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NBA Writer – Basketball Network
Location: Remote Type: Contract / Freelance Reports to: Editor / Managing Editor
Basketball Network covers the NBA past, present, and future. From Xs and Os to untold off-court stories, insights and breaking news.
This role consists of:
Breaking and latest news – trades, injuries, press conference quotes, whatever blows up on a Tuesday night. And there's the evergreen stories – the 1998 Finals, the Shaq-Kobe fallout, the careers people half-remember and want to read about properly.
We're looking for a writer who can work both. Someone who can turn a breaking story around in 20 minutes without the copy falling apart, and then spend the next morning on a piece that still pulls traffic three years from now.
This is a writing job first. Not a rewriting job, not an aggregation job.
We are looking for a candidate who's level of English is native/bilingual.
What you'll be writing:
News and reaction (the fast clock)
Same-day coverage of trades, signings, injuries, suspensions, and front-office movesQuote-driven stories off podcasts, pressers, and interviews — with the context that makes the quote matterGame and series reaction that gets past the box scoreFast-moving stories where being early and being right both countEvergreen and archive (the slow clock)
Retrospectives on players, teams, rivalries, and seasons"What actually happened" pieces on moments that got flattened into mythCareer reassessments, era comparisons, and the arguments that never fully closeFeatures built to be found months and years after they publishMost weeks are a mix of both. You should be comfortable switching gears in the same day.
What we're looking for:
Native-level English. This is non-negotiable and it's the first thing we screen for. Clean, idiomatic, rhythmically confident prose – writing that reads like a person, not a translation and not a template. If your work needs a heavy edit to sound natural, this isn't the right fit.
Deep NBA knowledge across eras. You have a deep understanding of the league. You can name the role players, not just the stars. You can tell when a stat is telling the truth and when it isn't.
Speed without slop. You can file a clean 500 words on a breaking story fast, and it doesn't come back covered in edits.
A voice. You have takes and you can defend them. You're not writing to avoid being wrong.
Reliability. You hit deadlines, you answer messages, you don't disappear mid-week.
Nice to have
Published clips at an established sports outletA sense for search — headlines and angles that people are actually looking forExperience with [CMS], basic SEO, or social copyA beat, a niche, or an era you know better than mostWhat we offer
A large, engaged basketball audience from day oneReal say in what you write – we'd rather you chase the story you care aboutFast, direct editing. No committee.Competitive pay