Author Bio & Stories

Ethan Sherwood Strauss

Ethan Sherwood Strauss is a scrappy NBA writer who stands 5-11 (Meaning 6-2 "in shoes"). He writes pieces for TrueHoop, tweets @SherwoodStrauss and lives in Oakland where it's not so bad.

  • May 21, 2012
    In the Running

    The lockout season was supposed to break Andrew Bynum. He was always tagged as "injury prone," and a compressed schedule would help him fulfill his fate as the next Bill Walton/Yao Ming, big men cursed by the frailty of their lower bodies. But something changed the script.

  • March 23, 2012
    Anthony Davis In Space

    Kentucky's Anthony Davis has been the best defensive player in college basketball this year, and in just about any year in recent history. Which is high praise, but also only part of how he may well wind up changing the game—especially once he reaches the NBA.

  • March 8, 2012
    Project Lin

    Long before Jeremy Lin was the national phenom he's become, Richard Twu saw his potential to become basketball's Asian-American Idol. But that's not what Jeremy Lin had in mind.