Jack Tien-Dana
Writer at Freelance
Associate Editor at ClutchPoints
Two years away from being two years away. Words: @rollingstone, @realgm, @insidehook, @mensjournal
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1 month ago |
basketball.realgm.com | Jack Tien-Dana
If the NBA’s central tension in the 2010s revolved around a desire to create space, the 2020s have been about finding new ways to exist within it. And so, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has established himself as the league’s Most Valuable Player by cementing his status as its purest hooper.
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Feb 8, 2025 |
basketball.realgm.com | Jack Tien-Dana
How do you explain the inexplicable? Are the Dallas Mavericks’ new casino magnate owners exploding the team to strong-arm the Texas state legislature into approving the finest resort-casino that the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has ever seen? Are they angling for a move to Las Vegas? Is it that, as they imply, Luka Doncic can’t stop eating and/or drinking? Or maybe it’s the “ultimate ego-trip” of “power hungry” Mavericks’ general manager Nico Harrison?
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Feb 3, 2025 |
basketball.realgm.com | Jack Tien-Dana
The most remarkable thing about LeBron James is that he’s still recognizably himself. Even if he’s not the best basketball player ever, he’s certainly the best 40-year-old basketball player ever. Forty-seven games into his 22nd season, James can do just about everything that can be done on the basketball court. He switches hands mid-air to throw down sidewinding dunks over guys who are younger than his NBA career; he’s added a running, one-legged pull-up three to his repertoire.
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Jan 10, 2025 |
basketball.realgm.com | Jack Tien-Dana
If Washington D.C. is anything, it’s a monument to myth-making. Carved out of the Chesapeake’s fen and bogland in 1790, there’s no logical reason for the city to exist. It belongs to no state. There’s no broader cultural footprint—no one has a DC accent; no one hungers for DC-style cuisine. It’s a city that’s home to nearly a million people, but more, it’s a symbol of how money and power can create importance, not meaning. All of which is to say that the Washington Wizards are bad.
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Nov 22, 2024 |
basketball.realgm.com | Jack Tien-Dana
RJ Barrett has lived a life of mosts. The son of the most powerful man in Canadian basketball, he became the country’s most celebrated youth prospect of his generation. During his one year at Duke, he teamed up with Zion Williamson to form the most exciting college basketball team in decades. And once the Knicks drafted him with the third pick in 2019, he became the most scrutinized player on the league’s most scrutinized team. Now, Barrett is mostly forgotten.
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Yes, the biggest problem with the NBA is that Shai Gilgeous-Alexander didn't suffer enough as a child
I think this is quietly one of the most important stories in basketball right now, and I'm so glad players from LeBron's and Draymond's generation are acknowledging it. I think, for a lot of reasons, this is a big part of why fans struggle to connect with a lot of modern stars.
https://t.co/x3TrtbkYLm
The legalization of suicide in New York alas confirms my suspicion that decline will be protracted, intermittent, gradual but ultimately inevitable.
Playing pickup on the upper east side is crazy—what the fuck is “sports asthma?”
