Durham spent more than 37 years calling NBA games on TV and radio; his previous assignments were with the Chicago Bulls, the Dallas Mavericks, TNT and TBS.
During his time there, he covered the career of Illinois State University basketball star Doug Collins, later coincidentally the coach of the Bulls during the early Jordan years in Chicago, including the famous call listed below.
[1] Five weeks after being relegated back to radio only on May 29, 1991,[2] Durham was dismissed on July 3 as a result of a contract dispute with Bulls management.
He was succeeded by Wayne Larrivee (WGN) and Tom Dore (SportsChannel) on television[3] and Neil Funk on the radio.
In my days in the NBA, 16 years, this is the greatest series I've ever seen!Durham also did play-by-play for Major League Baseball, first in the 1980s for the Houston Astros, then from 1989–1990 for the Chicago White Sox and for ESPN Radio from 1998 until his death in 2012.