Shaun Powell

Shaun Powell is currently a sports-writer for NBA.com. Previously, he worked as a columnist at Newsday in New York for over 15 years. Powell is a distinguished writer and has been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors, the New York Associated Press, the New York Deadline Club, the Basketball Writers Association, the United States Tennis Writers Association, and the National Association of Black Journalists. Powell has worked in various sports-writing capacities at Newsday, Miami...See more

Shaun Powell is currently a sports-writer for NBA.com. Previously, he worked as a columnist at Newsday in New York for over 15 years. Powell is a distinguished writer and has been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors, the New York Associated Press, the New York Deadline Club, the Basketball Writers Association, the United States Tennis Writers Association, and the National Association of Black Journalists. Powell has worked in various sports-writing capacities at Newsday, Miami Herald, Dallas Times Herald, St. Louis Globe-Democrat , and Washington Post . He was once a regular contributor to The Sporting News . His assignments have taken him to Japan, Australia, South Africa, England, Scotland, Greece, and Italy, among other international sites, to cover a variety of events and sports, including the Olympics, Super Bowl, World Series, Masters, Wimbledon, NBA Finals, NCAA championships, and world championship boxing matches. He has appeared numerous times on local and national broadcast outlets, including CNN, ESPN TV and radio, the Madison Square Garden Network, MSNBC, ABC sports radio, WFAN, One-On-One Sports radio, and the Metro Channel's Game Face Show. Powell currently resides in Atlanta. He was born in Pittsburgh in 1960 and earned a journalism degree from HowardUniversity in 1983. He and his wife have a daughter. See less