The YES Network, the most-watched regional sports network in the country 18 of the last 21 years, is the exclusive regional television home of the 27-time World Champion New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Nets. The network has won 146 New York Emmy Awards since its 2002 launch.

In addition to his work at YES, Isola is a contributor to ESPN shows such as Pardon the Interruption and Around the Horn. He has also co-hosted The Starting Lineup, a SiriusXM NBA Radio show, since 2007.

Isola made a name for himself at the New York Post and the New York Daily News. He started his career at the Post in 1987, covering high school and later college basketball. Isola joined the Daily News in 1994 as a New York Mets beat writer before moving to the New York Knicks beat in 1995.

While at the Daily News, Isola also covered the 2004 and 2012 Olympic Games, specifically men’s basketball, women’s soccer, beach volleyball and weightlifting. After departing the Daily News in 2018_,_ Isola covered the NBA as a senior writer at The Athletic until 2020.

Isola was named the New York Sportswriter of the Year in 2014 by the National Sports Media Association. He won an Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) sports writing award in 1998, a Deadline Club writing award in 2000 and received a New York Emmy Award in 2010 for his work at SNY.

He graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in Journalism in 1987.