This is Baxter Holmes - E60’S The Oklahoma Standard | Senior NBA Writer for ESPN

About this episode

Baxter Holmes discusses his career as a Senior NBA Writer and his recent documentary on the Oklahoma City Bombing.

On this episode I caught up with Baxter Holmes. Baxter grew up in Tuskahoma, Oklahoma, and is now based in LA. He is a Senior Writer focusing on features, projects, investigations and other enterprise NBA stories for ESPN. Previously covering the Lakers for ESPN, the Celtics for The Boston Globe and a variety of subjects as a staff writer for The Los Angeles Times. He attended the University of Oklahoma. We talked about his passion for storytelling and his recent documentary covering 30 years since the Oklahoma City Bombing and the OKC Thunder’s first NBA Title. www.instagram.com/baxter www.x.com/baxter Huge thank you to our sponsors. The Oklahoma Hall of Fame at the Gaylord-Pickens Museum telling Oklahoma’s story through its people since 1927. For more information go to www.oklahomahof.com and for daily updates go to www.instagram.com/oklahomahof The Chickasaw Nation is economically strong, culturally vibrant and full of energetic people dedicated to the preservation of family, community and heritage. www.chickasaw.net Dog House OKC - When it comes to furry four-legged care, our 24/7 supervised cage free play and overnight boarding services make The Dog House OKC in Oklahoma…

People in this episode

Host: This is Oklahoma

Guest: Baxter Holmes

Topics covered

• NBA
• storytelling
• Oklahoma City Bombing
• documentary
• sports journalism

Keywords

• Baxter Holmes
• NBA
• ESPN
• Oklahoma City Bombing
• sports journalism
• documentary
• Oklahoma

Sponsors

Oklahoma Hall of Fame, Chickasaw Nation, Dog House OKC

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ESPN, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times

Places: Tuskahoma, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City

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