Let’s not write about or talk about Doris Burke in the past tense, like the final buzzer has sounded on her time as an NBA analyst at ESPN.

Yes, that was a demotion she endured Thursday, when ESPN confirmed that Tim Legler would be promoted as an analyst to the network’s No. 1 team — the one that calls the highest-profile television assignment in professional basketball, the NBA Finals.

Burke, a 1987 Providence College grad and basketball legend at the school, was dropped down a rung to the No. 2 team. She will be paired with the excellent Dave Pasch, who might be best known as Bill Walton’s straight man for so many years.

But she’ll still be a prominent part of ESPN/ABC’s NBA coverage. She has a new multiyear contract extension. ESPN/ABC still has a ton of high-profile games as t

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