Brian Windhorst

It took months to track down the Shaolin Warrior monk, Master Yan’an, who trained Victor Wembanyama last summer, but we finally spoke on the night the San Antonio Spurs superstar turned in a legendary performance in Game 1 of the WCF. espn.com/nba/story/_/id…

Last night’s emergency pod w/ @WindhorstESPN on one of the best games you’ll ever see — from Victor Wembanyama’s Hakeem moment to Dylan Harper’s incredible performance to the many twists and turns throughout & what they mean moving forward in this series: open.spotify.com/episode/5C2JR1…

Victor Wembanyama desperately wanted to learn to do a backflip with the monks at the Shaolin temple. At 7-foot-5, that didn’t happen. But what unfolded was the most formative summers of his short career that has fueled this postseason run. My exclusive conversation w/ Wemby:

This year is set to be one of the most anticipated NBA drafts in recent memory. @WindhorstESPN gives a behind-the-scenes look at everything that transpired as the ping-pong balls were selected in yesterday's draft lottery ⤵️ spr.ly/6014BBsnfg

Will be hosting a live chat tonight on Threads during pivotal Game 4 of Cavs-Pistons series starting at 8 p.m. ET. You can join in here: threads.com/livechat/j/AbZ…

The Hoop Collective reacts to the Mavs hiring Masai Ujiri @WindhorstESPN @TimBontemps youtu.be/3Z09PdKrGmA?si…

Duncan Robinson’s love of basketball started with his big brother, Eli. But when Eli got older, he began to struggle. It takes incredible strength to share a story like this. Thank you, Duncan, for your vulnerability. Well done @mcten. I know this hit close to home.

New story: After covering LeBron James for more than a decade, often he can predict my questions and I can predict his answers. Coming into this season I pitched him on asking 23 questions I never asked before. Here is that year-long 1-on-1 conversation: espn.com/nba/story/_/id…

A few months ago Joakim Noah asked about going to Cleveland to make amends & learn about the city. My response: 1) yes, absolutely 2) go in the winter 3) preferably in a snow storm. He did: youtu.be/brT4yjRlYnE

.@KentStFootball pulled up to the @KentStSoftball game right after practice in full pads bringing the energy.

Masai Ujiri joins ownership of the Toronto Tempo & tells ESPN, “I want to win another championship—I want to win with the Tempo and another NBA title because I wasn't able to celebrate (the Raptors 2019 title) because of the police incident that happened.” espn.com/wnba/story/_/i…

Congratulations to "The Machine" @kpelton. It's been an honor to work alongside him and be taught by him for the last 15 years.

@DanWetzel @JimmyandGriff @shepmates

Student Radio Cam is one of the great developments of March Madness. Here is High Point’s Jimmy Rosselli and Griffin Wright (@JimmyandGriff)

With LeBron James & Lakers in Miami today, looked back on the Heat's incredible 27-game win streak that was maybe the peak of the Heatles era. What a remarkable and sometimes crazy time that was with some forgotten stories: espn.com/nba/story/_/id…

Zydrunas Ilgauskas That guy rocked.

Congrats @Eric_Haut_USU

Matthew Dellavedova That guy rocked.

Interesting case study here. Dave elects to promote his work straight-forward, without including the obvious quote in the article that would/has gone instantly viral. Aggregator, on the right, publishes the quote standalone without any additional context (or link to story). Look at the engagement scoreboard*, for two accounts with plenty of followers each. *Aggregator did get a 50-minute head start.

“Basketball language is like a different language.” English is the second (or third or fourth) language for a lot of NBA players, and I always wondered which language those guys used to think the game. So we asked. ESPN story: espn.com/nba/story/_/id…