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Repost: Lake water, Kyle Lowry
On the occasion of Lowry's retirement, a reshare of the first (Substack) Basketball Feelings piece, with a new introduction.
 • Katie Heindl
Exits: No time for distance
The Knicks pulled the NBA universe in with their improbability, then proved a truth they knew all along: certainty and doubt are two sides of the same…
 • Matthew Miranda
The NBA wants 2019 back
Exploring the nostalgia driving this year's NBA free agency, starting with Kawhi Leonard landing back in Toronto.
 • Katie Heindl
Exits: Precursors and parades
The origins and pitfalls of triumph, the question of age, and the Spurs loving their own spectacle.
 • Katie Heindl
Repost: Relentless revving
The NBA's trade machine churns on, and what's been knocked loose in Giannis Antetokounmpo?
 • Katie Heindl
Exits: All talk
How fast Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and OKC as villains were forgotten, and whether NBA discourse is our modern form of the oral epic.
 • Katie Heindl
Exits: Clean won't get you a parade
After four competitive postseasons, it still feels like the Cavs have only just met.
 • Katie Heindl
Very mortal work
OG Anunoby's timing, composure, and years of practice got him (and the Knicks) here.
 • Katie Heindl
Exits: A wash of potential
The Pistons were the team of quiet control, did that rigidity backfire? And, life in the sparse paintings of David Milne.
 • Katie Heindl
Exits: Silence is not enough
In a brittle, cruel winter, Minnesotans showed up for each other. The Timberwolves stayed out of it.
 • Abby Sliva
Exits: Outside the cave, the Lakers girls are dancing
A text exchange on the Lakers season, the frescoes of Pompeii, Denzel Washington, being humbled, whether it's possible to cover LeBron James in a novel…
 • Katie Heindl and Dan Woike
Exits: The wanting is the point
The drudgery of The Process is definitively over for the Sixers, what comes next should be defined by its young core and ecstatic possibility.
 • angela garbes
BASKETBALL FEELINGS
BASKETBALL FEELINGS
Reconciling life with basketball. Ft. long-form essays examining the sport's off-court intersections, guest writers, and a podcast.
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