Mike Breen to reach landmark for announcers with Game 5 of the NBA Finals

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Mike Breen is currently the dean of television announcers for the NBA Finals — and he is about to enter rarified air space.

The ABC/ESPN announcer will reach another milestone on Monday night in Game 5 of the Denver-Miami series. It will be Breen’s 100th NBA Finals broadcast, making him the third basketball announcer on radio or television to reach that mark. He'll be the sixth U.S. play-by-play voice to eclipse the mark, including the World Series and Stanley Cup Final.

Breen missed the first two games of last year’s series due to COVID, which briefly delayed him from reaching the century mark.

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Mark Jackson, Jeff Van Gundy, and Mike Breen before Game One of the 2023 NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets on June 1, 2023 at the Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado.  (Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)

"I knew how many years I had done the finals, but I never put it into a specific number of games," said Breen, who is calling his 18th championship series. "I would have never said 100. For some reason, to hear that number was surprising to me, and it’s not something even in my wildest dreams that I thought I could do.

"I take it as an honor to reach that mark that I’ve been able to do that many."

Joe Buck did 135 World Series games for Fox, and Mike "Doc" Emrick was at the mic for 110 Stanley Cup Final contests on ESPN, Versus, NBC and NBCSN.

When including radio, Breen is the third to reach 100 NBA Finals games, joining legendary Lakers voice Chick Hearn (121) and Boston’s Johnny Most (103). In baseball, Hall of Fame announcer Vin Scully had 126 World Series