Stanjames Sports Blog

Online basketball writers are just as capable as those that you see writing for traditional print publications. With nearly anyone able to write and post an opinion through online basketball sources it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction when it comes to online basketball. Even people who have written sports columns regularly for newspapers like Jay Mariotti now write for online basketball sources. Mariotti writes not only for online basketball sources, but also for the Chicago Sun Times and he appears on ESPN. ESPN itself also has online basketball media sources, but most of the slots involved in their online basketball world are already filled.

You have to wonder whether or not people like Jerry Sloan and Doug Collins would have been effected in any greater way during either their playing days in the case of Sloan or their coaching days in the case of Collins for the Chicago Bulls due to the increased pressure that online basketball writers can place upon the participants of a basketball game. Sloan does not seem like the type who would be phased by what online basketball writers would say about him, either in his playing days which are seemingly long ago or in his current job as head coach of the Utah Jazz.

Doug Collins on the other hand has spent time in the media with NBC, TNT and possibly other outlets so it is unlikely that he would let anything an online basketball magazine write get to him. This is probably the case unless we are talking about a situation of complete slander. Then Collins or Sloan may take legal action against the online basketball source. Collins is more likely to have a feud with a player that he coaches which would play out in the media through an online basketball magazine, but he is unlikely to get in a feud with the online basketball source itself.