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Curt Gowdy Media Award

Annual award for outstanding basketball writers

Field	Value
name	Curt Gowdy Media Award
image	Curt Gowdy.png
caption	Curt Gowdy, the award's namesake, in the 1950s
sport	Basketball
givenfor	"To single out members of the electronic and print media for outstanding contributions to basketball."
location	Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Springfield, Massachusetts
first	1990
mostrecent	Debbie Antonelli, J.A. Adende (2024)
url

Springfield, Massachusetts

The Curt Gowdy Media Award is an annual award given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to outstanding basketball writers and broadcasters. It is named for American sportscaster Curt Gowdy, who was the Hall of Fame's president for seven years.

Recipients

This list of awardees is taken from the website of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Broadcasters

1990 Curt Gowdy
1991 Marty Glickman
1992 Chick Hearn
1993 Johnny Most
1994 Cawood Ledford
1995 Dick Enberg
1996 Billy Packer
1997 Marv Albert
1998 Dick Vitale
1999 Bob Costas
2000 Hubie Brown
2001 Dick Stockton
2002 Jim Nantz
2003 Rod Hundley
2004 Max Falkenstien
2005 Bill Campbell
2006 Bill Raftery
2007 Al McCoy
2008 Bob Wolff
2009 Doug Collins
2010 Joe Tait
2011 Jim Durham
2012 Bill Schonely
2013 Eddie Doucette
2014 John Andariese
2015 Woody Durham
2016 Jay Bilas
2017 Craig Sager
2018 Doris Burke
2019 Ralph Lawler
2020 Mike Breen
2021 Mike Gorman
2022 Walt Frazier
2023 Holly Rowe
2024 Debbie Antonelli
2025 George Blaha and Clark Kellogg

Sportswriters

1990 Dick Herbert (The News & Observer)
1991 Dave Dorr (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
1992 Sam Goldaper (The New York Times)
1993 Leonard Lewin (New York Post)
1994 Leonard Koppett (The New York Times and New York Post)
1995 Bob Hammel (The Herald-Times)
1996 Bob Hentzen (The Topeka Capital-Journal)
1997 Bob Ryan (The Boston Globe)
1998 Larry Donald (Basketball Times) and Dick Weiss (Daily News)
1999 Smith Barrier (News & Record)
2000Dave Kindred (The Sporting News)
2001 Curry Kirkpatrick (ESPN The Magazine and Sports Illustrated)
2002 Jim O'Connell (Associated Press)
2003 Sid Hartman (Star Tribune)
2004 Phil Jasner (Philadelphia Daily News)
2005 Jack McCallum (Sports Illustrated)
2006 Mark Heisler (Los Angeles Times)
2007 Malcolm Moran (USA Today and The New York Times)
2008 David DuPree (USA Today)
2009 Peter Vecsey (New York Post)
2010 Jackie MacMullan (The Boston Globe)
2011 Alexander Wolff (Sports Illustrated)
2012 Sam Smith (Chicago Tribune)
2013 John Feinstein (The Washington Post and Sporting News)
2014 Joe Gilmartin (Phoenix Gazette and Sporting News)
2015 Rich Clarkson (The Topeka Capital-Journal and National Geographic)
2016 David Aldridge (The Philadelphia Inquirer and NBA.com)
2017 Harvey Araton (The New York Times)
2018 Andy Bernstein (NBA)
2019 Marc Stein (ESPN and The New York Times)
2020 Michael Wilbon (The Washington Post)
2021 Mel Greenberg (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
2022 Michael Voepel (ESPN)
2023 Marc Spears (ESPN and Andscape)
2024 J. A. Adande (Los Angeles Times and ESPN)
2025 Michelle Smith (San Francisco Chronicle and ESPN)

Transformative

2020 Inside the NBA
2022 Dick Ebersol
2023 CBS Sports
2024 NBA Inside Stuff and Slam

Insight

2020 Jim Gray
2021 George Kalinsky
2025 Adrian Wojnarowski

References

"Curt Gowdy Media Award Winners". [[Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame]].
Saraceno, Jon. (September 4, 2008). "Ewing Among Seven To Be Inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame". [[USA Today]].
Finn, Chad. (12 May 2010). "MacMullan Is Named Gowdy Award Winner". The Boston Globe.
(March 15, 2017). "John Andariese, 78, Knicks Broadcaster". New York Times.
(February 12, 2016). "David Aldridge and Jay Bilas Named Recipients of Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Media Award". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
(February 17, 2017). "NBA raises $500,000 for SagerStrong Foundation". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
(February 17, 2018). "Andy Bernstein and Doris Burke Named Recipients of Basketball Hall of Fame's 2018 Curt Gowdy Media Award". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
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