About Everybody Clap Your Hands
Everybody Clap Your Hands is your fourth favourite basketball blog. It’s about three things:
- Basketball
- Feelings
- Claps
Everybody Clap Your Hands is written and produced by Cory Zanoni.
What to expect
- Spirited championing of players you don’t care about (yet).
- Ways to make mascots more fuckable.
- Treatises on which screens are hot or not.
- General celebrations of basketball being great.
Basically, the NBA, the WNBA and the things in basketball that bring joy.
There will be no: award discussions (unless I make the awards up), legacy chat, highlight reels.
Here’s the thing. Two of my favourite basketball podcasts ever are Spinsters (RIP) and Flagrant. Everyone involved with those pods is wildly cooler than me. But. I aspire to their level of whimsy and smarts.
No boring bullshit. Just fun bullshit.
This might be for you if…
- There’s a fringe rotation player on your team that you’ll never give up on, even when they move to Europe.
- You screenshot posts from r/nba to send to the group chat because you want to talk about it but ain’t no way you’re posting on Reddit.
- You’ve spent at least five minutes thinking about “getting into basketball cards” but realised you simply cannot become that person yet.
About Cory
I was a defence-first wing and two-time team MVP for my truly awful basketball club as a teenager. Now I’m a content strategist living in Melbourne, Australia.
A few other things: I’ve hosted a podcast about videogames and trying to be a better person, taught and lectured about making stuff online, and I have the world’s most handsome cat. (My other cat is also handsome, just less so.)
Speed dating
I was inspired to start this blog, in part, by the fantastic Spinsters podcast. In their first ep, hosts Haley O’Shaughnessy and Jordan Ligons did some basketball speed dating to introduce themselves to their listeners. Let’s do the same here.
- Sign: Taurus.
- Favourite basketball moment: Manu Ginobli blocking James Harden to win Game 5 of the 2017 Playoff semifinals.
- Irrational basketball opinion: NBA games are too long and optimised for litigiousness, not flow. I want 10 minute quarters, half the timeouts, no reviews.
- Player I was wrong about: Nikola Mirotic. I thought he’d be decent (and also not be the one who left the NBA after Bobby Portis clocked him in a Bulls practice).
- My teams: NBA: San Antonio Spurs. WNBA: Las Vegas Aces