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.