Kristen Ledlow, TNT NBA Host and Reporter
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Episode 138
Kristen Ledlow is a host and sideline reporter covering the NBA for TNT and NBA TV. She also co-hosts NBA TV's show "Inside Stuff" with Grant Hill.
A graduate of Southeastern University, Kristen was an All-American volleyball player and set records as a basketball player. After college, she began her broadcasting journey covering college football and basketball on the local level.
Ledlow also was voted Miss Capital City USA in 2012 and placed Top 5 at Miss Florida USA. In 2014, she moved to NBA TV and began covering the NBA full-time.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Kristen about covering the NBA, getting to call play by play during the summer league broadcasts, where her faith in Christ was formed, the importance of being involved in her local church and the spiritual challenges she faces being a public figure.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.1 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with MBA, TV, and TNT host and sideline reporter Kristen Ledlow is brought to you in part by Compassion International. |
| 0:31.1 | Go to compassion.com slash sports spectrum. |
| 0:33.6 | Sponsor a child today. |
| 0:35.5 | My wife, my daughter, myself. |
| 0:37.1 | We sponsor a 13-year-old boy from Haiti. |
| 0:39.5 | We've been doing this for quite a few years now, and it's $38 a month, and it's the best $38 |
| 0:44.4 | that we spend each and every month. And one of the cool things that we get to do with our child |
| 0:49.1 | that we sponsor is have direct communication. I get to send them letters. They get to send letters back to us and let us |
| 0:55.7 | know how they're doing. So on this episode, I wanted to actually read you a portion of the letter |
| 1:00.8 | from the 13-year-old boy in Haiti as he wrote to us. He said, Dear Jason, good morning, dear supporter. |
| 1:07.4 | I feel a very happy to write you and to greet you in the name of Jesus who has all power. |
| 1:13.9 | It's always a pleasure for me every time I have the occasion to write with you. How are you doing? |
| 1:19.4 | Your health, your activities. As for me, everything is going very well, thanks to God. I am watching |
| 1:24.4 | the World Cup. How is the World Cup going on for you? What teams are you |
| 1:28.4 | supporting? Thank you for all your support you give me. Thank you for the love you have for me. |
| 1:33.0 | Please pray for me so that I stay in God and that I get a good vacation. I just thought that was |
| 1:38.8 | really neat that I just received this letter as I'm taping this podcast and thought I would read |
| 1:43.9 | that to you. |
| 1:44.5 | And that's what compassion is about. It's a direct connection with a child. You provide a child with |
| 1:48.9 | hope. You provide a child with every essential that they need that they deserve. Every child |
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