Alan Horton will shift over from the radio call to television for much of the upcoming season, the team announced Thursday.
The longtime Timberwolves’ radio voice will sit in Michael Grady‘s chair whenever Grady is taking on national television duties, which is expected to be a frequent occurrence this season.
Grady has signed on with Amazon and NBC/Peacock for the upcoming NBA season, and could do anywhere up to around 20 of the 65 Timberwolves regular season games that will air on FanDuel Sports Network.
That leaves a large slate of games for Horton to call alongside analyst Jim Petersen.
Horton enters into a more prominent position in now his 19th season with the organization. Horton will still be the team’s radio play by play voice when Grady is available to call the Timberwolves games or when Minnesota is exclusively on national television.
But for the games where Horton is on the television broadcast, he and Petersen’s call will be simulcasted onto radio airwaves.
Minnesota also announced that Lea B. Olsen will be the television sideline reporter for the local broadcast of all Timberwolves’ home games this season, while Cayleigh Griffin and Ashley Stroehlein will handle that role for road contests.
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