Frank Isola (sportswriter)

Frank Isola is an American sportswriter who covered the New York Knicks and the National Basketball Association for the New York Daily News from 1996 until 2018.[1][2] He currently works for ESPN and appears on the network’s shows Around the Horn[3] and Pardon the Interruption.[4] He is also one of the hosts of "The Starting Lineup" on SiriusXM NBA Radio.

He appears on broadcasts of Brooklyn Nets basketball games as a studio analyst on the YES Network[5] He also worked briefly for The Athletic as a senior writer before taking a full-time position at ESPN.[6] Isola received an APSE sports writing award in 1998 and was voted New York Sportswriter of the Year in 2015. He also received a New York Emmy Award in 2009-10 for his work on and SportsNet New York (SNY).[7]

Isola is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was a walk-on member of the men's soccer team, as well as a brother of the Eta chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa.[8] He is married to his wife Tonja and has two children. They reside in Upper Montclair, N.J. Tonja was inducted into the Manhattan College Hall of Fame for track & field. He has a son, Liam, who attended Northwestern, and a daughter, Gabby, who played for the Villanova Wildcats Women’s Soccer Team. She is now a graduate assistant for the Ohio University women's soccer team. [9]