game 6 Saturday night, the longtime NBA play-by-play voice called his final game as the 80-year-old Brooklyn native heads off into retirement. The Hall of Famer called his first Knicks game in 1963 and was a staple on Knicks and NBA broadcasts for the last 55 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI wish I was starting all over again. It has been such a joy. So, for the last time, thanks so much for watching. I\u2019m Marv Albert saying thank you, and goodnight,\u201d Albert said in his final TNT signoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hall of Fame broadcaster Marv Albert wraps up a legendary career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoopdata.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoopdata.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoopdata.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoopdata.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoopdata.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoopdata.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/hoopdata.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoopdata.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoopdata.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoopdata.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoopdata.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}