Yahoo Sports senior NBA insider Chris Haynes

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Episode 22 of the Sports Media Podcast features Yahoo! Sports senior NBA insider Chris Haynes. In this podcast, Haynes discussed why he ended up leaving ESPN; what he expects at Yahoo! Sports; how ESPN wanted him to remain a local Bay Area as opposed to a national reporter; what it was like covering LeBron James for the Cleveland Plain-Dealer; what James discusses with reporters; what it’s like to have multiple employers over the past six years; whether he feels the pressure to break news as previous Yahoo staffers Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania; addressing charges that he is too close to Kevin Durant; how reporters of color are seen in the league; graduating from Fresno State at 27 and trying to break into journalism; working as a security guard during the day and covered Trail Blazers games at night; why the Raptors might be the most interesting NBA story this year, and much 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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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich and welcome to sports media podcast. My producer is always is Lou Pellegrino.
0:07.2	My guest today is Chris Haynes. He is a senior NBA insider for Yahoo. It's actually his first day at Yahoo Sports today. So we appreciate him coming on.
0:16.4	If you're an NBA fan, you know Chris has worked very well. Previously, ESPN.
0:23.1	Before that was with the Cleveland Plain dealer. He has at a front row seat
0:24.8	to LeBron James, Kevin Durant.
0:27.6	And again, Chris has been, he's been at the forefront
0:30.4	of a ton of NBA big stories in the last
0:32.7	couple of years. I have
0:34.5	interviewed him before on my Sports Illustrated
0:36.7	podcast, and he's an honest broker. That's one of the reasons I like having him before on my Sports Illustrated podcast, and he's an honest broker.
0:39.2	That's one of the reasons I like having him on.
0:41.0	Chris Haynes, welcome to the Sports Media podcast.
0:43.6	Nice. Thanks for having me on, man.
0:45.3	First of all, how's the transition been for you, man?
0:47.9	You've got a new gig as well.
0:50.3	I did two new gigs, yeah, one for the athletic and one in radio in Toronto. It's been going well. I appreciate you asking. That's a very different world here being in another country. But so far, so good. All right, Chris, I want to get to, I mean, it's kind of amazing to talk to you on your first day of work at Yahoo Sports.
1:12.8	So let's just start with that. You were at ESPN. You did excellent work, in my opinion,
1:20.0	at ESPN. I remember talking about your DeMarre de Rosen interview, which went national, international,
1:25.4	in the case of where I live. And I would have expected you to be at ESPN for, you know, the next five to ten years covering the NBA.
1:32.6	That's no disrespect on Yahoo, of course.
1:34.7	But what happened?
1:36.4	Why the transition from ESPN to Yahoo?
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