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LeBron James gave a special shoutout to Doris Burke ahead of Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
The longtime ESPN broadcaster became the first woman to serve as a TV analyst for a championship final in one of the four major professional sports when the Mavericks and Celtics tipped off in Boston on Thursday.
The Lakers star celebrated the accomplishment with a post on X just a few minutes before game time.
Important moment for our sport tonight. Love and respect to DB and everything she does to elevate all of us! You’re a 🐐! 🙏🏾🤎🫡 https://t.co/eckUkkP2Bk— LeBron James (@KingJames) June 7, 2024
“Important moment for our sport tonight. Love and respect to DB and everything she does to elevate all of us!” James wrote before adding a goat emoji.
“My focus is in preparing for the games in front of me. … But I would be lying if I didn’t tell you that I am sort of mindful that there is something meaningful here, right,” Burke, who previously had been a sideline reporter for ESPN, according to NBA.com. “And the meaning for me would be if, in some way, this assignment makes life for women in sports easier or somehow aids in their process, then nothing could be more meaningful.
“Anybody calling their first NBA Finals game would probably be nervous, and I think if I allow my mind to drift too much into that space, it will make that nervousness a little bit worse.”
It’s not the first time Burke has been a trailblazer for women in sports broadcasting.
In 2020, when she served as a radio analyst for the conference and NBA Finals, Burke became the first woman to serve as an analyst over the air that deep into the postseason.
Burke, who has worked for ESPN since 1990, had been a sideline reporter for ABC’s NBA Finals coverage from 2009-19 before moving over to the radio booth.
She joins play-by-play announcer Mike Breen and fellow analyst JJ Redick in the trio’s first NBA Finals together.
That grouping replaced Breen, Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy, who called 15 NBA Finals together.
