While covering this week’s big NBA trade, in which Portland’s Damian Lillard was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks, The Athletic’s David Aldridge and Sam Amick referenced one of the all-time greats of journalism, Ben Bradlee.
The Executive Editor of The Washington Post during the Watergate years was quoted as saying he “used to live for what he called “Holy (bleep)!” stories. (Fill in the bleep at your discretion.) … they were those rare stories that would, literally, make people reading them stop a paragraph or two into them and exclaim “Holy (bleep)!