Gary Washburn is the National NBA Writer and columnist for the Boston Globe. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Gary attended Westchester High School and UC Berkeley before embarking on his journalism career. He has worked at the Long Beach Press Telegram, Los Angeles Daily News, Major League Baseball.com, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Globe. He earned his Master’s Degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska and co-authored The Spencer Haywood Rule: Battles, Basketball, and the Making of an American Iconoclast with Marc Spears. Gary is parliamentarian of the National Association of Black Journalists Sports Task Force and is a two-time winner of the Salute to Excellence Award for his stories on the Boston Celtics.