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Iñaki Sánchez, Journalism student: “From a very young age I was clear that journalism was going to be my thing”.

Written by Marco Gallego Velazquez

Iñaki Sánchez Sánchez is a 4th year journalism student at Rey Juan Carlos University. His love of reporting and basketball led him to create the podcast “Back to Back NBA” together with four other teammates.

Iñaki began his passion for sport with football, an Atlético de Madrid fan, he visited the Vicente Calderón whenever he could to support his team. It was thanks to the Olympic Games in Beijing that Iñaki decided to focus on basketball as well, “until 2008 basketball seemed boring to me, but it was watching the American team play and thanks to Carmelo Anthony I fell in love with this sport”, confesses the student.

The son of journalist parents, Iñaki was always clear that he wanted to study, "in my house the desire to inform has always been present, so I never doubted what my profession was going to be." Combining his two passions, reporting and the NBA, while he was in his first year of college, Iñaki began writing on the VAVEL website about current affairs in the NBA.

After a few months writing daily, Iñaki along with four other colleagues decided to put aside written journalism to switch to audiovisual and that is when Back to Back NBA was born, "we decided to put aside the formalities of writing on a web page to be ourselves and more informally those who decide how to convey to listeners the latest news about the NBA.

Currently, after two years of program, the project has grown to have nine collaborators and the presence on numerous occasions of journalists with extensive experience in the sector such as Nacho Losilla. The podcast can be heard through the Ivoox platform and has numerous sections where the latest news from the NBA is compiled and analyzed.