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18/10/2017
The Fragile Present

The injury Gordon Hayward suffered last night (and I would recommend not watching it) cast a pall over what had started as a festive opening to the season. It felt insane that a basketball game could continue after it, that the physical trauma of the moment wouldn’t remain as central to the event as it did in the mind of anyone who saw it.

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Sports is about the joy of the body, and the creative possibilities implicit in that joy. The risk of chasing bodyjoy is to confront the inevitable frailty of the human form. Occasionally – once every...

21/08/2017

The moon showing some really good fundamentals with that box out

31/01/2017
It’s Bu****it

"What I do know is it feels so good to see public figures say what we are all feeling with a directness that our elected officials for the most part have been shamefully unwilling to. I know too that while the majority of my twitter feed continues to necessarily transition from basketball to politics, it feels good when the two intersect, and strengthens my resolve."

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Until recently, I had always felt that sports were in some way a reflection of ourselves. Because they are often male-dominated, and because they cater to money, and specifically to those with the...

09/12/2016
Klay Tablets

"Klay is like a mathematician whose great life's work is resolving a single, unsolvable equation."

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Part of what makes the Warriors backcourt tandem of Klay and Curry so satisfying is the way they complement each other even as they pursue the same goal. The desired result is the same, but the...

21/04/2016
Against Getting to the Rim

Against Getting to the Rim

In the NBA this season, nobody got into the paint like Isaiah Thomas. His 11.7 drives per game led the league, and that number looks all the more impressive when you consider that the Celtics as a...

14/04/2016
73

73

We all should have seen this coming. The Warriors have been so dominant this season that the usual NBA discourse has been flattened into a binary: either you believe in the legitimacy of the Warriors’...

09/03/2016
It Keeps Going

It Keeps Going

I did not write about the dunk contest last month. What could I have said about it? It was the best dunk contest I’ve ever seen. Now, I don’t remember 1988 (my dunk contest memory begins with the 1990...

11/02/2016
Crisp Awl

on the joylessness of chris paul

Last night, The Celtics managed, somewhat miraculously, to outlast the Clippers in overtime, but it wasn’t for a lack of determination on the part of Chris Paul. It is important that we begin, at...

02/02/2016
Verdurous Shoots in the Bleak Midwinter

Verdurous Shoots in the Bleak Midwinter

Wojbombs are upon us. In February in the NBA, strands of hope hang down to us from the firmament though their roots remain hidden to us for now. Today’s rumor is that the Warriors are going to make a...

25/01/2016
The Overrated/Underrated Singularity

The Overrated/Underrated Singularity

Looking out at the ocean or the sky you might find yourself extrapolating outward. The whole universe may seem, for a moment, conceivable through a trick of the mind; but the universe is not knowable,...

21/01/2016
The Layup Artist

The Layup Artist

There are a lot of ways to be a dynamic offensive force in basketball. Some of the more obvious examples are players like Steph Curry, who is pushing the concept of range into the realm of postmodern...

06/01/2016
Being Sweet & Beautiful

Being Sweet & Beautiful

In a letter to Sophia Hawthorne, dated January 8th, 1852, Herman Melville wrote something interesting about praise. “How is it,” he wrote, “that while all of us human beings are so entirely...

24/12/2015
On Precedent: A Contribution to an Ongoing Debate

On Precedent: A Contribution to an Ongoing Debate

This morning, Bethlehem Shoals () had a piece go up on GQ arguing, finally, that LeBron James is still the best player in the NBA. Shoals writes, “ James is…insidiously adaptive, flexing...

22/12/2015
Art of Basketball No. 11

Art of Basketball No. 11

Mary Corse, Untitled (Four Inner Bands), 2011 Last night versus the Pacers, Tony Parker played the type of basketball that reminded me why he is perennially the condition for the Spurs’ success. You...

15/12/2015
Art of Basketball No. 10

Art of Basketball No. 10

William Eggleston, Untitled, Memphis, 1970 1. It’s a truism that you can’t teach size. With regard to Andre Drummond, it feels more like, ‘You can’t teach gravity.’ Drummond has a particular—and...

14/12/2015
End of the Streak

End of the Streak

On Saturday, the Warriors lost. The Bucks won. These two facts are definitely related. But you know when you have a jar with a tight lid that you try to pry open until you are red in the face, and...

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