Doris Burke signed a multi-year contract extension with ESPN, but she will no longer be part of the NBA Finals announcer team for ABC/ESPN, the company revealed Thursday.

Following an initial report of Burke's demotion in The Athletic, ESPN announced that Tim Legler will join the four-person "lead NBA broadcast team" in Burke's place. Mike Breen remains the main play-by-play man, Richard Jefferson will continue to be an analyst with Legler and Lisa Salters will become the main sideline reporter.

Burke, an ESPN veteran of more than 30 years, became the first woman to serve as a TV game analyst for a championship in one of the four major sports leagues when she called the 2024 NBA Finals.

She worked with Breen and Jefferson in the 2025 NBA Finals but it was reported as early as June that

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