Harlan: TNT crew will call games from Atlanta when NBA season resumes

Longtime sports broadcaster Kevin Harlan says he and his on-air television partners will not be present when the NBA season resumes at Walt Disney World in late July.

"What I've heard from the folks at TNT is we will be in the studios in Atlanta and they will set up as close to possible a broadcast table like we would have courtside," Harlan said in an appearance on the SiriusXM NBA Radio channel this week, according to The Athletic's Richard Deitsch. "We will have, I'm assuming, crowd noise pumped into our headsets."

The exuberant play-by-play man added that there's likely no possibility of having broadcasters on site in Orlando until the conference finals, which are tentatively set to begin in September.

However, Harlan does not believe the broadcasts will feel too unusual for NBA fans.

"For the viewer, I don't think it’s going to seem dramatically different," Harlan said. "Now, you're not going to have courts that you recognize from Milwaukee, or Los Angeles, or Boston, so that's going to be a little bit weird. But if we're all just kind of sitting there watching, I don't know that we'll really notice a great deal of difference."