Tuesday, 21 April 2026
Vol. XII · No. 174 · The Long-form Issue
● Now reading: The Long Quiet of a Goalkeeper
Contributor / Since 2021
Julien Vasquez
Long-form Writer, Basketball
Julien writes about basketball the way others write about jazz — with tempo and digression. His book on point guards as composers is out next spring.
Based in
Brooklyn, NY
On the internet
@juliendrives
Stories filed
2
Selected work
The bylines
BasketballThe Art of Geometry
A Small Theory of the Pick-and-Roll
How one screen, set slightly too high, rewrote the grammar of the Western Conference finals.
Vasquez10 Apr 202611 min
BasketballA Feature
Rookie in the Empty Gym
Before the draft, before the shoe deal, before anyone outside of Charleston knew her name — Aiyana Brooks shot twelve hundred jumpers a day in a gym nobody was watching.
Vasquez11 Mar 202612 min