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Recommended by Jared Dubin

The Rose Garden Report

By Sean Highkin

Award-winning independent coverage of the Portland Trail Blazers and the NBA from veteran beat reporter Sean Highkin.

Balls & Strikes

By Jay Willis

The official newsletter of Balls & Strikes, each week from Jay Willis

The Finder With Tom Haberstroh

Cutting-edge NBA insights you can't get anywhere else -- from the mind of award-winning writer Tom Haberstroh.

PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

By Pablo Torre

Subscribe (free!) to find out what it is.

Neil’s Substack

By Neil Paine

Analytical but narrative -- blending the past and future of sportswriting

Silver Bulletin

By Nate Silver

Essays and analysis about elections, media, sports, poker, and all the other things I care about.

What's Alan Watching?

By Alan Sepinwall

TV criticism, news, links, and other thoughts from Alan Sepinwall

Off Message

By Brian

Because vigorous internal debate isn't a weakness—it's essential.

🏀 5x5 | Royce Webb

Fresh angles and insights in search of greater truths about basketball and a better version of the game — from Royce Webb, former ESPN NBA editor

Substack Sports

By Austin Tedesco

A community for Substack's sports writers, podcasters, video creators and fans.

SturmStack

By Bob Sturm

Mostly Dallas Cowboys coverage, but plenty more from the DFW sports landscape.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shares thoughts about sports, politics, and popular culture and how they define America.

The Reveal

By Scott Tobias

Deeper into movies (and a little TV). Essays, reviews, conversation. Past and present. From the editors of The Dissolve.

The Stein Line

By Marc Stein

Insider coverage of the NBA since 1994

The Read Optional

By Oliver Connolly

Smart Football. Explaining Why. NFL Newsletter and Podcast.

Running Probably

By Paul Flannery

Real running for real people

Go Long

By Tyler Dunne

Your home for longform journalism in pro football. Profiles, penetrating team deep dives, columns and podcasts that capture the spirit of the sport.

Stealing Signals

By Ben Gretch

Identifying signal and noise for fantasy football

Half Court Hoops - Coach's Cut

By Gibson Pyper

Basketball Film Breakdowns & Extended Analysis

Basketball Intelligence Newsletter

The Day's Best NBA Reporting And Analysis

The Message Box

By Dan Pfeiffer

A newsletter for people who want to defeat Donald Trump and MAGA extremism from a former Senior Advisor to Barack Obama

The Long Shot

By Sean Wagner-McGough

Movie essays, thoughts, rankings, reviews, and more.

Good Morning It's Basketball

By Tom Ziller

Daily dispatches on glory, failure and frivolity in the NBA.

The Will Leitch Newsletter

By Will Leitch

Will Leitch's weekly free newsletter with an original essay, and links to everything he writes.

BASKETBALL FEELINGS

By Katie Heindl

Reconciling life with basketball, or else the other way around.

JoeBlogs

By Joe Posnanski

Essays that brighten up your day from “Contemporary sports writing’s biggest star.”

Knicks Film School

By Jonathan Macri

Where NBA fans learn about the Knicks.

TrueHoop

By Henry Abbott

Award-winning hard truths about the NBA since 2005.

Popular Information

By Judd Legum

Independent accountability journalism.

The Second Arrangement

By Kelly Dwyer

Kelly Dwyer covers the NBA, alongside musical bits and comedy numbers.