Legendary NBA broadcaster Marv Albert has been around the league what seems like forever, and it all started as a teenager in the late 1950s when landed a gig as a ball boy for the New York Knickerbockers. Sunday, Grantland’s Bryan Curtis posted a photograph to his Facebook page of an article the 16-year-old Marv (nee Aufrichtig) wrote for his high school newspaper.
Even as a high schooler, Albert was already showing tremendous potential as a writer and reporter, and would later go onto a 37-year career covering the Knicks on local radio and TV before joining NBC and later TNT, where he still works as an in-game announcer.
In his article, Albert recounts a road trip he took with the Knicks to Philadelphia to play the Warriors in the second game of a double-header. Along the way, young Albert is subjected to lame card tricks and magic tricks, but the highlight, by far, is just how unimpressed he was with Kenny Sears’ sense of humor. We can only assume Sears didn’t take too kindly to him after that, but that didn’t stop the precocious teenager from becoming one of the most iconic voices in all of professional sports.
(via Bryan Curtis, h/t Deadspin)
