PATTY MILLS X GOOD WEEKEND

“From hotel quarantine in Sydney, Mills glows on my screen. Wearing a yellow Australian team T-shirt, he jokes that I can’t be in Melbourne because it’s too sunny outside my window. (Burn.) He wants to know how I am, and who I am. Is my wife coping in lockdown? Does my son shoot hoops? I’m used to tactically disarming subjects. Mills disarms me. He tells me how his family stories are handed down in song and dance.

“You start to see, this thing goes deep,” he says, nodding. “I’m deeply connected to both sides of my family in ways that I’m not sure I can get across, in ways that many people will never understand.”

We owe it to ourselves to try. His origin story has two sides. Both could be songs.”

SPEAK Communications worked with the team at Good Weekend Magazine to deliver a profile piece on Patty Mills. It was a team effort to bring this feature to life and we hope you enjoy the read.

Words: Konrad Marshall
Images: Paul Harris
Styling: Marissa Tremain
Apparel and Footwear: Under Armour