The National Basketball Assn. champion Milwaukee Bucks have a new voice as their play-by-play announcer. Also a new gender.Veteran sportscaster Lisa Byington is the new lead announcer for Bucks television broadcasts on Bally Sports Wisconsin for the 2021-2022 season.
She replaces longtime announcer Jim Paschke, who is retiring. Former Bucks All-Star forward Marques Johnson will continue as analystAlthough other women have done one-off play-by-play for games (Andrea Kremer and Hannah Storm did a 2018 NFL game, and Jenny Cavnar did a Colorado Rockies baseball broadcast, among several examples), Byington is the first full-time female play-by-play announcer for a major men’s professional sports team.“We are so excited to welcome Lisa to the
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