Neil Funk is the current television

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 play-by-play announcer for the National Basketball Association

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's Chicago Bulls

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A 1969 graduate of Syracuse University

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, Funk's first broadcasting

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 job was covering high school

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 sports for a small radio station in Danville, Illinois

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. He quickly moved up the ranks to acquire a job with the Philadelphia 76ers

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' WIBG

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-radio broadcasting crew in 1976. He later broadcast games for the Kansas City Kings

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 and New Jersey Nets

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, winning an Emmy Award

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 in 1989. He joined the Chicago Bulls as a radio

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 play-by-play announcer in 1991.