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Kristen Ledlow, NBA TV anchor, reportedly robbed at gunpoint

Kristen Ledlow has been with NBA TV since 2014. (Getty Images)
Kristen Ledlow has been with NBA TV since 2014. (Getty Images)

Kristen Ledlow, the respected and much-admired NBA reporter for NBA TV, was reportedly robbed at gunpoint on Saturday.

Ledlow, who also hosts the revamped version of ‘NBA Inside Stuff,’ lent news of the story to her social media outlets on Twitter and Instagram:

Since that release, Ledlow has not posted on either website.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Lauren Foreman, on Monday, provided further details from the incident:

Ledlow told police a group of men got out of a silver sedan and approached her shortly after she pulled into her apartment complex.

“One of the male suspects pointed a gun at the victim and took her vehicle,” a red 2016 Corvette, [Atlanta police officer Kim] Jones said. Using the car’s tracking device, police located the Corvette in southwest Atlanta about 25 minutes later, police said.

TMZ also reported that the incident took place around “Saturday around 3:15 PM” and that local police have asked Ledlow’s apartment complex’s managers for security tape in hopes of locating the two robbers, who are still at large.

Ledlow is a much-beloved NBA figure, especially on Twitter where she regularly interacts with fans. These sorts of interactions, though, would hardly divulge the information needed to lead to the sort of insight that would allow would-be carjackers and robbers to suss out her living quarters and when, exactly, she would be returning to her apartment on Saturday. To say nothing of the make, year or color of her Corvette.

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Her admission that she will be taking a break from social media could serve as a clarion call to the sort of dingbats that admonished Kim Kardashian in the wake of her recent robbery at gunpoint, which should be infuriating, but Ledlow’s insistence that she “will not become a slave to fear” should be the most telling takeaway. There’s no word as to when Ledlow will return to her duties at NBA TV, assuming she takes a hiatus in the first place, as everyone deals with trauma independent of one another’s experience.

Kristen Ledlow is one of the brightest spots and most engaging professionals in NBA media, and as such we are more than happy to hear that she is safe in the wake of this incident. How she chooses to move on from here is her call, as always, but we trust (in the wake of something as life-altering as this) that her sense of bravery and overall balance is in good hands moving forward.

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Kelly Dwyer is an editor for Ball Don’t Lie on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at KDonhoops@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!