Elie Seckbach
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Elie Seckbach is a sports writer who has been covering the NBA
National Basketball Association
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 since 1997.
His unconventional style is loved by his fans who check in on a daily basis to see what’s the latest on his “reeeporting.”
. Elie covers everything from boxing to basketball.
He has worked for the Los Angeles Daily News
Los Angeles Daily News
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 http://insidesocal.com/video/videos/seckbach.html as well as news outlets in Israel
Israel
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. In 2008, he began reporting for AOL Sports FanHouse
FanHouse
FanHouse is a sports website owned by AOL. Launched in September 2006, FanHouse is considered the Internet's most linked sports blog by aggregator BallHype, won Editor & Publisher's 2008 EPpy Award for "Best Sports Blog", and was named as a finalist for the award in 2009.In January 2009, FanHouse...

 http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/03/31/al-jefferson-comedic-genius/ He also has appeared in the film Who Shot Mamba. In October 2008 he began reporting for NBC-TV's website covering the Los Angeles Lakers. In September 2008 Seckbach was a featured speaker at The Blog World convention in Las Vegas talking about new media and journalism.
In June 2009 Yahoo Sports wrote about hip-hop superstar Lil' Wayne dropping a rap song in honor of Lakers star Kobe Bryant. Seckbach was sampled in the song four times—including part of an interview he did with Orlando's Mickael Pietrus.

Seckbach also worked as a boxing correspondent for AOL Sports FanHouse before going on to establish his own boxing video news website.

Away from the NBA, Elie has covered major news events and has won both a Golden Mike and an Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

. In 2009 Seckbach was nominated by the Associated Press
Associated Press
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and won the Mark Twain Award.

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