Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle.
A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013.
He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.
Imagine what it must have been like for the employees at Prime Materials Incorporated in Willimantic, Conn., when they saw 6-foot-9, 210-pound Stanley Robinson shooting basketball-sized bails of plastic foam into a box from 15 feet away.
“He was throwing them in the box and making eight out of 10 from a good distance,” recalled Ruslan Inyatkin, Robinson’s boss at the scrap-metal yard. “It was pretty amazing. All the guys were watching. They got a kick out of it.”
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