Doris Burke demoted from ESPN/ABC’s top NBA broadcast team

Doris Burke had been a color analyst on ESPN/ABC’s top broadcast team since the 2023-24 season.ESPN/ABC again has shaken up its lineup of NBA broadcasters, demoting Doris Burke from its No. 1 team and elevating Tim Legler.

Burke, a former Providence College basketball star and 1987 graduate, had been a color analyst on ESPN/ABC’s top team since the 2023-24 season. She began working for ESPN in 1991.

During the 2024 NBA Finals, she became the first woman to call a championship television broadcast in a major American men’s professional sports league.

Burke, who entered the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018 as the Curt Gowdy Media Award winner, now will be paired with play-by-play voice Dave Pasch…