Bobby Burack
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Sports Illustrated operator Maven is making significant cuts to its team sites.
Longtime NBA writer Sam Amico is among the writers informed they will not return at the end of October. Amico confirmed the news to Outkick and says he will return to running his own site.
“This is like the third or fourth time this has happened for me,” Amico responds to Outkick. “Everyone is just trying to run their business the best they can. So, I get it. No hard feelings.”
Amico is one of the few NBA writers who has reported on the league’s decline in ratings. Basketball writers have mostly ignored the issue while Amico has taken it head-on.
Before joining SI, Amico founded Amico Hoops and had worked for FoxSports.com and NBA.com.
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Yawn. The liberal media eating their own… good riddance…
Sam Amico… the next Outkick addition?
Bring him onboard at Outkick so he can continue to report on the decline in NBA viewership
Leave it to SI to give walking papers to one of their few truth-tellers. Not that I follow much about the NBA anymore since LeWoke took it into the gutter.
I used to love SI. Now it’s like CNN and total garbage
Lost interest in SI when “Katlin Jenner” was named person of the year.
ABC didn’t show National Anthem tonight.
Because – China 🇨🇳 –
China is one step away from being removed from the International Monetary Fund.
Sports journalism is now controlled nearly completely by a handful of tech Oligarchs. And with more illiterate readers than ever before, the writing is all promotion.
Frank Deford, Curry Kirkpatrick and the SI swimsuit issues in the Tiegs/Brinkley/Ireland era were all refreshing staples in a simpler time before the ESPN era. Better days? Sure they were – I was 40 yrs younger.
Hey MB…all great writers for sure…and don’t forget Dan Jenkins.
Grew up looking forward to SI being delivered by postman every Thursday. did not realize it was still in operation.