Broadcasting Career
Burke began her broadcasting career in 1990 as an analyst for women's games for her alma mater on radio. That same year, she began working in the same role on Big East Women's games on television, and in 1996 she began working Big East men's games. She has been the lead analyst for ESPN's coverage of the WNBA, and since 1997 has been the primary radio and television voice of the New York Liberty. In 2003, Burke was named to ESPN's top men's basketball team working with Dick Vitale on the men's games and working the sidelines for ESPN and ABC for their coverage of the NBA. In 2000, Burke became the first woman to be a color analyst for a New York Knicks game on radio and on television; she is also the first woman to be an analyst for a Big East men's game, and the first woman to be the primary analyst on a men's college basketball conference package. In 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 she served as a sideline reporter for the NBA Finals for ABC Sports.
In 2010 she was featured as the new sideline reporter for 2K Sports's NBA 2K11 video game. She reappeared on the follow up, NBA 2K12. Once more, she reappears in the NBA 2K13 video game, the sequel to NBA 2K12.
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