Contributors
Wes Goldberg (@wcgoldberg) is a writer and podcaster for the HP Basketball Network. He’s also the host of the Heat Check podcast and editor of AllUCanHeat. He enjoys music, television, thinking deeply, being outside and drinking both socially and alone.
Willy Raedy (@WillyRaedy) has always loved basketball but Brandon Roy is the reason he became a fan of the NBA. Like all Pacific Northwesterners, he loves beer, hiking, and the rain. You can probably find him enjoying some combination of those three things when not playing or writing about hoops.
Zachary Bennett (@ZacharyBD) lives in the Twin Cities. He mostly covers the Timberwolves (and Lynx) but tackles various NBA (and WNBA) stories, too. Zach probably isn’t sure whether he should be writing this bio in the third person. Oh well. Here’s his email: [email protected].
Chris Barnewall (@ChrisBarnewall) spent his years watching shuttles and swimming at the beach in Central Florida. Now a student at UCF, he spends his days watching an unhealthy amount of basketball. When not watching basketball, he’s either playing video games, or tweeting horrible jokes on his twitter account.
Donnie Kolakowski (@DonnieBuckets) is a freelance broadcaster and writer and a contributor to Friendly Bounce. He spends most of his days re-watching Nikola Mirotic pump-fakes and trying to make fetch happen. His likes include great defensive schemes and the Chicago Cubs, and his dislikes include highlight truthers and charges called on passes.
Ian Dougherty (@IanDougherty) is a contributor at Pounding The Rock.When he’s not writing, you can catch him on Twitter, where he’s probably making awful jokes. There is an ice box where his heart used to be.
Matt Cianfrone (@Matt_Cianfrone) is the editor at Pelican Debrief and a contributor at The Friendly Bounce. Matt’s personal basketball highlights are almost having to play against Kenneth Faried in high school, getting DeMarcus Cousins to curse at him when he came to play against UGA and helping coach a 21 win team at his former high school. There just really wasn’t a ton on the court to be proud of.
Ryne “Tyne” Prinz's (@ryneprinz) main focus in terms of basketball was perfecting Jason Williams’ “elbow pass” as a young man. Now a student at the UWM, Ryne’s love for the NBA has evolved into an obsession. When he’s not watching, writing, or thinking about it, he’s Googling pictures of dogs, listening to Outkast, and still attempting to perform that darn pass.
Taylor Smith (@TaylorBojangles) is a former infant and eventual child who has grown into a basketball-enjoying adult. You can find him on the Twitters and contributing things to the very website whose “About” section you’re currently reading, obviously.
Wesley Share (@wesley_share) writes about the Sixers, basketball and when the two occasionally intersect at SB Nation's Liberty Ballers, RealGM and Friendly Bounce.