Jim Durham

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Jim Durham is an American basketball sportscaster.

Since 1995, he has called numerous National Basketball Association games for ESPN and ESPN Radio. Durham has spent more than 32 years calling NBA games on TV and radio; his previous assignments were with the Chicago Bulls and the Dallas Mavericks. With the Bulls, he was play-by-play announcer when Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and their teammates won the 1990-91 NBA championship.

Early in his career, Durham worked on WJBC radio in Bloomington, Illinois. During his time there, he covered the career of Illinois State University basketball star Doug Collins, later coincidentally the coach of the Bulls during the early Jordan years in Chicago, including this famous call:

Jim Durham's most memorable call is arguably his narration of Michael Jordan's "shot" in Game 5 of the 1989 first round NBA playoff series between the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers.

The inbounds pass comes in to Jordan. Here's Michael at the foul line, a shot on Ehlo...good! The Bulls win!!! They win!!! The Bulls have upset the Cleveland Cavaliers!