Mike Fratello
(Announcer)
TURNER SPORTS
- Fratello serves as an NBA analyst for the fifth consecutive year on TNT. He is partnered with Marv Albert and Steve Kerr for TNT's exclusive Thursday night NBA coverage. He signed with Turner Sports in the summer of 1999.
- He worked as a NBA analyst for Turner Sports during the playoffs from 1994-96.
CAREER
- Fratello will call 60 Miami HEAT games on Sunshine Network during the 2002-2003 NBA season.
- Fratello is only the 18th NBA coach to win 500 games, with a career record of 572-462.
- Mike served as the Cleveland Cavaliers head coach for six seasons, beginning in 1993.
- His teams have qualified for the NBA Playoffs in nine of his 13 NBA seasons.
- Mike was named the IBM Coach of the Month in December, 1995.
- He worked as a NBA analyst for NBC from 1990-93.
- Fratello served as the head coach for the Atlanta Hawks for seven seasons, compiling a record of 324-250 from 1983-90.
- During the 1986-87 season, he was named Coach of the Year by five different organizations: NBA/Hagger, The Sporting News, NBA/Miller Lite, Basketball Weekly and Basketball Digest.
PERSONAL
- He is involved in the "Friends of Fratello Foundation," which he created in 1986.
- During the 1994-95 and 1995-96 seasons, Fratello worked with Cavs Charities and Miller Brewing to support "Take Back the Courts" in Cleveland.
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