Steve Buckhantz

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Steve Buckhantz is the television play-by-play announcer for the Washington Wizards. His lengthy announcing career began as Sports Director at WTTG, a Fox affiliate in Washington, D.C. A District native, Buckhantz grew up in Arlington, Virginia where his father owned a construction company. He attended James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. He is not married.

He is currently in his 9th year as the Wizards sportscaster, and has garnered a reputation for his emphatic expressions, such as "Dagger", "Backbreaker", "How good is he Phil?", "How do you like that?", "Tooough shot!", "It's good if it goes!", "Score the field goal, and he'll go to the line!", and "Oh My!".

Buckhantz's catchphrases have seeped into the lexicon of Washington, D.C. area sports fans, who revel in using them to describe a myriad of non-sports related events (ex. males observing a friend attempting to ask a woman for her phone number exclaim "Dagger!" or "Backbreaker!" when she can be seen rejecting the friend's advances) as well as debating the subtle and compelling distinction between a "Dagger" (a made basket at a critical juncture in a game that stabs like a dagger at the opposing team's chance of victory) and a "Backbreaker" (a made basket at a critical juncture in a game that breaks any chance that the opposing team will win).

He works alongside analyst Phil Chenier, a former member of the Washington Bullets. Buckhantz and Chenier offer their unbiased views towards officiating with their stellar commentary. After a recent charge by Caron Butler, the duo complained for several minutes about the credence of the whistle. However, when a similar offensive call was made on the opposition, little fanfare was made other than an applause of the officials. He currently resides in Vienna, Virginia.

Buckhantz is also well known for being overly anti-climactic and pronouncing the 2nd "O" in the word "sophomore". In addition, he has a strange habit of informing his viewers how many three-point field goals a player has made for the season. Example: "And Gilbert Arenas drains the three from the corner! That's his 78th of the season."

Other (in)famous Buckhantz phrases: "Get down young man!", "One plus the penalty, two shots", " is excoriated/livid!"

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