Andscape’s Marc J. Spears (print) and ESPN’s Holly Rowe (digital) have been named the recipients of the 2023 Naismith Corridor of Fame Curt Gowdy Media Award.
Spears started his profession overlaying school basketball at numerous stops, together with the College of Arkansas, College of Louisville, the College of Kentucky and Cal-State Northridge. However he started overlaying the NBA in 1999 when he started overlaying the Denver Nuggets for The Denver Submit, and mentioned his profession modified ceaselessly when, in 2007, he took over the Boston Celtics beat at The Boston Globe within the wake of Kevin Garnett being traded there.
“Once I obtained that job, in 2007, or once I was up for it, I bear in mind within the midst of me, the week earlier than I interviewed, they obtained Garnett,” Spears mentioned. “And I used to be like, ‘I’ve obtained to get this job.’ I obtained that job, and I bear in mind [NBA journalist] Ric Bucher telling me, ‘Persons are going to see your work in another way now.’ Not that they did not assume it was good in Denver. Nevertheless it’s the Celtics, and Boston.”
Spears went on to spend a number of years at Yahoo earlier than becoming a member of Andscape in 2016.
Rowe has labored for ESPN since August 1998 and has turn out to be its lead males’s and girls’s school basketball reporter along with holding the identical position with the NBA, and in addition engaged on the Utah Jazz broadcast.