Occupation Sports journalist Role Journalist Name Phil Jasner | Religion Jewish Years active 1972–2010 | |
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Full Name Philip Mark Jasner Notable credit(s) Naismith Basketball Hall of FamePhiladelphia Jewish Sports Hall of FameOverbrook High School Hall of FameTemple University School of Communications and Theater's Hall of FamePhiladelphia Sports Hall of Fame Education | ||
Phil Jasner Inducted Big 5 Hall
Philip Mark "Phil" Jasner (March 24, 1942 – December 3, 2010) was an award-winning sports journalist in Philadelphia.
Phil Jasner joined the staff of the Philadelphia Daily News in 1972. Jasner covered the 76ers and the NBA on a full-time basis from 1981 until his death. Jasner was a past president of the Professional Basketball Writers Association and the Philadelphia College Basketball Writers Association. He was the Pennsylvania Sports Writer of the Year for 1999, and was presented the 2004 Curt Gowdy Media Award, presented by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame for outstanding contributions to the sport during his career; he was a finalist for the award in 2001, when he also received a lifetime achievement award from the Professional Basketball Writers Association during the NBA Finals. Along the way, he has covered high school sports, the Philadelphia Big 5, the Eagles and the NFL, the World Football League, the North American Soccer League and what was then the Major Indoor Soccer League. He was a proud graduate of Temple University, where he worked at The Temple News, and spent his early professional days at the Pottstown (Pa.) Mercury, Montgomery Newspapers (Fort Washington, Pa.), the Norristown (Pa.) Times-Herald and the Trentonian.
Jasner died on December 3, 2010.