Turner Sports and ESPN have not made an official announcement about plans for their broadcasters for the NBA restart, but viewers "can expect to see the usual suspects calling these games at their own risk from the arenas and gyms in Orlando," according to Bob Raissman of the N.Y. DAILY NEWS. Announcers were "all given the option of not working or going to Florida ... and decided to make the trip." Sources said that the "prevailing thought" is having voices call games from a remote studio in Atlanta or Bristol "will be pitted with an inordinate amount of potholes from a technological standpoint." Watching ESPN’s "leaky early morning telecasts of Korean baseball was all the evidence anyone needed." Sources claimed that it is "safer for voices ... to stay in a resort where stringent protocols are practiced, rather than flying back and forth between their homes to remote studios and staying in hotels." ESPN and TNT "will be forced to have a Taxi Squad of voices working from remote studios." Raissman: "Expect some glitches on these telecasts." While they will be "working remotely from Atlanta early in the NBA Playoffs, look for" Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson to be working in Orlando in the final rounds (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 7/19). ESPN's Mike Breen also is expected to be in Orlando (THE DAILY).
