A Guide to Writing About Basketball on the Internet While Staying Sane
The Internet is a terrifying place filled with pictures of cats, women, and cakes. To successfully write about the NBA on the Internet, there are certain subjects you should not write about. If you do choose to write about these things, the responses, backlash, over-analyzing, and ignorance will flow forth with the power of something very powerful. In turn, you will go crazy, or alternately, insane.
In order to assist and guide fellow and future bloggers, here is a partial list of basketball topics that should be avoided, lest you lose your mind:
- Boston Celtics
- Los Angeles Lakers
- Utah Jazz
- Portland Trailblazers
- flagrant fouls
- officiating
- the Seattle Supersonics moving to Oklahoma and becoming the Thunder
- comparisons between Kevin Durant and Greg Oden
- Kobe Bryant
- LeBron James
- Kobe Bryant vs. LeBron James
- San Antonio Spurs
- anything non-Twitter related to Shaquille O’Neal
- Chicago Bulls
- Bruce Bowen
- Kevin Garnett
- Chris Paul vs. Deron Williams
- Carlos Boozer
- Joakim Noah’s on-court demeanor
- Pau Gasol
- the relative merits of Ben Gordon
- Tim Duncan
- Kirk Hinrich
- whether or not Seven Seconds or Less “worked”
- Steve Nash’s MVPs
- the MVP in general
- coaching strategies
- front office decisions
Take it from me, I’ve made literally tens of dollars writing on the Internet. If you write about any of the things on this admittedly incomplete list, you’ll be amazed at how quickly you stop having fun. Otherwise, have at it.
