Let me first say that I, like virtually every other Magic fan, have nothing but respect and admiration for the legend that is David Steele and I wish nothing but the best for him. My concerns are over his health and are based on my following observations:
1- Last season, on multiple occasions, David called some of our own Magic players by the wrong name (ie, called, Paolo, Wendell or Gary Harris & vice versa) and sometimes more than once a game, and Jeff rarely corrected him.
2- After our home opener, he repeatedly misstated the Magic’s margin of victory as 20 points at least 3 separate times and no one in the entire broadcast corrected him.
3- Not correcting someone often happens out of respect when people are experiencing memory loss.
4- The Magic have already planned for Dante to step in as play-by-play announcer for a few games this year which is seemingly setting the table for an eventual transition.
These are just my own observations and I really hope I’m wrong and David continues to be our play-by-play announcer AT LEAST until we win our first championship! I only posted this to see what the Magic community thinks so I welcome everyone’s perspective.
From what I understand it seems very likely Dante will replace David in the near future and Kendra will replace Dante
Am I the only one who is kinda mid on Dante? Ok as a sideline reporter, but don’t think he suits play-by-play
I think Dante will be great. He’s a really nice guy, and he has experience with play by play. Him and Galante called the summer league games in Orlando before SL became cool