North Station Sports

North Station Sports would like to announce the addition of Lee Herman to our writing staff. We had many applicants respond to our “help wanted” post on Twitter and Facebook. The writing samples that were supplied by many were excellent and made the final choice a difficult one.

Our decision to go with Lee was based on his writing style and experience in posting intelligent comments on various sports sites. Lee is a New England native and his heart is with the Celtics and NBA basketball. As displayed in his first post, The Celtics Ice Heat in Miami, Lee goes deep into the Celtics game play with a flair for the numbers. North Station Sports has never been a “stats-based” site. Though I recognize that stats are essential when covering a team day in and day out, I have never considered myself to be a “stats-guy”. Lee lends his expertise to NSS by providing some of these essential numbers while not making the post resemble more of a math formula and less of a game recap.

As you all know, North Station Sports covers the current Boston Celtics but often refers back to the history of this storied franchise in a way that is relevant to today’s team. My love for the history of this game has spilled over into the writing style at NSS and I felt that the beat writer needed to have a good knowledge of the legend’s that came before Pierce, KG and Allen. Herman passed the test without even knowing he was being quized. Needless to say, the decision was made easy when Lee proclaimed his love for Tommy Heinsohn, his admiration of Cedric Maxwell’s story telling and his desire to see Larry-Legend launch one more fade-away J.

Lee will be taking the role of Celtics Beat Writer. He will cover NSS Flix, game previews, game recaps, breaking news and interesting tidbits. Along with myself, Matt and the other contributors to NSS, Lee will be  posting daily on NSS which will allow Matt and I to concentrate on areas of the site that have recently been neglected. I will start posting daily links (until that postition is filled) again and, what we consider our strong suite, more extensive features and the recently neglected “one on one segments”.

The growth of our writing staff is exciting and definitely diversifies our flavor for all things Boston Celtics. We look forward to working closely with Lee, incorporating his style into the North Station Sports brand.