Lavine to sign 5 year max extension?

[Tyler]

The "fall" of Marc Stein is fascinating. He went from one of the most important writers in the NBA to basically just a guy. I wonder what happened

He's actually thoughtful and insightful and doesn't fit the ESPN obnoxious talking head mold. So of course they let him go. Then he wrote for the NYT for a while before deciding he was big enough to branch out on his own and publish on Substack without the editorial middle-man. I have no doubt that he's doing just fine.

IMO, Stein is one of the best in the business.