Tag: basketball

• The Wild Wild East

  

  3 months and 5000+ words ago I wrote a preview for the 2025-26 Eastern Conference that never saw the light of day. It started like this;  “7 seven minutes into the most viewed Finals game in six years, Tyrese Haliburton’s torn Achilles slammed the door shut on one of the most remarkable underdog runs in NBA history.  Two rounds earlier, Jayson Tatum…

  bgordnier

  January 25, 2026

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  76ers, atlanta, basketball, boston-celtics, bucks, bulls, cavaliers, chicago, cleveland-cavaliers, hawks, heat, knicks, knicks, magic, miami, milwaukee, nba, pistons, raptors, sports, toronto

• It Didn’t Even Matter At All

  

  This was originally a class assignment for creative writing, but I figured it had some value on this site. A boy follows his grandfather into the arena, the cacophony of stimulation overwhelming but so exciting. The boy inhales the joy of his grandfather as they jump around together, riding each wave of emotion as if…

  bgordnier

  April 25, 2025

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  basketball, news, short-story, sports, writing