We never met Howard Garfinkel but we had an interesting phone call with him once.
He told a lot of stories and was convivial and engaging, a nice man. And a New Yorker to his core.
At the end of the conversation, Garf threw a bit of a curveball: “could I write for you? Maybe about the NBA?”
It killed us to say no but there was no way to pay the man what he was worth. The money just wasn’t there.
We liked him instinctively though and who wouldn’t? He was a fascinating man who had a wide window on decades of basketball.