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David Stern Invites Seattle to Watch Their Ex-Girlfriend With New Boyfriend

On the weekend before the NBA finally returns to action after its six-week sabbatical after the NBA Finals, we must take one more moment to remember one city that will not be joining the rest of us in our journey this season as Oklahoma City tries to pretend they can support both an NBA franchise and a Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill restaurant. Don't worry, though, Seattle... you can totally join in if you want to! More »

2:30 PM on Sun Oct 26 2008
By Tuffy
6,008 views, 35 comments

Most discussed TracyHamandEggs!: Dear Whiny asshole, Forcing a team to remain in a city where they didn't want to remain, and where they won't more »

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Jason Kidd Calls Out NBA "Double Standard" For Failure to Speak on Spain Photos

The NBA's love affair with China—and vice-versa—has been well chronicled by the national media. But in the wake of the Spanish team posing with slant-eyes or slit-eyes (I'm still not sure why there are two names for this), NBA players are starting to take note that the NBA is much quicker to penalize American players for their actions than they are foreign ones. At least that's what Jason Kidd told Yahoo Sports. More »

2:00 PM on Thu Aug 14 2008
By Clay Travis
7,256 views, 23 comments

Latest by josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you: @Absurd Hero: Has Nacho Vidal taught the Iberian nothing of racial harmony? /needs more interracial porn//preferably black women/non-black men///worships Nubian queens ... more »

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Tim Donaghy's Sense Of The Dramatic

From the minute the general public learned the name Tim Donaghy, everyone has been waiting for a day like yesterday. The point of Tim Donaghy's infamy is not his gambling; it's all about whether or not he could provide any insight into the back rooms of an NBA that has always seemed a little shady. You have to give Donaghy credit for one thing: The man knows timing. More »

10:00 AM on Wed Jun 11 2008
By Will Leitch
9,588 views, 61 comments

Latest by twentyfivemillionreasons: The fed's interest in Donaghy was about gambling and betting, no? What he just put out there didn't have more »

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This Is What It Sounds Like When A Franchise Dies

Blazer's Edge brings us this video of NBA commissioner David Stern, officially killing off the Seattle Sonics franchise, and all the hopes of their fans. It's almost grueling to watch. More »

4:10 PM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Leitch
8,680 views, 96 comments

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WNBA Avoids Minor Labor Pains

Kids, get off the danged roof, open the garage door and shut the engine off: The WNBA isn't going on strike after all. More »

1:05 PM on Tue Jan 29 2008
By Leitch
2,564 views, 53 comments

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One Guy, Pleading Guilty, Blah Blah

If you're all excited — or even, say, a-twitter — about Tim Donaghy's impending guilty plea in federal court today to those whole charges of game fixing, well, settle down there, Paco. More »

10:40 AM on Wed Aug 15 2007
By Leitch
3,076 views, 25 comments

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David Stern's First Round Of Damage Control

So, as we look back on David Stern's fascinating press conference earlier today, we have a few thoughts.

• Boy, Stern seems pretty certain of Donaghy's guilt, doesn't he? There wasn't much doubt there at all; contrast that to how baseball has handled Barry Bonds, or the NFL has dealt with Michael Vick. Either Stern is being reckless, or he knows a lot more than he's letting on. It's Stern, so we're assuming the latter.

• NBA refs of Donaghy's status make $260,000 a year. Hmm.

• As True Hoop points out, Stern has Vegas' back, to say the last. Please don't not let these gambling accusations remind you of, you know, the All-Star Game, or that we desperately want a team in Vegas. TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT MATTERS.

On the whole, we respected how Stern handled the situation. But man, this thing, it's far from over.

5:05 PM on Tue Jul 24 2007
By Leitch
6,433 views, 407 comments

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David Stern Press Conference, Going On Now

Right now, NBA commissioner David Stern is addressing, for the first time, the whole Tim Donaghy situation. We are curious to see if he can avoid picking up the lectern and throwing it across the room.

Because we're sitting in our parents' basement in our underwear, we thought we'd do that the kids call a "live blog," because there's nothing more exciting than a live blog of a guy talking into a microphone.

After the jump, all kinds of David Stern goodness. More »

11:02 AM on Tue Jul 24 2007
By Leitch
21,155 views, 164 comments

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This Donaghy Situation Is Not Likely To Improve

So here's that video The Sports Feller was talking about in his excellent Tim Donaghy column this weekend, the compilation of rather insane calls in Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals between the Spurs and Suns, reffed by one Tim Donaghy. The point is not necessarily that the video shows definitively that Donaghy was shaving points; the point is that we, suddenly, terrifyingly, have no idea. More »

10:40 AM on Mon Jul 23 2007
By Leitch
16,883 views, 102 comments

Latest by budbrad: In the middle of last week, the Okla City-based owner of the Seattle Sonics crawled into the Emerald City looking more »

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