Curt Gowdy Media Award

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
• 2026 Chris Carrino and Mike Fratello

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

See also

• List of sports journalism awards
• Ford C. Frick Award - MLB's comparable award
• Foster Hewitt Memorial Award - the NHL's comparable award
• Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award - the NFL's comparable award

References

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