Matt Pinto is the radio voice for the
Oklahoma City Thunder
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for
WWLS-FM
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98.1, the flagship station for the Thunder Radio Network. He formerly served as the radio play-by-play voice for the
Seattle SuperSonics
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for KTTH-AM 770, the flagship station for the Sonics Radio Network. He was previously named as the radio voice of the
Los Angeles Clippers
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for
KSPN-AM (710 ESPN, Los Angeles) on August 24, 2005, and he would work at least 70 games a year, while the regular television announcing team of
Ralph Lawler
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and
Michael Smith would work the remaining 12 games on radio only. He was replaced by
Minnesota Timberwolves
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radio man
Brian Sieman in 2007.
Previously, he spent eight years doing radio and television coverage for the
Dallas Mavericks
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, the first four exclusively on radio and the other four exclusively for television. While in Dallas, he often referred to players as "water bugs" on plays in which they were driving to the basket. He worked alongside
Bob Ortegel Robert Frank Ortegel (born September 15, 1940 in Evanston, Illinois) was the color commentator for Dallas Mavericks television broadcasts. Ortegel had previously been head coach for Drake University
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during his television career in Dallas.
From 1990 through 1996, Pinto was also the
radio voice of the
Charlotte Hornets
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. Before that he was a sports anchor for KGMB-TV, the CBS affiliate station in Honolulu.
References
Los Angeles Clippers broadcaster bioSieman replaces Matt Pinto
Living people
Charlotte Hornets announcers
Dallas Mavericks announcers
Los Angeles Clippers announcers
Oklahoma City Thunder announcers
Seattle SuperSonics announcers
Year of birth missing (living people)
National Basketball Association broadcasters
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