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b'Jackie MacMullan is an NBA journalist who has written for\\xa0The Boston Globe,\\xa0Sports Illustrated\\xa0and\\xa0ESPN. She hosts the podcast\\xa0Icons Club\\xa0for\\xa0The Ringer.\\n\\u201c[Athletes] think they don\'t need journalists\\u2014and they\'re wrong. And I tell them all this. I\'m like, \\u2018I know you think you\'ve got your own production company, but we can tell your story better than you can.\' That\'s just the truth. No one tells their own story the best. It\'s the people around them that tell the story the best. And nobody wants a whitewashed version of you. They want warts and all. That\'s what makes you lovable. That\'s what makes you interesting. ... There are great journalists out there that can tell your story\\u2014and it might not be exactly the way you want it to be told, but it\'ll have weight and it\'ll have legacy to it.\\u201d\\nShow notes:\\n\\nMacMullan\'s\\xa0Sports Illustrated\\xa0archive\\n\\nMacMullan\'s\\xa0ESPN\\xa0archive\\n\\nJackie MacMullan says goodbye to\\xa0Around the Horn\\n\\n01:00\\xa0"Journalism Pioneer Jackie MacMullan, Former Globe Columnist, to Retire From ESPN"\\xa0(Chad Finn \\u2022\\xa0Boston Globe \\u2022 Aug 2021)\\n\\n18:00\\xa0Bird Watching: On Playing and Coaching the Game I Love\\xa0(Larry Bird, Jackie MacMullan \\u2022 Grand Central Publishing \\u2022 1999)\\n\\n21:00\\xa0When the Game Was Ours\\xa0(Larry Bird, Earvin Johnson, Jackie MacMullan \\u2022 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt \\u2022 2009)\\n\\n22:00\\xa0Shaq Uncut\\xa0(Shaquille O\\u2019Neal, Jackie MacMullan \\u2022 Grand Central Publishing \\u2022 2011)\\n\\n24:00\\xa0Icons Club\\xa0(The Ringer \\u2022 2022)\\n\\n27:00\\xa0ESPN Daily\\xa0(Pablo Torre \\u2022 ESPN)\\n\\n27:00\\xa0The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy\\xa0(Bill Simmons \\u2022 ESPN \\u2022 2010)\\n\\n39:00\\xa0The Last Dance\\xa0(Netflix \\u2022 2020)\\n\\n49:00\\xa0"When Making the NBA Isn\'t a Cure-All: Mental Health and Black Athletes"\\xa0(ESPN \\u2022 Aug 2018)\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'