The moment won’t be too big for Kevin Harlan. The veteran broadcaster knows the stakes in Boston Monday night, and he's ready to rise to the occasion. “What’s important is letting the game come to us,' he tells richarddeitsch.
“I’ve learned in my career to rarely trust my eyes and always trust the outcome. In other words, a shot that may look good isn’t, and a shot that doesn’t look great might be. So the first thing you do with the horn and light is look for a reaction. I try to locate the official to see if he’s called it good. None of the three officials called it good. Because it was so close, I called what I saw. The putback is up after the missed shot by Smart. Buzzer sounded. Light is on.
Harlan said he plans to arrive at TD Garden around 6 p.m. on Monday. He likes to check out where he is sitting immediately upon entering the building. He likes to feel the arena come alive. He and Van Gundy will watch pregame warmups before additional TNT colleagues join them for production meetings with Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla and Heat coach Erik Spoelstra. It will be the last NBA game Harlan calls this season, as ABC/ESPN has the finals.
“I’m pretty humbled to have the game,” Harlan said. “I never take this stuff for granted, and I feel a great responsibility for it. I still feel like I’m in Marv Albert’s and Dick Stockton’s seat as former lead announcers at TNT and I’m just keeping it warm for who comes after me. I think a lot about those two Hall of Fame broadcasters. They were guys that were good to me when I was a young broadcaster.
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