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Kate Scott to call Sixers games taking over for retired Marc Zumoff

Kate Scott will replace Marc Zumoff as the television voice of the Philadelphia 76ers.

The Philadelphia 76ers will look much different when they take the floor to begin the 2021-22 season. They will have an almost new team with the imminent trade of All-Star Ben Simmons and they will now have a new voice calling their games for NBC Sports Philadelphia.

After 39 years covering the Sixers, 27 as the play-by-play man, the legendary Marc Zumoff is stepping down. All of his amazing catchphrases such as “lock all windows and doors” and “coming in for a landing” and things of that nature will now be just a fond memory for Sixers fans.

Per Rob Torone of The Philadelphia Inquirer, NBC Sports Philadelphia will hire Kate Scott to replace Zumoff. Scott is the first woman to call an NFL game on the radio, the first to call college football for the Pac-12 Network, and she also called basketball games during the Tokyo Olympics.

Per Torone:

The network has hired Kate Scott to call games this season, according to sources not authorized to speak publicly. The move makes Scott the first full-time female broadcaster of any major sport in Philadelphia television history and just the second woman to handle full-time play-by-play duties for an NBA team.

NBC Sports Philadelphia and Scott did not respond to requests for comment.

Scott becomes the second woman to be hired as the television voice of an NBA team as she joins Lisa Byington who was hired by the Milwaukee Bucks. There is only one Marc Zumoff and Scott will have some large shoes to fill, but this is a big opportunity for her to become the next iconic voice for the Sixers.

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Sixers broadcast crew of Marc Zumoff, Alaa Abdelnaby tied for 13th best

The Philadelphia 76ers broadcast crew gets their ranking for the 2019-20 season.

With the season set to resume in Orlando beginning on July 30 in the league’s designated “bubble site” at Disney World after being in suspension for three months, it has given a lot of people time to get things done.

For example, it has given The Athletic a chance to perform their broadcasters survey where they ask fans to vote on each broadcasting team and they then rank them based on the votes. This is in an effort to find out the best League Pass team to watch.

The Philadelphia 76ers broadcast team of Marc Zumoff and Alaa Abdelnaby do a terrific job for NBC Sports Philadelphia and they were ranked in the top half of the league’s broadcast teams. They came in tied for 13th with the Los Angeles Lakers team of Bill Macdonald and Stu Lantz.

The Atheltic on Zumoff and Abdelnaby:

Marc Zumoff is a fantastic play-by-play announcer, often painting a great picture for you even with the game right in front of your face. Former NBA player Alaa Abdelnaby is a lot of fun, in my opinion, but he also seemed to be polarizing in the responses.

The Sixers broadcast crew will get their chance to resume activity beginning on July 30 when the season gets set to return. [lawrence-related id=33248,33232,33222]

Sixers announcers on NBC Sports ranked 19th among local broadcasts

The NBC Sports Philadelphia broadcast team is ranked 19th in the league.

Fans of the Philadelphia 76ers get treated to a great broadcast team every night with the likes of the legendary Marc Zumoff handling the play-by-play duties while Alaa Abdenaldy handles the color commentary. For the people of Philadelphia and the surrounding areas, they have been a treat to listen to.

However, not everybody seems to have the same opinion as the people over at Awful Announcing have ranked them as the 19th best broadcast team for local NBA games for 2019-20. They used fan votes from readers and they have received an overall grade of a “C” from readers.

It’s a shame that the excellent courtside reporting of Serena Winters was not included in the grade. Instead, it was just Zumoff and Abdenaldy, and even with just those two, they should have a higher ranking than 19th. Zumoff alone is one of the best in the business. The broadcast team needs a little more respect. [lawrence-related id=29124,29115,29108]