Katie Heindl
Freelance Writer at Freelance
"What’s notable about Heindl is her sense of feeling as method, as well as feeling as social force" - @lareviewofbooks/ntl nba editor @lockedonnetwork
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3 weeks ago |
sbnation.com | Katie Heindl
Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images Maybe you’ve been in a fight. Or maybe you’ve watched from a safe distance, a fight unfolding. I mean an abrupt fight, out in the world, not a match staged with tickets and accompanying odds. In the first stages, it’s that pantomiming of “will they, won’t they.” Like a jouncing, spritely dance. Better yet, like birds doing a jouncing dance.
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Feb 17, 2025 |
sbnation.com | Katie Heindl
Photo by Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO — In his postgame press conference, whether subconsciously or inadvertently or both, Steph Curry said there were times during All-Star Sunday night when it “felt like the game got in the way a little bit.” Curry also said the tournament style format and the relatively clipped length of games (42 minutes of basketball, total, were played in the night’s three-hour runtime) didn’t “allow a strong storyline to build” and...
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Feb 15, 2025 |
sbnation.com | Katie Heindl
SAN FRANCISCO — Basketball loves revisionist history. From softening big, heartbreaking losses in hindsight or myth-making a game where someone was sick and rallied to play into an analogous-but-makes-zero-sense-out-of-context, colloquial short-hand (I’m not saying the Flu Game doesn’t deserve it), the sport’s chroniclers have never struggled to rearrange reality just so for the sake of a story.
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Feb 9, 2025 |
basketballfeelings.substack.com | Katie Heindl
A coward always needs a scapegoat. History does too. The preceding emperor for most every incoming Roman emperor. The cows Catherine O’Leary was milking and the Chicago Fire. Older, typically single women society had no use for and the witch trials. Leon Trotsky for Joseph Stalin. My dogs for a small longhaired dachshund that lives in my building named Brunello. History wants an other because others are easy conduits between action and outcome.
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Jan 26, 2025 |
basketballfeelings.substack.com | Katie Heindl
I’ve been thinking a lot about my baseline. The level I feel best settling at, my emotional resting state. For some people I imagine their baseline is an active one, a high frequency. They’re happiest or most themselves when propellent with forward momentum. I have shades of this. For others, their baseline is sedate. A low, operational thrum. I like to think I have shades of this too, but I’m less sure. And anyway, baselines change. My baseline is soft. I know it for my actions when I’m in it.
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wrote about the premeditated speed at which the NCAA sold out its trans athletes, and how history proves this quality of fear-mongering cruelty won’t stop here https://t.co/GFXhQjYTCA https://t.co/j6jOyRLvdZ
this week’s BASKETBALL FEELINGS is about softness: how it’s not passive and how contemporary powers are working to crush it harder than ever. also, the elements of softness in basketball — gaps and glimpses in the game that, admittedly, i love most https://t.co/VZc1vq2HBr https://t.co/URDTgytVY9
thar she blows (the newsletter in question): https://t.co/IQYQzcTtrq
i was reading @wtevs’s article about the jimmy butler situation in miami this is such and a fun and insightful way to express the idea that katie is expressing here really great writing https://t.co/YlwMBFWFIK
