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There’s no one like Ernie Johnson in the industry, that can do what he does and impact so many lives like myself. It’s tough to hear this news, looking up to him throughout my career as many others did, but THANK YOU for everything 🙏🏾

He then brought me and my work back up on The Steam Room with Charles Barkley (again, very blessed).

I had the opportunity to reconnect with him at Opening Night of the 2023-24 NBA Season as a Lift Every Voice Fellow (peep my X banner). Again, another awesome convo where he breathed life into me before I had the biggest interview of my life up to that point.

Fast forward about 30 minutes as Ryan and I are leaving, still raving about meeting Ernie and we see him again! He talked to us for 15 more minutes.

Introduced ourselves and he was the exact same kind, down-to-earth and personable human being we’ve seen on TV. He talked to us for 10 minutes, asking us about our internships and letting us take a photo with him. Here it is (time stamp: 11:22pm) We were so happy😂

We strolled around campus slowly just hoping to run into Ernie. After a while of not seeing him and nearly giving up, we heard his voice in the hallway. We both turned around immediately and there he was — dressed to the nines of course. Nervously, we walked to him and

But being a baseball guy, I didn’t mind staying up to learn more about production and watch free baseball lol. So one day, @RyanChienMedia and I planned to stay late to hopefully meet Ernie. We didn’t fully know where he’d be, but more so the area. So, after the show,

I have a cool story about meeting @TurnerSportsEJ for the first time. I was a Production Intern at TNT in Summer 2022, assisting primarily with the MLB on TBS and NBA-TV shows. MLB on TBS, which Ernie hosted when the NBA in season, ran late at night, sometimes till 1am.