Before I left The @latimes in March, a Times friend told me 'Your next job shouldn't be the job you've always had.' Wise words! And affirmation of a decision I'd already made: After a long career at two great places to be a journalist, it was time for something different 🧵
There’s a not-many-degrees-of-separation @SInow tie to this Knicks title: Nick Fleder, son of excellent longtime exec editor Rob Fleder, is in the Knicks scouting dpt. Sounds about right: Nick joined the SI fantasy basketball league at age 10, was taking all our money by age 12.
I’m speechless. I have no speech. The man himself had acknowledged me.
Thank you to everyone who’s liked, commented, reposted and reached out to me these past 36 hours. Never in a million years did I expect this to happen.
OG Anunoby might’ve created the next generation of elite offensive rebounders cause I went to the park to hoop in NYC today and there was a group of kids all taking turns trying to recreate the OG Anunoby tip in
An incredible bit of sports journalism by The Guardian here. A short summary of the playing style of all 48 World Cup nations and a short profile of all 1248 World Cup players. Bookmark and refer to the resources when watching the obscure matches: theguardian.com/football/ng-…
KAT:
"I just felt a calm and a peace that had to be come from the woman above (his mom). I felt like a kid. It was just fun out here. It felt like I was a kid getting ready to go play my Saturday AAU games and Sunday AAU games. In a way I felt like I was seeing her in the stands"
We hereby offer Mr. Wembanyama tickets to our Sunday, June 7 screening of Bernardo Bertolucci's stunning five-and-a-half hour epic 1900 when he is in the city later this week on a work-related trip...
Source confirms that Victor Wembanyama treated the team to a screening of the movie “Obsession” as the Spurs tried to wind down from the emotional toll of Game 7 heading into the Finals.
The Knicks beat the OG of basketball goliaths, Wilt Chamberlain, to win their only two NBA championships. They'll have to beat this New Age giant, Victor Wembanyama, to win their third.