NBA on TNT sideline reporters are Jared Greenberg, Rebecca Haarlow, Nabil Karim, Chris Haynes, Stephanie Ready, Dennis Scott and Matt Winer.
TNT aka Turner Network Television looks at various sporting events, including NBA, NHL, U.S. Soccer, the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament, and the professional wrestling show AEW Rampage.
Sidelines reporters play an essential role in such gaming events, providing live updates on injuries and breaking news. Meanwhile, their responsibilities include conducting interviews with players or any relevant figure while the game continues on the field or court.
Thus, being a sideline reporter on TNT is a prestigious job, especially for the NBA, which garners more than one million viewers each year.
TNT’s crew list includes notable media figures like Charles Barkley who look after their department as play-by-play commentators, alternate analysts, studio analysts, and Tuesday or Playoffs analysts.
There are currently eight sideline reporters in the TNT workforce. Learn more about them below:
1. Jared Greenberg
Jared Greenberg is the NBA TV on-air host and reporter at TNT. He has been based in the Great Atlanta area since January 2012.
Besides his work as a studio host and a sideline reporter, he also looks after NBA TV’s year-round coverage of the NBA.
His LinkedIn confirms that he works alongside some of basketball’s most prominent names while hosting such shows as, CrunchTime, GameTime, Shaqtin A Fool, and Making The Call, to name a few.
Before his current work with NBA, Greenberg was a radio talk show host about NBA on SiriusXM from 2014 to 2019. This NBA expert has been around for more than fifteen years as time goes by.
He enjoys his job as he gets to interview big named NBA players and personalities that he often shares on his Instagram. He has shared his memories of himself with Ja Morant and Domantas Sabonis recently.
2. Rebecca Haarlow
Rebecca Haarlow looks after the NBA Playoffs of NBA on TNT. She joined the workforce in 2013, as confirmed by her LinkedIn.
A TNT sports broadcaster veteran of more than a decade, Haarlow is also affiliated with other notable media houses. She has been a New York Knicks Television Broadcaster at MSG Networks since September 2015.
Besides the two channels, Rebecca is best known for working with the Big Ten Network from 2007 to 2015.
The 44-year-old is also the founder and Media Consultant at Rebecca Haarlow Inc., which she founded in June 2008. Fans were much impressed with her devotion to NBA when she showed up to work during her pregnancy in 2022.
3. Nabil Karim
Nabil Karim signed with TNT in 2022 as a host for NBA TV and as a hockey reporter. He made his Turner Sports on-air debut on NBA TV on January 14, 2022.
He hosted the NBA GameTime after agreeing to an undisclosed multi-year deal with the company. He previously anchored at ESPN’s SportsCenter and various other studio shows since 2019.
Before his time with ESPN, he was a reporter for Canada’s leading sports network, TSN. Karim had covered many world tournaments, including the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and the 2013 and 2014 IIHF World Junior Championships, during his time with them.
His other accomplishments include the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games, the 2016 FIBA Americas, and the 2016 Rio Olympic Summer Games.
A huge admirer of DeMar DeRozan, Nabil graduated from Simon Fraser University with a degree in Communications and later obtained his degree in Broadcast Journalism from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
4. Chris Haynes
Chris Haynes is one of the currently active sideline reports at Turner Sports. He first agreed to sign with TNT as their Tuesday Night NBA telecasts sideline reported in November 2019.
While the show was set for January 2020, Haynes looked after other shows where he joined a panel of NBA experts like Ian Eagle and Brian Anderson.
Despite his lack of formal training as a sports broadcaster, Haynes remarkable rise to the industry impressed the crowd. He had only joined Fox Sports as a contributor one year before closing his deal with TNT.
He had appeared on FS1 shows, “Speak for Yourself” and “The Doug Gottlieb Show.” Besides his reporting, Haynes has evolved as a senior NBA insider for TNT and Bleacher Report.
Chris is available on Instagram as @chrisbhaynesnba, where he mainly shares his work photos.
5. Allie LaForce
Allie LaForce is the lead reporter for the NBA on TNT alongside Shaq. She joined the network in 2018. She left CBS Sports to occasionally appear due to her March Madness reporting role back then.
Her LinkedIn confirms that she has been a Fox College Sports and Sports Time Ohio sideline reporter from 2010 to 2012. Before her stint with CBS, she was a Cleveland Show Anchor for Friday Night Touchdown at Fox8 Cleveland from May 2011 to 2013.
Allie is a 2011 graduate of Ohio University in Broadcast Journalism. Besides covering pro basketball, she is an avid high school sports fan.
Her love for sports was passed down by dad Wade, who played in two Stagg Bowls for the Wittenberg Tigers. Meanwhile, her mother, Lesa, was a tennis player and cheerleader at Kent State University.
6. Stephanie Ready
Stephanie Ready is a sideline reporter for NBA on TNT as of 2018. She is widely known for her time as a broadcaster for the NBA Charlotte Hornets.
She started as a Hornets, formerly Bobcats’ sideline reporter, in 2004 and covered the Women’s Final Four of college basketball for ESPN2 in 2006 and 2007.
Ready then joined the TNT network in 2006 as a part-time sideline reporter for TNT. The following year, she reviewed the NBA Playoffs and the WNBA Playoffs on ESPN2.
Interestingly, this TNT figure was a basketball coach before her broadcasting career. She was the first female coach of a men’s professional league team in 2001.
Ready spent briefly as a head coach at the NBA Development League before becoming famous for covering basketball.
7. Dennis Scott
Dennis Scott serves as a commentator, alternate analyst, and sideline reporter for Turner Network Television.
He is a former NBA player, having spent a decade in the league. He played with numerous teams from 1990 to 2000, including Orlando Magic, Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns, New York Knicks, and Minnesota Timberwolves.
Scoot’s last team was Vancouver Grizzlies, with whom he played between 1999 to 2000. Moreover, he has also served as general manager of the Atlanta Vision of the American Basketball Association.
Dennis actively shares his work memories on his social handles, especially Instagram.
8. Matt Winer
Matt Winer signed with TNT in 2010 to cover a variety of sports across its networks. The deal has continued since then, while Winer has been in the media since 1991.
Matt is also a studio host on NBA TV while contributing to TNT’s coverage of NASCAR, the NBA, and the PGA Tour. He is one of the few commentators on various sports in the field.
Moreover, he also works as a College Basketball analyst on CBS. Throughout this time, Winer also worked with other notable networks, including ESPN, KSDK-TV in St.Louis, WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, WJTV-TV in Jackson, and KTVQ-TV in Billings.
His expertise in his work has granted him four nominations for four regional sports Emmys.