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Referee Accidentally Aids Israeli Basketball Team's Game-Winning Three
Down by one, Hapoel Jerusalem's Yotam Halperin hit a three-pointer with a lucky bounce to take a two-point lead over Maccabi Tel Aviv. But it took a well-placed referee for Halperin to get his game-winner....
Paul George Was Out Of His Mind Last Night
Just in case you were not yet aware, Paul George is the truth. The Pacers' budding superstar proved as much last night, when he went for 43 points in a 106-102 loss to the Blazers, a game that ended with George hitting five three-pointers in the last three minutes of regulation as he mounted a furi...
Delta Bumps Entire Flight For Florida Basketball Team
About 50 passengers were told that their fully booked flight had been canceled because of a mechanical problem. That's when they noticed the Gators basketball team boarding....
The Right Woman For The Job
Dig this nice column by Johnette Howard on Violet Palmer over at ESPN:...
Ho You Fat: Real Name, Or Realest Name?
Trick question, it's both. Steeve Ho You Fat is the actual name of a person playing basketball in France and it's making us giggle like big, dumb morons....
Wake Forest And Kansas Basketball Players Have Lots Of Arms
Arms and arms and arms. Yards of arms. Arms that are feet long....
The Bronx Is Burning
But that doesn't mean you should stop playing. ...
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Chane Behanan's 2012 Final Four Ring Is Up For Auction [Update]
And that's a problem, because Chane Behanan is still in college....
Kobe Bryant Won't Apologize For His Contract, And He Shouldn't
Kobe Bryant has heard all the criticism that has been lobbed in his direction since he signed a $48.5 million contract extension with the Lakers. "Selfish," they called him, pointing out how his giant contract will limit the Lakers in free agency. Kobe Bryant thinks that all his critics can go ahead...
Mizzou's Cheering Section Gets Kicked Out Of Two Games For Being Awful
Mizzou basketball games have long been attended by a student cheering section known as the Antlers, and it is a cheering section that is apparently full of huge dick heads. The entire section has been kicked out of two games this year by university police, and the school's athletic department just r...
Coaches: High School And Its 20-Year-Old Star "Stole" D.C. Hoops Title
Long after the credits should have rolled in the soap opera that was Junior Etou's high school basketball career, we have a plot twist....
Supernat & Smif n Wessun: New York Knicks Freestyle
Via the always-fun Up North Trips, let's go back to the grimey mid-'90s....
Here's Sad Derrick Rose's First Sad Post-Surgery Photo
Welcome back, Sad Derrick Rose. We didn't miss you....
Kobe Bryant Signs Two-Year Extension, Will Be NBA's Highest-Paid Player
It looks like Kobe Bryant is going to be a Laker for life. Making a move that nobody was really expecting, the Lakers just announced that they have signed Bryant to a two-year extension, and he didn't come cheap....
Kirk Hinrich Has A Great Time Wrestling With Nate Robinson
Just more proof that basketball is always more fun when Nate Robinson is involved....
Shirtless, Slurring Lamar Odom Freestyle Raps In Sad Video
Here's some shit that will bum you out. According to TMZ, this video of a shirtless and fucked-up-on-something Lamar Odom freestyle rapping with some other dude was shot sometime in the last month. If that's true, it doesn't look like Odom's recovery from substance abuse issues is going too well....
Monta Ellis Is Great Now. What The Hell Happened?
If you haven't been paying close attention to the Dallas Mavericks this year, you may not have noticed that Monta Ellis, the guy who has spent most of his career acting as the poster boy for inefficiency in the NBA, is having the best season of his career. His PER and true shooting percentage are cu...
Rachel Nichols Breaks News Of Lenny Cooke's Death. (He Is Not Dead.)
Poor Lenny Cooke. The high-school-basketball-legend-turned-tragic-washout got a shout out on TNT's NBA broadcast last night when Rachel Nichols mentioned that Joakim Noah recently helped produce a documentary about Cooke's too-much-too-soon cautionary tale. Unfortunately for Cooke, Nichols teased t...