Ohm Youngmisuk is leaving ESPN after 16 years to become the Clippers\u2019 sideline reporter.<\/p>\n
The Clippers unveiled their television team for the 2026-27 season on Monday, bringing back Brian Sieman on play-by-play, Jim Jackson as lead game analyst, and Mike Fratello and Brent Barry as additional analysts. Youngmisuk is the lone newcomer, stepping in as sideline reporter and host.<\/p>\n
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Brian Sieman returns as our play-by-play announcer along with lead game analyst Jim Jackson. Mike Fratello and Brent Barry also return as analysts, while veteran NBA reporter Ohm Youngmisuk joins as sideline reporter\/host. pic.twitter.com\/TNzyV8c4hF<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 LA Clippers (@LAClippers) September 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cExcited and honored to join the Clippers broadcast and work with incredible talent like Brian Sieman, Jim Jackson, The Czar Mike Fratello and Brent Barry,\u201d Youngmisuk wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cAnd I\u2019m so thankful for 16 of the best years of my life at ESPN alongside all the amazing writers, editors, producers there.\u201d<\/p>\n Youngmisuk is the Clippers\u2019 third different courtside reporter in as many seasons. After Kristina Pink left to join Prime Video for its inaugural season of NBA coverage, the Clippers turned to Jaime Maggio and Lauren Rosen, with Maggio contributing to several local and national outlets and Rosen, who has covered the NBA on both coasts, also landing a new hosting role on NBA TV.<\/p>\n He\u2019ll also join one of the league\u2019s better-liked local crews, which ranked ninth in Awful Announcing\u2019s 2025-26 local NBA announcer rankings<\/a>, slipping from sixth the year before but still edging out the crosstown Lakers, with one reader calling Sieman a \u201cnovelist with a headset\u201d and others crediting his pairing with Jackson as an elite booth.<\/p>\n Before ESPN, Youngmisuk spent more than a decade at the New York Daily News covering the Knicks and Nets. His ESPN tenure took him from the Giants beat and ESPN New York to columns and coverage of the Lakers, Clippers, Nuggets, Warriors and Wizards, and most recently to the Southeast, where he covered the Hawks, Magic, Heat and Hornets while contributing to ESPN\u2019s national NBA coverage.<\/p>\n Less than a month ago, the NBA handed the Clippers the harshest penalty in league history<\/a> after a yearlong investigation, sparked by Pablo Torre\u2019s reporting on Kawhi Leonard\u2019s $28 million no-show endorsement deal with Aspiration<\/a>, found that the team had circumvented the salary cap. The league stripped the Clippers of five first-round picks, fined the team $30 million, and suspended owner Steve Ballmer, president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank, and president of business operations Gillian Zucker<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Clippers have not said when Youngmisuk will make his debut, but with the preseason opening next month, fans won\u2019t have to wait long to see him in the new role.<\/p>\n \t