Longtime NBA reporter and analyst Sekou Smith died on Tuesday.
Unit 1 Hoop Source was the first to report the news. NBA TV later confirmed his death. He was 48 years old.
Smith worked for the Clarion-Ledger and wrote for the Indianapolis Star and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution covering the Indiana Pacers and the Atlanta Hawks after graduating from Jackson State University in 1997. He joined Turner Sports in 2009, where he worked as a reporter and an analyst for NBA.com and NBA TV.
He was a mainstay on NBA TV’s studio show “Game Time” and “The Beat.