Ben Golliver

I am the author of Bubbleball: Inside The NBA’s Fight To Save A Season, which documented my 93-day stay inside the NBA bubble at Disney World during the 2019-20 season. Bubbleball can be ordered on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

Additionally, I am the co-host of the independent Greatest Of All Talk NBA podcast and was the National NBA Writer for the Washington Post from 2018 to 2026. Prior to joining The Post, I was a Senior Writer for Sports Illustrated, where I covered the NBA for six years. Before joining SI in 2012, I spent two years at CBSSports.com while also covering the Portland Trail Blazers for seven seasons at Blazersedge.com.

I began writing about basketball with the self-published Draft Kevin Durant blog in 2007 and have covered 15 straight NBA Finals, the 2020 Tokyo and 2024 Paris Olympics, and the NBA Bubble in Disney World. Beyond my NBA writing, I have also covered the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, college football, the WNBA and the MLB playoffs, among other events.

My profile of Caitlin Clark was featured in The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2024 anthology and I was recognized by the Associated Press Sports Editors for my short feature about the Alabama men’s basketball team in 2024.

I am a graduate of the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association, JHU’s Second Decade Society, the National Audubon Society, and the California State Parks Foundation. I was born in Portland, Oregon, attended Beaverton High School, and spent most of my life in the Pacific Northwest. I moved to Los Angeles, my current home, in 2015.

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