Ernie Johnson, TNT's Inside the NBA

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Episode 7

Ernie Johnson is the host of TNT's Inside the NBA. He joined Turner Sports in 1989 and has been a legend in the broadcasting industry.

He's a 3-time Sports Emmy Award winner and considered one of the best in the business at what he does.

His new book is titled "Unscripted: The Unpredictable Moments That Make Life Extraordinary" is available everywhere now.

Ernie's most important job is probably being Cheryl's husband and the father of 6 children, 4 of which are adopted.

In this episode, 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.

For more, you can check us out on the web at http://SportsSpectrum.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports
0:07.9	collide.
0:09.0	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:11.6	And welcome everybody to episode seven of the Sports Spectrum podcast.
0:16.3	My name is Jason Romano.
0:17.7	It is great to have you here today.
0:20.8	Lots of great things happening with Sports Spectrum and the podcast. We is great to have you here today. Lots of great things happening with
0:22.3	Sports Spectrum and the podcast. We're happy to have you a part of it. Last week's episode,
0:27.5	a little bonus episode, episode number six. Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Jacob Slavin. Got a lot
0:33.6	of good feedback from that. And Jacob was such a fun kid to talk to and get to know his story just 23 years old,
0:40.6	just a couple years into his NHL career.
0:43.8	But that man loves Jesus, man.
0:45.7	He loves the Lord.
0:47.1	And he's been married, you know, a couple years now too.
0:50.1	And I really enjoyed the conversation because a lot of times we talk to people who are more well-versed in Christianity or their faith or have been around a long time or have all this wisdom.
1:01.7	And this kid is just 23 years old and getting started.
1:04.9	But he had a lot of great things to say.
1:06.7	The stories that he shared were really, really awesome.
1:09.4	So please go back to iTunes or Google Play or Sportspectrum.com and take a listen to the episode number six of Jacob's Slave.
1:17.6	And I really like the story he told of how he met his now wife, sort of a modern blind date.
1:24.1	I will just tease it that way and you can go back and listen to that.
1:27.3	Also a great story at the end about
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