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Produced in collaboration with the photographer Jon Lopez, this short documentary profiles Rah Wiggins, coach of New York City’s most prolific street basketball team, The Sean Bell All-Stars. After the NYPD’s infamous killing of Sean Bell in 2006, Coach Wiggins renamed his team after his fallen friend. Sean Bell, as the team is now known, […]
This year I spent 6 months working on an 8-part docuseries about the NBA Playoffs that just released on ESPN and ESPN+. (Wrote a pretty extensive post about it over on social media). What I’ll say here on the personal dot-com is that it felt great one night a couple weeks ago to sit in […]
A few years ago I got into the habit of checking the NBA box scores on my phone right before bed. Mainly on ESPN and nba.com but sometimes right in Google. Then on other sites, lots of sites. And while most places do an OK-enough job acting as portals to other basketball-related stuff, the part […]
Well, I probably won’t get to write a headline like that again. Journalist Ben Osborne made me comfortable enough to speak in my own language, to cry, and to wax on the talismanic quality of jerseys in my life, and then set it all up with a feathery sentence like this: Sports also carry the […]
Ed. note: This piece was originally written as prose but has also been posted as Twitter-native thread. I present it here with paragraphs in their original, rather than tweet-sized forms. In my early 20s I subscribed to Sports Illustrated and still regret throwing away the LeBron James “Chosen One” cover. We’d had the magazine […]
Or, a true story of how I got the Red Sox a W in the Spring of 1991. A wealthy benefactor once bought my entire eighth grade tickets to a Red Sox game. I told my friend Greg that we should start the Wave. And at first it was just the two of us standing […]