NBA Playoffs: Requiem for Round One
Playoff basketball typically starts off well scripted, which is why this opening round felt so wildly refreshing and fun this
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Alex Siquig is a writer who recently left the San Francisco Bay Area for the lovely streets of Baltimore. His work has been published in Thought Catalog, Lubricated, Urban Image Magazine, and he is the co-creator of the web-comic Black Snow: Two Drink Minimum, which finished second place in the Washington Post’s Best Web-Comic of 2011. He lives with two fine cats and a fine woman.
Author: Alex Siquig
NBA All-Star Game: Stephen Curry is one of us
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Attention humanity: The NBA season begins today. Last year’s absolutely delightful playoffs and then the pitch-perfect Finals (by turns uplifting
Read moreNBA returns to Baltimore
NBA basketball returned to Baltimore on a damp Thursday night, albeit in pre-season form. Many have forgotten, but long ago,
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The NBA playoffs begin Saturday and won’t end until nearly July, so it’s time to accept their ubiquity and get
Read moreNBA Power Rankings
The NBA season is long and full of glorious heights and shameful nadirs. We’re past the halfway point of the
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