Alex Kennedy is a sportswriter, editor and podcaster. He has covered the NBA for the last 15 years and he has worked for HoopsHype, USA TODAY Sports, Bleacher Report, Basketball Insiders, RealGM and ESPN 1040. As managing editor of USA TODAY Sports' NBA Wire, he launched several NBA websites and managed the staff of writers and editors. His work has been featured on ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Yahoo! Sports, The Undefeated, ESPN Radio, MSN, NBA TV, Fox News and USA TODAY Sports among others. He started covering the NBA as a credentialed media member at 14 years old, becoming one of the youngest professional sportswriters in the country.

Alex Kennedy

Chief Content Officer

Chris Sheridan is a veteran journalist who has spent the bulk of his professional career covering the NBA and international basketball, especially Team USA's highs and lows at various FIBA events including many Olympic Games. He spent 17 years at The Associated Press, including 10 as the lead NBA writer in charge of coverage of all 30 NBA teams and supervision of the writers covering those teams. He was with ESPN and ESPN.com for six years, founded and published SheridanHoops.com from 2011-2016, and has worked with several mainstream and online basketball news outlets in the years since. He also covers NBA sports gambling for Catena Media at TheLines.com.

Chris Sheridan

Senior NBA Columnist

James Posey brings his immense basketball knowledge to BasketballNews.com after an All-American college career and nearly 20 years of NBA experience - both as a player and as a coach. Posey was a first-round pick who played 12 seasons in the NBA, winning two championships as a player with the Miami Heat (2006) and the Boston Celtics (2008). He also won a third ring as an assistant coach with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016. Posey hosts a weekly podcast for BasketballNews.com (“The Posecast") where he's joined by his former teammates and various friends from around the NBA. He also writes weekly articles for the site.

James Posey

Writer & Podcaster

Etan Thomas played 11 years in the NBA - suiting up for the Washington Wizards, Oklahoma City Thunder and Atlanta Hawks - but he’s also an author, activist, poet, columnist, podcaster and lecturer. Thomas writes a weekly column for BasketballNews.com in which he analyzes the NBA from a variety of angles and shares his perspective as a former player. Thomas' work has also been featured on The Washington Post, The Guardian, ESPN, CNN, The Undefeated, The Huffington Post, The Players’ Tribune and HoopsHype. He received the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Foundation’s Legacy award in 2009 and the National Basketball Players Association’s Community Contribution award in 2010. 

Etan Thomas

Writer

Kelsea O'Brien is a basketball writer who unfairly compares every big to Ben Wallace and every guard to Allen Iverson. She will make every attempt to steer any conversation towards the G League, and is mom to Damon, Violet, and Kawhi.

Kelsea O'Brien

Vinny Del Negro played in the NBA for 12 seasons and he's served as an NBA front-office executive and head coach. As a player, Del Negro had career averages of 9.1 points and 3.2 assists. In 2006, he joined the Phoenix Suns' front office and eventually became the team's assistant GM. After transitionin to coaching, Del Negro was the Chicago Bulls' head coach from 2008-2010. Then, he was the head coach of the L.A. Clippers from 2010-2013. His teams qualified for the playoffs in four of his five years. In recent years, Del Negro has served as the director of the NBA Draft Combine.

Vinny Del Negro

Ambassador

Troy Brown Jr. is a 2-year NBA veteran who currently plays for the Washington Wizards. The 21-year-old was the No. 15 overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft and he's developed into a key contributor for the Wizards. This season, he averaged 10.4 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.2 steals in 25.8 minutes per game. In high school, Brown was a five-star recruit and McDonald's All-American, and he won a gold medal with Team USA at the FIBA U17 World Championship. Brown writes articles for BasketballNews.com and hosts a podcast that will launch soon.

Troy Brown Jr.

Quinn Cook is a 4-year NBA veteran who is currently on the Los Angeles Lakers. The veteran point guard won an NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors in 2018 and he won an NCAA championship with the Duke Blue Devils in 2015. Cook was a five-star recruit and McDonald's All-American in high school. He is a guest writer for BasketballNews.com.

Quinn Cook

Contributor

Yasmin Duale is a West Toronto based NBA culture writer and podcaster, specializing in the grey area between these two worlds and the ways in which they intersect through players and play. She has a soft spot for diasporic African players, overzealous league showmen and well-tailored uniforms. Follow her on Twitter @carmelohdrama, as well as her NBA & culture journal "The Neon Playbook.

Yasmin Duale

Spencer Davies is a Senior NBA Editor and Writer who is based in Cleveland. He has covered the league and the Cavaliers as a credentialed reporter for the past six seasons. His work has appeared on Bleacher Report, USA Today, FOX Sports, HoopsHype, CloseUp360, Sports Illustrated's FanSided and Basketball Insiders among others. Davies got his start as a sports statistician and freelancer for the Akron Beacon Journal. In addition to his journalism experience, he worked as a Digital Production Assistant for Fox Sports Ohio, running all of their social-media accounts and growing their following. For BasketballNews.com, Davies helps manage the staff, produce original content, edit articles, run the social-media accounts and more.

