Broadcast Team

Brooke Olzendam enters her eighth season with the Trail Blazers in 2023-24 as Courtside Reporter for all home and road Trail Blazers game telecasts. She also serves as the pre, half and post-game co-host alongside Michael Holton for home games and a host for digital, web, and social content. She was the recipient of the 2022 National Sports Media Association Oregon Sports Broadcaster of the Year award for her continued dedication to her craft.

Olzendam joined the Trail Blazers from CSN Northwest, where she served as the All-Purpose Host for the network from 2014-16. She spent the off-season reporting and hosting for the Pac-12 Network. Previously, Olzendam served as TV Host/Sideline Reporter for Pacers TV Broadcasts. She has performed sideline and reporting duties for CSN Northwest, covering a broad spectrum of sports from professional baseball to horse racing; and hosted pregame and postgame shows for the Trail Blazers. Olzendam began her career covering the University of Washington, both as host of “Huskies All-Access” as well as doing sideline reporting for both football and basketball. In addition, Olzendam hosted and produced “Runnin’ with the PAC,” a nationally televised magazine show focused on the Pac-10 Conference.

For the last four years, Olzendam spearheaded an effort called “Brooke Hearts your Heart,” using her personal life experiences to educate on the importance of heart health, raise funds for the American Heart Association (AHA) and spread awareness of AEDs in saving lives. Over the course of the program, more than $60,000 has been raised for the AHA.

Born in Spokane, Wash., and a graduate of the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University, Olzendam has a passion for basketball that stems from her father Dave Olzendam, a member of the Washington State Coaches Hall of Fame.

NBA voice Kevin Calabro begins his seventh season as Trail Blazers play-by-play television broadcaster in the 2023-24 season. Since joining the Trail Blazers, Calabro has ignited Rip City with his high-energy calls – so much so that he has earned two Northwest Regional EMMY Awards as “Best Sports Play-by-Play Announcer”, winning in 2018 and again in 2023 alongside analyst Lamar Hurd. He also received the National Sports Media Association Oregon Sportscaster of the Year award in 2018. Before coming to Portland, Calabro served as a regular postseason national play-by-play announcer for ESPN Radio, Turner Broadcasting and NBATV, a broadcaster for Westwood One Radio during the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, as well as a basketball and football announcer for Pac-12 Network. During his four-year run with ESPN Radio, Calabro called multiple Conference Finals and four NBA Finals alongside legends Hubie Brown and Dr. Jack Ramsay.

A veteran of the NBA, Calabro spent 21 years as a television and radio broadcaster for the former Seattle SuperSonics until that franchise moved to Oklahoma City in 2008. Instead of relocating with the team, he chose his love for the Pacific Northwest and remained in the Seattle area. Calabro has received a number of accolades for his broadcast work on the national level with TNT, TBS, ESPN Radio and NBA TV. He was most recently honored with the 2016 Keith Jackson Western Sports Star of the Year award, given to a member of the media for communicating sports stories in the state of Washington. Calabro has also been honored by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association as Washington’s “Sportscaster of the Year” in 1997, 2000-2003 and again in 2006. Calabro has also lent his voice to several Microsoft video games, including NBA Inside Drive, NBA Full Court Press and NFL Fever, and as the play-by-play voice of Sony PlayStation NBA games.

A native of Indiana and graduate of Butler University, Calabro’s NBA broadcasting career began in 1983-84 as play-by-play announcer for the former Kansas City Kings, now the Sacramento Kings. Calabro and his wife, Sue, have children Anthony, wife Stephanie and daughter Leni, Nick, Lauren and Joe.

The 2023-24 season marks the eighth season for Lamar Hurd as Trail Blazers Television Analyst. He provides basketball analysis and insight on all Trail Blazers broadcasts and across social media channels. In 2023, he earned the Northwest Regional EMMY alongside Kevin Calabro for Best Sports Play-by-Play – Analyst duo.

Hurd came to the Trail Blazers from the Pac-12 Network, where he was a college basketball analyst for four years. In 2014, he began broadcasting games for ESPN as well. From 2008-11, Hurd served as a primary college basketball analyst for Fox Sports Northwest and Root Sports. With these networks, he provided commentary and basketball insight for their studio show, College Hoops Northwest, and live broadcasts at Pac-12 men’s basketball games.

Hurd was the starting point guard for Oregon State from 2002-06; he received All Pac-10 Honors, shared the team’s MVP award and was named to the Pac-10 All-Academic first team. In 2006, Lamar won the Pac-10 medal, which is awarded annually to only one male and female student-athlete at each of the conference’s institutions who best exemplifies excellence on and off the playing field. He played professional basketball in Germany from 2006-07 but returned to the United States to share his love of the game with local kids. Hurd graduated from Oregon State with a degree in Communications and currently lives in Oregon with his wife, Bethany Hurd.

