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Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

ESPN’s Malika Andrews and Kendra Andrews

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3721 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Episode 264 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests and the first sisters on the podcast. Malika Andrews is the host of ESPN’s weekday NBA studio show, NBA Today and an NBA reporter for the company. Her sister, Kendra Andrews, covers the Golden State Warriors for ESPN. In this podcast, Kendra and Malika discuss how they gravitated toward NBA media jobs; the qualities they admire about each other; how Malika’s reporting in the NBA bubble in 2020 impacted her professionally and personally; navigating a certain level of being recognized by the sports viewing public; Malika’s struggles as a teen and attending a therapeutic boarding school; Malika asking Paige Bueckers for basketball analysis to help her with her job; how Kendra sees the challenges and benefits of the Warriors beat; Malika on Hilary Guy, NBA Today’s coordinating producer; the best interviews in the NBA right now; advice for young people of color, particularly women, who want to go into this business; dreams of doing longform pieces and covering the Olympics and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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No, I would say just to remember that you, like from a treetops thought, you do belong here. You do belong in this space.

0:42.5

And it's a lot of hard work. And it's as much, you get out of it, what you put into it,

0:52.0

especially the NBA, this is a business of being around and putting in the time and matching the time that

0:57.7

these players and executives put in.

0:59.9

But just because you don't see yourself often in any given space or maybe you wonder if you're,

1:08.9

it's one thing to be a woman or a black woman in a space. It's another

1:14.9

thing to feel like you are able to walk into a room with thoughts as women, being able to embody

1:23.8

the position of women and black women. But I think it's, it's the knowledge that I can tell you that you can.

1:31.3

And I will tell you that it's hard.

1:33.3

And I will tell you that there's days that it's the ugliest days of the days when the public is questioning the things that you've always asked yourself if you're good enough at and you're good enough for.

1:43.3

And it's hard

1:44.2

when that is being mirrored back at you on Twitter or wherever the case may be because you're

1:50.3

human and you're going to feel that. But there's someone who's felt it before you. There's someone

1:55.7

who's felt it just as deeply as you and there's someone who's going to be there to help you

1:59.2

because that's the thing that I've learned. You asked me about working for a woman. It's the fact that there is someone there

2:05.1

to tell you, I've been there and I came out the other side. And so if I can be that for somebody

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