gotta remember that tyrese maxey has an incredible story. he overcame it all. being born in the blandest suburb to ever exist: garland texas.

Jon Stewart doing that mouth-open take he usually does after a Trump clip as Tyrese Maxey walks by.

Love seeing an ad for playoff fever and it directs you to Pacers-Bucks.

My profile of John Avlon, the former CNN pundit and Daily Beast editor running for Congress.

nymag.com/intelligencer/…

This is perfectly said and is why immediate draft grades are very dumb. Want a good draft grade from the media? Easy. Pick who the media likes. Want to draft good players? Create and trust your own process.

Bing bong

For The Ringer I wrote about Richard Gadd’s BABY REINDEER, the myth of the “perfect victim” and why we’re in desperate need of more nuanced storytelling
-sent from my iFone theringer.com/tv/2024/4/30/2…

New PRESS BOX w/ David Shoemaker:

NBA Playoffs + ESPN's Nostalgia
NFL Draft + Belichick's Smile
Biden and Howard
White House vs. NY Times
The Rebirth of The Onion
open.spotify.com/episode/5gftfn…

The power of Roundball Rock can be seen in the fact that people are fired up about the potential return of the NBA on NBC, even though nothing from the NBA on NBC would come back except for Roundball Rock (maybe).

NBCUniversal is serious about trying to steal the NBA from TNT. It's prepared to pay an average of about $2.5 billion annually for games on NBC and Peacock. With Amol Sharma and Isabella Simonetti
wsj.com/business/media…

New PRESS BOX podcast:

Joe Biden Does Howard Stern
NFL Draft/Belichick
NBA Draft/Amazon
White House vs. NY Times
The Rebirth of The Onion
spotify.link/o8UIhGmzcJb

To calm everyone down, Paramount Global has chosen the soothing Masters theme song as its pre-earnings call music.

The sheer unusability of many newspaper apps and websites is not talked about anywhere near enough in the context of local media decline

Boomer Esiason announces he is leaving The NFL Today on CBS, but signed an extension to continue his WFAN morning show with Gio

Incredible moment, via Ben Smith: semafor.com/newsletter/04/…

A previously unimaginable combo: the New Yorker masthead and a college football coaching search. semafor.com/article/04/28/…

If you can go to commercial without a good replay on a huge call in the 4th, you’ve got to do it.

As valuable as that chat with Nick Nurse was, I might have led with footage of Brunson limping to the locker room.