Kendra and Malika Andrews, Sisters and ESPN Reporters, Are Thriving
11.02.2022 - 00:59
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NBA Today on ESPN. And Kendra, 24, started at ESPN in January as an NBA reporter, following the Golden State Warriors from their own hometown, Oakland, California.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.How was it for Malika to watch her little sister interview at the company where she works?“I didn’t lose any sleep over it,” she says.
(To this, Kendra laughs.) “I’m kind of kidding! I tried to stay out of the process beyond where I was invited into it, and that was from Kendra’s side.” At the end of the day, the Andrews agree, they’re on the same team no matter where each of them work. It just so happens that their dream jobs let them share the screen sometimes on national TV.
“I root for Kendra,” says Malika. “I root for what she wants, I root for her to succeed.
Kendra getting the opportunity to work for the pinnacle network in sports television is a big deal. And so, because she wanted it, I wanted it for her.”The Andrews’ sisters’ success in sports journalism —they’re young, they’re Black, they’re women, they’re sisters working for the top network in their field.
It’s such a momentous achievement that it’s talked about sometimes, Malika says, “like this magical sprouting that happened with these magical beans and fairy water.” In reality, she says, “For both of us, it was super long nights, it was always adding freelance and internships and coffees and networking events on top of schoolwork, it was taking lower paying jobs in order to get the next opportunity.” It’s tricky to own this success while acknowledging luck and privilege, she adds. “I’m very wary of saying work harder and everything’s going to work out.”For Kendra, her new role has meant receiving deeply touching tweets and notes from fans,
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