The window is dead. Success in the new CBA means optionality, flexibility, and readiness, not carefully mapped arcs or the illusion of control. Second-apron penalties and repeat-offender taxes have created a hard cap by another name.
005 // Time Is a Lie: Thunder-Pacers and the Death of the Window Read More »
Lowe’s arrival at The Ringer signals more: we’ve just watched a monumental shift in basketball plate tectonics quietly slide into place. The smartest voices in basketball no longer work for its biggest partner.
004 // Zach Lowe, ESPN’s Identity Crisis, and Basketball’s Fifth Estate Read More »
Crescendo after crescendo, one increasingly outrageous 27-footer after the next. Fans spilling into the aisles, bench players spilling onto the court, opposing players staring into space. Unmitigated, exponential euphoria, reaching a level of collective delirium typically reserved for performative healing in revival tents.
002 // Klay Thompson, Collective Delirium, and Basketball as Religion Read More »
Through a sparkling cocktail of hubris, obliviousness, and pot-committed sunk costs, Democrats have spent years playing a losing game: funneling billions into Super PACs, alienating their base, and mistaking the Times op-ed for Real America.
001 // No, Really, It’s Not Your Fault. Read More »