<<<Matt Devlin…No stranger to television, He most recently was T.V play by play for Charlotte Bobcats. Devlin has also worked with the NBA and its national television partners, serving as a play-by-play announcer and sideline reporter for TNT’s coverage for two seasons. He also worked for NBATV when the league launched its network in October 1999 and served as the regular play-by-play voice for the network on its game broadcasts of the regular season, playoffs, summer leagues and the WNBA. Devlin has covered many events for the NBA, including the 2003 All-Star Weekend when he co-hosted several shows live from Atlanta.
The summer of 04 he worked for NBC broadcasting the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Devlin did play-by-play duties for track and field and diving for the network’s high definition telecasts.
Prior to joining the Grizzlies, Devlin handled the play-by-play duties for the New York Liberty of the WNBA for the MSG Network, and also was the pre-game and post-game host for the network’s broadcasts of the New York Knicks and New York Yankees. For three-straight seasons Devlin was the host for the WNBA Draft on the event’s live broadcast on ESPN2.
In addition to his NBA and WNBA experience, Devlin also called college basketball games on ESPN, the Atlantic 10 basketball network and the MSG Network. Moreover, Devlin has announced games for the St. Louis Cardinals, the University of Connecticut Huskies, ESPN Regional, ESPN International and four minor league baseball teams.
Devlin is a 1990 graduate of Boston College and attended high school in Nashville, Tennessee. He and his wife, Erin, they have three sons.
He was let go by the Bobcats as they did not renew his contract. In doing a little research I found an article back from 2006 that really took him to task. He was given a grade of D+ in the article that I will post. In the same article Swirsky got a B. There is a funny story about Chuck and Leo in the Review. I will post that as well.
Chuck And Leo From Same 2006 Article
We will all judge him ourselves come next season. But after reading this I have to say it was not encouraging. It was 2 years ago and people can improve. But you have to keep in mind he was also in a sense fired(contract not renewed) from the bobcats. Replacing Chuck Swirsky is going to be a very hard task. If Raps keep both Leo and Jack perhaps they can help this guy not get run out of town. Anyway we will wait and see. I don’t envy him in any way shape or form. In my interview with Paul Jones awhile ago he talked about replacing Chuck on Radio. But before Jones had the job the raps had Ex-TSN play by play man Paul Rominuck who only lasted a season. So good luck to Matt I think he may need it.
Doug Smith says the Raptors should be making this announcement very soon that they have hired Delvin. By reading his resume above I have to say it sounds impressive but to be honest I would not have known this guy if I ran into him at the mall. But we will see how he does it is obvious he has a great deal of experience.
MONEY MONEY MONEY!!!
The Washington Wizards have lost it. Seriously how else can you explain the contract they have agreed to with Gilbert Arenas. 111 Million Dollars? To use an old Swirsky Line…ARE YOU KIDDING ME? 6 years??? For a guy that struggled all last season with a bad knee? Good luck with that one Washington. Signing Jamison was right move being held hostage by Agent 0 not so much. Baron Davis was out their for less money. Why not make a run at him and tell Agent 0 that it has been fun and have a nice life. This is not just a cheap attempt by me to get in his blog. I think Arenas is just not worth that amount of cash and sure would never agree to a term that long on any player with a bad wheel. Arenas claims the team wanted to offer him the max of 128 million and he left 17 million on the table. Whatever the truth is Wizards are nuts cause Gilbert is not worth it.
Chris Paul may be worth that kind of money that Arenas got. But he did still get a massive amount of cash to remain with Hornets. Somewhere in the 68 million dollar range. Well deserved and well earned. CP3 is rapidly making the argument he is the best point guard in the game today. Chris Paul is worth all of that 68 million and a lot more. His deal is said to be for just 3 years, going the same route as NBA stars like Lebron James,Chris Bosh and others did when they resigned couple years ago.
Canada Invades Toronto
Just a reminder that Canada Basketball is taking over the Ricoh for the next few days. At 4pm as a bonus you can watch the Junior Men’s Team in Action. Followed by the Big Boys at 7pm. This goes for today and tomorrow. Don’t expect to see much of Sam Dalembert in these games as it looks like he will be resting for the qualifier in Greece. But if you have not seen Joel Anthony play he is worth the price of admission all on his own. I recently added the basketball Canada website to my links, So if you want to learn more about your team you can check it out.
Tags: Bobcats, Canada Basketball, Chris Paul, Devlin, Doug Smith, Gilbert Arenas, Raptors, Swirsky
