NBA

9 pieces on this desk, across the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons, under 2 bylines. The longest of them runs 556 words.

Everything here came out of the archive of the old site and was re-set, not rewritten: the wording, the numbers and the dates are the ones that were filed at the time. The desk keeps the pages because the links to them are still live and because the record is worth having in one place.

The league around the club. Brooklyn does not play in a vacuum: the trade that reshapes a rival, the rule the league quietly changes in the summer, the contract mechanism that explains why a signing was possible at all — these belong here rather than on the club desk, because they are about the environment rather than about the team.

The test for a piece landing on this desk is whether it would still be worth reading by somebody who does not follow Brooklyn. If it only makes sense as part of a Brooklyn story it goes to the club desk instead; if it explains a mechanism that applies to every club in the league it goes to the explainers. What is left in the middle — the league as a moving thing that the club has to survive — is what this desk is for.