Marv Albert Should Be Benched Until Broadcasts Came Come Back to Arenas
Marv Albert is a legend. You know that. I know that. Even a legend can be out of their element. That is what’s happening currently with Albert. He is not cut out for the remote broadcast that Turner Sports uses to cut costs during a pandemic and prevent the announcers from getting COVID-19. Albert is high-risk as he’s older. But Albert cannot hang with the new way to do things. He had constant mistakes yesterday in the Bucks-Pelicans game and provided an unwatchable experience for any casual fan. If I had been a fan of another team watching, that game would have gone on mute so quickly. Do a Twitter search of Albert this morning, it’s not kind.
If I had a drink for everytime Marv Albert messed something up in this broadcast, I’d sound like Marv Albert doing this broadcast.
— Kyle Hoffenbecker (@KHoffenbecker) February 26, 2021
Marv Albert tonight pic.twitter.com/TyYsqtUZrq
— mike📈suszek (@mikesuszek) February 26, 2021
Albert can still do games, but it should be a once-in-a-while thing versus every Thursday night. Turner is too talented not to use their resources. Brian Anderson, Ian Eagle both run circles around Albert. And there are countless other younger broadcasters that deserve a shot at the national stage. I get that Albert didn’t get to do the playoffs and probably could have given how successful the bubble was yet we didn’t know COVID-19 as well as we did back then. If they want to continue with Marv, he should get the vaccine and start calling games in the stadium with Chris Webber. That’s the only solvable solution at this point.
Charlie.