Mike Gorman

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Mike Gorman is a television play-by-play commentator for the Boston Celtics basketball team, currently broadcasting on the Fox Sports New England cable channel. He is a native of Dorchester, Massachusetts and graduate of Boston Latin High School and Boston State College (now University of Massachusetts-Boston).

He and color commentator Tom Heinsohn form one of the longest-tenured broadcast tandems in professional sports. The 2005-2006 season concluded their 25th consecutive year as the television voices of the Boston Celtics.

A five-time Emmy award winner, Gorman was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004.

A veteran of the U.S. Navy, Gorman began his broadcasting career at WNBH in New Bedford, Massachusetts and WPRO radio in Providence, Rhode Island. Gorman served as sports director at WPRI-TV in Providence; as the voice of the University of Rhode Island on WPRO; and as television play-by-play man for the Providence College Friars.

During the 1980s, Gorman was the primary announcer for ESPN's "Big Monday" Big East Game of the Week. He has called the NCAA basketball tournament on CBS; tennis at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics with Bud Collins on NBC; and the NBA Playoffs on TNT.

Mike is married to museum design consultant Teri Schindler and their daughter, Kristen, works in theater.