NBC Sports Boston play-by-play announcer Mike Gorman is reducing his schedule for the network’s coverage of the Boston Celtics for the 2022-2023 season, but says he isn’t retiring anytime soon.
The longtime announcer told 98.5 The Sports Hub’s Toucher & Rich he is scaling back, but has signed an agreement to stay with the network’s coverage.
“Well, in general, I’m only going to do home games,” Gorman said. “There are some exceptions. I’ll definitely go to New York City this weekend and do the Knicks. I’ll be there when we go to Brooklyn the first time. I’ll go to the Philadelphia games.
“Here’s the thing — and this has been a wonderful experience — but I wanna make this up front: I am the one making the call on what games I’m going to and not. I’m not being forced into any situation. In fact, it’s the opposite. The folks at NBC (Sports Boston) have said to me ‘Whatever you wanna do, you can do, and we’ll fill in around that.’
“So it’s me who’s calling that shot. And I don’t mean that from a sense of power, I just don’t want anyone thinking ‘He’s getting squeezed’. That said, I’ll probably end up doing 48 games this year. We lose 12 games to networks, that gets us up to 60. I’m not gonna make the West Coast trips, but I will go to Phoenix because that’s where my daughter lives, and I became a grandfather this summer for the first time.
“I’m too old to be throwing snow off my car at 3:30 in the morning from an airport space. It’s just not what I want to do with my life right now. I have just reached an agreement to do this for the next two years on the basis of what we’ve just said, so I’m not going anywhere.”
Gorman has worked Boston Celtics TV broadcasts since 1981, pairing with Tommy Heinsohn to form one of the longest tenured broadcast partnerships in major sports history, until Heinsohn died in 2020.
