FanHouse Steve Holman

Radio announcers for the home team are supposed to be homers, but Hawks announcer Steve Holman stooped to a new low earlier this week with his over the top calls from Game 5, from sarcastically chiding Dwyane Wade for getting hurt early in the game to blowing out of proportion routine fouls.

On the eve of Game 6, Holman's comments have created a minor furor in South Beach, even as both though the league and the Hawks have (indirectly) admitted that Holman was full of hot air.

You know that Rafael Araujo foul on Marvin Williams from Monday that got Atlanta Hawks announcer Steve Holman's undies all in a knot?



Well, the Salt Lake Tribune reports that upon further review the league rescinded the Flagrant 2 foul initially assigned to Aaraujo, essentially downgrading the foul to a run-of-the-mill blocking infraction.

Seriously, how much would have paid to be in the same room as Holman when he learned the news? If David Stern really wants to appeal to middle America, he should just go the way of professional wrestling and put that sort of thing on camera.