
Reconciling life with basketball. Ft. long-form essays examining the sport's off-court intersections, guest writers, and a podcast.
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The jokes sort of write themselves, right?
Or if they don’t write themselves you’ve probably seen some of them. Maybe you can imagine how they go. Like, What will a man do to find a name for his new WNBA franchise? Well, he’ll watch one si...
The slow swirl of your tongue around ice cream, catching a breakaway drop racing for the lip of the cone just before it slips over. Small triumph.
The heat that builds in the body when you’re lying in the sun, how it starts feathery and s...
This is the second instalment of a BASKETBALL FEELINGS archive, two-part feature on the San Francisco Gay Basketball Association’s Castro League. You can read Part I here.
When speaking with lea...
Twice during the game I swapped the score. Glanced up at the giant, glowing cube of the scoreboard hovering over centre court, the unmissable numbers tied to their corresponding team, and put the Tempo ahead. It felt like they were ahead....
Editor’s note: I’m resharing this phenomenal, two-part reported piece that Ben Peterson brought me this past winter because it remains the kind of story I’m proud to be able to publish at BASKETBALL FEELINGS (and pay its writer for — thanks...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Credentialed NBA/WNBA media. Book forthcoming from Transit Books. Quietly write for all major publications and currently a host for NBA TV.
I'm a writer and comedian, and I drink iced coffee in any weather. I write a weekly newsletter of pep talks called That's Marvelous.
writer, reader, editor, listener, sing loudly in the car-er
Hybrids & wonder
I'm a writer from Toronto. My most recent book was a memoir called "Best Young Woman Job Book" and I have a novel forthcoming in 2028 that I'll tell you about later.
Covering the Lakers for the LA Times
Writer and teacher
around and about San Francisco
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