NEW YORK, Oct. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM
announced today that Detroit Pistons rookie Stanley Johnson and Charlotte Hornets rookie
Frank Kaminsky, the #8 and #9
selections in the 2015 NBA Draft, respectively, will be the
featured hosts on the third season of Year One, the
exclusive SiriusXM NBA Radio show that gives listeners an inside
look at the life of an NBA rookie.
Year One will debut on October
29 at 7:00 pm ET and air every
Thursday on SiriusXM NBA Radio throughout the 2015-16 season.
SiriusXM NBA Radio is available to subscribers nationwide on
satellite radios (XM channel 86, Sirius channel 207) and on
smartphones via the SiriusXM app.
Kaminsky and Johnson will both host the season premiere episode
on October 29, and thereafter will
alternate hosting the show each week alongside SiriusXM's Justin
Termine. On the program the players will take calls from
listeners and offer their audience a unique perspective on their
lives on and off the court as they make their way through their
rookie campaign, discussing the adjustment from college to the
pros, their experiences in their new cities and on the road, and
more.
"Hosting Year One is going to be awesome," said Johnson.
"I can't wait to share my rookie experience with the
listeners. I want to bring a lot of new and interesting topics to
the show this year…really bring the audience into my everyday life.
I hope the fans will see that I'm a pretty interesting guy and
enjoy being on this journey with me."
"I am so excited to be hosting my first ever radio show and to
have the chance to talk to the fans directly every other week,"
Kaminsky said. "Most people know I like to have fun with
life, so I think the show will be a great way to share all of my
different interests. I'll explore all of the good food and
entertainment in my new NBA city and take the audience along as I
travel around the league. I can't wait to get started."
The Hornets drafted Kaminsky after an extraordinary senior
season at the University of Wisconsin
in which he helped lead the Badgers to the NCAA Tournament
championship game. He was the consensus National Player of
the Year, winning the honor from the Associated Press and
The Sporting News. Kaminsky also earned the
John R. Wooden Award, the Naismith
Trophy, and the Oscar Robertson Trophy, and was a consensus
first-team All-American.
Johnson was selected by the Pistons out of the University of Arizona, where he earned the Julius
Erving Small Forward of the Year Award and Pac-12 Freshman of the
Year honors after leading the Wildcats in scoring and helping them
to the Pac-12 regular-season and tournament championships and a
second consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight.
Previous seasons of Year One have featured Portland Trail
Blazers guard C.J. McCollum and
Orlando Magic forward Aaron Gordon.
For more info visit www.SiriusXM.com/NBA.com. Follow the
channel on Twitter @SiriusXMNBA. Follow Frank Kaminsky
@FSKPart3 and Stanley Johnson
@IamSJ.
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