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Earlier this week, the Toronto Raptors announced that they will have an all-female broadcast crew on Mar. 24 when they play the Denver Nuggets on a game that will be broadcast on TSN. Tipoff is at 7:30 p.m. ET at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla.
The game is part of a celebration of women in sports and will be the first all-female broadcast team in NBA history. Since TSN is a Canadian network, we can watch it on NBA League Pass or listen to it on SiriusXM Radio. As you are aware, the Raptors are playing the entire 2020-21 NBA season in Tampa because of the coronavirus pandemic and Canadian restrictions.
The Texas Rangers are on track to become the first team in Major League Baseball or any major U.S.-based sports league to have a full-capacity crowd since the coronavirus pandemic started altering the sports landscape a year ago.
“I’m really excited. And really looking forward to this,” McPeak told The Athletic’s David Aldridge. “As a little mixed girl growing up, there was no representation for me in Canada. To have five women of different backgrounds, and three of which are Black women in sports on their televisions, is probably one of the craziest full-circle moments I’ve had in my career.”
McPeak joins Leandra Reilly Lardner as female broadcasters who have called a regular-season NBA game. (Lardner did play-by-play for a Nets-Sixers game in 1988 for SportsChannel America.) Her assignment comes nearly three years after calling a Washington Wizards preseason telecast for Monumental Sports Network. (Monumental Sports Network had to sign off on McPeak working the TSN broadcast, of which general manager Zach Leonsis was “incredibly supportive.”)