Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Basketball Association/References

Expansion

@Bagumba: hey, you've done great work building up a list of top-quality sources for this topic area, thanks. That's only half the battle though; I think it would be helpful to expand this to a more comprehensive and authoritative WikiProject source list that includes everything commonly encountered in this topic area. We can include statements on how reliable they are, and link to pertinent discussions if possible. Some obvious missing entries that come to mind are SI, Bleacher Report, Fadeaway World, and ClutchPoints. Would appreciate any further thoughts or ideas. Left guide (talk) 05:56, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

I was just starting with non-controversial stuff and the local newspapers of large cities (still incomplete). As for the sites you mentioned, I generally avoid them (well, past SI is OK), but realize it's a nuanced discussion if a particular writer or subsite is a well-cited expert (e.g. Howard Beck when he went to Bleacher Report, The Ringer, etc). Feel free to expand. There's no WP:OWNership. —Bagumba (talk) 06:47, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

@Bagumba: ok thanks. By the way, when did SI start to "go downhill" as you like to say? I've seen you mention it off-the-cuff a couple of times, but it's never fully been in context. I think those distinctions would be useful to summarize on this source list. Left guide (talk) 06:53, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

SI: I dont have a specific cutoff, but sometime after Maven acquired them in 2019.[1] For sure, any of their team specific coverage that they labeled as part of FanNation is bloggy and unreliable. I think they now brand the team coverage as "... on SI".[2] They might have kept some notable long-time writers around for a while e.g. Jack McCallum, but I dont know who's still there that might be worthy of an exemption. —Bagumba (talk) 07:05, 21 September 2024 (UTC)