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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Ernie Johnson Jr.

Ernest Thorwald Johnson Jr. is an American sportscaster for Turner Sports. Johnson is currently the television voice and a studio host for Major League Baseball on TBS, hosts Inside the NBA for TNT, and NBA TV and contributes to the joint coverage of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament for Turner and CBS Sports. His father was Ernie Johnson Sr., a Major League Baseball pitcher and Atlanta Braves play-by-play announcer.

Dad liked to self-deprecatingly joke about his career, but Ernie Johnson was a pretty darn good relief pitcher.
I'm the TV guy trying to get us from point A to point B to point C.
Nobody is going to tune in to see what I think about the NBA. — © Ernie Johnson Jr.
Nobody is going to tune in to see what I think about the NBA.
What can I ask the owner that I won't ask the GM that I won't ask the coach that I won't ask a player? I want to get something for the viewers at home.
You have to be intentional about slowing down and not rushing to your next meeting.
You may hate the pilot but you don't want the plane to crash.
I kind of like the three-point shoot-out. It's very easy to understand, very simple.
I never know from one election to the next who's going to be in office, but I know who's on the throne. And I'm on this earth because God created me. And that's who I answer to.
I was hopeful and I was encouraged that there will be a difference between the President Trump and the campaigning Trump.
Some people say doing a studio show and doing play by play are two totally different animals. And to an extent, that's true.
Less is always more in a playoff game.
If you feel like your voice is going, you have to have hot tea and honey and plenty of water.
No one cares what I think about a 6-foot putt. They care what Ian Baker-Finch thinks. — © Ernie Johnson Jr.
No one cares what I think about a 6-foot putt. They care what Ian Baker-Finch thinks.
As it turns out, because of the kind of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma I had, there was no need for treatment right away. So I could continue to keep working and doing my thing until it got to the time where my oncologist and I determined it was time for treatment.
I remember all the old catwalks and stuff at County Stadium.
Be on time for James Dolan - no excuses like Zebras in the road.
I'm going to pray for Donald Trump.
I try to stay out of the way unless I'm really needed.
If you focus your thoughts on what you do have and not what you don't have you will always be grateful.
What doing baseball means to me is it's a real touchpoint with my late father. This is what he did for thirty years. I was fortunate to share the booth with my dad for four seasons in the 1990s, so every time I do a game, it's a way to honor him.
I like the Slam Dunk contest when it's good.
I was a baseball player growing up and wanted to play ball.
It's fun to go to a job where you know you're going to laugh before the day is over.
A lot of times the interview relies not so much on the interviewee, but on the interviewer.
On the NBA show we are dealing with millionaires. On the college level we are dealing with some teenagers.
There were trust issues with Hillary Clinton I couldn't get past, and there was this inflammatory rhetoric from Donald Trump, which to me was incomprehensible and indefensible.
I used to work in Macon, Georgia and Spartanburg, South Carolina where the studio was about half the size of your living room.
I listen to everything. My playlists are wide-ranging. I listen to classic rock, gospel, Christian, soul.
I listen to a little bit of hip-hop, but I mainly go back to what was big when I was at the University of Georgia in the '70s. I'm a big Emerson, Lake & Palmer guy, a big Jackson Browne guy, the soundtrack of college.
I was a fan of the NCAA Tournament and watching when I could, but now I have files on over a 120 college teams that I have been building on over the last few years.
I am a dad who happens to be a sportscaster. Not the other way around.
I work on the show every day, even when we aren't on the air. I'm compiling quotes from around the league, digging through clips. 'Chris Paul said this, that might spark a good conversation.' I'm looking at numbers, offensive and defensive efficiency.
Every time I do a game on TBS, I wear these: my dad's cuff links from 1958.
I think Kobe Bryant was great.
I was a news anchor in Macon for a year and a half, and a news reporter for exactly one year in Spartanburg before they hired me at the ABC affiliate WSD in Atlanta.
I love watching players who, you know when you go to see them, everything is going to be left out on the floor.
Baseball has been in my blood for a long, long time.
Life is a blink. It really is, it zips right past you. — © Ernie Johnson Jr.
Life is a blink. It really is, it zips right past you.
My favorite player back then was Joe Adcock. I don't know why he was my favorite player. He just was.
Preparation is the lifeblood of this job. It's a non-stop process. You're always working ahead.
I had kind of written the script for my life, I thought. I had the great job, great wife and a boy and a girl and then here's this script that we're following and suddenly adoption comes into the picture. That was the huge unscripted moment in my life which led to many, many others.
You really don't consider it work when you are doing what you like to do.
I hesitate to ever, as one dad, tell another dad how to raise their kids.
You can recognize that you've been gifted in certain ways and be very thankful for that, but it doesn't mean that you brag about it.
If I were doing any better I'd be jealous of myself.
I believe people can change and I believe through the power of prayer, God can change people and people's outlooks.
Chris Webber used to be a wonderful guest to have in. Very loose, and a lot of fun.
I sat in the back of the broadcast booth for ages watching my dad do his job. And not just watching how he did his job, but how he interacted with people and how he regarded his job.
We're blessed we're working in sports, it's all fun and I never lose the fact there are three billion guys out there who would take my job in a second. — © Ernie Johnson Jr.
We're blessed we're working in sports, it's all fun and I never lose the fact there are three billion guys out there who would take my job in a second.
I loved all sports growing up.
I'm a coffee guy but I don't think I've had a full cup of coffee. I'll grab one and then I'll have a few sips of it then go back to work and it's cold then I'll throw that away and go back later and get another one.
What I've always tried to do, whether it's the NBA or baseball or golf, is be charged with getting the color.
The fans at home want to hear what LeBron or Kevin Durant or Steve Kerr has to say.
I actually covered a fire once at the apartment complex where I was living.
I'm praying for America, and I'm praying that one day we'll look back and we're going to say, 'You know what, that Donald Trump presidency... it was all right.'
I had the world's greatest childhood. I used to hang around by the batting cage and have Hank Aaron ask me how my Little League team was doing.
I grew up going to Catholic school and I was altar boy even going back to the days where the altar boys had to learn the Latin clergy for mass.
I understand any time you mention Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Jesus Christ in the same two minutes, people are going to talk.
I'm not the guy who's been in the huddle with 1.7 seconds left to go.
I'm the worst guy to ever talk about ratings and number of households watching.
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