Mike Walczewski
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Mike Walczewski is an American public address announcer best known for his work for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association.
Walczewski was born and raised in the Sunnyside, Queens section of New York City, NY on January 9, 1956. He now resides in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, a Westchester County suburb of New York City with his wife, son, and daughter.
Walczewski has served as the arena voice of the Knicks since 1989 and the New York Liberty of the WNBA since their inception in 1997 as well as many college basketball games at Madison Square Garden. In addition, his voice talents can be heard in a television advertisement for Dr Pepper, an episode of Sex and the City, and the 1995 Billy Crystal film Forget Paris.
Before being the PA voice of the Knicks, Walczewski was the voice of the Fordham Rams men's basketball team—a position he took after his graduation from the university in 1979.