North Station Sports

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.

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Lee Herman

Lead-Blogger

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.

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Calvin Chamberlain

Columnist

I grew up on the mean streets of a middle class suburb of Los Angeles idolizing Magic Johnson and the Showtime Lakers.  As a child, my father would take us to many Laker games and I remember always being pleasantly surprised when we came upon The Forum after driving through Inglewood and its procession of liquor stores.

When Magic announced that he was H.I.V. positive, it had a huge impact in this city.  It was one of those few moments where you remember where you were and what happened when you found out, like when the Challenger exploded.  I remember looking at my father cry for the first time I could ever remember.  I think that is when I realized the Lakers were more than just basketball, they were a part of my life.

Honestly, though, I didn’t cry that day.  That’s one thing I firmly believe you should never do as a fan: cry.  Win and lose gracefully.  Always tell the truth about your team.  The truth may hurt, but being right is awesome.  And that is the mantra I take as I write.

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Matt Ribaudo

featured Columnist

COMING SOON

Nick Sannicandro

Celtics-Beat

Other than the Celtics, I am a graduate of Community College of Rhode Island and am pursuing my Bachelors at Bridgewater State College where I hope to become a Middle School teacher after spending 6 years coaching teen sport programs for a local rec center. I hope to bring  North Station Sports the best up to date information and updates possible making NSS your first place to anything Celtics.

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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

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.

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