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American sports commentator

Doris Burke ( Sable) is an American sports announcer and analyst for NBA on ESPN, NBA on ABC, College Basketball on ESPN, and College Basketball on ABC games. She formerly worked as an analyst for WNBA games on MSG and has worked on New York Knicks games. Burke was the first female commentator to call a New York Knicks game on radio and television. Burke will become the first woman to serve as a game analyst on television for a championship final in one of the four major professional U. S. men's sports leagues.

Doris Sable was born in West Islip, New York. At the age of seven, she moved to Manasquan, New Jersey, where she was raised. The youngest of eight children, Sable started playing basketball in the second grade. and was recruited by several eastern colleges. As a senior in 1987, Burke was the college's Co Female Athlete of the Year.

Burke began her broadcasting career in 1990 as an analyst for women's games for her alma mater on radio. That same year, Burke began working in the same role on Big East Women's games on television, and in 1996 she began working Big East men's games. From 2009 to 2019, Burke served as a sideline reporter for the NBA Finals on ABC, and worked as an analyst in select regular season and playoff games until 2017. She has appeared in each edition since, including the latest in the series, NBA 2K23. In October 2013, Burke signed a multi year contract extension to serve as an NBA commentator for ESPN. On November 13, she debuted on ESPN's NBA pre game show NBA Countdown, alongside analysts Jalen Rose and Avery Johnson. In 2017, Burke became a regular NBA game analyst for ESPN, becoming the first woman at the national level to be assigned a full regular season role. Burke replaced Doug Collins, who left ESPN for a job with the Chicago Bulls, but continued sideline reporting for the conference finals and the NBA Finals until 2019. In 2020, Burke began calling the Conference Finals and the NBA Finals on ESPN Radio, making her the first woman to call the conference finals and NBA Finals on radio. In 2022, Burke worked with play by play commentator Beth Mowins in calling an NBA game, as part of ESPN's plan to have an all women broadcasting and production crew for the first time on a national scale. Mowins and Burke returned together the following season during International Women's Day 2023 and later on October 27, 2023 for a Celtics Heat game. In August 2023, ESPN/ABC announced that Burke, along with former NBA coach Doc Rivers, will join Mike Breen on their lead broadcasting team, replacing Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson, who were laid off by the network earlier that year. This makes Burke the first woman to serve as a television analyst for a major men's championship in the U. S., and the first woman TV analyst for the NBA Conference Finals and the NBA Finals.

Burke is divorced from Gregg Burke (head golf coach at University of Rhode Island), with whom she has two children. Honored for her pioneering work, Burke was selected to enter Basketball Hall of Fame as the 2018 Curt Gowdy Media Award winner. For their first match of March 2019, the women of the United States women's national soccer team each wore a jersey with the name of a woman they were honoring on the back; Tobin Heath chose the name of Burke.