"Steve Holman" is an American sports broadcaster, most noted for his work as the play-by-play broadcaster for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association.

Holman broadcast his 1,500th consecutive Hawks game on March 5, 2007—his 53rd birthday. His 1700th consecutive Hawks broadcast came in the 2009 playoffs. His 2,000th consecutive broadcast was on Wednesday, January 16th, 2012 when the Hawks played the Brooklyn Nets.

The 2014-2015 NBA season is his 30th with the Atlanta Hawks. Holman has also covered the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta Chiefs (soccer) and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball/Georgia Tech baseball since moving to Atlanta in 1980.

Holman began his NBA career in the early 1970s as a broadcast assistant to legendary Boston Celtics’ play-by-play voice Johnny Most. He first filled in for Most in 1976 when Most went hoarse during a game. His first radio job was at WCCM in Lawrence, where he was hired by station owner Curt Gowdy.

Holman also covered the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, calling radio play-by-play action for the United States men’s and women’s Gold Medal basketball teams, as well as boxing.

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Nationally, no one ever says anything about my 1,400 games. If you are in New York, everything is magnified. If you are in L.A., the team wins championships every year. Then you get the national pub. But I'm not really interested in that. As long as the people I work for here in Atlanta like what I do, and the fans are happy with me, that makes me happy.

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I thought I was having a heart attack or something. They gave me a shot of adrenaline and something else for the asthma so I could do the game the next night. They thought I was crazy to do it. They wanted me to go in the hospital for three days. But I was able to get through it.

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