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.
proof // of // concept
by bennett keane
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.
Somewhere along the way, Rogan went from the friend who just has to show you videos from The Sphere to the uncle at Thanksgiving who suddenly has a lot of thoughts about Kamala, along with new and innovative ways to pronounce her name.
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.
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.
proof // of // concept
by bennett keane
005 // Time Is a Lie: Thunder-Pacers and the Death of the Window
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.
004 // Zach Lowe, ESPN’s Identity Crisis, and Basketball’s Fifth Estate
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.
003 // Joe Rogan is Just Keeping the Seat Warm
Somewhere along the way, Rogan went from the friend who just has to show you videos from The Sphere to the uncle at Thanksgiving who suddenly has a lot of thoughts about Kamala, along with new and innovative ways to pronounce her name.
002 // Klay Thompson, Collective Delirium, and Basketball as Religion
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.
001 // No, Really, It’s Not Your Fault.
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.
proof // of // concept
by bennett keane
005 // Time Is a Lie: Thunder-Pacers and the Death of the Window
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.
004 // Zach Lowe, ESPN’s Identity Crisis, and Basketball’s Fifth Estate
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.
003 // Joe Rogan is Just Keeping the Seat Warm
Somewhere along the way, Rogan went from the friend who just has to show you videos from The Sphere to the uncle at Thanksgiving who suddenly has a lot of thoughts about Kamala, along with new and innovative ways to pronounce her name.
002 // Klay Thompson, Collective Delirium, and Basketball as Religion
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.
001 // No, Really, It’s Not Your Fault.
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.