BASKETBALL FEELINGS

Exits: 'This known quantity'

New Yorker staff writer, Louisa Thomas, in conversation for her Nuggets 'Exits' selection in the annual Basketball Feelings series. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.basketballfeelings.com/subscribe [https://www.basketballfeelings.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

The Basketball Feelings Podcast, Episode 50: Matt Moore

"I like interrogating the thought process. The thought process is more interesting to me than anything else." NBA Writer for the Action Network and industry mainstay, Matt Moore, on the era of the fanalyst, recognizing your own biases, how fun it is to follow historic threads through basketball, fighting with editors, trying to get better at not replying to negative comments, not imposter syndrome but comparative syndrome, the Nuggets, the Grizzlies, and the biggest evolutions in Matt’s career. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.basketballfeelings.com/subscribe [https://www.basketballfeelings.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

The Basketball Feelings Podcast, Episode 33: The best parts of All-Star

"Could it be a close friend, a casual acquaintance, the NBA’s all-time assist leader, George Gervin, waiting in the breakfast buffet line? Oscar Robertson, standing in front of an elevator door?" Andrew Schlecht [https://twitter.com/AndrewKSchlecht], Taylor Sharp [https://twitter.com/tsharp94], Jerome Cheng [https://twitter.com/blackdragonroll], Kyle Mann [https://twitter.com/jkylemann], Michael Pina [https://twitter.com/MichaelVPina], and Seerat Sohi [https://twitter.com/seeratsohi] share their favourite and still sleep deprived parts of NBA All-Star Weekend. Back to regularly scheduled (and regular length) episodes from here on out. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.basketballfeelings.com/subscribe [https://www.basketballfeelings.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

The Basketball Feelings Podcast, Episode 23: "I'm back." (The Michael Jordan Baseball Feeling)

For the 23rd episode of the podcast, former guests and BASKETBALL FEELINGS contributors give their "Michael Jordan baseball feeling", a.k.a. the feeling they thought they were done and over with, only to eventually come back to it in life. Featuring Josh Gondelman, Seerat Sohi, William Lou, Jordan Ligons, Roundball Rock (Joey Devine and Sean Keane), and Rob Mahoney. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.basketballfeelings.com/subscribe [https://www.basketballfeelings.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

The Basketball Feelings Podcast, Episode 16: Sam Anderson

You need forces that big, and ideas that big, and images that striking and powerful to explain the kind of drama you get from basketball. I cold emailed Sam Anderson [https://twitter.com/shamblanderson] in the first summer of the pandemic. He’d just written a feature [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/magazine/nba-bubble.html] for the New York Times Magazine on the NBA Bubble — which was anxious and strange and sad and beautiful — that I’d read while I was alone in the woods north of Toronto. It made me feel a lot of things at once that I hadn’t realized the pandemic muted, which was kind of exactly what I needed at the time. He didn’t reply for a long time but now, knowing Sam a bit better, it wasn’t personal. Because when he did it was incredibly kind and funny, and I knew I’d get him into Basketball Feelings some way, some how. We talked about the origins of his own basketball feelings, involving patient, now deeply ingrained shooting drills and basic components of the game, plus homemade collages with cut-outs of NBA stars from magazines. I asked him to make sense of the Nets based on the profile he wrote about Kevin Durant [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/magazine/kevin-durant-brooklyn-nets.html] last year, and why our analogies for the game always involve cosmology, including the gravitational pull between Durant and Russell Westbrook. We also talked about the Bubble and how weird it was, the tragic history of the Portland Trail Blazers through Sam’s own fandom (he was wearing the same hat when we talked that he is in that photo with one of the world's last two surviving northern white rhinos), interviews, more about Russ, the secret simplicity of watching game warm-ups, and what makes basketball so mythic. My basement was being dug out when we recorded and the occasional guttural vibrations felt then and sound now like the universe talking back. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.basketballfeelings.com/subscribe [https://www.basketballfeelings.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]