User:Sanpitch/Tim MacMahon

Tim MacMahon, nicknamed Banned, is an American sportswriter for ESPN.com who covers the National Basketball Association (NBA). He covered the Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks, and Texas Rangers for the Dallas Morning News before moving to ESPN in 2009. He is known for having his media credentials revoked by the Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban in 2016 and for interactions with Jason Kidd and Luka Doncic. He is the author of the forthcoming book "The Wonder Boy: Luka Doncic and the Curse of Greatness"

MacMahon started out studying business and playing basketball at a Division II school in Florida. When he realized he would be riding the bench as a basketball player he transferred to the University of North Texas to major in broadcast journalism. At UNT he worked for the Denton Record-Chronicle and Dallas Morning News. After college he moved to ESPN Dallas.

In 2016, MacMahon's role at ESPN changed, moving from being a full-time Mavericks beat writer to covering all the NBA. Cuban was unhappy with this change, and revoked the media credentials of MacMahon and Marc Stein. The credentials were later restored. . In 2023, in response to a question about improvement in the team compared to the previous year, Jason Kidd said “You wanted to make a big deal about it last year, but you’re not making a big deal about it this year because shit’s going good,” Kidd said. “So write some positive shit.” In January 2024, Luka Doncic and MacMahon clashed over an interaction between a fan and Doncic, and MacMahon's reporting.

He is a regular on the Hoop Collective Podcast with Brian Windhorst, where he is introduced as "Banned MacMahon" and given his own theme song.