From Basketball Player To Analyst

Jet, Sept 24, 2001

Former San Antonio Spurs forward Sean Elliott recently scored a two-year contract to be a TV analyst for the San Antonio Spurs. The 33-year-old, who battled back from a kidney transplant in 1999 to keep playing in the NBA, said he's not retiring, but his playing days are probably over. "If something pops up, something that's just extraordinary to make me leave the microphone, then I may jump at that opportunity," he said.

Elliott, who spent 11 of his 12 years in the NBA with San Antonio, served on the Spurs' radio-TV crew in 1999-00 while he recuperated from the kidney transplant. He later did freelance work as a studio analyst for TNT during the NBA playoffs. "I'm excited about it," Elliott said. "I had fun with it two years ago, and I'm really going to commit a lot of myself to it."