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Minute Basketball: Return

Listen now (10 mins) | Fear isn’t the only mind killer. All emotion is. Get too excited, too nervous, too confident: feel much of anything at all, and…

Mar 31, 2022 •

Louis Zatzman and Samson Folk

Minute Basketball: Timing

Listen now (10 mins) | Cliches are cliches for a reason has become a cliche. And for a good reason! Let me give you an example: timing is everything…

Mar 3, 2022 •

Louis Zatzman and Samson Folk

February 2022

Minute Basketball: Drive

Listen now (13 mins) | My baby was born on his due date. They say that’s rare. I wasn’t ready. January 12th, a Wednesday. Amanda went in for a routine…

Feb 10, 2022 •

Louis Zatzman and Samson Folk

January 2022

Minute Basketball: Resolutions

Listen now (8 mins) | My mother has kept a book of resolutions for the family since before I was born. It tracks a number of life events of the family…

Jan 1, 2022 •

Louis Zatzman and Samson Folk

December 2021

Minute Basketball: Playlist

Listen now (14 mins) | While I was young, I gave my most treasured belongings to Apple. Over the course of a decade or more, I uploaded my CDs to…

Dec 16, 2021 •

Louis Zatzman and Samson Folk

November 2021

Minute Basketball LIVE: In defense of Pascal Siakam

Listen now (33 mins) | Louis: Last week we did what we called then our most take-y Minute Basketball takes ever when we discussed the State of the Wing…

Nov 25, 2021 •

Louis Zatzman and Samson Folk

Minute Basketball: State of the Wing

Listen now | People usually lose the tiny sliver of the present in the infinitesimal gulf of the past, the yawning chasm of the future. How could we see…

Nov 11, 2021 •

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October 2021

Minute Basketball: Tag

Listen now (11 mins) | It didn’t take Squid Game to teach me that childhood is the core of adulthood. That’s literal, of course, in that we physically…

Oct 28, 2021 •

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Minute Basketball: Players as Boats

Listen now (11 mins) | Sport is metaphor. It’s literal, of course, but the joy we take from it is metaphorical. There’s nothing inherent to putting a…

Oct 21, 2021 •

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July 2021

Minute Basketball: Square Peg in a Round Hole

Listen now (10 mins) | Bobby Fischer invented Fischer random chess. He considered the chess world ossified, hardened into its institutional knowledge…

Jul 15, 2021 •

Louis Zatzman and Samson Folk

Minute Basketball: Prescience

Listen now (16 mins) | Let me tell you what will happen in the future. Come closer. Lean in. That’s better. Listen closely. Money is going to slink back…

Jul 1, 2021 •

Louis Zatzman and Samson Folk

June 2021

Minute Basketball: Glorious Purpose

Listen now (11 mins) | Kyrie Irving. Kawhi Leonard. Chris Paul. Mike Conley. Not to mention, those already vanquished -- Anthony Davis, Jamal Murray…

Jun 17, 2021 •

Louis Zatzman and Samson Folk

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