Bill Raftery: Sending It In!

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If we’re lucky, we find work that is our passion. In a sense, it doesn’t even feel like work. Long ago, Bill Raftery found that passion analyzing basketball games on TV. And we are the lucky ones.What we don’t see is the immense amount of preparation he puts into every game. What millions of us do see and hear and experience is the joy, the excitement and the great sense of humor that comes with every broadcast with Bill Raftery.Before Bill Raftery broadcast the game, he played it (and how!) and coached it. The journey to analyzing games on TV was hardly direct. But he got there, and millions of us basketball fans are the better for it.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices