Cavs announcer Tait to return Sunday (AP)

CLEVELAND (AP)—Joe Tait, the Cavaliers’ Hall of Fame radio play-by-play
broadcaster, will work his first game of the season Sunday when Cleveland takes
on Atlanta.

Tait has yet to call a game this season after having double bypass surgery
and an aortic valve replaced in January. He was hospitalized in November with a
blood clot in his lung and his heart surgery was postponed so he could get
stronger.

Tait, 73, was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame last summer. He said
before the season that he planned to retire in April. He will broadcast
Cleveland’s five remaining home games.

Tait has been the Cavaliers’ radio announcer for all but two years since the
team entered the NBA as an expansion franchise in 1970.