What LeBron needs
ESPN @espn"I don't know how much we are really watching the game of basketball or are we just in ... the narrative." LeBron explained why he thinks the NBA...
Some bold predictions based on basically nothing
Read this if you love dunks
Devonte' Graham, forever the MIP in our hearts
Of all the major sports awards, the NBA’s end-of-year awards can be the most difficult to understand. Whether this is by design, or not, they tend to bottle...
I wrote about The Players Trunk for GQ and there's some Jayhawk stuff in there
First of all—sorry for the slight delay in Streak Talk action. I had the idea that I was going to wait until the article I mentioned in the headline was...
Ladies and gentlemen... Frank Mason III
Frank Mason cooking the ROY in lime green Li-Nings…. hook it to my veins As someone who is rooting for the Bucks to win the championship, I’ll make an uneasy...
A little BONUS for my subscribers
Thanks to an epic Cameo turnaround time
Jacque deserves this
Leaving the Getty watermark on is “my thing” Before the NBA restart, Brooklyn Nets GM Sean Marks told Nets media members that, contrary to speculation,...
Where is the money going?
Over the weekend, a group of Pac-12 athletes put together a list of action items for the NCAA to address before the beginning of the 20-21 football season....
An interview with Defector's Editor-in-Chief, Tom Ley
Deadspin is back... in Defector form
KU needs to lean into the Joel Embiid experience more
Photo by Nick KrugBefore I get started—BOL BOL! Hoop Central @TheHoopCentralBOL BOL HAS ARRIVED Block and then the pull up three🔥🔥 7:45 PM ∙ Jul 22,...
I applied to be the G League's head of content
Last Friday, my friend Tom Reed—a great and hilarious writer as well as a patron to NYC’s community of stray cats— sent me a job listing for a “head of...
The Revelations of TBT
I donate 100% of Streak Talk’s revenue and right now all of that money—as well as money raised by the Streak Talk stickers I made—are going to causes in the...
So... what do the new guys do?
kuhoopsJoin us in welcoming the next generation of Jayhawks 👀June 18, 2020 On a special edition of Self’s “Hawk Talk” radio program—which was taped at the...
I have made *more* stickers
I just added two new sticker designs to the Streak Talk Big Cartel store. But I want subscribers to get their hands on them for free. Above are holographic...
We need to hold Bill Self accountable, too
In the immediate aftermath of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer while three other officers watched without intervening, sports...
I made Streak Talk stickers and I want to send them to you
Hello ST subscriber crew! I have made stickers. The first option—a freaking holographic MJ @ KU stealie—is above and the more-straightforward-but-still-tight...
Could KU basketball go independent?
Thanks to the NCAA’s new approach to amateurism and compensation—as well as possibly forthcoming sanctions on Kansas’ athletic program—the next ten years of...
This is the best visual guide to Bill Self's offense that I've ever seen
At the highest levels of basketball, the game happens very fast. Slowing the game down in order to illustrate the level of the game’s detail it what made...
A reader copped one of the infamous yellow jerseys and you gotta hear the whole story
When a new subscriber signs up for Streak Talk, I do my best to write them and thank them for that. This is how I got in touch with Austin Gray, a Nashville-...
I'm looking at Jayhawks stuff constantly during quarantine because it's something to do
In times like these, sometimes there’s very little to do besides “look at stuff.” While I’m trying to get that weekly iPhone screen time report to a slightly...