Archive - BASKETBALL FEELINGS

March 2025

Bury your monuments

JuJu Watkins' dream of Troy, interrupted, and grief's game of lost and found.

Mar 30 •

Shifting as gaze

Identity, nationalism, March Madness basketball

Mar 23 •

Lonnie Walker, on the moon again

After nearly a season away Walker's back in the NBA.

Mar 16 •

Strange weather

The parallels, deference, and indifference we show to weather and basketball.

Mar 9 •

Empathy's expiry date

How fear and individualism is turning our most expansive human quality finite.

Mar 2 •

February 2025

Who gets permission to take the title of "face of the league", and why it's contingent on where they're from.

Feb 23 •

Familiarity’s spectrum

Meditations on loss, habit, and routine from San Francisco All-Star.

Feb 16 •

A coward needs a scapegoat

The NCAA sold out its trans athletes to Trump, but these exercises in cruelty won't stop.

Feb 9 •

The Basketball Feelings Podcast, Episode 55: Kerith Burke

Listen now | Golden State Warriors sideline reporter on why "basic questions" are better and whether dynasties can ever end in a satisfying way.

Feb 5 •

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Autonomy's limits, autonomy's illusion

The conditions of power, from trade wars to the NBA's trade deadline.

Feb 2 •

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