Beyond Infinite Nets Game 87: All Things End

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Ian Scott McCormick - April 24, 2019April 24, 2019

I've begun this draft as the Nets are still very much alive. Make no mistake, they will have been long dispatched by the time that you read this. In the event that they manage to come back and force a Game 6 in Brooklyn, I promise that I will change

Beyond Infinite Nets Game 86: “Well, damn.”

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Ian Scott McCormick - April 21, 2019April 21, 2019

Part of following the Nets all year long has meant that while I could decide to live my life, the Brooklyn Nets also exist, and continue playing games regardless of my personal schedule. Were I not bound to this column, I could act like a normal person, spend a day

Beyond Infinite Nets Game 85: Lost in a Cloud

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Ian Scott McCormick - April 20, 2019April 19, 2019

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I make bad decisions. Not the truly crippling ones like trying heroin or leaving my wife and child for a stranger who smiled at me on the train, but the kind of self defeating ones. I have a responsibility. For the remainder of the Nets season, what could now be

Beyond Infinite Nets Game 84: The Problems With Narratives

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Ian Scott McCormick - April 16, 2019April 16, 2019

Maybe it's the narratives that ruin sports. The arguments we don't simply make, but maintain well past the point where we should continue voicing our dumb opinions. Earlier yesterday, I'd listened as my coworker who hadn't watched the Nets/76ers game told me that Jimmy Butler had a bad game. This was

Infinite Nets Game 82: The Regular Season Finale

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Ian Scott McCormick - April 11, 2019April 10, 2019

Do I reflect here or wait until it really is all over? I could end it right now, but that would be a cop out. As I told my friends about the column, the constant question was "You're really going to watch and write about 82 Nets games?" "Plus the playoffs," I

Infinite Nets Game 81: Tickets Punched

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Ian Scott McCormick - April 8, 2019April 8, 2019

In the end, all the anxiety and melodrama were in vain. For what seems like forever, I've spent the end of this season, cursing the way things would ultimately shake out, but that's over. Neurosis is obsolete. Pity is undeserved. The Brooklyn Nets are in the playoffs. The long fear

Infinite Nets Game 80: The Antepenultimate Smoke

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Ian Scott McCormick - April 7, 2019April 7, 2019

Have you ever considered what it takes to be a talking head? Think about Skip Bayless, and his entire livelihood. For the past 16 years, the man has woken up, compelled to craft the exact same sports arguments. It's not so much a retelling and understanding about the previous night's

Infinite Nets Game 79: Four Cigarettes To Go

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Ian Scott McCormick - April 4, 2019April 4, 2019

How did I do this every night before? Remember that? I did these after every game. That was poorly conceived. Granted, that's how you become a #thing but still, how does anybody talk this much about basketball. Are there new insights? For one team? Every single game? Frankly, I'm surprised

Infinite Nets Game 78: Five Cigarettes To Go

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Ian Scott McCormick - April 2, 2019April 1, 2019

We're in the endgame now. Five games to decide the season. The voice in my head tells me that I've got to rejoice in the experience of these last five games. They may be the last chance I ever get to watch this team play together. I want my senses

Infinite Nets Week Week 23: Fading

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Ian Scott McCormick - March 25, 2019March 25, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85wVC9j1k1Q I can no longer speak about this team with any level of intelligence. That is both a combination of several factors. One is that I feel as though I've felt every emotion, and said everything that could be said from my perspective, as this team has fluctuated in between sloppy

Infinite Nets Week 22: The Playoffs Begin

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Ian Scott McCormick - March 18, 2019March 18, 2019

Not officially https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PSq_zLhvmE I'm hitting the wall. I'd cruised though the winter, happy to have something to keep myself occupied through those cold, black nights. Sure the Nets games largely coincide with my rambunctious daughter's waning moments, rendering me into both an inattentive fan and father. That putrid combination of giving both

Infinite Nets Week 21: Brain Melt

Ian Scott McCormick - March 12, 2019March 11, 2019

If you can't stand the heat, shut the fuck up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTKJ8RT2Qkw When I was 23 years old, I'd moved to Florida with vague ambitions. The 2004 vote was coming up, and I'd doubtlessly join the cause to help the Democrats take back the election. But mostly, I was just going to blow