BOSTON — Mike Gorman has spent his life adjacent to the spotlight. For over 40 years, his voice has been the soundtrack to

nearly every moment of Celtics history.

You see Larry Bird, Paul Pierce or Jayson Tatum, but you hear Mike Gorman. You just rarely see him and he’s fine with that.

For someone who talks to millions of people for a living, Gorman often hides in plain sight. He says he’s not one for long

conversations: “Even my wife tells me I should talk more.”

He typically likes to sit back, watch and listen. But one day in February, there was a moment when he needed to speak up

and ask for help.

“I was having lunch with my brother and sister and I remember distinctly looking down at my plate, putting something on

my fork and then looking up,” Gorman recalled. “All of a sudden, my sister was gone from my field of vision.”

He looked to his left, and everything seemed “a little squiggly.” Then he veered to his right and was met with darkness. There

was no pain, no injury. Just sudden, perplexing blindness.

The 75-year-old Gorman could have panicked, but he’s been stoic his whole life. Even in the biggest moments of

Celtics game, his calls are clean, consistent and concise. He never looks to dominate the moment, but rather to do his part

and let the scene do the talking.

Surrounded by two of the most important people in his life, he could have leaned on them for support. But he simply stood

up, said, “I gotta go, I’ll talk to you later,” and walked out the front door as they sat baffled.

BOSTON — Mike Gorman has spent his life adjacent to the spotlight. For over 40 years, his voice has been the soundtrack to

nearly every moment of Celtics history.

You see Larry Bird, Paul Pierce or Jayson Tatum, but you hear Mike Gorman. You just rarely see him and he’s fine with that.

For someone who talks to millions of people for a living, Gorman often hides in plain sight. He says he’s not one for long

conversations: “Even my wife tells me I should talk more.”

He typically likes to sit back, watch and listen. But one day in February, there was a moment when he needed to speak up

and ask for help.

“I was having lunch with my brother and sister and I remember distinctly looking down at my plate, putting something on

my fork and then looking up,” Gorman recalled. “All of a sudden, my sister was gone from my field of vision.”

He looked to his left, and everything seemed “a little squiggly.” Then he veered to his right and was met with darkness. There

was no pain, no injury. Just sudden, perplexing blindness.

The 75-year-old Gorman could have panicked, but he’s been stoic his whole life. Even in the biggest moments of

a Celtics game, his calls are clean, consistent and concise. He never looks to dominate the moment, but rather to do his part

and let the scene do the talking.

Surrounded by two of the most important people in his life, he could have leaned on them for support. But he simply stood

up, said, “I gotta go, I’ll talk to you later,” and walked out the front door as they sat baffled.

“You look down and one second later, everything’s gone. It’s frightening because I thought for sure I was having a stroke, to be honest with you,” Gorman said. “As I was walking up Atlantic Avenue, I couldn’t walk in a straight line and it was like one of those expressions where you’re blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other. People were looking at me like I was drunk or whatever.”

He didn’t want to call an ambulance and make a scene. He could have at least ordered an Uber or flagged down a cab, but

there was something about solving this problem himself that just seemed right in the moment.

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