![]() Special contributor Rob Fleder's work on The BasketballBook, a celebration of the game in words by SI writers and pictures by thegreatest sports photographers, started with a review of the magazine's boundvolumes, going back to SI's first issue in August 1954. After all, as the late Texas coach Abe Lemons (whoclearly knew his Shakespeare) once said, "There really are only two plays:Romeo and Juliet and put the darn ball in the basket." The Glory of the Game SI's NBAphotography, meanwhile, is handled by associate picture editor MargueriteSchropp Lucarelli, who understands that beyond all the sound and fury is a gamebeautiful in its simplicity. SI.com producerBrad Weinstein oversees coverage that will include a regularly updatedFanNation blog by Mannix and up-to-the-minute insider news and columns fromMcCallum, Thomsen, Marty Burns, Steve Aschburner and Paul Forrester. To deal with thejam-packed NBA news cycle, SI's own team is nimbler than ever. "He supposedly would've attendedMichigan-my alma mater-had he not jumped straight to the NBA, so as aBostonian, I'm glad to finally be able to have him on my team." Lin joined SI's website in 1998, moved to themagazine in 2003 and is now starting his second season as the NBA editor."I first saw Kevin Garnett play when he was a high school junior, and Iinstantly became a fan," says Lin. ("Scoutshave a lot of questions about whether the chemistry will work among their threestars," he says.) But don't say that to SI associate editor Albert Lin, whogrew up in Concord, Mass. ![]() Thomsen's sourcesalso led him to temper his expectations of the reloaded Celtics. "It's a great crash course that got me ready for the season.It even got me thinking better of the Knicks." "For every guy who's going tocontribute this year, we have an NBA advance scout breaking down his game,"says Thomsen. Senior writer IanThomsen, who will contribute to SI.com and to the magazine, spent some 50 hourson the phone with NBA scouts and another 50 organizing material for hiscomprehensive Enemy Lines (SI.com/NBA). "The best wecould do," Mannix recalls, "was a Japanese place in the foodcourt." Meanwhilewriter-reporter Chris Mannix, who will do many of SI's INSIDE THE NBA columnsthis season, wandered through a Milwaukee mall with the Bucks' first-rounddraft pick, Yi Jianlian, talking about the player's adjustment to America'sheartland and searching in vain for a Chinese restaurant. McCallum spent partof July in Las Vegas ostensibly watching practice for the FIBA tournament butreally trailing Bryant for any hint of his intentions (page 78).
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