of context, but CBS did not renew his contract for the subsequent season. Russell stayed on with new play-by-play announcer Dick Stockton for two seasons before giving way to former Celtics teammate Tom Heinsohn for the 1983–84 season. CBS often used the same analysts for both the NBA Playoffs and NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. Tom Heinsohn, Billy Cunningham, and Hubie Brown all worked NCAA Regional rounds during years when they also served as the lead NBA analyst for CBS. Billy Packer worked NBA playoff games in 1987 and 1988, while he was CBS' lead college basketball analyst. As previously mentioned, during the 1984 NBA Finals, Lesley Visser (wife of lead NBA on CBS play-by-play announcer Dick Stockton) became the first woman to cover an NBA Finals. She joined CBS Sports part-time in 1984 before joining full-time in 1987. When she was part-time with CBS, she still worked for the Boston Globe, as she had many diverse assignments with the newspaper. Visser became the first female NBA beat writer in 1976, when she was assigned to cover the Boston Celtics. Visser resigned from the Globe in late 1988. While Brent Musburger did host most of CBS' NBA Finals pregame and halftime programs, Pat O'Brien hosted a pregame show during the earlier rounds of the playoffs called The Basketball Show. O'Brien, working with analyst Bill Raftery, also hosted the Prudential At The Half. When Musburger left CBS Sports in April 1990, O'Brien took over the NBA Finals (the last that CBS did) hosting duties full-time. In 1988 and 1989, Pat O'Brien filled-in for Brent Musburger (who was busy covering the College World Series for CBS) as the NBA Finals anchor for Game 2. List of broadcasters Announcing teams 1981–1982 Dick Stockton and Bill Russell Frank Glieber and Hubie Brown Jim Kelly and Doug Collins Eddie Doucette and Kevin Loughery Christmas Day broadcasters CBS broadcast a Christmas Day game each year from to with the exception of . Theme music Through the 1973–74 to 1975–76 seasons, as well as for most of the 1978–79 season, the theme music for The NBA on CBS incorporated lyrics; "Last Night" by the Mar-Keys was used roughly around 1975–76 as the play-by-play announcer would give a preview to the featured game. Starting in 1977, CBS used an alternate opening showing a montage of still pictures of current NBA star athletes with music (similar to the