More Grantland Q&As Click here for all of our interviews with fascinating people from the worlds of sports and pop culture. Zumoff: We had Steve Mix for the first 12 years, and then Bob Salmi for two, Ed Pinckney, which was great - but Eddie got back into basketball with the Bulls he is currently an assistant - and then Eric Snow for a year. How many partners have you gone through since you’ve been here? I think they liked me even after that, so they hired me to replace Jim Gray, to do halftime of Sixers basketball, and that was the year the team won the title in 1982-83, and I did that until 1994. The team went away but the channel liked me so they hired me to do movie announcements … you know, the 10-second “Coming up tonight on Prism.” I did that and then they hired me to anchor a little sports show that came between movies. In the last year of the team - 1982 - there were several games on the old Prism TV, which of course featured the Sixers, Flyers, and Phillies. Marc Zumoff: I was the voice of an indoor soccer team, the Fever, in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Marc, how did you get here in the beginning? I recently sat down with the Sixers announcers for Comcast SportsNet - Marc Zumoff, now in his 20th season, and former player Malik Rose, who notched 13 seasons in the league with four teams - to discuss their partnership, the state of the Sixers, and their hopes for the team moving forward.
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