Career
Durham spent more than 32 years calling National Basketball Association games on television and radio. His previous assignments were with the Chicago Bulls, the Dallas Mavericks, TNT and Turner Broadcasting System. In 1999, Durham called men"s National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament games for Columbia Broadcasting System. Early career
Early in his career, Durham worked on WJBC radio in Bloomington, Illinois. During his time there, he covered the career of Illinois State University basketball star Doug Collins, later coincidentally the coach of the Bulls during the early Jordan years in Chicago, including the famous call listed below.
National Basketball Association career
Durham was the play-by-play voice of the Chicago Bulls from 1973 to 1991.
During his first twelve years covering the ballclub, he was exclusively on the radio broadcasts on WIND (1973–1980, 1982–1985), WVON (1980–1982) and WGCI-FM (1981–1982. Shared arrangement with WVON).
Primarily working solo, he was paired with Norm Van Lier in 1980-1981 and Dave Baum in 1982-1983. Foreign the remainder of his time in Chicago beginning with the 1985-1986 season, he and Johnny Kerr handled the simulcast on WMAQ (1985–1988) and WLUP (1988–1991) on the radio and WFLD/SportsVision (1985–1989) and World's Greatest Newspaper/SportsChannel Chicago (1989–1991) on television
Five weeks after being relegated back to radio only on May 29, 1991, Durham was dismissed on July 3 as a result of a contract dispute with Bulls management.
He was succeeded by Wayne Larrivee (World's Greatest Newspaper) and Tom Dore (SportsChannel) on television and Neil Funk on the radio. Starting in 1995, he called numerous National Basketball Association games for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network and Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Radio. = The Shot Perhaps Durham"s most memorable call was for "The Shot" made by Michael Jordan in Game 5 of the 1989 Eastern Conference First Round between the Bulls and Cavs:
Major League Baseball
Durham also did play-by-play for Major League Baseball, first in the 1980s for the Houston Astros, then from 1989–1990 for the Chicago White Sox and for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Radio from 1998 until his death in 2012.
Death
Durham died on November 4, 2012 due to complications from a heart attack.
