About NSS
Hello NBA Fans
North Station Sports (NSS) is a comprehensive NBA site with a slight bias towards the Boston Celtics. We cover stats, in depth game analysis, thought provoking and opinionated editorials, NBA/Boston Celtics historic trivia, interesting tidbits and interactive segments. We encourage you, our loyal readers and new friends, to post comments to any segment or article on NSS. We pride ourselves in being a fact based, opinionated authority on all things relating to the NBA. We are not always ”politically correct”, David Stern probably doesn’t read our site. We encourage you to be honest and straight forward in your comments while refraining from foul language and respecting the opinions of fellow commenters. We would be lying if we said we didn’t enjoy the occasional online brawl but always conducted in a manner that does not belittle or degrade your differing opponent. We look forward to hearing from you.
What is North Station?
Photo Courtesy of Lee Herman at North Station in Boston
Just south of North Station was the Canal Street Incline through which the Green Line and Orange LineBoston Garden, which included a new North Station as part of the design. This was replaced by the FleetCenter, now the TD Garden, which also necessitated a redesigned North Station. originally went from elevated to subway. The original North Central Station was demolished in 1928 to make way for the the TD Garden –Thank you to Wikipedia for this brief description.
North Station Sports Writing Staff:
Nick Gelso
I have been an avid basketball fan my entire life.
Following the NBA and the Boston Celtics for 25 years, I have lived through the prime and retirements of Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan.
I have fond memories of Doctor J. and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s retirement tours.
I have sad recollections of the demise of the Celtics organization in the post Larry Bird Era and I have gripping memories of the resurrection of the organization in 2008.
I started writing about the NBA in April of 2009. The media coverage of LeBron James’ MVP announcement drove me to insanity. It particularly aggravated me that the media constantly made everything LeBron historic and legendary.
For a player not yet to win a title, in my opinion, these comparison were insulting to the NBA legends that came before him.
I published the LeBron article on my Facebook notes page and it received a great response. The comments were flooding in.
At that point I thought, “maybe I have something here…”
Check out my first ever article
LeBron James: 2009 NBA MVP, Lets Leave History Out of This
After the surprising response to my first article, I decided to start a blog. Originally named The Boston Celtics News Station, the first few posts were rough and received little online exposure.
As time wore on, my readership grew and today, the newly dubbed North Station Sports has grown at a shocking pace.
I would be honored if you joined our email subscription to recieve North Station Sports updates in your personal inbox.
I would love to hear from you!
You can email me comments, suggestions, questions and concerns.
Thanks for reading and I look forward to your gripping comments on my posts published at North Station Sports.
Lee Herman
Senior-writer
I grew up a New Englander that along the coast line from Rhode Island to New Hampshire soaking in the sports scene. If you didn’t like the home town teams you were ridiculed unmercifully at school, work and in your own home. I’m down with the creative writing scene and enjoy contributing to NSS so I can bitch about things that bother me in the NBA or just blow some stats off my chest.
Though I reside in Northeastern Pennsylvania now, being away from where I grew up has not diminished my love of my teams. In fact, it probably strengthened them much to chagrin of my wife when we get the satellite bill with League Pass and Sunday Ticket amounting to the cost of a small child I could be sponsoring in the ‘Bique.
I hope you enjoy reading my posts. If you don’t let me know. Give it a rip, I don’t care. I enjoy a spirited debate or a bitch war all the same.
Go Celtics, baby. Also, Connecticut sucks.
Shawn McGrath
Senior-writer
Shawn is an avid Celtics fan and sincere League Pass devotee.
While keenly feeling every C’s win and loss during the grind of the NBA season, Shawn’s favorite coverage of the NBA comes from sites like Ball Don’t Lie, FreeDarko and The Baseline, which focus more on the storylines, relationships, nuances, and little eccentricities that make today’s game and today’s stars so compelling to follow. As such, he tries to reflect that interest in his posts at North Station Sports.
In an instant of keen foresight, blind luck or some mash-up of the two, he became a Celtics season ticket-holder in the summer of 2007 (at the time, the biggest purchase of his life) within minutes of the KG trade having been announced, which also happened to be mere minutes before every season-ticket in the Garden had sold out. Though he lives on Cape Cod, he makes the hour-and-a-half trek to Boston for the majority of the C’s home games.
If you see him in section 305, buy him a Heineken.
North Station Sports Contributing Writers
Graham — CelticsFanatic
Weekly Contributor
A Celtics fan since the dawn of my birth, I’ve bled the blood that is green, wept the tears that are green, and sweat the beads that are green. I’ve relished in the winning and losing of the Beantown boys since the time I began to know how to. I dove into the pool that was the Celtics water, and swam in it with a joy only a true Celtics fan could receive.