Spencer Davies

Senior Writer/Editor

Nekias is a fan of tall passers, switch-y bigs, and Spain pick-and-rolls. He’s always here to remind you that the best way to beat a switch is with a slip.  He has written for Bleacher Report, SB Nation, Dime, Five Reasons Sports and Miami Heat Beat. Nekias is a writer and podcaster for BasketballNews.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @NekiasNBA.

Nekias Duncan

Katie is a feature and sports writer from Toronto whose bylines include Dime, Rolling Stone, The Athletic, Complex, VICE, Yahoo Sports, Real GM. She's been embedded with the Toronto Raptors as the team's feature writer, and has covered both All-Star and Summer League. She is a host of the women-led Dishes & Dimes podcast as well as Uhh, Basketball?, a contributing host of Locked on Raptors and a regular guest on national sports radio. She has a weekly newsletter called BASKETBALL FEELINGS and thinks of Rasheed Wallace, often. You can follow her on Twitter @wtevs.

Katie Heindl

Matt Babcock is the owner and founder of Babcock Hoops, and a contributor for BasketballNews.com. He is an NBA Draft analyst who previously worked as a certified NBPA and FIBA agent. He accumulated 10 years of experience in the sports-management industry, working for a number of agencies (including his own agency, Babcock Sports). Through his experience as an agent, he was exposed to the inner workings of basketball, providing him an array of knowledge about the business behind the game.
Matt has worked with many professional basketball players, ranging from NBA superstars to EuroLeague players to young prospects looking to build careers internationally. Matt has negotiated millions of dollars worth of contracts. Prior to the 2018 NBA draft, Matt served as a contributor for Sports Illustrated and The Crossover. He provided a series of stories outlining the protocols pertaining to the NBA draft process from the perspective of an NBA agent and the players they represent.
Aside from Matt’s experience as an agent and media member, he also brings first-hand experience as a former basketball player and coach. He was a standout player at George Walton High School in Marietta, Georgia, and went on to be a member of the basketball teams at Gulf Coast State College in Panama City, Florida, and the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. He also spent one season as an assistant coach for Virtus Bologna, a professional basketball team in Bologna, Italy.
Along with Matt’s professional experience, he also grew up in a "basketball family.” He learned the game from his father, Dave Babcock, Director of Player Personnel for the Milwaukee Bucks and his two uncles, Pete and Rob Babcock, both of whom are former NBA general managers. His two cousins, Chris and Nate Babcock, also hold positions within the Philadelphia 76ers and Atlanta Hawks organizations, respectively.

Matt Babcock

Featured Staff

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The Mavs reportedly have interest in Clippers unrestricted free agent Montrezl Harrell.

Mavs to show interest in Montrezl Harrell

Heat All-Star big man Bam Adebayo shouldered the blame for Miami's Game 5 loss.

Bam Adebayo takes blame for Game 5 loss

The Boston Celtics staved off elimination by topping the Miami Heat 121-108 in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals on Friday night.

Celtics beat Heat in Game 5, stay alive

Warriors shooting guard, Klay Thompson, takes part in his first full practice since tearing his ACL in the finals of last year.

Klay Thompson returns to practice for Warriors

Former Pelicans general manager, Dell Demps, has agreed to join the Jazz bench in an assistant coach role, former NBA player Keyon Dooling will also join the Jazz coaching staff.

Demps, Dooling join Jazz coaching staff

Top News

Katie Heindl breaks down Russell Westbrook's fit with the Houston Rockets and how the team can get more out of the former MVP.

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NBA veteran Etan Thomas vents about the misinformed comments from Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley on Breonna Taylor's death.

Shaq, Barkley's misinformed comments were disrespectful

If the NBA season starts in January, it may conflict with the 2021 Olympics. USA Basketball's Jerry Colangelo discusses this concern.

LeBron James wants to play in 2021 Olympics; will NBA schedule allow it?

Shaquille O'Neal has to be the best superstar teammate in the history of professional sports, writes best-selling author Jeff Pearlman.

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As a former NBA agent, Matt Babcock discusses the challenges that current agencies face during this unique pre-draft process.

2020 NBA Draft: An unprecedented pre-draft process

Spencer Davies details what's next for the Cavs as they hold their first team workouts since March and enter a unique offseason.

Inside look at the Cavaliers' offseason, team workouts

What the heck are the Boston Celtics doing? Nekias Duncan breaks down their struggles against the Miami Heat in Game 4 of the ECF.

Poor screen coverage doomed Boston Celtics in Game 4

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