A massive house fire destroyed the Long Island home of Mike Breen, ESPN’s lead NBA play-by-play man and the voice of the Knicks for 30 years.
No one was home at the time, and , according to TMZ. The blaze is under investigation.
Firefighters responded to the house fire in North Hills around 4 a.m. Sunday, the Manhasset-Lakeville fire department said. But the home was already in bad shape when smoke-eaters arrived.
“Ultimately, heavy machinery was called in to access parts of the home which were inaccessible by crews due to structural collapse,” the M-LFD said.
The fire was not extinguished until around 2 p.m.
Breen, 61, joined WFAN as a radio play-by-play man on Knicks games in 1992. He rose to become ESPN’s go-to guy for big NBA games, and he’s called the NBA Finals since 2006.
Breen’s includes several iconic calls, including in the 2016 Finals and against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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