Suns Broadcaster Al McCoy Receives Media Award

When night falls across the Arizona desert, there is a vastness, an openness, an eerie quiet that seems to descend on the cactus plants and weather worn rocks. But if you listen closely you can hear a sound, a voice actually, emanating from a radio, that is as familiar to the inhabitants of the Grand Canyon State as the sweltering daytime temperatures.

For over 35 years and over 3,400 games, that voice, the voice of Al McCoy, has been telling the tale of the Phoenix Suns as the team’s radio broadcaster from his courtside perch, and if you were to ask anyone who follows the team, they couldn’t think of listening to anyone else describe the action.

How else could one explain the countless awards that have been bestowed on McCoy during his distinguished career behind the microphone, from being named the best play-by-play announcer by Phoenix Magazine for eight straight years (for the record, every year the distinction has been made by the magazine), to having the media center named after him at U.S. Airways Center (to be unveiled for the 2007-08 season), to being the first play-by-play announcer to be inducted into the Arizona Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame.

Most recently, McCoy has been honored yet again as the electronic recipient of the Curt Gowdy Media Award at this year’s Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement, the grandest stage of all for a man who has made a name for himself calling the action of the NBA.

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source : NBA.com