With the 9th pick in the Basketball Feelings Feelings Draft, Haley O'Shaughnessy selects... VULNERABILITY
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I’m sure and I hope that you know Haley O'Shaughnessy. She writes for The Ringer, has been relentlessly reminding people to demand justice for Breonna Taylor, and is more widely this joyful, take no shit, candid force. The ease that she slips between light and levelling in her writing or in conversation will make it so you catch yourself leaning imperceptibly forward in anticipation of the next thing. She’s also extremely funny with an easygoing warmth that quickly feels like familiarity and that’s been something, as we’ve swapped notes and stories, I’ve grown grateful for as two women claiming space in the still codified boys club of sports writing and the even smaller, occasionally frustrating sphere of basketball writing and media. This conversation took place over text, an hour that slipped by like condensation running down a cold drink on a hot day, or watching late afternoon light slide honey-slow across a quiet room — just a pleasure.
With the 9th pick in the Basketball Feelings Feelings Draft, Haley O'Shaughnessy selects... VULNERABILITY
With the 9th pick in the Basketball Feelings…
With the 9th pick in the Basketball Feelings Feelings Draft, Haley O'Shaughnessy selects... VULNERABILITY
I’m sure and I hope that you know Haley O'Shaughnessy. She writes for The Ringer, has been relentlessly reminding people to demand justice for Breonna Taylor, and is more widely this joyful, take no shit, candid force. The ease that she slips between light and levelling in her writing or in conversation will make it so you catch yourself leaning imperceptibly forward in anticipation of the next thing. She’s also extremely funny with an easygoing warmth that quickly feels like familiarity and that’s been something, as we’ve swapped notes and stories, I’ve grown grateful for as two women claiming space in the still codified boys club of sports writing and the even smaller, occasionally frustrating sphere of basketball writing and media. This conversation took place over text, an hour that slipped by like condensation running down a cold drink on a hot day, or watching late afternoon light slide honey-slow across a quiet room — just a pleasure.