Put another way: You know the pure enjoyment of basketball that infuses Zach Lowe’s writing? That’s Albert doing play-by-play. His exclamation of surprise—“Oh!”—sounds like a foodie who has just stumbled onto the best cheeseburger of their life.

What a great profile of Marv Albert from Byran Curtis that also covers the darker side:

Though Albert insisted on his innocence, it’s not hard to think that, today, the second half of his career never would have happened at all.