Marv Albert Son, Family, Height, Weight, Net Worth, Biography, Other Facts

Publish date: 2024-05-08

Marv Albert, also known as the “Voice ofBasketball” is an American sportsman. He was honored for his work as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015. He is also popularly called Voice of New York Knicks. He advertised other sports besides basketball, such as American football, horse racing, ice hockey, boxing, and tennis. He also called several games from the NBA Finals, Super Bowls and Stanley Cup Finals. Albert currently works for TNT and CBS. He is a legend in his field and received several awards and honors throughout his life.

Bio of Marv Albert

Marv Albert was born on June 12, 1941 as MarvinPhilip Aufrichtig to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School before attending Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communication from 1960 to 1963, then Newhouse School of Public Communication in 1965. Albert began his career as a ball boy for the Knicks of New York at Madison Square Garden. He was then an assistant to Marty Glickman. He made his first call for the Knicks on January 27, 1963 on WCBS radio while Glickman was visiting Europe.

Since that breakthrough, he has been the voice of the Knicks for 35 years beginning in 1967 on radio and television. He lost his job in 2004 after openly criticizing the Knicks’ poor on-air performance. He had also anchored the former MSG daily sports report. Albert also appeared on Letterman’s Late Show hosted by David Letterman. His segment was called the Albert Achievement Awards.

Albert was arrested for sexual assault and charged with forced sodomy in 1997. He pleaded guilty to assault and battery charges and received a 12-month suspended sentence. He lost his job with NBC due to the scandal. However, Albert returned to work for NBC after two years and was the network’s lead play-by-play man for both seasons and the finale (2000-2001, 2001-2002). Albert called Monday Night Football and was the main voice for NFL channel coverage on the Westwood One radio network from 2002 to 2009.

He joined CBS Sports on June 6. 2011 and was usually paired with Rich Gammon to call the NFL on CBS. He resigned from the NFL on May 29, 2014 to focus on basketball duties for TNT and CBS.

Net value

For someone who has been at the top of his craft for many years, it’s no surprise that Marv has amassed above average earnings. Marv Albert net worth is $25 million and his estimated annual salary is around $2 million.

Family, wife, son

Marv Albert married twice; his first marriage was to Benita Oberlander in 1965. The couple had four children together, Kenny, Denise, Brian and Jackie, but they both separated in 1992 for unknown reasons best known to them.

Heather Faulkner began dating Albert after his split with his wife and the two tied the knot on September 9, 1998 in New York City. Faulkner, born in October 1957, was a freelance television producer for ESPN’s Outside the Lines. The two are still happily married.

Some of Marv Albert’s children followed in their footsteps; Kenny Albert, his first son and the most popular of Albert’s children, is also a great sportsman. He currently plays game-by-player for the major professional sports league in the United States and Canada (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL). He was born on February 2, 1968 and is married to Barbara Wolf. They have two daughters (Amanda and Sydney) together.

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Albert’s daughter, Denise Albert also ventured into broadcasting. She is an award-winning television journalist and producer. Denise, who survived breast cancer, is also divorced. She is the mother of two boys (Jaron and Jaylan) and co-founder of a multi-platform brand, The Moms. Denise attended Boston University and co-hosted a sports talk show on WTBU radio.

Little is known about Brian except that he is an entrepreneur and his sister, Jackie, is a chef.

What is his size?

Although possessing a larger-than-life voice behind the scenes, Marv Albert can be passed off as having an average stature. Marv is 5 feet 11 inches tall; there is no information about his weight and body stats.

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