Sure, star players have always chafed at criticism, but this era is uniquely paranoia inducing.
Their unhappiness with the media is understandable. A lot of that push is coming from the players, who are increasingly unhappy in general, and especially unhappy with media coverage.
One of the reasons I quit my media job and started HoS was because I believed that the NBA, in a Shock Doctrine maneuver, would use the pandemic as a pretext for further restrictions on reporters. Right now, it would appear that the NBA is attempting to take locker-room access away from reporters permanently. In this post, I’ll try to explain two things that haven’t been well-explained by NBA commissioner Adam Silver: Why locker-room access exists and why players want to end it.
