KS: *Laughs* “All I’ll say is, I was so excited to call the opening game of the Sixers’ postseason run, which I’m hoping will be a very long and special postseason run. It reads ‘Kate Scott just ran down to the bottom of section 112, hyped up the crowd, and took a gulp of a fans beer.’ Would you like to confirm, deny, or plead the fifth? Q: I have to read you a little story going around on Reddit. Now that I finally have a full year of travel under my belt, I’m so excited about year three because I think it’ll be the first year I get to just be a broadcaster.” It’s the little things like where the hotels are in every city, can I eat at the restaurant in the hotel, or where in the arena we are going to sit to call the game from. All those things that help you to get to know things as quickly as possible, I didn’t get that at the start of my first year because of COVID. So it was the first year I was able to go to every practice I wanted to, and getting to pull players aside to have those 1-on-1 conversations. “But, again, this was my first year traveling. It is March Madness in your first year’ and he’d say ‘yeah, kid, I was worried about you multiple times throughout the year, but you kept going and that showed me something.’ So, that was year one. Alaa and I would joke sometimes, I’d just say ‘man, last year was totally survive and advance. I tried as hard as I could to just focus on the broadcasting, but now, in retrospect, comparing how I felt this year to last year. “Then, make your job public-facing, on-air in communication with a very passionate fanbase. Do you sell the old house or keep the old house? How long do you give this new company to decide if they like you or not? All this stuff, anybody in any new job would think about and it would be very trying. You’re learning everything in the community, like where you’re going to do your grocery shopping or get your coffee. You’re learning the ins-and-outs of a new company. Think about your first year at a new job, especially one that has caused you to uproot everything that was familiar in your life. KS: “If you really pull back, anyone can relate to this. What was different for you, as a broadcaster and as a human, this year that allowed you to do that? Q: You seemed to settle into the gig a lot more in year two. And home is Philly now.’ I used to say I wanted to come home when I was away from the Bay Area, but after just two years here I can’t wait to get back home, back to the East Coast, back to Philly. “But after one of our games there, I called my wife and said ‘it feels very strange being back here, because my thought is that I want to come home. I went to college in the Bay, found my sea legs in this industry, found my voice as a broadcaster and as a human, and became the person you all have gotten to know because of the 20 years I spent there. We weren’t traveling yet when we played Golden State and Sacramento in my first season, so that was my first trip back to the area that had been my home for 20 years. KS: “When it actually hit me was on my first trip back to the Bay Area since I got this job, in March of this year. Now that you’ve settled, has there been a moment or place where you stopped and thought OK, this can be a good new home’ or even ‘Philly is home now’? Q: You talked about moving across country, a saga that took awhile based on your social media posts. I need to talk to a couple people, but I’m so very excited.’” You all know how I feel about your city and your franchise from the interviews we had. How do you feel about picking up everything and moving to Philadelphia, where they might hate me, where this might all go horribly wrong but I think it’s a dream come true?’ You have to talk to your agents and say ‘Is this as good of a fit in your heads as it is in mine? Is this going to be a place where I can shine and succeed?’īut on that phone call, after I regained my breath from just hearing they wanted me to be the voice of the 76ers, I did say something to the affect of ‘I’m so incredibly humbled and honored. I needed to say ‘hey, I know we both spent our entire lives in California so far. So even though I wanted to say ‘F yes, I’m in!’, I needed to talk to my wife. Kate Scott: “When you apply for positions of this level, there’s obviously agents involved. You’ve got the job, and you’re the new voice of the Sixers. Q: So after what I’m sure was a gauntlet of interviews, you get the phone call. I recently sat down with her to talk broadcasting, the city of Philadelphia, and the Sixers playoff run. Kate Scott wrapped up her second year as the Philadelphia 76ers television play-by-play announcer, and she’s already looking forward to year three.
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