Karl Malone‘s shaved head was a revelation the last time Marv Albert called an Olympic basketball game on NBC.
Albert returns to cover Olympic basketball for NBC for the first time since Atlanta 1996 this summer.
Twenty years ago, Albert and Hall of Famer Bill Walton and former NBA player and coach Matt Guokas were on the broadcast for the Olympic men’s basketball final between the U.S. and Yugoslavia.
The U.S. would, as expected, eventually easily defeat Yugoslavia 95-69, so the pregame hype wasn’t all about the showdown.