Announcing Basket Under Review

Our special project has a name, and it launches tomorrow

BECAUSE I’VE BEEN ASKED THIS QUESTION BY A FEW DIFFERENT PEOPLE: Your current subscription for $30/year is not grandfathered into BUR. It’s either $10/month or $75/year (soon to be $100). I thought this was clear, but if not, my apologies. Onward.

Hello! You may have read my post from a couple weeks back about a new project I’m a part of.

An announcement

Well, that project now has a name and a place. It is called Basket Under Review.

Basket Under Review will be a website and multimedia network that I will be writing for 2-3 times a week. Now, as a note, this will be the Actual For Real last basketball-related post on this newsletter. All basketball content can now be found here.

Click here to see the Basket Under Review site precisely one day before we begin adding a lot of new content on it.

Now, some housekeeping notes as I think of them.

• The price is $10/monthly, $75/yearly. Ignore where it says $100. We can get you in for $75 for a short time. Obviously, the latter is better pound-for-pound. The direct signup link is here. If you were a paid subscriber here, your subscription was successfully transferred to the new site, so you have to change nothing. Free subscribers were transferred over as well, but to actually read anything, you gotta sign up.

• The newsletter platform is on Ghost, not Substack. All that this really changes is nothing at all, but you’ll notice the interface is a bit different, as well as our main fonts. Nothing major to you, but maybe there’s an emailing difference we’ll find out about together. Doubt it, as the two or three Ghost-based newsletters I’ve signed up to before look and feel similar to my own.

• The first podcast, dropping tomorrow, features an interview with Ken Pomeroy. Not by me, but by our pal Eamonn.

• I have a piece coming out Thursday or Friday about coaching timelines. Plausibly relevant if your name is Thad Matta or Matt McMahon. Or others, who knows.

• I will be on podcasts from time to time. I have a voice unusually similar to that of Nathan Fielder despite growing up in middle Tennessee, not Vancouver, so while I’m not much a fan of hearing it perhaps you will be.

• There are no gambling sponsorships. Much respect to those making their way in gambling spaces but don’t contact me to advertise your stuff. We’re not gonna do it, because we are tired of every single piece of sporting content (and somehow even a true crime show I listen to) being underwritten by DraftKings or FanDuel or Hard Rock Nick Casino.

• That being said, we have advertising opportunities. Email administrator at basketunderreview dot com if you would like to have your brand reach an audience of 5,000+ paying subscribers with a median age range of 26-35.

• We also have freelance opportunities. Some of these have already been set up. If you’d like to write for the site you can email me (same email as ever) or the administrator email above.

• We’ll have previews of all 365 D1 teams and however many conferences exist now. Jesus, there’s so many. I am responsible for something like 70.

• I’m still writing the watchlists and the season-opening essay. I did have multiple people ask about the former and none about the latter, but will address both here.

• THIS NEWSLETTER WILL STILL BE UP AS AN ARCHIVE. I have to go through and turn every paid post to a free one, but I think there’s an easy way to do that somewhere in the settings. Anyway, I’m not going to delete anything on here, so if you need it as a reference point go for it.

• I will keep this newsletter around under a different name and writing about non-basketball items. John Gasaway has his to write about old presidential elections. I think I’m within my right to force you to read about the NASCAR playoff system or similar.

I think that’s it. I am watching the Wimbledon final and it’s great. I learned maybe six weeks ago that I really like tennis and I wish I’d played it when I was younger. This could be because I started reading Infinite Jest at the same time, which is possibly an embarrassing admission for some but an electrifying one for others. Your call.

Thanks for reading along. See you at the new site.