So, yeah, I’m a Celtics fan.
I began running the Boston fan hangout dubbed Celtics 17 last year, a Celtics blog held in great respect. It’s brought me great places — including here — and I’ve vowed to never let passion be stripped from my writing. I have a homer personality, but I tend to stray from the biased road and take the general NBA fan perspective. I believe that if you’re blinded by your team’s colors, how will you ever learn to face your team falling to another squad?
I hope to give you a good standpoint at North Station Sports, and I promise you that I’ll never, ever turn my back on the team that we all hold dearly.
Contact Graham– Celtics Fanatic
Matt Golden
ContributorMatt is a regular contributor to North Station Sports. His first post, How Michael Jordan Ruined Basketball, raised some eyebrows and got the pot stirring.
Matt has his hands in the daily operations of NSS by contributing such vital posts as game recaps and opinionated briefs. Golden’s impact is most felt in his game previews, which are normally spot on. A lawyer by trade, his brief-like breakdowns of stats and analysis always interesting and insightful.
Lawyer by day, blogger by night– Golden also runs a very successful blog called The TV Navigator which has broadened his reach into the realm of television entertainment.
Alex Curtis-Slep
Contributor, “Around the Hardwood” on Celtics Late Night Show
At 16 years old, Alex is already a blogging vet. Blogging since he was nine, he is a complete NBA-junkie. His eyes are glued to league pass 24/7, he’s either watching, playing, or writing about basketball.
Founder of NBAtipoff, a place to go for more coverage of everything basketball! Whether it’s in depth analysis of games, or scowling at the latest NBA knucklehead, to pointing out funny tendencies and trends, we’ve got you covered!
Alex lends his expertise and articulate coverage of the NBA to NSS and we are proud to have him as a part of the team!
Salma Mahmoud
Contributor
I am from Cairo, Egypt.
I’m 24 and I used to play basketball for 7 years in Al-Ahly Sports Club, one of the top teams in Egypt, but unfortumately I stopped because of a knee injury. Like most of the Arabs at my age I started to watch NBA because of Michael Jordan so of course I became a Chicago Bulls fan, but after he retired I started to watch the Lakers from time to time (kobe and
Shaq era) and I also took an interest in the play of Kevin Garnett.As for my English Language, well I was in English Language schools for my entire life and also in college my major was English, that’s why I can express my thoughts in English in a good way, I hope you agree…
I started to really watch NBA games again after I watched Opera’s episode with Lebron James, that’s when I regained my passion for basketball, as here in Egypt unfortunately there isn’t much of it. After I graduated I Tried to be an NBA reporter or writer, a wild dream, but I found that the only channel that broadcasts NBA games is just streaming the games from NBA TV and commenting on them in the Arabic Language, they don’t even send reporters.
I follow many of the NBA reporter’s and analyst’s on Twitter and websites in order to know everything going on with the NBA. One day I read a post from North Station Sport stating that they want fresh NBA writers. Coincidentally, that night I was watching a documentary about the Celtics 2007/08 road to championship, and I wanted to write about what I felt about it, so I sent a sample of my work to Nick. Thank God he liked it but of course made some edits on it, it was my first time trying to write full sports articles in English. After that Nicholas gave me some tips in order to improve my writings, and that’s what I’m trying to do time after time.
Finally, I REALLY want to thank Nick for giving me this opportunity by posting my articles at North Station Sports, even though I’m a Cavs fan, I’m working on improving my writings, and I wish one day, under Nick’ guidance, I’ll become a well known NBA writer.
Calvin Chamberlain
Weekly Contributor
PROFILE COMING SOON
Jeff Chiampi
Technology Czar
Jeff is the imaging power behind the site. He designed it, develops it, maintains it, he puts up with our crazy requests for different features and functionality.
Basically, he is a genius and, without him, NSS would look like a “run-of-the-mill” amateur site. We owe our imaging totally to this guy!
As resident IT administrator for NSS, He puts out the mouse traps to keep the cats fed, keeps the flying monkeys in their cages, knows why waldo is hiding, makes sure the gerbil powered website keeps running by motivating the gerbils with a bull whip. Thanks for everything Jeff!
If you are interested in starting a blog, consultation or upgrades on an existing site, Click here to contact Jeff.
Are you interested in becoming part of the staff?
NSS is looking for talented, opinionated, enthusiastic and well informed Basketball fans to join our writing staff.
Blogging experience is not a requirement but a writing sample is reccommended.
If blogging is your passion, we are willing to help promote your blog through your posts on NSS, links on our email newsletter and through writer’s profiles which will be posted on our “About Us” page.
If you are interested in contributing to North Station Sports, click here to contact us.
Click here for a list of writing opportunities at North Station Sports.
