Author Bio & Stories

Robert Silverman

In addition to covering the doomed denizens of Madison Square Garden at KnickerBlogger.net, RobertSilverman also bangs the keys about hoops for the New York Times and ESPN. He is also a playwright, an actor, a wand'ring mendicant/gadfly, and he once wrestled a bear...and lost. He can be found on twitter at @BobSaietta, if you'd like to chew the fat. 

  • March 19, 2013
    The Wages of Win: On Ideas, Numbers and People at the Sloan Sports and Analytics Conference

    The general mood at the Sloan Sports and Analytics Conference was that of a happy revolution, and a celebration of good, new ideas overtaking and replacing bad, old ones. But how bloodless is this coup, really, and what would the post-revolution landscape look like?

  • March 11, 2013
    Everything and Morey: Excess, Success and Acronyms at Sloan

    The Sloan Sports and Analytics Conference may not have been quite the revolution as its most ardent acolytes imagined, but a lot of business cards were exchanged anyway. Part one of a two-part dispatch from a land where the GM of the Houston Rockets is something like a king, and all believe that some great change is coming.

  • January 22, 2013
    Sex, Lies and Honey Nut Cheerios: A Conversation With Incarcerated Bob

    The man behind the Carmelo Anthony/Kevin Garnett/"Your Wife Tastes Like Honey Nut Cheerios" rumor goes by the name "Incarcerated Bob." That's about all we know about him for sure. Well, that and that he is one of the purest expressions of the Sports Internet currently walking the earth.

  • December 13, 2012
    Under The Garden

    In which a reporter takes in a hugely meaningless Knicks game, sees the sights at Madison Square Garden, steals a few moments in the Knicks locker room, and attempts to deal with the implications of Carmelo Anthony's hideous sweater.

  • November 28, 2012
    Why We Watch: Steve Novak, Catch and Shoot

    Steve Novak is not quite like any other NBA player. This is what has made his career so strange and mostly undistinguished, but also the thing that makes him so confoundingly, deceptively and inspiringly like the rest of us.