BASKETBALL FEELINGS

BASKETBALL FEELINGS

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Masai Ujiri's 13 season, unscripted legacy in Toronto and the aftershocks to come in his unceremonious dismissal.
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Katie Heindl
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Exits: Leaving home, finding home
Professor and writer Courtney M. Cox on stage managing LeBron James' 'The Decision' special, Jarrett Allen, and why there's no easy way for an athlete…
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Courtney M. Cox
Exits: Getting the best out of a body
Forever wars, the bizarre fallacy of wealth and altruism, Steve Ballmer's $2 billion character investment and Kawhi Leonard, in stark relief.
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Katie Heindl
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Exits: Broad strokes
American painter Dorothy Hood, the expansiveness of Houston, and the Rockets, who need to explode outward.
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Katie Heindl
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The Basketball Feelings Podcast, Episode 58: Jerome Cheng
Listen now | Hello & Welcome producer on leading with curiosity, the fake panic about a small market NBA Finals, and embracing Toronto-centrism.
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Katie Heindl
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blackdragonroll
1:10:27
Exits: Perpetually part of the engine
Writer Kelly Dwyer on the Sauk Trail, the Pistons always mattering, and when NBA teams had to hitchhike into town.
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Kelly Dwyer
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Exits: The black hole of exceptionalism
The contemporary condition of hostility to criticism, and the Lakers as entity, American Dream.
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Katie Heindl
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May 2025

Exits: Basketball at the end of the world
Colossal cuts to U.S. Medicaid, the thrill of a haunted house, and Giannis Antetokounmpo as the Atlas holding Milwaukee — the city — up.
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Timothy Faust
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The Basktball Feelings Podcast, Episode 57: Courtney M. Cox
Author and academic on discomfort and growth, the multifaceted labour of athletes, and the empathy drain of main character energy.
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Katie Heindl
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Courtney M. Cox
1:21:09
Exits: Rare blue, blue, blue
The Magic's quandary: to win again without losing the anatomic hitch of loss. Life's quandary: the same.
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Katie Heindl
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Exits: Look where it wasn't
Comedian and writer Josh Gondelman on the disappearing act of Jimmy Butler from Miami, and the Heat from collective memory of this NBA season.
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Josh Gondelman
The Basketball Feelings Podcast, Episode 56: Alan Chazaro
Listen now (62 mins) | Author, poet, and journalist on being an outsider in sportswriting, his deep roots in The Bay, and Steph Curry, destroyer of…
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Katie Heindl
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Alan Chazaro
1:01:54
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