Stephanie Ready is a sports analyst, coach, and television personality. She is the first full-time female color analyst for an NBA team. She is responsible for providing in-depth coverage and basketball expertise on Fox Sports South East as part of a three-person booth during the NBA season. Stephanie Ready was the first female coach for a men’s professional league team in 2001, and she worked as an assistant coach for the now-defunct Greenville Groove of the National Basketball Development League from 2001 to 2003. (The minor league of the NBA).
Stephanie was named an analyst on August 27, 2015, after working as a sideline reporter for the Hornets and a host on Fox Sports Carolinas for several years. As a result of this, she became the first full-time female NBA game analyst. In 2006 and 2007, she worked as a part-time sideline reporter for TNT during the NBA Playoffs and the WNBA Playoffs on ESPN2. From 2006 to 2007, she worked as a sideline reporter for ESPN2 during the first and second series of the Women’s Final Four in college basketball.