Former Trail Blazer Michael Holton begins his 17th season with the Trail Blazers as an In-Studio Analyst and his seventh full season as the Radio Analyst alongside Travis Demers in 2023-24. Prior to his current role, Holton served as a Radio Analyst for the Trail Blazers and was also an Analyst for ESPN’s coverage of NCAA basketball. In addition, Holton served as a Co-Host on 750 KXL’s “Ducks Rewind,” a weekly show analyzing Oregon Ducks men’s basketball. After retiring from the NBA, Holton served as a collegiate basketball coach for 13 years, including five years as Head Coach with the University of Portland. Holton began his NBA career as a third-round selection by the Golden State Warriors in the 1983 NBA Draft but did not play until the 1984-85 season when he suited up for Phoenix. Over six seasons, Holton played in 325 total NBA games for the Suns, Bulls, Trail Blazers and Hornets. Before beginning his professional career, the Seattle-native was a four-year letter winner for the UCLA Bruins basketball team from 1979-83, where he later earned his degree in Political Science.

Tom Haberstroh enters his first season with the Portland Trail Blazers as Analytics Insider in 2023-24. In his role as Analytics Insider, Haberstroh contributes analysis to game broadcasts and studio coverage to help fans stay up to date on the always-advancing world of NBA analytics. A former national NBA insider for NBC Sports Regional Networks, Tom began his career at ESPN, where he wrote for eight years across ESPN the Magazine, ESPN Insider, and ESPN.com while also making regular television appearances as an NBA analytics expert. He joined Bleacher Report in 2017, where he won an APSE (Associated Press Sports Editors) Award for feature writing. Known to NBA fans as a sharp, analytically-driven writer, Haberstroh currently works as an analyst and reporter for Meadowlark Media. In 2017, he launched #ALSPepperChallenge which has raised close to $1 million for ALS research in honor of his late mother.

Francis Williams joins the Trail Blazers Broadcast Team as in-studio analyst during road games and game analyst and co-host of the pre and post-game show on ROOT Sports. Francis has been part of the ROOT Sports family since 2007. After spending 2012-15 in the NBA as a scout with the Charlotte Hornets, Francis in 2016 returned to his role with ROOT Sports Northwest as a college basketball studio and in game analyst. He has also worked with CBS Sports Television as a color analyst and sideline reporter. Also, been an in-game analyst for ESPN, NBATV, Fox Sports, NBA.com for the NBA Las Vegas Summer League and for the WNBA Seattle Storm radio and TV network.

Francis’s professional involvement with basketball began in 1982 as an assistant basketball coach at Seattle’s Garfield High School. He is a charter member of the Rainier Beach High School Hall of Fame where he became the head coach in 1988, leading that team to a state championship. He was twice named Metro League Coach of the year (1988, 1992) and Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year in 1988. Francis served as a coach and counselor in the Seattle Public Schools from 1987-2005.

Francis was part of the Seattle Sonics organization from 2006-2008 working with both the radio broadcast team and the Community Relations unit. He hosted the pregame, halftime and post- game shows on KTTH 770 AM and served as an in-game analyst for all home games. Francis hosted and represented the organization at events throughout the Northwest and around the country.

From 1994-2012 was a consultant to the Adidas grassroots basketball marketing unit. He helped found nationally renowned Friends of Hoop with Hall of Fame coach George Karl, and was directly involved in the rise to national prominence of the Seattle Rotary Select program. He is known as one of the godfathers of Washington AAU/summer basketball. He has been recognized by the New York Times, ESPN the Magazine and Sports Illustrated as being one of the persons directly responsible for Seattle becoming a “hotbed” of high school basketball. Since 1998 the State of Washington has produced 25 NBA first round draft picks.

Francis, his wife Denea and family reside in Seattle.

Travis Demers enters his fifth full season with the Trail Blazers in 2023-24 as Radio Play-by-Play announcer. He launched the Section 113 podcast in 2022, which features a pregame look and interview ahead of every Trail Blazers game. Prior to his role with the Trail Blazers, Demers called games for the University of Portland, Hillsboro Hops, OSAA and other organizations locally and nationally for 20 years.  Travis has been a mainstay on the Portland media scene since 2003, as a regular host on 620 Rip City Radio, 1080 The FAN and NBC Sports Northwest.  He has also been a national host for SiriusXM.  Demers has been an active member of the Portland Metro community by coaching youth and high school sports, as well as being involved in several charitable organizations, including serving on the board for Adopt-A-Gym. Born in Mt. Kisco, New York, Travis received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Broadcasting from Long Island University. He was elected to the Hall of Fame at WCWP, his college radio station, in 2022.  He now lives in Sherwood with his wife Hannah and sons Lincoln and Lawson.

A basketball fanatic and overall sports nut, Jamie Hudson returns to the Trail Blazers Broadcasting team for her third year in 2023-24. She’s also a member of the KOIN 6 Sports Team as a part-time anchor and reporter.

Hudson grew up in the Pacific Northwest and has called Portland her home for more than a decade. She’s grown to love Oregon’s incredible passion for sports while covering the Trail Blazers, Ducks, Beavers, Timbers, Thorns and more for the past 10 years working for NBC Sports Northwest. Most recently, she was NBC Sports Northwest’s Trail Blazers Reporter traveling to games and keeping Rip City up-to-date with all things Blazers.

