Editorial

Since the dawn of my basketball writing journey in 2015, I’ve relied heavily on social media in general and Twitter in particular to drive content decisions, engage with fans, and watch the culture of basketball unfold in order to keep my finger on the pulse of what’s going on. In particular, every friend I have in Indiana, I met on Twitter—even though I’m a dyed-in-the-wool, heart-on-my-sleeve Pacers fan through and through, as readers of this site learn time and again every Tuesday, my only actual connection to the Hoosier State is a girl from Elkhart I was sweet on for …

On December 21, 1891, in a gym in Springfield, Massachusetts, a Canadian physical education instructor by the name of James Naismith nailed a couple of peach baskets to the walls, rolled out a soccer ball, and created the most “I probably don’t need to tell you what you’re supposed to do” simplicity-itself moment in the history of sports. Indeed, other than soccer itself—a ball, two goals at opposite ends of a pitch, and a self-evident implied instruction as to what one is supposed to do that is so simple that a five-year-old child can easily play the ensuing game—there is …