Longtime radio play-by-play announcer Mark Boyle said the Pacers broadcasters invited his TV counterpart a chance to call the second quarter of Game 3.
INDIANAPOLIS — The second quarter of tonight’s Game 3 of the NBA Finals sounded a little different to avid listeners of the Pacers on radio.
Chris Denari, who has handled play-by-play duties for the Pacers for nearly 20 years on television, stepped in to call the second quarter of Game 3 on the radio. Mark Boyle, who has been the radio voice of the team for 36 years, posted on social media that the radio team invited Denari to make the call.
“Just because he foolishly chose TV over radio doesn’t mean he shouldn’t experience The Finals,” Boyle wrote. “He’s earned it.”
Denari posted that he was flattered by the generosity of the radio team, but said the offer wasn’t a surprise.
“That’s the way the (Pacers Sports & Entertainment) family operates,” he wrote.
Denari noted his first radio broadcast for the Pacers came in 2000 — the last time Indiana reached the NBA Finals.
