Basketball

An Ode to Chelsea Gray: Mac Crane In Praise of the Poetics of Basketball

“When I watch her, I feel like I’m witnessing something beyond me, something heavenly and incomprehensible.”

 
By Mac Crane  March 27, 2025
Basketball

An Eye On the Court: Chronicling 40 Years of NBA Photography

By Dave McMenamin  November 5, 2024
Basketball

Not Like Other Dykes: On Femininity, Basketball, and the Caitlin Clark Effect

By Mac Crane  June 10, 2024
Basketball

How Lew Alcindor Became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

By Scott Howard-Cooper  March 18, 2024
Basketball

“That’s Just Playground Ball.” On Racism and Basketball in the 1970s

By Theresa Runstedtler  March 13, 2023
Basketball

How the Golden State Warriors Became the NBA Champions in a Changing World

By David Hollander  February 15, 2023
Basketball

Unearthing the Pre-NBA History of African American Basketball

By Claude Johnson  May 20, 2022
Basketball

Who Has the Real Power in Basketball’s Big Money Machine?

By Merl Code  March 2, 2022
Basketball

Two Brothers, One Pair of Sneakers: On the Early Hoop Dreams of Giannis Antetokounmpo

By Mirin Fader  August 13, 2021
Basketball

How American Sports’ COVID Patient Zero Nearly Became a National Pariah

By Ben Golliver  May 10, 2021
Basketball

How the NBA Became a Spectacle

By Pete Croatto  December 4, 2020
Basketball

Whose Team Is It? Shaq vs. Kobe on the 2003 Lakers

By Jim Gray  November 13, 2020
Basketball

How a Poem Ends Up As a Basketball Epic

By Inua Ellams  September 30, 2020
Basketball

Are Basketball Superstars More Loyal to Their Teams, or Sneaker Companies?

By Ethan Sherwood Strauss  April 17, 2020

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