On this day in Boston Celtics history, the team’s current play-by-play announcer Sean David Grande was born in New York City, New York in 1971. The radio voice of the Celtics — as Grande is often called for his work alongside Celtics alumnus and fellow broadcaster Cedric Maxwell for 98.5 The Sports Hub’s “Grande and Max” show – got his start in the industry in the late 1980s calling college basketball, hockey and football for Boston University.
He would switch to calling games for Boston College football and hockey in 1996 and soon began calling NCAA tournament games in basketball and became a popular personality on local radio station WEEI before leaving to call NBA games in 1998, starting with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
