
Jerry Brewer
National Sports Columnist at The Washington Post
@WashingtonPost sports columnist. Kentucky Journalism Hall of Famer. 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist for commentary. In an alternate universe, I'm a 90s R&B icon.
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washingtonpost.com | Jerry Brewer
The breakout star of the NBA playoffs now has a new foe: Scrutiny (washingtonpost.com) The breakout star of the NBA playoffs now has a new foe: Scrutiny By Jerry Brewer 2025061110102400 Yes, for the Indiana Pacers to scrounge up three more miracles, Tyrese Haliburton must play better. No, he doesn't need to conform to your shot-chucking expectations.
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washingtonpost.com | Jerry Brewer
It’s finally time to bid farewell to the ‘face of the NBA’ (washingtonpost.com) It’s finally time to bid farewell to the ‘face of the NBA’ By Jerry Brewer 2025060509453100 The question persists, oblivious to the NBA's new countermovement. Who will be the next face of the league? Everyone wants to know; no one wants to claim it.
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adn.com | Jerry Brewer
Follow the NBA - or anything, really - for too long, and your brain gets sentenced to myopia. You think about the game one way, honoring outworn rules and traditions and beliefs, shunning innovation as radical behavior. You can read hundreds of quotes about change and arrive only at the submissive conclusion that it’s too difficult an aspiration. That’s partly why, despite its burgeoning greatness, the Oklahoma City Thunder has been greeted with skepticism until now.
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washingtonpost.com | Jerry Brewer
The NBA’s newest power is scary young, scary different and scary good (washingtonpost.com) The NBA’s newest power is scary young, scary different and scary good By Jerry Brewer 2025060310063500 Follow the NBA — or anything, really — for too long, and your brain gets sentenced to myopia. You think about the game one way, honoring outworn rules and traditions and beliefs, shunning innovation as radical behavior.
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adn.com | Jerry Brewer
RICHMOND, Va. - Trey Burke was asleep when the Washington Wizards traded for him. If you’re looking for a metaphor about his NBA career, you could do worse than that. Burke, the 2013 men’s college basketball player of the year at Michigan, had fallen into a deep professional slumber. After just three pro seasons, he knew the Utah Jazz “already had pushed me out.” At the end of last season, he couldn’t get playing time in a rotation that included Shelvin Mack and Raul Neto.
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