Ernie Johnson - Host of TNT's Inside the NBA
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Ernie Johnson is a broadcasting legend. He is the host of TNT’s Inside the NBA and a 3-time Sports Emmy Award Winner. He joined Turner Sports in 1989 and for over 30 years, has been considered one of the best in the business at what he does.
His new book titled “Unscripted: The Unpredictable Moments That Make Life Extraordinary” is available now.
Today on the podcast, Ernie shares his very personal story of coming to the Christian faith, raising a special needs son, what a typical day is like working on Inside the NBA, and what it meant to speak out on the TNT set the night after the election of President Donald Trump in 2016.Â
This interview originally aired on May 5, 2017. You can listen to the entire conversation right here.Â
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast where we bring Jesus into the conversation. |
| 0:18.1 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.5 | What's up, guys? Welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano. So glad you're tuning |
| 0:25.3 | into the show today. Got a little bonus episode for you. I'll tell you about that in just a |
| 0:30.2 | second. I want to direct you first to our website, sportspectrum.com. It's a great place to go |
| 0:35.4 | for all of our content here at the Ministry of Sports |
| 0:38.2 | Spectrum. You have a daily devotional each day, Monday through Friday to start your day |
| 0:42.9 | right with God. You also have articles and different stories written on the intersection of |
| 0:47.8 | sports and faith. And those articles go back years and years and years. So there's tons of |
| 0:52.1 | content there on the website, Sportspectrum.com. And then every single podcast is there as well. And we go back |
| 0:59.1 | three and a half years or so to March 31st, 2017, when this Sports Spectrum podcast launched. |
| 1:07.6 | And you can listen to all of those interviews right there at sportspectrum.com. And that's |
| 1:12.8 | what I'm doing today. I thought it'd be fun as we near the end of October here to bring you a little |
| 1:18.4 | bonus episode, a little bonus interview that we recorded back in April of 2017 telling the |
| 1:26.4 | testimony and the story of Ernie Johnson from T&T. |
| 1:30.4 | Ernie's a legend when you think about all that he has accomplished at T&T, both doing the NBA |
| 1:34.9 | and inside the NBA. |
| 1:36.9 | But you also see him covering Major League Baseball. |
| 1:39.1 | You see him doing some NCAA men's basketball tournament action for Turner and CBS. |
| 1:44.6 | The guy is a broadcast legend. |
| 1:46.8 | He's also one of the nicest people that you will ever meet and talk to. |
| 1:51.0 | And we were so fortunate to talk to Ernie Johnson a few years ago. |
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