NBC Sports activities Boston to function all-female broadcast for Celtics-Pistons celebrating Ladies’s Empowerment Month initially appeared on NBC Sports activities Boston
In celebration of Ladies’s Empowerment Month, NBC Sports activities Boston, the Boston Celtics and Connecticut Solar are teaming up for an all-female broadcast of the Celtics’ March 18 matchup with the Detroit Pistons at TD Backyard.
NBC Sports activities’ Zora Stephenson will function the play-by-play voice for Celtics vs. Pistons, with NBC Sports activities Boston’s Abby Chin and Connecticut Solar participant DiJonai Carrington becoming a member of Stephenson as sport analysts. ESPN’s Kayla Burton would be the in-game reporter at TD Backyard.
NBC Sports activities Boston’s Amina Smith will host Celtics Pregame Stay, Celtics Halftime Stay and Celtics Postgame Stay and alongside Connecticut Solar staff president Jennifer Rizzotti and Boston Celtics scout and Maine Celtics assistant common supervisor Ashley Battle.
NBC Sports activities Boston’s protection of Celtics-Pistons will start at 7 p.m. ET with Celtics Pregame Stay. Tip-off is at 7:30 p.m. ET, and Celtics Postgame Stay will start instantly after the sport.
Get to know NBC Sports activities Boston’s all-female broadcast staff beneath:
Play-by-play: Zora Stephenson
Stephenson (@ZoraStephenson) serves because the play-by-play voice for Peacock’s unique slate of Massive Ten Ladies’s Basketball and as a sideline reporter for NBC Sports activities’ protection of Notre Dame Soccer and Massive Ten Soccer. Beforehand, Stephenson served as a sideline and digital reporter for the Milwaukee Bucks on Bally Sports activities/Fox Wisconsin (2019-2023) and have become the primary girl to deal with play-by-play for a Bucks sport in April 2021.
Sport analyst: Abby Chin
Chin (@tvabby) is NBC Sports activities Boston’s Celtics sideline reporter, a job she has held for the higher a part of a decade since becoming a member of the published in 2013. She additionally has served because the host of Celtics Pregame Stay, Celtics Postgame Stay and Celtics Submit-Up and makes common appearances on the Boston Celtics’ View From the Rafters podcast in addition to Chris Forsberg’s Celtics Discuss Podcast.
Sport analyst: DiJonai Carrington
Carrington (@DijonaiVictoria) is a guard-forward for Connecticut Solar. She is coming into her fourth season with the Solar after Connecticut chosen her twentieth general within the 2021 WNBA Draft. Carrington appeared in 32 video games for the Solar final season, averaging a profession excessive 8.3 factors per sport. She performed 4 years at Stanford and earned All-Pac 12 honors in 2019 earlier than transferring to Baylor as a graduate scholar in 2020 and incomes Massive 12 Sixth Lady of the Yr.
Sport reporter: Kayla Burton
Burton (@Kay_Breezy22) joined ESPN in August 2023 as a university soccer sideline reporter after two years at NFL Media, the place she served a multi-platform function throughout NFL Community, NFL.com and the NFL app. Previous to her time at NFL Community, Burton served as a sports activities/information anchor, reporter and content material producer for Western Mass Information. A Newton, Mass., native, Burton was a four-year standout on the Lehigh girls’s basketball staff.
Studio host: Amina Smith
Smith (@aminajadeTV) hosts NBC Sports activities Boston’s Celtics Pregame Stay, Celtics Postgame Stay, Celtics Submit-Up, Patriots Pregame Stay and Patriots Postgame Stay along with a number of different linear reveals. Previous to NBC Sports activities Boston, Smith labored at The Massive Ten Community and WCIU in Chicago, BET Networks, and Stadium, the place she spearheaded on-air protection for School Soccer and the NBA.
Studio analyst: Jennifer Rizzotti
Rizzotti (@JenRizzotti) is the Connecticut Solar’s staff president, overseeing basketball and enterprise operations. After a storied profession at UConn from 1992 to 1996, Rizzotti performed eight seasons {of professional} basketball that included two WNBA titles with the Houston Comets. She spent greater than 20 seasons as a coach on the College of Hartford (1999 to 2016) and George Washington (2016 to 2021) and would be the head coach of Staff USA’s 3×3 girls’s basketball staff on the 2024 Paris Olympics. She was inducted into the Ladies’s Basketball Corridor of Fame in 2013.
Studio analyst: Ashley Battle
Battle (@The_Battle_Zone) is a scout for the Boston Celtics and assistant common supervisor of the staff’s G League affiliate, the Maine Celtics. She performed 5 seasons for at UConn from 2000 to 2005, successful three nationwide championships (2002, 2003 and 2004) and incomes Massive East Defensive Participant of the Yr honors in 2003. Battle loved a six-year profession within the WNBA with the Seattle Storm, New York Liberty and San Antonio Silver Stars (now the Las Vegas Aces). She additionally supplies colour commentary for the Connecticut Solar and New York Liberty broadcasts.
