In 2017, while working as a sideline reporter in Cleveland, she started the podcast Road Trippin’ alongside then-active
Cavaliers players Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye. Ex-NBA center and ESPN analyst Kendrick Perkins later became an official cohost in 2024. Road Trippin’ is considered one of the first and longest-running player-led podcasts. “It changed the trajectory of my career,” Clifton told Front Office Sports about the podcast.
“For a long time, that was what people recognized me for. It was: ‘You’re Allie Clifton from Road Trippin’.’ It wasn’t the five years that I had done with the Cleveland Cavaliers as a sideline [reporter]. It wasn’t even my first couple of years in Los Angeles being a host for the Los Angeles Lakers. … When I’m able to kind of take a step back now and just understand kind of the fuel and the drive behind that and what it has served in terms of my career so far, it’s right at the top.”
Front Office Sports
