Howard Beck (born July 6, 1968 in

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) is an American journalist. Beck has covered the

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(NBA) for the

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, the

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and more recently,

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. Since December 2020, he has been an NBA senior writer for

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, where he also cohost
The Crossover
podcast with Chris Mannix. In October of 2022, Howard wrote the introduction for Sports Illustrated "The Greatest Show on Earth - A History of the Los Angeles Lakers' Winning Tradition". At the Los Angeles Daily News, Beck covered the

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. With the New York Times, Beck covered the

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for most of his tenure with a brief assignment to the

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during their first season in Brooklyn. In the fall of 2013 Howard left the New York Times for the Bleacher Report to be their national NBA writer. In the fall of 2020

stopped publishing BR Magazine and laid off various employees including Beck. From 2017 to 2020, Beck also created and hosted The Full 48 podcast. Guests included NBA commissioner Adam Silver, Actor, Kelly Aucoin, LA Lakers owner Jeanie Buss, Counting Crows lead singer, Adam Duritz and other

Howard was raised in California and graduated from the

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The Big Lead - An Interview with Howard Beck of the New York Times
/ref> where he served as editor in chief for the California Aggie newspaper. He currently resides in

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, New York.

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