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Cam Crowell

Portland-based writer and reporter for the Portland Mercury, publisher of the (In)Action Substack, and founder/editor of No Look magazine, a print periodical about pickup basketball culture.

Oct 4, 2026

SamHOST
3:55
it should be.
3:57
But yeah, No Look, it's a basketball magazine.
4:00
It's about only people that play basketball for no money or pay money to play basketball.
4:07
I, the idea of it, I think, comes from, I think that the majority of people that play basketball do not make money playing it and actually lose money playing it.
4:19
So I think that that like the, and I don't know, I just feel like, because like, I think that there are some overarching professional storylines that are like, you know, over you know, covered, you know, you've heard all the stories of like, most professional basketball players are pretty similar.
4:37
The pathetic pathos of someone in a pickup run, I think is untreaded water.
4:44
And I think that there's a lot of the human condition that goes into these pickup runs that we're in that we spend a lot of time doing.

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