Last spring, my friend Harry Krinsky—sports media’s nicest boy—put on a podcasting class. I signed up and worked on the idea for Good Sport under his expert tutelage. Today, Harry’s on the show:
Harry is a co-host of Defector’s Nothing But Respect basketball podcast and a media consultant. I’ve long been drawn to Harry’s way of relating to the sports world. True to his metatextual form, he holds up a mirror to this thing many of us are obsessed with, and makes it bigger and more interesting. Some might call this … meaning-making.
Harry and I dug into the idiosyncrasies of sports media and some of the biggest conversations happening in women’s basketball right now. Here’s everything you’ll find in this episode:
How editing Stav Halkias and Sam Morril’s Pod Don’t Lie basketball show led Harry to sports media
Harry’s media roots (early Vice docs, Chuck Klosterman’s “Celtics vs. Lakers” essay) and sports as a metaphor for everything
“Platform physics” and sneaking something interesting into the algorithms
The origins of Nothing But Respect
Why the metatextual x cultural commentary lane is wide open in men’s basketball but crowded in the W
Thinking about the WNBA like a subculture and why attendance-comparison discourse is dumb
Socio-political controversy in women’s basketball and potential ways to dismantle the idea that “toxic discourse” dominates the scene and fan experiences
#ValkTheLine
Enjoy :) Thanks, Harry, for coming on.
LINKS
Subscribe to Good Sport NYC on Substack
Listen to Nothing But Respect
Check out Harry’s cool project: THE WORLD’S FIRST COMPLETELY DECENTRALIZED NBA SEASON PREVIEW
