Marc Stein has been covering the NBA for more than 30 years. He has been a beat writer for the Lakers and Mavericks, was embedded with the Warriors for an entire season for ESPN’s SportsCenter, was a national NBA columnist for ESPN.com, a panelist on numerous ESPN NBA shows like NBA Tonight and NBA Coast to Coast, and is currently a national NBA writer for the New York Times. He’s even in the Basketball Hall of Fame as the 2019 recipient of the Curt Gowdy Media Award, the highest honor a basketball journalist can receive. This week he shares stories about covering the Bulls in the 1990s, when and how the NBA should resume operations, ideas on ways the league can permanently honor David Stern, and how his life has changed since becoming a Hall of Famer.