SEKOU SMITH – LIFE INSIDE THE NBA BUBBLE (EP. 035)
Sekou Smith is an award-winning writer, reporter, and multimedia specialist who has spent two decades covering basketball around the globe, from the grassroots level to the NBA as well as at the Olympics and World Cup competitions. Smith has worked as a Senior Analyst for NBA Digital (NBA TV and NBA.com) since 2009, serving as both an analyst and reporter on NBA TV’s Game Time and as an analyst on NBA TV’s The Beat with Vince Cellini and David Aldridge.
In this episode we discuss:
- Sekou’s experience in the NBA bubble
- Quality of play in Orlando
- What the Lakers’ championship meant
- How coverage will change in the future
Smith is the creator and host of NBA.com’s Hang Time Podcast and the creator and editor of NBA.com’s Hang Time Blog. Before joining Turner Sports and NBA Digital, Smith spent more than a decade as a national NBA writer and beat writer for the Indianapolis Star and Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is a longtime member of the Pro Basketball Writers Association. Prior to his time covering the NBA, Smith spent six years covering college football, basketball, and baseball for the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, focusing on the Southeastern Conference.
Host Beau Estes asks Sekou multiple questions about his personal experiences from his time in Orlando inside the NBA Bubble.
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SHOW NOTES
- Sekou talks about his time in the NBA bubble (4:03)
- Does Sekou feel he now has a connection with everyone he was in quarantine within the NBA bubble (12:10)
- Did Sekou get any advice from colleagues who prepared him for the bubble (15:28)
- How did experiencing the games up close affect Sekou’s reports (20:00)
- Did Sekou feel the political movements that were happening outside the NBA bubble during this time (25:35)
- How will the media coverage process adapt to COVID guidelines (30:50)
- What skills would Sekou be learning to best position himself to work in the industry of basketball today (33:10)
- Did Sekou ever see people starting to want to leave the bubble early (41:25)
- What will the people remember from the NBA bubble (42:35)
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