In the fall of 2013 NBA’s long time sideline Analyst Doris Burke was hired as a full time commentator on the ESPN’s pre-game show , making her the first female analyst to hold full time commentating job in NBA. Doris Burke has been favorite sideline analyst and interviewer for both NBA n WNBA since early 90’s and thus had years of experience in the sport and its been fan favorite too as she provided in depth interviews with the players. ESPN has been lauded for trying to break the conventions of only male run pregame shows and commentating and she was actually replacing the legendary Magic Johnson as the panelist on the pregame show. Her new job as this shows host will also not keep her away from attending many games and still work part time as sideline reporter as much as she can.
She is really the leading lady in representing female reporters on the national television and is widely recognized as one of the best analysts in major league sports in the US. That is quite an achievement in sport such as basketball as NBA is known as trying to push the boundaries and break the walls of inequality ( NBA had first black coach in any major sports in Bill Russell ) and as thus is always trying to fight the perceived notions. Hiring of her not only brought higher quality of analysis as many of the male counterparts ( including Magic Johnson ) were taking the analyst job very unprofessionally and it seemed as if they only watched one basketball game a week , and weren’t really delivering quality commentating. This shows how often many of these old time commentators really don’t care much about the job of analyzing and just expect to talk some random stuff about the sport they once played rather than research and keep working to give the viewers the most in depth analysis possible , such as those that Doris Burke often delivers.
Women in sports broadcasting 