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Hail and Farewell, Marv Albert

If a Hollywood script-writer – or perhaps “Jake” from State Farm – had control on the outcome, the ending would have arrived last Thursday in Milwaukee with a dude who kinda resembles Fred Flintstone literally bludgeoning into submission Nate McMillan’s over-achieving up-starts with some good, old-fashioned “paint-pounding” and “rim-rattling”!

Yabba Dabba Doo, and it counts!

Although I must acknowledge some difficulty in recent times distinguishing his “voice” from that of his TNT play-by-play colleague Kevin Harlan, Marv Albert’s “broadcast stylings” have been distinctive – and ubiquitous – for over half a century. That ever-so-deliberate cadence is his “calling card” – for me, anyway.