Sam Smith is the author of five books on basketball, including the New York Times bestseller The Jordan Rules. Smith received the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2012 Curt Gowdy Media Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Professional Basketball Writers Association. He was the Bulls’ beat writer and the national NBA writer for the Chicago Tribune during Phil Jackson’s coaching tenure with the Bulls. He has written extensively for sports magazines and websites in Europe and Asia and publications in the US, including ESPN, Inside Sports, Basketball Digest, and the Basketball Hall of Fame. He wrote for the Chicago Tribune for twenty-nine years and currently writes for Bulls.com.
