National Basketball Association

Cavs Hall of Fame announcer Tait to return Sunday

Published Mar. 25, 2011 9:30 p.m. ET

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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.