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Lonzo Ball And Jayson Tatum Gave Us A Cool Lakers-Celtics Summer League Contest
The Lakers and Celtics Summer League teams played Saturday in Las Vegas, pitting second overall pick Lonzo Ball against third overall pick Jayson Tatum. This was pretty fun!...
Flashin' Granny Flashes Dodger Stadium Via Videoboard
The 42,225 fans at yesterday’s Dodgers-Royals tilt at Dodger Stadium were treated to an unexpected delight when an elderly woman boogying down on the videoboard caught a little too much of the spirit and flashed the crowd....
Lonzo Ball's Summer League Debut Was A Disaster
Lonzo Ball’s much-anticipated professional basketball debut left Lakers chief Magic Johnson shaking his head, as the UCLA product went 2-15 while tripping over his feet and looking incredibly slow in a 96-93 overtime loss to the Clippers. Time for some lowlights!...
No One Needs To Help True Rich Asshole Casey Wasserman Bring The Olympics To L.A.<em></em><em></em>
Next week, the International Olympic Committee will gather for a vote on a recommendation to award the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympic Games to Paris and Los Angeles. It might not be official until the IOC formally votes on host cities in Lima in September, but at this point it’s become clear that Los ...
Miloš Teodosić And His Slick Passes Are Coming To The Clippers
Serbian point guard Miloš Teodosić, who has spent his professional career in Europe and has periodically dazzled American audiences during international tournaments, is coming to the NBA. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the 30-year-old guard has agreed to a two-year deal with the Los Angeles...
DeAngelo Williams Was Pretty Great In His First Pro Wrestling Match
NFL running back DeAngelo Williams made his pro wrestling debut over the weekend at Impact Wrestling’s Slammiversary XV, one of the main PPV events from the promotion formerly known as TNA....
Veteran MLB Umpire Sues Commissioner's Office For Racial Discrimination
Angel Hernandez, a Cuban MLB umpire currently in his 24th year in the league, filed a lawsuit today in federal court saying that the league discriminated against him and other minority umpires on the basis of race....
Blake Griffin Don't Need No Stinking Chris Paul, Will Return To The Clippers
Chris Paul’s departure to Houston probably spells the end of the era of the Los Angeles Clippers being a semi-serious championship contender in the loaded Western Conference. You will be forgiven, then, if you thought the next domino to fall would be Blake Griffin’s inevitable departure for greener ...
Angels Beat Dodgers On A Rare Walk-Off Strikeout
The Angels achieved perhaps the weirdest sort of walk-off win tonight—the walk-off strikeout, pushing them to a 3-2 win over the Dodgers in the ninth inning....
Report: Chris Paul Hated Austin And Doc Rivers
Now that Chris Paul has left for Houston, Doc Rivers faces an incredibly difficult task. J.J. Redick is reportedly out the door, and if the Clippers don’t re-sign Blake Griffin, they will suddenly be very bad. Don’t worry though. Austin Rivers is here to save the day....
Pity The Poor Man Who Tries To Run On Yasiel Puig
Yasiel Puig has a cannon for an arm. You know this. Everyone who has watched him knows this. Kole Calhoun, presumably, knows this—yet he found himself trying to go from first to third in the eighth inning tonight on a single hit to Puig, which meant that he found himself thrown out....
Report: The Giants Miss Hating Angel Pagan
Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal published a report today about team chemistry issues that the San Francisco Giants are suffering through this season. The conclusion of the piece is that the Giants’ clubhouse culture is in rough shape because Mark Melancon annoys the rest of the bullpen and everyone else o...
Rockies Reliever Adam Ottavino Really Crapped It Up Yesterday
Rockies relief pitcher Adam Ottavino entered the seventh inning of Sunday’s game with two outs, two men on, and a two-run lead. He walked Dodgers second baseman Austin Barnes, and then everything fell apart....
Magic Johnson Couldn't Resist Trashing Poor D'Angelo Russell
Here’s Lakers legend and president of basketball operations Magic Johnson, explaining the trade that sent D’Angelo Russell to the Nets and cleared the way for second overall pick Lonzo Ball to supplant him as the team’s point guard of the future:...
Here's LaVar Ball Being Raucously Booed While Leaving The Draft
As expected, the Lakers selected UCLA point guard Lonzo Ball with the second overall pick of tonight’s NBA draft. As expected, his father LaVar Ball had some grand proclamations to make beforehand. (Mainly that he had it on the good authority of Zeus and Jesus themselves that Lonzo would be drafted ...
The Mets Are Pissed At Yasiel Puig For Admiring His Homer
Yasiel Puig recently said having to adjust to MLB’s rules of decorum means having less fun. “They’ve wanted to change so many things about me that I feel so off,” he told ESPN. “I don’t feel like the player I was in 2013.” Puig tried to enjoy himself last night, taking his time with a home run in th...
Corey Seager Had Himself A Night
Rather than let his teammate and likely future rookie of the year Cody Bellinger continue to steal the spotlight, reigning rookie of the year Corey Seager yanked it back tonight. While Bellinger hit a milestone of his own in the team’s 12-0 win over the Mets, Seager made sure he was unequivocally th...
Cody Bellinger Is The First Rookie Ever To Hit 10 Home Runs In 10 Games
Cody Bellinger has been in the big leagues for less than two months and is already the subject of a litany of fun facts, thanks to the historic pace of his rookie season. Here’s another one—he’s now the first rookie ever to hit 10 home runs in a 10-game span....
Evan Turner Has The Ultimate Phil Jackson Thought Experiment
Imagine: The year is 2017. You are the president of a dysfunctional NBA franchise, seemingly with no professional goals other than increasing the dysfunction of said franchise and maniacally preaching the virtues of triangles. You do not consider yourself beholden to your players or fans or, really,...
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Lakers Send D'Angelo Russell To Brooklyn For Brook Lopez [Update]
The second big trade domino has fallen ahead of Thursday’s NBA draft. According to Adrian Wojnarowski, the Los Angeles Lakers will send point guard D’Angelo Russell and NBA Finals hero Timofey Mozgov to Brooklyn in exchange for Brook Lopez and the 27th pick in the draft....