Kustok worked as an analyst for one Nets game on YES in March 2015 and was an analyst on a number of YES’ Nets games the next two seasons before assuming the primary game analyst role full-time in the fall of 2017.

In 2021, Kustok won her second straight New York Emmy Award for Sports Analyst; she is the only woman to ever win that award in New York. Her Nets broadcast partner, Ian Eagle, also won the 2020 and 2021 New York Emmy Awards for Play-by-Play, making them the only broadcast team to win New York Emmys for Play-by-Play and Analyst in the same year, and they’ve done it two years in a row.

Kustok has earned a total of five New York Emmys for her YES work. She was nominated for Best Analyst Emmy Awards from 2020-25 and secured Emmy nominations in 2017 and 2018 for her courtside reporter work. In 2020, Kustok was named to Cynopsis Media’s “Top Women in Sports” list, which recognizes top women in media. She was honored in the “Game Changing On Air Talent” category in particular.

In addition to her YES work, Kustok is a college basketball analyst on FOX Sports and works as a sideline reporter for the NFL on FOX. She was a game analyst for FOX Sports’ coverage of the Jr. NBA World Championship in 2018 and 2019 and is a game analyst as part of Westwood One’s First and Second Round Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament coverage. Kustok is a host of the monthly show We Need To Talk on CBS, as well as WNBA Tip Off on CBS. At the start of 2019, Kustok joined Sirius XM NBA Radio as an analyst and also hosts the Brooklyn Nets-focused Backcourt podcast.

Kustok was the analyst on Connecticut Sun WNBA telecasts during the 2017 and 2018 seasons and provided game analysis on NBA G-League Finals telecasts from 2016-18. During the 2018 NBA Playoffs, she served as a game analyst for Turner’s Virtual Reality coverage through the Western Conference Finals.

Kustok joined NBC Sports Chicago in 2009. During her time there, Kustok covered the Chicago Bulls, Cubs, White Sox and the Blackhawks as the network’s reporter. She also anchored sportscasts on WMAQ-TV (NBC) in Chicago. Prior to joining NBC Sports Chicago, Kustok worked as an analyst and sideline reporter with ESPN and appeared on Versus (later re-branded as NBC Sports Network).

A 2004 Communications graduate of DePaul, Kustok was a standout on the Blue Demons women’s basketball team, which reached the NCAA tournament in 2003 and 2004. She was captain both of those seasons, and the team was ranked in the Top 25 each season. She currently ranks fourth at the school in career three-point field goal percentage, and during the 2003 season, she led the country in three-point field goal percentage and posted the third-highest single-season three-point field goal percentage in program history.

In November 2018, Kustok was inducted into her alma mater Carl Sandburg High School’s (Orland Park, Ill.) Athletic Hall of Fame, and she was inducted into the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. Kustok was also inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2021.

Kustok was an assistant women’s basketball coach at DePaul during the 2005-2006 season, helping the team to advance to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen for the first time in program history. She received a Master’s Degree in Corporate & Multicultural Communication from DePaul.