Sekou Smith is a 1997 mass communications graduate from Jackson State University. He is also an award-winning writer, reporter and multimedia specialist who has spent two decades covering basketball around the globe, from the grassroots level to college to the NBA as well as Olympic and World Cup competitions.
Smith has worked as a senior analyst for NBA Digital (NBA TV and NBA.com) since 2009, serving as both an analyst and reporter on NBA TV's Game Time and as an analyst on NBA TV's The Beat with Vince Cellini and David Aldridge. He is the creator and host of NBA.com's Hang Time Podcast along with Lang Whitaker and Rick Fox and the creator and editor of NBA.com's Hang Time Blog. Before joining Turner Sports and NBA Digital, Smith spent more than a decade as a national NBA writer and beat writer for the Indianapolis Star and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
A longtime member of the Pro Basketball Writers Association, Smith and his wife Heather live in Marietta, Georgia and are the proud parents of Gabriel, Rielly and Cameron.