In addition to working extensively in both professional and college basketball, he has experience calling a variety of other sports, such as American football, ice hockey, horse racing, boxing, and tennis.
He has also called the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for TNT with Jim Courier and Mary Carillo and has worked as a co-host and reporter for two World Series (1986 and 1988).
[8][9][10][11] During his time on NBC, he continued as the lead play-by-play man for the New York Knicks on local MSG Network telecasts and began calling national games for TNT in 1999, as well.
[13] Albert continued to be the lead play-by-play announcer for National Basketball Association games on TNT, a position he assumed in 1999.
On April 17, 2002, shortly after calling a game between the Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers on TNT, both Albert and color commentator Mike Fratello were injured in a limo accident in Trenton, New Jersey.
The 2002 NBA Playoffs was set to begin two days later, with Albert scheduled to call multiple games that week.
[21] In 2005, Albert officially became the lead play-by-play man for the New Jersey Nets franchise started calling their games on the YES Network, often teaming with Brooklyn native and NBA veteran Mark Jackson.
"[24] In 2022, Albert appeared in the Playoffs on NBA Lane short film alongside ESPN sideline reporter Malika Andrews.
[25] In addition to the Knicks, Albert had a lengthy tenure (beginning in 1965) calling the games of another Madison Square Garden tenant, the New York Rangers.
He also famously coined the nickname "Red Light" for radio analyst Sal Messina, a former Rangers goaltender.
Kenny also calls NHL and Olympic ice hockey for NBC Sports and has served as the national radio voice of the Stanley Cup Finals since 2016.
Albert was also the lead play-by-play voice of the Westwood One radio network's NFL coverage from the 2002 to the 2009 seasons,[27] calling Monday Night Football as well as numerous playoff games and every Super Bowl from 2003 to 2010.
2 play-by-play man behind Dick Enberg, usually alternating the secondary NFL role year to year with Don Criqui), college basketball (teaming with Bucky Waters on Big East/ECAC games), horse racing, boxing (often working with Ferdie Pacheco and subsequently, Sugar Ray Leonard when NBC relaunched boxing under the Premier Boxing Champions umbrella),[31] NHL All-Star Games (Albert called the NHL All-Star Game with John Davidson on NBC from 1990 to 1994), and Major League Baseball, as well as hosting baseball studio and pre-game shows (including NBC's coverage of the 1986 and 1988 World Series alongside Bob Costas).
Albert made 53[32] guest appearances on David Letterman's late-night talk show for NBC and CBS.
[33] He appears on "Perfect Sense, Part II", on Roger Waters' 1992 album, Amused to Death, commentating on a military attack in the manner of a sports report.
[34] Jack Black and his bandmate Kyle Gass derived the name of their band 'Tenacious D' from a term used by Albert to describe the tenacious defense of the New York Knicks in 1994.
[42] The woman accused Albert of throwing her onto a bed, biting her, then forcing her to perform oral sex after a February 12, 1997 argument in his Pentagon City hotel room.
DNA testing linked Albert to genetic material taken from the bite marks and from semen in her underwear.
[43] During the trial, another woman, Patricia Masden, testified that Albert had bitten her on two separate occasions, in Miami in 1993 and in Dallas in 1994, which she viewed as unwanted sexual advances.
[46] His last NFL broadcast for NBC before being fired was the 1997 Baltimore Ravens-New York Giants game alongside Randy Cross and Len Berman.