Title: Video Podcast Appearance: NBA season preview
Date: October 31, 2015
Original Source: The 2-Man Advantage Podcast
Synopsis: I recorded a video podcast with Kevin McShan of the 2-Man Advantage Podcast, teeing up the 2015-16 NBA season.
Title: How Does Pace of Play Impact FanDuel NBA Contests?
Date: October 30, 2015
Original Source: FanDuel
Synopsis: I debuted at FanDuel, where I’ll have a bi-weekly analytics column, trying to determine what – or who – impacts the pace of individual NBA games.
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Title: 2015-16 Raptors Season Preview Roundtable
Date: October 28, 2015
Original Source: Raptors HQ
Synopsis: I took part in a Toronto Raptors season preview panel for Raptors HQ.
Title: Toronto Raptors swap offence for defence, Kyle Lowry undergoes transformation: The Post Panel previews the season
Date: October 27, 2015
Original Source: The National Post
Synopsis: I took part in a Toronto Raptors season preview panel for the National Post.
Title: NBA news editor at theScore
Date: Aug. 20, 2013 – Oct. 25, 2015
Original Source: theScore
Synopsis: Hey, so I had a cool job where I waspaid to write sports news for 40 hours a week.
Primarily covering the NBA (but sometimes NCAAB and occasionally MMA, NFL, or MLB), I covered breaking news for what’s grown into the second-biggest mobile sports news app in North America. That meant staying current with news, injuries, lineups, systems, quotes, and more, on a daily basis in an unpredictable newsroom environment.
Alerting thousands of team and league subscribers to the latest real-time news with the proper context required a breadth of league-specific knowledge – I’m intimately familiar with the NBA’s CBA, every player and team league-wide, the D-League, international leagues and international competition, and league history. I was on the desk for events like the opening of free agency, two NBA Finals, the Donald Sterling scandal and subsequent trial, retirements, league-altering trades and signings, and much more.
I was also responsible for our NBA draft coverage in 2014 and 2015, writing full scouting reports on all first-round prospects and pre-writing posts for every potential draft pick for use on draft night.
If you’re ever curious what all of that work looked like, everything I wrote there can be found here. For the purposes of this site, I haven’t posted any of my content from theScore, though I may eventually add links to some of my favorite works.
Title: 22 years later, thoughts on the Blue Jays’ ALDS roster
Date: October 4, 2015
Synopsis: This article broke down the three primary decisions facing the Toronto Blue Jays for their playoff (!!) roster.
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Title: Mark Buehrle deserved start, deserved a better ending
Date: October 4, 2015
Synopsis: This article shed a tear for Mark Buehrle following his final start as a Blue Jay, 1.1 innings shy of a major milestone.
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Title: The idiosyncratic Delon Wright
Date: July 15, 2015
Original Source: Raptors Republic
Synopsis: This article broke down Raptors first-round pick Delon Wright, pulling tape from his college season and summer league performance.
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Title: The case for signing Norman Powell to a 3-year (or 4-year) deal
Date: July 14, 2015
Original Source: Raptors Republic
Synopsis: This article argued for a multi-year deal for second-round pick Norman Powell.
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Title: Norman Powell, your new favorite Raptor
Date: July 13, 2015
Original Source: Raptors Republic
Synopsis: This article looked at Norman Powell’s 2015 Summer League performance, one of the top performances in the tournament.
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