Howard Beck is an American journalist. Beck has covered the National Basketball Association for the Los Angeles Daily News, the New York Times and more recently, Bleacher Report. Since December 2020, he has been an NBA senior writer for Sports Illustrated, where he also cohosts The Crossover podcast with Chris Mannix.

On the podcast Howard gives us his own insight into how the global nature of the NBA is changing, the role of the coach in that and shares some great NBA stories.