Joe Wolfond
@joey_doubleyou
white guy, dark humour | nba writer formerly @theScore | r.i.p. pound the rock podcast
asked a bunch of coaches about the leaguewide decline in pnr frequency, the rise of high-post hubs, borrowing from the past, & other factors shaping the nba's current offensive dynamic. here's what they had to say: thescore.com/nba/news/28830…
i spent the last 10 months watching hours and hours of passes, creating new metrics to evaluate playmaking. now 4,000 passes and 4,500 words later, i wrote about my process and what i learned about the 2025 nba draft with my most ambitious project ever: basketballinsiders.org/news/nba-draft…
the best record in major league baseball belongs to the blue jays of toronto
would run through 100 brick walls for this blue jays team
you really have to applaud guys like shohei ohtani, juan soto, roki sasaki, and pete alonso for choosing to sign with these plucky upstarts instead of taking the easy route and joining a ready-made superteam like the jays
come october this jays team’s gonna give us a glimpse of what the 2015 royals might’ve done had the world series that year not been cancelled
if there’s one thing the toronto blue jays will do it’s slowly & steadily grind your ass into fucking dust
you’d think this series would’ve taught the yankees that simply walking the most dangerous hitter on the planet is preferable to pitching to him
Live on @hellowelcomepod: One (fake) trade that the Raptors should make w/ @steven_lebron and @joey_doubleyou - Plus: What did the Bucks just do??? - Which East team will make a jump this year? youtube.com/watch?v=AjTTP8…
for all the stumbles & head-scratchers over the last few years, masai was so deeply embedded in the cultural fabric of the raptors that it’s hard to imagine the franchise without him
i’ll take back every negative thing i’ve said about the raps front office from 2021-present if they can pull off a derrick white trade. you can count on one hand the number of guys who’d be better fits for this team as currently constructed
another massive w for the rockets
Houston Rockets guard Fred VanVleet intends to sign a two-year, $50 million contract to stay with the franchise, with a player option in 2026-27, sources tell ESPN. Rockets are declining VanVleet's $44.9 million team option and land the new deal with Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul.
across my 7 years as a feature writer at thescore, i wrote close to 600 feature-length nba articles. my favourites were the ones that looked at macro stylistic trends & the way the league was evolving. i think some of them turned out to be fairly prescient. threading a few below:
reminder that on top of being the most insightful bball analyst on the planet, caitlin is also one hell of a writer
For the first time, I wrote a blog that isn't about basketball, but rather my relationship to basketball "Why do we do this to ourselves?" To recap the season for the Pacers, my column on moving on from Game 7 without letting go of Game 7 (no paywall): patreon.com/posts/moving-o…
Also, I want to say a public thank you to @samfolkk — my favorite basketball talker/writer. Always going to remember that we got to cover the Finals together. Very glad that he contributed his talent to BSW and hope more of you will continue engaging w/his work on the Raptors.
sublime stuff from sga tonight. maybe his best playmaking performance of the whole postseason