Fox Sports broadcaster Gus Johnson "has been hired" by the Bucks and FS Wisconsin to call 20 games this season, according to Richard Deitsch of SI.com. Johnson "will call the NBA games in between his college football and college basketball assignments" for FS1. Johnson said that he "found the 20-game gig appealing" in part "because of the talent level on the Bucks, who finished 41-41 last year and made the playoffs." He said that he is "taking the Bucks assignment on a year-by-year basis." He added, "But in my heart of hearts, I hope this is something I get an opportunity to do for a long time." Along with the Johnson hire, the Bucks will "add another announcer with experience at the network level" in Marques Johnson, who "will serve as an analyst on approximately 55 local telecasts." Longtime Bucks TV announcers Jim Paschke and Jon McGlocklin will "return for their 30th season of calling games and will work the FSW broadcasts not involving" the new broadcast team. Bucks management said that they "added the two Johnsons as part of an ownership effort to have a network-caliber broadcast" (SI.com, 9/14). In Milwaukee, Charles Gardner writes the entertainment factor on broadcasts "is moving up several notches" with the new additions. Gus Johnson "returns to call NBA action for the first time" since '10. He was the "primary radio voice" of the Knicks from '94-'10 for MSG Network (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 9/15). Paschke said that he "welcomes the additions" to the broadcast team. The JOURNAL SENTINEL's Gardner cites sources as saying that former NBAer Sidney Moncrief "will no longer be part of the Bucks broadcast team but he will continue to have a formal role in the organization" (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 9/15).
