A quick word on new ideas
In the years that we’ve been doing things at 48MoH one thing that has been pretty constant is that we’ve tried to find different approaches to covering hoops, to experiment. Though none of us has been able to dedicate the time to this site lately that we would like or once did, I think I can speak for us all and say that it’s been a place where we’ve felt comfortable testing new ideas and different ways to talk about basketball, more specifically, the Spurs.
Over the last few months I’ve been working on a project in that same spirit, though one that won’t live within the domain of 48MoH and its Spurs coverage. A couple of weeks ago I launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a quarterly print basketball magazine called Game Point.
A blogger launching a print magazine might not make a whole lot of sense on paper (no pun intended), but it’s one that feels right. There is no shortage of blogs and websites writing about basketball online, so we wanted to zig while everyone else is zagging and try something different. Print magazines are awesome and I’m sure there are plenty of other people out there who think the same thing. We’re hoping to find them.
We’ll be focusing on writing interesting, longer basketball stories, some Spurs related and others not, and packaging those written features with some really cool artwork from some of the best basketball illustrators around. You can find samples of their work on the Kickstarter campaign page.
This may not be your cup of tea, no hard feelings if it isn’t, but if you find it interesting please take a couple minutes to check out the Kickstarter campaign and consider backing the project. And also take a minute and share the Kickstarter page with the people that you know who love basketball.
The potential success of this project won’t take anything away from 48MoH. We’ll post just as infrequently as we normally do. Game Point is simply a new experiment continuing a long line of them that started with this blog. Long live 48MoH.
