If you watched this year's NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and the Dallas Mavericks, you might have noticed that aside from Mark Jackson's "there goes that man" tagline and Jeff Van Gundy's often oblivious pop cultural references, play-by-play man Mike Breen drove in his own highlight-reel, go-to verbal.

"Bang."

Every great play-by-play television commentator has one. Some catch on and some don't. Some are plain stupid while others are made into legend. For every "boom goes the dynamite" there's a "with no regard for human life." Gus Johnson, who we wrote about earlier in the week, is on his own level in having a cult following that is hard for anyone to amount to.

This, however, makes me wish that watching Arizona basketball games were less painful to watch on TV from home.

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