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Veteran analyst Tim Legler will join ESPN\u2019s lead broadcast team this season.<\/p>\n
ESPN\u00a0today announced its deep roster of NBA game commentators for the 2025-26 season. Veteran analyst\u00a0Tim Legler\u00a0will join\u00a0ESPN\u2019s\u00a0lead NBA broadcast team, which includes Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame broadcaster\u00a0Mike Breen, analyst and NBA Champion\u00a0Richard Jefferson\u00a0and reporter\u00a0Lisa Salters.<\/p>\n
Legler,\u00a0Breen,\u00a0Jefferson\u00a0and\u00a0Salters\u00a0will call the\u00a0NBA Finals\u00a0on\u00a0ABC, the Conference Finals, high-profile first and second round games during the NBA Playoffs, a Christmas Day game and\u00a0NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC\u00a0\u2013 the marquee, national NBA game of the week.\u00a0Legler\u00a0is celebrating his 25th\u00a0anniversary with\u00a0ESPN, having served as an analyst since 2000.<\/p>\n
ESPN\u00a0has also signed\u00a0Jefferson\u00a0to a new, multi-year agreement. The NBA Champion served as\u00a0NBA Finals\u00a0analyst for the first time in 2025. He joined\u00a0ESPN\u00a0in 2019 as a studio analyst.\u00a0Jefferson\u00a0will continue to call\u00a0ESPN\u2019s\u00a0top NBA games and make select studio appearances.<\/p>\n
ESPN Extends Doris Burke<\/p>\n
ESPN\u00a0today also announced it has reached a multi-year extension with analyst and Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame broadcaster\u00a0Doris Burke.\u00a0Burke\u00a0will continue to call high-profile NBA games on\u00a0ESPN\u00a0and\u00a0ABC, including the\u00a0NBA Sunday Showcase\u00a0series. Her assignments will include full slates of games throughout the regular season and the NBA Playoffs.\u00a0Burke\u00a0will regularly work alongside play-by-play voice\u00a0Dave Pasch. With this new deal,\u00a0Burke\u2019s\u00a0tenure at\u00a0ESPN\u00a0will extend more than 35 years. She first covered basketball for\u00a0ESPN\u00a0in 1991 and has since been assigned to 17\u00a0NBA Finals, including six as a game analyst between\u00a0ABC\u00a0and\u00a0ESPN Radio, as well as 11 as sideline reporter on\u00a0ABC.<\/p>\n
ESPN\u00a0previously announced a contract extension for\u00a0Lisa Salters.\u00a0To read more on\u00a0Salters, and to view\u00a0ESPN and ABC\u2019s 2025-26 game schedule, visit\u00a0ESPNPressRoom.com.<\/p>\n
ESPN\u2019s deep roster of game commentators<\/p>\n
As\u00a0ESPN\u00a0enters its 24th\u00a0consecutive season of industry-leading NBA game coverage, it will once again be led by a deep and talented roster of play-by-play voices, analysts and sideline reporters.\u00a0Dave Pasch,\u00a0Ryan Ruocco\u00a0and\u00a0Mark Jones\u00a0will once again join\u00a0Breen\u00a0as play-by-play voices this season. Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer broadcaster\u00a0Jay Bilas\u00a0and two-time NBA Executive of the Year\u00a0Bob Myers\u00a0will return as a game analysts, joining\u00a0Legler,\u00a0Jefferson\u00a0and\u00a0Burke\u00a0in the rotation.\u00a0Salters\u00a0will lead the revamped sideline reporting team, which also includes\u00a0Katie George, and\u00a0Jorge Sedano\u00a0among others to be added.<\/p>\n
More information on\u00a0ESPN\u00a0NBA commentators, including\u00a0ESPN Radio\u2019s\u00a0game broadcasts, will be available soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran analyst Tim Legler will join ESPN\u2019s lead broadcast team this season. ESPN\u00a0today announced its deep roster of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,76950,590,85],"class_list":["post-107395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-espn-nba-game-commentators","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}