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<p>Doris Burke is known as an American sports reporter. She is most famous for work at ESPN and the NBA.</p>

<h2>Background and Age</h2>

<p>Doris Burke was born on November 24, 1965, in West Islip, New York. As an enthusiast for the game of basketball, she discovered her passion from a very early age. By the time she was a <a href="/biography/doris-burke">sophomore</a>, she was playing as a point guard at Manasquan High School. A few years later, Doris started playing as a point guard at Providence.</p>

<p>She led the Big East in assists her senior year in 1987, and she was named the conference’s co-women’s athlete of the year that season. In 1999, Doris was even included in the Providence College Hall of Fame, and, in 2006, she was included in the New England Basketball Hall of Fame.</p>

<h2>Marriage, Wife, and Kids</h2>

<p>Doris got married to Gregg Burke. They met for the first time while she was playing in a basketball game. He was the sports information director for a women’s team, and he commented that she played aggressively. They started to spend a lot of time together and one night Doris asked Gregg if he’d like her to take him out for a beer.</p>

<p>Though she asked him out first, he was the one who proposed, bending one knee on the Cliff Walk on Valentine’s Day, in 1990. They got married immediately and had their first daughter in 1993. Their second child arrived in 1995.</p>

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<p>In many interviews, Doris stated that if it wasn’t for her beloved husband, she wouldn’t have ever been on TV. When she was asked what the original plan was before she got into the broadcasting business. Doris said “There's not a doubt in my mind I would have been a <a href="/biography/doris-burke">high school teacher</a> and coach. When I left high school, I told myself I was going to get a major in education and be a high school teacher and coach. That was definitely the original plan”.</p>

<p>A few years down the line, things took a turn and the couple got divorced. The divorce settlement and the custody of the kids were kept a secret.</p>

<h2>Career and Net Worth</h2>

<p>In 1990, Doris Burke started her professional career by broadcasting on radio for her alma mater as an analyst for women’s games. During the same year, she started working as an analyst for Big East Women basketball games. Six years later, in 1996, she started working as an analyst on Big East Men’s games as well, becoming the first female to work in that job.</p>

<p>Burke made history as a New York Knicks announcer, being the first female analyst to call a New York Knicks game on the radio and on television in 2000. Doris has been the leading voice of TV and radio of the Liberty New York for several years. In 2009, she became a sideline reporter for the NBA Finals working for ABC Sports.</p>

<p>In 2010, Doris was featured as the sideline reporter for the video game, NBA 2K11 and she continued to be present in all future editions of the game.</p>

<p>In 2013, Doris signed a multiyear contract extension to keep serving as an NBA commentator for ESPN. She also debuted in the pre-game show <em>“NBA Countdown</em>” with <a href="/biography/jalen-rose">Jalen Rose</a> and <a href="/biography/avery-johnson">Avery Johnson</a>. In 2017, Doris became a regular game analyst for ESPN, becoming the first woman to be assigned a full regular-season role in NBA commentary.</p>

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