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The Basketball Feelings Podcast, Episode 59: Ben Pickman
Listen now | The Athletic senior writer on the changing landscape of the WNBA's continued mainstream commercialization, expansion's domino effects, and…
Oct 15
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Katie Heindl
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Ben Pickman
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1:04:37
Repost: A softer world
Seeking out softness in the space between basketball's arbitrary binaries, and in the day-to-day.
Oct 12
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Katie Heindl
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Distraction’s clarity
SB Nation’s Associate Director of Pro Basketball on the oasis NBA basketball offers, even if that’s Jaylen Brown in a lab coat on Media Day.
Oct 4
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Harrison Faigen
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September 2025
Habitat of light
The clean-slate pomp, production and chance of NBA Media Day.
Sep 28
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Katie Heindl
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Thought’s full scope
On the individualist notion that "no one is thinking of you", and what fandom's flawed devotion can teach us about full-body consideration.
Sep 21
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Katie Heindl
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Basketball’s Eye of Providence
The NBA is highlights-based league; the NBA is a league with full games worth watching.
Sep 14
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Katie Heindl
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Gone is the wall
Why it's hard to care about Steve Ballmer and Clippers potential salary cap circumvention, and the assumed morality of billionaires.
Sep 7
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Katie Heindl
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August 2025
A closed loop
Why women don't have the luxury of "sticking to sports", Michael Porter Jr.'s dangerous ignorance, and the recent weaponized misogyny at W games.
Aug 28
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Katie Heindl
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Exits: Our best blueprint
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's championship homecoming, our addiction to telegraphing success, and whether achievement has to be loud to count.
Aug 23
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Katie Heindl
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Exits: How do you remember?
Pacers beat writer Tony East recalls the quiet, personal moments alongside Indiana's roster this season, before Tyrese Haliburton fell to the floor.
Aug 16
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Tony East
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Exits: Something darker
Writer Robert Silverman on the Knicks, the authoritarian need of humiliation, outgrowing childhood fears, and Karl-Anthony Towns.
Aug 9
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Robert Silverman
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Exits: What can kindness count for?
In deep appreciation of and for Mike Conley.
Aug 4
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Katie Heindl
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