Rick Kamla (born July 19, 1969) is a television personality for

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and

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. He was also the former midday co-host (10 a.m.-2 p.m.) with John Michaels on all-sports radio station 92.9 The Game in Atlanta. Kamla has been a studio commentator for the NBA since January 2003. Currently, Kamla hosts Game Time on NBA TV. Kamla also contributes play-by-play to

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NBADL The NBA G League, or simply the G League, is the National Basketball Association's (NBA) official minor league basketball organization. The league was known as the National Basketball Development League (NBDL) from 2001 to 2005, and the NBA De ...

, WNBA,

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, Summer League and Euroleague games.

Early life

Kamla graduated from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

in 1992 with a degree in history and a minor in Speech-Communication. While attending the

, Kamla covered the Golden Gophers on the student-run radio station

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Professional career

In 1994, Kamla started his sports journalism career as a part-time writer for Fantasy Football Weekly, which was based in

Minneapolis Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origins ...

. By 1998, Kamla was the full-time senior editor for both

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and

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on fanball.com. Kamla was hired to host the fantasy show " Virtual GM" on

References

External links

Rick Kamla's bio from NBA-TV
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