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The Max Whittle Podcast

This week on the US Sports Podcast with Max Whittle, NBA play-by-play announcer for ESPN, ABC and the MSG Network Mike Breen joins the podcast. In New York City ahead of the start of the 2016/17 NBA playoffs, Mike talks about what it was like to grow up in an Irish Catholic enclave north of Manhattan with five brothers, how he became a diehard New York Mets fan, his time spent at Fordham University studying radio with Michael Kay, getting into the sports broadcasting business, what it's like to call games for the New York Knicks on a day-to-day basis and his on-air chemistry with ESPN colleagues Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson. You can tweet Max @max_whittle