Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.

Here's your host, Jason Romano.

Welcome everyone to a throwback edition of the Sports Spectrum podcast.

I am Jason Romano, and today we're going to look all the way back to May 5th, 2017, episode number 7 with TNT's Ernie Johnson. And for a lot of you who have started listening

to this podcast, maybe more recently, certainly our numbers indicate that we have a lot of new

listeners. Please go back and listen to some of our older episodes. And this one here with

Ernie Johnson from T&T, man, one of our best interviews, one of my

favorite interviews that we've done in the over 300 interviews that we've done here on this show.

What a great conversation with Ernie Johnson, the host of T&T's inside the NBA. Of course, he's a three-time

sports Emmy Award winner who joined Turner

Sports 30 years ago in 1989 and has been considered one of the best in the business at what

he does. He wrote a book called Unscripted, The Unpredictable Moments that Make Life Extraordinary,

and this guy has lived an extraordinary life coming to faith in Christ later in life in his 40s.

And what we do here playing a snippet of that interview, we just want to play a little bit of a portion of it.

And this part was me talking to him about adoption and raising a special needs son.

Take a listen to Ernie Johnson here on Sports Spectrum's podcast.

We're talking to Ernie Johnson here on the Sports Spectrum podcast.

And, Ernie, you mentioned the piece done by E60 and ESPN and watching that piece.

You know, I was obviously emotionally involved as so many others were. I'm sure you heard from

so many different people. But particularly watching you take care of Michael, your son, a special

needs child. You said he had Duchenne, muscular dystrophy, adopted from a Romanian orphanage

in 91. Adoption, I want to ask you about that. It's this biblical model that God has taught us

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