Mark Mason is an American public address announcer for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association.
Mason began working as the Trail Blazers' public address announcer at the start of the 1996–97 NBA season. Since his start, he has announced every preseason and regular season game and reached 700 regular season games on March 27, 2013,.
A native of Southern California, Mason's radio broadcast career path took him to Portland, Oregon for afternoon drive duties at KEX-AM, where he has held down the shift since 1995. He co-hosts The Mark and Dave Show, a local news–talk show.
Mason is known for including "native-language introductions" for the team's foreign players, a "6th Man" catch-phrase, and the drawn-out "Are you ready...for your Portland Trail Blazers!" According to Mason, his introduction of Trailblazers guard Damian Lillard is the first introduction of an NBA player by letter rather than number. (O, for Lillard's regional basketball resume: Oakland, Ogden, and Oregon.)
Famous quotes containing the word mark:
“I pray that Allah may be moved
To drop sleep on her eyes because she loved.”
—Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.
AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)