Mark Mason is an American public address announcer for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association.
Mark Mason | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 10 |
| Career | |
| Show | Mark Mason Show |
| Station | KEX |
| Time slot | 12:00p-3:00p |
| Style | News-talk |
| Country | United States |
| Website | www |
Mason began working as the Trail Blazers' public address announcer at the start of the 1996–97 NBA season. Since his start, he has announced every preseason and regular season game and reached 843 consecutive regular season games before a health crisis ended the streak in April, 2016. In October, 2016, after a six-month recovery he resumed his spot courtside to begin the 2016-2017 NBA season.[1]
A native of Southern California, Mason's radio broadcast career path took him to Portland, Oregon in 1995 where he hosted the "Mark Mason Show", a local news–talk show. The show aired afternoons on KEX 1190 in Portland for almost 30-years.
Mason is known for including "native-language introductions" for the team's foreign players, a "6th Man" catch-phrase, and the anticipatory "Are you ready...for your Portland Trail Blazers!" According to Mason, his introduction of Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard is the first introduction of an NBA player by letter rather than number.[2] (O, for Lillard's regional basketball resume: Oakland, Ogden, and Oregon.)
References
edit- ^ "Mason Returns". oregonlive.com. October 4, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
- ^ "This Rookie of the Month brought to you by the letter 'O'". columbian.com. Dec 8, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
External links
edit- Mason introduces 2016-2017 Trailblazers at Fan Fest Archived 2017-01-10 at the Wayback Machine
- Mark Mason gives update on his health crisis
- Mark Mason Departs KEX
- The Rip City Niner (January 2015)[permanent dead link]
- Blazers PA announcer will never forget the night he handed the mic to Damian Lillard (November 2014)
- Mason profiled by FOX-12TV, Portland (April 2015)[permanent dead link]
- 5 Things to Love about the Rose Garden Arena.
- Team intros at the Moda Center, 2014.
- Mason: 49ers Fan in Seahawks Country, 2014.
- Mason profiled by KATU-TV, Portland (April 2009)
- ...The Letter 'O'