Archive - BASKETBALL FEELINGS

Relentless revving

The NBA's trade machine churns on, and what's been knocked loose in Giannis Antetokounmpo?

16 hrs ago • Katie Heindl

Repost: Exits: Sooner is relative

Author Hanif Abdurraqib on what the Minnesota Timberwolves lose as they attempt to repurpose their identity, again and again.

Jan 14 • Hanif Abdurraqib

A deluge of blue

Whether NBA players have an obligation to speak up after tragedy, and how we lose our urgency in forced isolation.

Jan 11 • Katie Heindl

Moments in whiplash

In-arena notes from up close and personal with the most confounding team in the NBA, the Indiana Pacers.

Jan 7 • Tony East

The Basketball Feelings Podcast, Episode 65: The 2026 NBA Almanac

Listen now | The trends, teams and people we want to shape NBA basketball in the year to come.

Jan 6 • Katie Heindl and Rob Mahoney

1:20:45

Cast off the auspices

The human impulse to brace, and predictions about Nikola Jokic's recovery.

Jan 4 • Katie Heindl

December 2025

The Basketball Feelings Feeling of the Year, 2025

The annual year-in-review of the moments, people and memories that stood out to BASKETBALL FEELINGS friends and contributors.

Dec 31, 2025 • Katie Heindl

The space between care and habit

Is care, in NBA basketball, coachable?

Dec 28, 2025 • Katie Heindl

What happened to the NBA's Christmas Day uniforms?

The league is at peak uniform volume, but in the churn of endless branding and marketing we've lost the charm.

Dec 24, 2025 • Todd Radom

The Basketball Feelings Podcast, Episdoe 64: Iain Reid

Author and screenwriter on the relationship between basketball and writing, fandom's necessary suspension of logic, and the cat's paw of NBA flopping.

Dec 23, 2025 • Katie Heindl and Iain Reid

1:30:05

Engine, ballast

The push/pull of want, The Believer's Sports Issue, and how athletes are shrinking the sports media landscape.

Dec 21, 2025 • Katie Heindl

Who respects the NBA Cup?

Do the league's players, or its winners, the New York Knicks? Do you?

Dec 19, 2025 • Alex Shephard

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