The Ringer has 19 people writing about the NBA

Yeah, that's pretty much how I remember it.

I was predisposed to liking it too. I think he's a terrific writer. I enjoyed the stuff about Japan.

Ultimately I was drawn into the story and he decided to abandon it. It felt like he suckered me in when the real point of the piece was to show me how clever he is.

And lord, I forgotten about the stuff about his memory. That was really strange.

 

That it’s purposeful, and it is, doesn’t redeem it in my eyes. It’s an elaborate chain jerk.

As a seasoned...consumer?...of the literary journal age - the “new American West” writing, the rise of the personal memoir - maybe I’m just less impressed by it. I couldn’t write it, I don’t think, from a talent perspective, but I’m not sure that matters; it’s good writing in the service of what? It’s like an elegant tracking shot of something not that worth tracking. The elegance is noted. The purpose is...

 

Maybe it's just me, but I found this story as well as Hassan Whiteside to be really tedious: Inside the Mind of Hassan Whiteside. I see that the writer was hired after two internships and a sports clerk job (per LinkedIn).

 

It read like Riley and Spoelstra coming to grips with no one wanting and being stuck with that big old outdated finicky Cadillac, so they're going put some air fresheners on the rearview mirror and see how long it will drive.

I don't see a place for Whiteside in today's game. I just don't. And even if there was, Bam does it at a fraction of the cost and headaches. They're stuck with him.

 

I agree with you regarding Bam, but the article bothered me more than Whiteside's play.

 

The only part of that article that wasn't a chore to read -- and by that I mean it took a nontrival effort just to keep marching through it -- was when the writer recalled the workout. All of the stuff the writer attempted to craft through something other than reporting was indeed bothersome.