NBA In Season Tournament Announcers

The ESPN in-season games announcers for 2023 are listed below:

• Ryan Ruocco
• Mike Breen

Ryan Ruocco

The American radio and television sportscaster Ryan Ruocco is the play-by-play announcer for the NBA in-season tournament games on Fridays on ESPN.

While primarily calling ESPN's NBA coverage since 2008, Ryan has been serving as the network's WNBA coverage commentator since 2013.

The Fishkill, New York native Ruocco is the play-by-play announcer for the college football and NFL on ESPN Radio in addition to his NBA career. Also, he has been serving as a commentator for a long time for YES Network alongside his ESPN duties.

Ryan is the chief play-by-play commentator in the Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Nets. For his Nets and Yankees coverage on YES in 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019, Ruocco earned the New York Emmy nominations.

At present, he calls play-by-play for the NBA in-season tournament games on Fridays alongside ESPN's 2023-24 NBA second core broadcast team, Richard Jefferson and JJ Redick.

In addition to the in-season games, Ryan's broadcast team will call the NBA Sunday Showcase series on ABC.

Mike Breen

The lead play-by-play announcer for the NBA on ABC and ESPN, Mike Breen, calls the NBA in-season tournament games along with most regular-season games.

Breen is the chief announcer for the Saturday Primetime and NBA Finals on ABC. He has been calling play-by-play on ESPN since his debut with Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson in 2003.

Before joining ESPN, Breen served 12 seasons for NBC and MSG radio and television network as an NBA play-by-play commentator. He called the Knicks games on the MSG network.

To emphasize his broadcasting career and his importance to the basketball community, Mike was awarded the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Media Award in 2020.

Breen calls the NBA regular-season games along with the NBA in-season tournament games on Fridays on ESPN with his lead broadcasting team of Doris Burke and Doc Rivers.

The announcers for the in-season tournament NBA games on TNT are listed below:

• Ian Eagle
• Brian Anderson

Ian Eagle

The Miami, Florida native sports announcer, Ian Eagle, will call the NBA in-season tournament games on Tuesdays on TNT. He is the 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2019 New York Sportscaster of the Year.

He serves as the play-by-play voice for the NBA's Brooklyn Nets on Yes Network, National Football League, and college basketball on CBS alongside his TNT duties.

Eagle was named the National Sportscaster of the Year for the first time on 26 June 2023 by the National Sports Media Association.

His resume also includes serving the Westwood One radio booth for Thursday Night Football, calling the annual Navy/Army games, and covering the Tennis games in French on CBS.

Ian began his TNT career by calling two games during the 2010 NBA Playoffs. He has since been covering the NBA Playoffs on TNT. The number of games, however, fluctuates depending on the Nets making the playoffs.

For the 2023-24 NBA season, Eagle will cover the regular and in-season tournament games on Tuesday nights, with Anderson covering the remaining doubleheader.

Brian Anderson

The Texas native sportscaster, Brian Anderson, serves as a play-by-play announcer for the NBA games on TNT. He is scheduled to call TNT's Tuesday night coverage of the NBA in-season tournament games. 

The NBA in-season announcer calls the NCAA tournament basketball for WBD Sports and MLB games for TBS alongside his NBA duties on TNT. 

Also, Anderson announces the NCAA basketball regular season for the Big Ten Network and Fox Sports, along with "The Match" golf franchise for TNT.

Since 2007, Brain also serves as a lead play-by-play for Major League Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers on Bally Sports Wisconsin broadcast.

Beginning his broadcasting career in 1998, Anderson joined TNT as a 3rd announcer for the NBA games in 2014. He was named one of the play-by-play to the weekly scheduled doubleheader on Tuesday nights on TNT before the 2019-20 NBA season. 

The commentators for the NBA in-season tournament games are listed below:

• Richard Jefferson
• JJ Redick
• Doc Rivers
• Doris Burke
• Greg Anthony
• James Jackson
• Reggie Miller
• Stan Van Gundy

The former NBA champion, Richard Jefferson, is an analyst for the NBA in-season games in Ryan Ruocco's broadcasting team. He has been an NBA analyst for ESPN since 2019.

Before working for ESPN, he was involved in several outlets, like NBA Countdown, NBA Today, Hoops Streams, First Take, and Sports Center.

He formerly spent 17 seasons as an NBA defender and led the Cleveland Cavaliers to their first NBA Championship trophy in history. 

Jefferson began broadcasting as a studio and game analyst for the New Jersey Nets on YES Network right after retirement in 2018.

JJ Redick is the named color commentator for the NBA on ESPN alongside Jefferson in their second core broadcasting team. He has been with ESPN as an analyst since 27 October 2021.

He debuted on 3 November 2021 as a part of studio programming on ESPN, covering the Atlanta Hawks against the Brooklyn Nets game.

Before working as a broadcaster, Redick played 15 seasons in the NBA after being picked 11th overall in the NBA draft in 2006 by the Orlando Magic. He retired from the NBA on 21 September 2021.

Doc Rivers is the current in-season commentator for the NBA on ESPN. He calls the game on the panel with the Hall of Fame announcer Mike Green.

He called the second NBA in-season game on 3 November at 10 p.m. ET, featuring Mavericks against the Nuggets. He was added to the ESPN lead broadcast team ahead of the 2023-24 season.

The former NBA point guard, Rivers, played 14 seasons in the league before serving as a head coach for 25 seasons. He served as a head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers before starting his broadcasting career.

The NBA in-season tournament games are scheduled to be broadcast on regional networks, with TNT, ESPN, and NBA TV telecasting select games nationally.

Out-of-market games not broadcast nationally can be accessed on NBA League Pass. TNT, ESPN, and ABC will broadcast the knockout stages of the tournament.

TNT is set to air all four quarterfinals on December 4 and 5, along with the late semifinal on December 7.

ESPN will air the early semifinal and three consolation games on December 7 and December 6 and 8, respectively. The in-season tournament final is scheduled for December 9 on ABC.

The list of NBA nationally broadcast in-season tournament games, along with their announcer schedule is provided below:

• November 3: (ESPN)
  
  • New York Knicks vs Milwaukee Bucks at 7:30 PM on ESPN - Ryan Ruocco
  • Dallas Mavericks vs Denver Nuggets at 10 PM on ESPN - Mike Breen
• November 10: (ESPN)
  • Brooklyn Nets vs Boston Celtics at 7:30 PM
  • Los Angeles Lakers vs. Phoenix Suns at 10 PM
• November 14: (TNT)
  • San Antonio Spurs vs Oklahoma City Thunder at 7:30 PM
  • LA Clippers vs Denver Nuggets at 10 PM
• November 17: (ESPN)
  • Sacramento Kings vs San Antonio Spurs at 7:30 PM
  • Phoenix Suns vs Utah Jazz at 10 PM
• November 21: (TNT)
  • Cleveland Cavaliers vs Philadelphia 76ers at 7:30 PM
  • Utah Jazz vs Los Angeles Lakers at 10 PM
• November 24: (NBA TV and ESPN)
  
  • Boston Celtics vs. Orlando Magic at 2:30 PM
  • Phoenix Suns vs Memphis Grizzlies at 5 PM
  • Miami Heat vs New York Knicks at 7:30 PM
  • San Antonio Spurs vs. Golden State Warriors at 10 PM
• November 28: (TNT)
  • Milwaukee Bucks vs Miami Heat at 7:30 PM
  • Golden State Warriors vs Sacramento Kings at 10 PM