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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - If it’s Tuesday… it must be Louisiana.
Such is the frenetic, on-the-road lifestyle of Gus Johnson - sports broadcasting’s blissful vagabond.
“Fortunately, I do enjoy it and it’s become part of who I am,” said the well-traveled 41-year-old New Yorker, the signature radio voice of the NBA’s Knicks, who’s simultaneously dabbled in college football, track and field, Olympics, football and in-studio work for CBS Sports since 1995.
“I was never thinking it would amount to anything, and then all of a sudden I had the Knicks job and I had a life I loved which allowed me to be gone all the time,” he said.
“You know how sometimes you find loose change in your couch? Well it’s like I looked around in my couch and found a brick of hundreds. I’ve been so, so blessed and I’ve loved every minute.”
Reached via telephone from courtside at New Orleans Arena, where the Knicks were about to play a Monday night game with the host New Orleans Hornets, Johnson enthusiastically discussed his next professional foray - as lead blow-by-blow announcer for Showtime Championship Boxing. [details]
Such is the frenetic, on-the-road lifestyle of Gus Johnson - sports broadcasting’s blissful vagabond.
“Fortunately, I do enjoy it and it’s become part of who I am,” said the well-traveled 41-year-old New Yorker, the signature radio voice of the NBA’s Knicks, who’s simultaneously dabbled in college football, track and field, Olympics, football and in-studio work for CBS Sports since 1995.
“I was never thinking it would amount to anything, and then all of a sudden I had the Knicks job and I had a life I loved which allowed me to be gone all the time,” he said.
“You know how sometimes you find loose change in your couch? Well it’s like I looked around in my couch and found a brick of hundreds. I’ve been so, so blessed and I’ve loved every minute.”
Reached via telephone from courtside at New Orleans Arena, where the Knicks were about to play a Monday night game with the host New Orleans Hornets, Johnson enthusiastically discussed his next professional foray - as lead blow-by-blow announcer for Showtime Championship Boxing. [details]
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