[4] HoopsTV.com Signs Former NBA Star and Current Broadcast Analyst Kenny Smith.Sports Editors/Basketball Writers & Columnists ROSEMONT, Pa.--(BW SportsWire)--Jan. 10, 2000 Smith To Provide Daily Insider Information on the NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= HoopsTV.com (www.hoopstv.com), a 24-hour basketball network featuring original programming from the playground to colleges to the NBA, announced today that former NBA star and current Turner Networks broadcast analyst Kenny Smith For American football player see Kenny Smith (football player). Kenneth (Kenny) Smith (born March 8 1965, in Queens, New York City) is a retired American professional basketball player and current TV announcer. has signed an exclusive Internet deal to become HoopsTV.com's NBA insider, providing daily audio reports on his own section of the site. "Based on my playing career in the NBA and my media experience with Turner, I can provide HoopsTV.com with an all-access pass to this league," said Smith. "In return, HoopsTV.com gives me an opportunity to speak to the true ball players out there." "This is a major coup for us," said HoopsTV.com president Scott O'Neil. "Kenny Smith is a proven player and now a successful TV analyst, so there's no doubt that he knows the league. He'll offer our community exclusive insight and opinions not available anywhere else." Specifically, Smith will report five days a week in audio format covering the NBA, inside and out. He will provide insight and observations of the previous night's hottest match-ups on the NBA courts, as well as trade rumors, free agent signings, analysis and other inside information. Kenny Smith graduated from the University of North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. in 1987. After his impressive college career Smith played in the NBA for nine seasons with the Detroit Pistons The Detroit Pistons are a team in the National Basketball Association based in the Detroit metropolitan area. The team's home arena is The Palace of Auburn Hills. Franchise history From Fort Wayne to Detroit , Sacramento Kings, Atlanta Hawks and the Houston Rockets, where he won two NBA championships. He currently serves as a studio analyst for TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. and TBS TBS Tablespoon TBS Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc. TBS Treasury Board Secretariat (Canada) TBS Tris-Buffered Saline TBS Tris Buffered Saline TBS Turn Based Strategy (games) basketball broadcasts. About HoopsTV.com Headquartered in Rosemont, PA, HoopsTV.com (http://www.hoopstv.com) transforms a computer into a 24-hour basketball network. HoopsTV.com is devoted to the basketball player and to delivering a world of basketball that no one else is covering from the playground to colleges to the NBA. If basketball is your religion, HoopsTV.com is your Church. HoopsTV.com has entered into strategic partnerships with leading providers of e-tail, media, content and technology including: Footaction USA, Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. , Inc., Small World Inc., and WebLinc. |
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