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LeBronWatch: Podcast Guest Thinks LeBron Has Narrowed It Down To Three Teams
LeBron James has until Friday to decide whether to opt in to the last year of his contract with the Cavaliers, or decline it and become an unrestricted free agent. As previous LeBronWatch entries have noted, LeBron plans to sign with the Lakers, Cavaliers, Nuggets, and Knicks next season, and he wil...

Here Is A Twitter Account I Have Been Enjoying This World Cup
Just consider this a recommendation for People But With Small Head, a Twitter account where, as it explains, “it is people but small head.”...

Deadspin Up All Night: I Believe In Myself
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Deadspin Up All Night: On Aime Les Poulets Frits Du Kentucky<em></em>
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Deadspin Up All Night: Take Me For A Little While
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Big Van Vader Was Pro Wrestling's Last Truly Great Monster
Over the course of a few weeks leading up to Big Van Vader’s debut with the promotion, World Championship Wrestling aired videos like this one that showed him making his way to the ring for matches in Japan. Usually, the ads wouldn’t even show him wrestling. They didn’t need to. It was enough to sho...

Draft-Day Trade Was Scuttled After Pick Was Tipped On Twitter
Atlanta Hawks GM Travis Schlenk told San Francisco radio station 95.7 The Game this morning that he had a deal in place with the Milwaukee Bucks to move up from the 19th pick to the 17th. The Hawks knew they wanted one of two players—including Maryland shooting guard Kevin Huerter—and were sufficien...

Here's How The First Round Of The NBA Draft Went Down
Arizona big man Deandre Ayton was the first pick of an NBA Draft filled with sad trades and massive fuck-ups. Here’s the full first round:...

Woj's Synonyms For "Will Draft," Ranked<em></em>
Despite a report from Awful Announcing stating that reporters associated with NBA broadcast partners were asked by the league not to tip picks, the draft-night focus of ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski could not be shaken. But while Yahoo Sports’ Shams Charania appeared to outright ignore the league’s orde...

Mikal Bridges Was The Sixers' Nice Hometown Story For About An Hour<em></em><em></em>
A nice little heartwarming story early in the NBA Draft came when the Philadelphia 76ers picked Villanova’s Mikal Bridges with the 10th overall pick. Not only has Bridges spent his entire life around Philly, but his mom, Tyneeha Rivers, also works for the Sixers as VP of Human Resources. Mikal and T...

The Kings Screwed It Up!
First of all, it’s important to note that making predictions on draft night, or trying to grade teams’ picks, is a fool’s game. None of these guys has played an NBA game yet, and trying to parse the difference between Marvin Bagley III, whom the Kings just drafted at number-two overall, and Luka Don...

Deadspin Up All Night: Ring Ring
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Did Woj Just Tip The First Six Picks Of The NBA Draft?
Reporters at ESPN, Turner Sports, and Yahoo will not be tipping picks on Twitter during tonight’s NBA Draft, as reported by intrepid New York Times cub reporter Kevin Draper. The reason is that all three of those media companies are partnering with the NBA on the actual broadcast, which creates ince...

The Entire NBA Draft Depends On Whether The Kings Screw It Up<em></em>
The NBA Draft is tonight! It feels terrible. ...

Let's Speculate Idly About The NBA Draft
The NBA Draft: When is it? What is it? Will you, personally, be selected in this draft? Look, man: I don’t know this shit and honestly I don’t appreciate being asked. That said, the NBA Draft is 1) happening on Thursday evening, 2) effectively random and reliably entertaining, and 3) unless your win...

Phillie Phanatic Shoots Woman In Face With Hot Dog Gun, Sends Her To Hospital
The Phillie Phanatic aimed his hot dog gun, pressed a button and fired into the stands. The duct tape-wrapped hot dog flew through the air … and hit Kathy McVay in the face. It knocked off her glasses, gave her a black eye and sent her to the emergency room. She has to ice her face every 20 minutes....

Very Chill Rockets Fans Are Already Leaving One-Star Reviews For Ayesha Curry's New Restaurant<em></em>
Celebrity chef Ayesha Curry, wife of the Golden State Warriors’ Steph, is opening a second location in Houston this July for her and Michael Mina’s BBQ restaurant International Smoke. For Curry, the new location must represent a good opportunity to expand her business. But if you’re a Rockets fan st...

Deadspin Up All Night: We Have Given Our Bodies
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Here Are Some Old Englishmen Doing An Anti-Semitic Soccer Chant And Saluting Hitler
According to The Telegraph and journalist Bryan MacDonald, these English fans went to a pub in Stalingrad after Monday’s England-Tunisia World Cup match and celebrated England’s win by doing anti-Semitic chants....