Malika Andrews

Malika Rose Andrews McMenamin (born January 27, 1995) is an American sports journalist and reporter. She is the host of NBA Today, which replaced The Jump. Quotes I worked at my grandfather’s law firm as a secretary when I was younger, and it was fascinating, and the work that he does as a civil rights attorney was so awesome and so cool. But I worked with him and I looked around and I was like, “I just don’t think a desk job is for me.” I like the excitement of never knowing exactly where you’re going to be or what you’re going to do. That sort of spontaneity, I think, is fun and exciting. I don’t know which came first, but they came very separately, if that makes sense. I’ve always loved basketball. I loved watching games with my family. My dad is a personal trainer, and so it was like, play sports, do sports, soak in sports, and so I’ve always loved that. And then I’ve always loved to write, but they were always separate. Writing was my favorite subject in school; reading was my favorite thing to do. My mom and I used to tout who could read more books in the summer outside of our school books. And then [basketball and writing] merged in college. I knew I was bad at math, I lean way too heavily on calculators. I literally chose my major based on which I had to take the fewest math classes for. So how can I marry these two things? And that’s when they came together. I don’t remember this, but I feel like it’s been told so many times. It was the ‘90s, it was before they had the earmuffs that babies wear now, so my dad would put his hands over my ears because every time the announcer would scream, I’d put my hands up in the air and look like, ahhh, what is this? So he kept his hands over my ears the entire game. There’s no feeling like the trophy ceremony that I was lucky enough to be entrusted with in 2021. Even looking at the video and pictures later, you’re just swallowed. You’re this teeny little dot of a person that is swallowed into this massive celebratory feat. It’s the pinnacle of sport and it’s this thrill of knowing that literally millions of people are listening to the way that these athletes, who have hoped and dreamed of something their entire life and achieved the one goal that they’ve been working towards, and you were sort of the facilitator of that moment. I don’t think that there’s anything like it. "ESPN’s Malika Andrews Thrives in Spontaneous Moments", Jun 01, 2023 External links Category:Sports journalists Category:Television presenters Category:People from the United States Category:Living people Category:1995 births Category:Women from the United States Category:Women born in the 1990s