About Our Speaker: Brian Windhorst is in his 16th year covering the National Basketball Association for ESPN. Overall, he has worked on the NBA for 23 years including seven years as a beat reporter on the Cleveland Cavaliers and two years on the Miami Heat. He started working in media at age 16 at the Akron Beacon Journal and worked there for 14 years followed by two years at the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
He is a core member of Countdown, ESPN鈥檚 flagship NBA pregame show and NBA Today, ESPN鈥檚 daily NBA show. He often appears on Get Up, First Take, Pardon the Interruption and SportsCenter on the network. He has been writing for ESPN.com since 2006. For the last 10 years, he has hosted The Hoop Collective, ESPN鈥檚 signature podcast that was recently acquired by Payton and Eli Manning鈥檚 Omaha Productions.
Brian is the author of four books about the career of LeBron James, two of which have been New York Times Bestsellers.
A 1996 graduate of St. Vincent-St. Mary High School and 2000 graduate of Kent State University. During his career he has lived in Cleveland, Miami and New York City. He now calls Omaha, NE, home where his wife, Maureen, is a prominent attorney and his son, Dane, currently attends second grade.
About the Presentation: What鈥檚 the difference between your child鈥檚 eighth grade rec league basketball team and an NBA team? Take away the hundreds of millions, celebrity status plus national television and the answer is鈥bsolutely nothing! Behind the scenes, the world of professional basketball will stun you every day with both its intricate complexity and its head-slapping simplicity. Take it from someone with 23 seasons worth of examples.