Date of Birth: |
1968, October 28 |
Years: |
52 years |
Nation of birth: |
United States of America |
Height: |
5 feet 2 inches |
Name |
Chris Broussard |
Dad |
Edward Broussard |
Nationality |
American |
Place of birth / city |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
ethnicity |
mix of ethnicities |
Working for |
Sports columnist, television sports color analyst, television personality |
Net worth |
$0.8 million |
face color |
white |
weight in kg |
52 |
Girlfriend |
Crystal |
Married |
Yes |
Married to |
Crystal Naii Collins Broussard |
Kids |
Alexis and Noelle |
Education |
oberlin university |
Awards |
Ohio AP Sportswriters, Feature Writing (1997) |
online presence |
Lifestylepedia, Twitter |
tv show |
Ron Artest (2010) |
Chris Broussard is an American journalist and sports analyst for the NBA on Fox Sports. He also worked as a columnist for ESPN Magazine and ESPN.com before joining the Fox Network. While at ESPN, he was an NBA Fastbreak as an analyst.
Early life, biography, family of Chris Broussard
Chris Broussard was born on October 28, 1968 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA to Edward Broussard . He belongs to the American nationality and regarding his ethnicity, Broussard is of mixed ethnicity.
Chris graduated with a BA in English in the year 1990 at the age of 22 from Oberlin College located in Ohio. At the time, he was also on the Oberlin basketball team.
Chris Broussard Career and Lifestyle
Chris Broussard was always interested in sports, especially the NBA. He also spent most of his childhood playing basketball with local teams and groups. He explains that he had a plan to contribute to the NBA, but he expected to be a player.
Chris’s sports writing career began in 1990. He wrote for The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio). He worked there for four years and then moved to the Akron Beacon Journal. He covered the NBA and spent 2 1/2 seasons there while the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the writer.
In 1998, Broussard began working for The New York Times. He covered the New York Knicks for two years, the NBA General for one year and the New Jersey Nets for three years.
Broussard joined ESPN Magazine in September 2004. He began appearing on ESPN as an NBA pundit and analyst beginning in 2004. He also occasionally appeared as a panelist with Skip Bayless on First Take discussing sports issues. He was added to ABC’s NBA Countdown pregame show for the 2011-2012 NBA seasons as a member of the NBA.
Broussard commented that NBA player Jason Collins came out as gay and expressed his views on homosexuality being categorized as sins. He later stated that Collins was brave in coming out
Awards and achievements
In the year of 1996, Broussard won the Ohio AP Sportswriter Award and in the same year he won the Ohio AP Sportswriter Award and Column Writing. Later in 1997, she also earned Ohio AP Sportswriters and Feature Writing. He also won an Overall Excellence Award from the Association of Professional Basketball Writers.
Later, in late 1997, he won the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Award and Investigative Reporting and was also honored by the Professional Association of Black Sportswriting Journalists. Later, in 1998, he won an Excellence in Journalism award from Ohio.
Chris Broussard Net Worth, Salary & Main Earner
The famous American sports writer and journalist, Chris Broussard, earns a good amount of money through his work. As of 2019, Broussard’s net worth is estimated to be around $0.8 million based on celebrity net worth.
His annual salary ranges from $41,512 to $107,419 a year.
Chris Broussard’s marriage, affair, wife and relationship
Chris Broussard is a married man who married his wife Crystal Naii Collins Broussard, in 1995, in an intimate wedding ceremony. The couple dated for a few years before exchanging vows.
They have also been blessed with twin daughters named Alexis and Noelle.
He lives with his wife Crystal and twin daughters. The couples have no complication issues projected by the media, and yet they are believed to have a happily married life. He believes in the Christian faith and speaks publicly about it.
Height, weight and age of Chris Broussard
- Broussard is 50 years old in 2019.
- He is about 5’2′ (1.57 m).