PERSON: Ernie Johnson Jr.

TNT Sports

Sportscaster

Ernest Thorwald Johnson Jr. (born August 7, 1956) is an American sportscaster for TNT Sports. He is the television voice and a studio host for Major League Baseball on TBS, hosts Inside the NBA for ESPN, ABC, and NBA TV (formerly TNT) and contributes to the joint coverage of the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament for TNT Sports and CBS Sports. His father was Ernie Johnson Sr., a Major League Baseball pitcher and Atlanta Braves play-by-play announcer. Johnson has been described as one of the greatest sports studio hosts in television history, particularly for his role on Inside the NBA.

Johnson was born in 1956 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father, Ernie Johnson Sr., was a Major League Baseball player who later became a television sports commentator. Johnson’s family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, after his father retired from professional baseball in 1964, when Ernie was eight years old.

Johnson attended high school at the Marist School, a private Catholic school in Brookhaven, Georgia, and graduated in 1974. He then went to the University of Georgia and majored in journalism. Johnson played first base on the Bulldogs baseball team his freshman year. He graduated in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude.

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