Cavs' Hall of Fame announcer Tait returns
CLEVELAND (AP) - Joe Tait, the Cavaliers' Hall of Fame radio play-by-play broadcaster, worked his first game of the season Sunday when Cleveland played Atlanta.
Tait had double bypass surgery and an aortic valve replaced in January. He was hospitalized in November with a blood clot in his lung, delaying the surgery.
Tait, 73, said before the season that he planned to retire in April. He plans to broadcast Cleveland's five remaining home games.
Tait was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame last summer. He has been the Cavaliers' radio announcer for all but two years since the team entered the NBA as an expansion franchise in 1970.
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