Hudson has her great grandmother to thank for her sports passion. With her family’s rooted fandom of the Seattle Mariners, Seattle Seahawks, and Seattle SuperSonics, Jamie knows all too well about success and heartache at times. Her love for basketball blossomed even more while she attended Gonzaga University. She never missed a Gonzaga Men’s Basketball game in The Kennel and still continues to root on her beloved Zags. Hudson majored in Broadcast Studies with a minor in Sports Management.

Mike Lynch enters his second season with the Trail Blazers in 2023-24 as the Trail Blazers Radio Network host for every home and road game. Prior to joining the Trail Blazers, Mike was an On-Air Personality at 1080 The Fan, where he was producer of Primetime w/ Isaac & Suke, and a host of a variety of weekly shows and podcasts.

A native of New Jersey, and a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, Mike has always been told he has an eclectic mix of interests. You'll find him in many of Portland's craft breweries and restaurants, moshing at metal shows, or streaming video games on Twitch. (Outside of basketball, Mike is a fan of many sports, but his heart will always be with the Yankees). Mike lives in Beaverton with his girlfriend Ashley, and her two children Dawson and Joclynn.

SportsCenter legend Neil Everett returns to the Trail Blazers Broadcast Team in 2023-24 for his third season in Rip City. Everett will be Television Studio Host for pre, half and post-game coverage for most Trail Blazers road games.

Everett, a Portland native, has strong Pacific Northwest ties. After high school in Spokane, he attended Willamette University in Salem before transferring to the University of Oregon where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism. Everett joined ESPN in July 2000 as an anchor for ESPNEWS and was a household name on SportsCenter for over 20 years.

Before ESPN, Everett worked for 15 years for various affiliates in Honolulu, most recently KGMB-TV, the CBS affiliate where he was the sports director and weekday anchor. He was also an assistant athletic director and sports information director at Hawaii Pacific University.

“Mr. Rip City,” aka Bill Schonely, is considered the organization’s Founding Broadcaster. "The Schonz," who was the voice of the Trail Blazers during their birth in 1970 and the team’s championship run in 1977, worked with the organization for more than 50 years. Schonely coined the phrase “Rip City” in a game against the Lakers in the 1970-71 first season of Trail Blazer basketball, which has since become a nickname for both the Trail Blazers and the city of Portland. In 2014, KPOJ sports radio rebranded as “Rip City Radio” after Schonely’s famous phrase. Schonely passed away in January 2023 at the age of 93. His memory will live on through the passion of Rip City.

The legendary broadcaster was recognized by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame with the Curt Gowdy Media Award during the 2012 Hall of Fame reunion dinner in Springfield, Mass. The prestigious award is presented annually to members of the print and electronic media whose longtime efforts have made a significant contribution to the game of basketball. Schonely then received the Special Achievement Award at the 2013 Governor’s Gold Awards. The Oregon Association of Broadcasters also recognized Schonely with the 2012 Tom McCall Award, named after the former Oregon governor. In 2009 alone, the local legend was named Portland First Citizen by the Portland Metropolitan Association of Realtors, Grand Marshall of the Rose Festival Starlight and Grand Floral Parades, and had the “Bill’s Kids Fund” established in his name by Providence Child Center to honor his longstanding dedication to and compassion for the medically fragile children who call the center home. The city of Portland declared April 3, 2010, a day of appreciation for Schonely.

He was inducted into the Oregon Historical Society as a 2017 Oregon History Maker, being honored as someone who helped to define the great state of Oregon. Schonely’s 30 years behind the microphone was the second-longest tenure in the NBA at the time to the late Chick Hearn, the legendary voice of the Lakers. Schonely's popularity has prompted the city councils and mayors of Portland, Vancouver, Wash., Lake Oswego and Gresham to pass resolutions calling for his inclusion into the Hall. Schonely called his last Trail Blazers game on April 30, 1998, a first round playoff contest with the L.A. Lakers. The next two years he hosted Rip City TV specials and provided sideline commentary during BlazerVision telecasts. He was courtside calling the action when Portland played its first-ever preseason game on Sept. 24, 1970, in Longview, Wash., and over the next three decades did the play-by-play for close to 3,000 Trail Blazers contests home and away. Schonz was honored as Oregon’s Sportscaster of the Year in 2003, 2001 and 1997 by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. He has also been named Broadcaster of the Year by the Oregon Association of Broadcasters and three times has been honored as the state’s Sportscaster of the Year by the OAB. In 1998, the OAB established an annual college scholarship in Schonely’s name for aspiring sports broadcasters and writers. In 2002, he was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame.

A native of Norristown, Pa., he served in the Marine Corps and did a sports show for Armed Forces Radio overseas before going to work for radio station KVI in Seattle. He was the voice of the Seattle Totems hockey team in the Western Hockey League. He also did University of Washington football, Seattle Angels baseball, the Oakland Seals in the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball’s Seattle Pilots. After the Pilots moved to Milwaukee in 1970, the Portland Trail Blazers came calling. Schonely supported numerous charitable causes, including the American Heart Association and Life Flight, and was a board member of the Providence Child Care Center Foundation.