American reporter Brian Windhorst covers the National Basketball Association for ESPN.com (NBA).
Windhorst went to the same high school as James, St. Vincent-St. Mary in Akron, Ohio, and graduated with a degree in journalism from Kent State University in 2000.
Windhorst first wrote about James, then a high school athlete, in 2003. And so he began to encase the Cavaliers. Though James was the youngest player in the NBA, Windhorst was the youngest on the road on an NBA beat.
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Sportswriters for the NBA reportedly earn $30,000 a year, or $14 per hour, which is about 10% less than the national median wage of $33,000 for all sports writers.
On February 10, 2022, Windhorst beat out one of the best NBA writers, Adrian Wojnarowski, with his coverage of the James Harden trade that sent Harden from the Brooklyn Nets to the Philadelphia 76ers.
After correctly forecasting that the Utah Jazz will undergo a roster upheaval the day before star center Rudy Gobert was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves in July 2022, Windhorst became an internet superstar.
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He said he and James used to talk all the time, but now they’re just not the same. When asked, he explained, “I had sent him a message once, but by that point, we were both well over that phase of our lives. LeBron James doesn’t do that sort of thing with the media. Not in a very long time, that is.”
A reporter for the Akron Beacon-Journal, Windhorst covered James’ rookie NBA season with the Cleveland Cavaliers. James and the veteran reporter go way back to their high school days together at St. Vincent-St. Mary. Windhorst got his start in journalism by writing about the basketball squad at his former university.