Matt Devlin (sportscaster)

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Matt Devlin
Sportscaster
Children3
Sports commentary career
TeamToronto Raptors
GenrePlay-by-play announcer
SportBasketball

Matt Devlin (born 1969) is a

colour commentator partners are Alvin Williams and Jack Armstrong
.

Broadcasting career

Devlin started with

NFL on FOX
for play by play.

Devlin served as the play-by-play man for NBC Sports' coverage of Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[2]

In 2008, Devlin joined the Toronto Raptors as the team's play-by-play television announcer.[3]

Although employed by the Raptors organization, during the offseason he has occasionally served as a fill-in play-by-play announcer for both of the Raptors' broadcast partners,

Leafs TV. (The Raptors and the Leafs are both owned by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment
, which in turn is primarily owned by the parent companies of TSN and Sportsnet.)

Devlin is known for his catchphrase of describing 3-point shots as coming not from "downtown" but from the suburbs of Toronto, e.g. "He hits it from Mississauga!", "Drains it from Pickering!", "Banks it in from Burlington!" When Raptors fever swept across Canada during the team's run to the 2019 NBA championship, the shots started coming from the entire country: "From Edmonton!", "From Halifax!", "From Iqaluit!"[6]

Personal life

A native of Syracuse, New York, Devlin graduated from

2022 NHL Draft
.

In 2019, Devlin became a Canadian citizen during the Raptors' NBA Finals run.[6]

References

  1. ^ Feldman, Jacob. "During Toronto's Run, Raptors' Voice Matt Devlin Has Represented an Entire Country". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  2. ^ Medium Well: Your NBC Olympics lineup Archived 2008-08-03 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Matt Devlin". TSN.
  4. ^ "Rogers Media Hits the Court for Multiplatform Coverage of the 2012 Rogers Cup, Free Preview of FX Canada during the event". ChannelCanada.com. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
  5. ISSN 0319-0781
    . Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  6. ^ a b Feldman, Jacob. "The voice of the Raptors and his signature call". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  7. ^ Brotherston, Stephen. "Toronto Raptors' Matt Devlin: Never Give Up on a Dream". Bleacher Report.
  8. ^ "Devlin Named New Raptors Play-By-Play Man". Toronto Raptors.
  9. ^ "Watch: Iowa Hawkeyes student manager sinks half-court shot, mobbed by team". CBS News.

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