Allie Bethany Clifton (born January 30, 1988) is an American sports journalist and former college basketball player. She is the podcast Road Trippin' host, television pregame host for Los Angeles Lakers telecasts on Spectrum SportsNet, after previously serving as Cleveland Cavaliers sideline reporter for Fox Sports Ohio.
Allie Bethany Clifton was born January 30, 1988. A native of Van Wert, Ohio, Clifton played college basketball for the Toledo Rockets women's basketball team from 2006 to 2010. [1] After college, Clifton began her broadcasting career in Toledo as a sports reporter for ABC affiliate WTVG channel 13 before joining the Cavaliers broadcast team in 2012.
In 2017, Clifton began co-hosting the podcast Road Trippin' alongside Cavs players Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye. Many of the podcast's first shows featured Cavs players and were recorded while the team was on road trips.
In summer 2018, Clifton announced she was leaving Fox Sports Ohio and the Cavaliers to take a job hosting the pregame show on Spectrum SportsNet for Los Angeles Lakers telecasts, coinciding with LeBron James leaving the Cavaliers to sign with the Lakers. [2]
On February 14, 2024, Clifton became the first woman to call a Lakers game, which she did on Spectrum SportsNet with play-by-play announcer Bill Macdonald. [3]
In 2018, Clifton won a pair of Lower Great Lakes Emmy Awards as a member of the Cavaliers broadcast team. [4]
| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
| FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
| RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
| BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006–07 | Toledo | 24 | – | 18.8 | .376 | .269 | .636 | 3.7 | 1.2 | .8 | .0 | 4.6 | |
| 2007–08 | Toledo | 22 | – | 27.2 | .542 | .405 | .697 | 6.1 | 1.8 | 1.0 | .0 | 13.7 | |
| 2008–09 | Toledo | 26 | – | 25.1 | .467 | .342 | .689 | 5.7 | 2.3 | 1.0 | .1 | 9.5 | |
| 2009–10 | Toledo | 29 | 27 | 19.5 | .469 | .273 | .633 | 4.1 | 1.2 | 1.1 | .0 | 5.7 | |
| Career | 101 | 27 | 22.5 | .477 | .327 | .676 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 1.0 | .0 | 8.2 | ||
| Statistics gathered from Sports-Reference. [5] | |||||||||||||
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