By Tabatha Rickard
On July 9th, 2018, the Eldorado journalism program was invited to go and interview the NBA recruits at NBA Summer League. We were accompanied by High School Nation, they gave us the opportunity and pieces of advice to interview these possibly famous recruits. The advice truly did help make the whole process a lot less nerve-racking. We were advised to stay calm, cool, and collected, the players are regular people like us just a lot taller. As a journalist that is more accustomed to writing and submitting articles, being an on-camera interviewer was a new and terrifying experience. When on camera you have to be incredibly self aware. Your posture, tone of voice, the space between you and the person you’re interviewing, and much more. During interviews you have to be extremely assertive. There’s no taking turns, you have to push your way through to be able to converse with the players. There are dozens of other reporters and they’re all fighting to get an interview for their stories. The idea of being on camera and interviewing possibly famous basketball players was extremely nerve wracking, especially the fact that I’d have to fight my way through. My first interview was with the 26 year old Aussie recruit for the Dallas Mavericks, Mitchell Creek. Mitchell was a very chill and well spoken person to interview. Interviewing him truly helped erase any anxiety I could have had because it was a really comfortable conversation; however, we were so comfortable our conversation went on for too long. Interviews should be brief, because there are other interviewers waiting to get a story for their paying job. All in all, the experience was truly eye opening and definitely helped me grow as a journalist and interviewer, and it even helped my confidence grow a bit.
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