Setshot: Basketball for the Aging and Infirm

My last post was about how normative practices (such as how players "get next") affect game conditions. I tried to make the point...

Ok, let's get a little social sciency up in here. I want to discuss something I've thought about for a long time: How does the proce...

I finally got around to watching the 2011 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, which had been buried deep in my DVR. I know it's pathetic, but I...

"Is he better than me?" That's the first thing I asked when I heard about a guy my old NYC running mates were calling "Je...

I couldn't wait until this weekend. Yesterday I went to the gym in my new knee brace to "shoot around and do drills." So I sh...

I've suffered a setback on the path to recovery from ACL surgery. In December I was playing pickup in NYC and, on the very last play of ...

In March, five days after my intramural team won the league title , I was playing pickup ball. I drove the lane, jumped, landed, and felt my...

So my team has won the intramural championship. Overall, it's great. We worked really hard, came together as a team, beat some excellen...

Last night we were having a great pickup session at the university gym. I was on a team with some good players and we had won two games in a...

To start, an anecdote from Jack McCallum's book :07 Seconds or Less . When journeyman Ledell Eackles played for the Miami Heat, his co...

I've decided to play intramural basketball this year and I've assembled a team of nice, talented players. It wasn't an easy deci...

At a recent pickup session , I ended up on a dream team and we went on an amazing run. If I could have drafted any four gym regulars onto ...

This summer, I've been organizing pickup hoops at my university's gym. I'd heard that the pickup scene is usually pretty dead du...

I recently wrote about appearance versus ability — specifically, about players who are "better than they look" and those who are ...

Here's a topic I think about all the time: What factors most affect opinions about players' skills, and by what process do those opi...

Well, we've finally made the big time. Setshot was interviewed by the Chicago Tribune about the significance of Barack Obama's love ...

I've just come across this amazing story about a guy returning to play junior college ball at the age of 73. Previously, Setshot has re...

One strange and unexpected aspect of my new hoops-life here in Denver is that I have lost a significant degree of racial anonymity. Having p...

John McCain's choice of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate has the media clamoring to paint the selection as a political pl...

Things are coming together basketball-wise here in Denver . I've found a pretty good Sunday afternoon run and I've also started to p...

I've just moved to Denver from the Bay Area. In a lot of ways, the move is great: great new job, great new apartment, great new city. Wh...

Our friend and fellow aging baller Ali directed us to this story about women's basketball legend Nancy Lieberman being signed to a seve...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes a cool blog for the LA Times that reports "the insights of the NBA's all-time leading scorer." Rec...

Have you ever played in a game in which there was one person who just ruined it for everyone else? In my favorite weekly pickup game, there ...

As I've gotten older and more injured, my game has evolved to compensate for reduced mobility and ever-slowing reaction times. Previous ...

Last year, Setshot endorsed Barack Obama for President based on reports about his lifelong love of basketball. By all accounts, he continue...