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Arike Ogunbowale Wasn't Supposed To Take The Last Shot
Notre Dame’s final play wasn’t called for Arike Ogunbowale. After hitting the winning three in Friday’s semifinal win over UConn, the Notre Dame junior guard had an off shooting night against Mississippi State, and when the Irish inbounded the ball in a tie game with three seconds left, the play was...
Ben Simmons Requires Neither Joel Embiid Nor A Damn Jumper To Dominate
The 76ers pulled away from a sleepy and defeated Hornets team Sunday afternoon, sans Joel Embiid, behind more excellent two-way play from young Ben Simmons. It was Philly’s 10th straight win, and second straight without Embiid. Sure, the Embiid-less wins have come over Eastern Conference non-playoff...
Hassan Whiteside, On The Heat Playing Small Lineups: "It's Really Bullshit"
Saturday night the Heat had one of those really grinding losses, in Brooklyn. It wasn’t quite mutually dissatisfactory, if only because the Nets aren’t tanking, and so are still positioned to enjoy victories, but it was for sure a game the Heat were supposed to win: Miami is now in the 8th seed in t...
Whoever These Miscellaneous Celtics Are, They Are Feisty As Hell
The top two teams in the Eastern Conference met last night. You may have missed it: first of all, the men’s Final Four was last night; second of all, you might’ve simply sagged into the position, literally weeks ago, that the top of the Eastern Conference was settled. It’s not! The Celtics came into...
Late Michigan Surge Ends Loyola-Chicago's Heroic Cinderella Run
For a good 30-plus minutes Saturday night it looked like the unlikely tournament run of 11th-seed Loyola-Chicago would live on. The Ramblers had a seven-point lead at halftime; that lead would grow to 10 points early in the second half, and stood as high as eight points at the 11:25 mark. From that ...
Teaira McCowan Is The Most Undeniable Player In Women's College Basketball<em></em>
COLUMBUS, OH — When Teaira McCowan grabbed her 23rd rebound of Mississippi State’s semifinal win over Louisville on Friday night, she just kept coming down with it—all the way to the floor. That’s a long way down for McCowan, who stands a muscular 6'7", but she wasn’t going to let this rebound get a...
Let Us Gawk Together At This Gorgeous Game-Tying Driving Bucket From Nuggets-Thunder
The playoff hopes of the Denver Nuggets are probably cooked. They’re two back of the Pelicans with just six games left to play, and they’d dropped four of six coming into Friday night’s game in Oklahoma City. Realistically, losing that incredible stinker in Memphis on March 17 was probably the point...
Kevin Durant To Referee: "Call The Fucking Foul You Bitch-Ass Motherfucker"
Kevin Durant was ejected just before halftime during last night’s game against the Bucks. It was his fifth ejection of the season, and based on audio captured by the TNT broadcast, he prooooobably deserved it....
Robin Lopez Gets Ejected, Flips The Hell Out On His Way Off The Court
I’m not sure exactly what Robin Lopez is saying in this little tirade here—there are clearly several fuck yous, maybe what looks like an instance of bullshit, and some other stuff, all accompanied by very emphatic finger-jabbing—but he was very clearly pissed: ...
Jaylen Brown Gets Shorthanded Celtics Victory Over Jazz With Sweet Game-Winning Three
The Celtics were short-staffed against the Jazz tonight—no Kyrie, no Al Horford, no Marcus Morris, no Marcus Smart, and as always, no Gordon Hayward—but Jaylen Brown did enough to make sure that it wasn’t a problem. Ultimately leading the team in scoring with 21 points, he delivered the game-winning...
Lame Foul Call Denies Killer LeBron Slam
In a cruel showcase of remarkable self control, LeBron James pulled back from what would have been a pulse-pounding hardcore dunk early in his game tonight against the Hornets, working the crowd into an edge-of-their-seats heat without ever allowing them release. All because of a dumb foul....
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Markelle Fultz Smacked Heads With Joel Embiid And Sent Him To The Locker Room [Update]
Sixers rookie Markelle Fultz is currently trying to transition from being an injured dude with a busted shot to an actual real-life basketball player, but it’s been a bumpy road, and it hit another hitch in the Philly game tonight....
The Raptors' Bench Is Good Enough To Kill Playoff Dreams
The Denver Nuggets came into last night’s game against the Raptors in desperate need of a win to keep their ever-shrinking playoff hopes alive. Beating the best team in the Eastern Conference on the second night of a back-to-back isn’t the easiest proposition, but these sorts of games do present a p...
Kings Close Arena Again Due To Protests Over Fatal Police Shooting Of Stephon Clark
Only a few thousand fans were able to make it in the arena for the Kings’ loss to the Mavericks on Tuesday night before the building’s entrances were shut down as a “public safety measure” due to the presence of protestors, who were demonstrating in response to the fatal police shooting of Sacrament...
Now Markelle Fultz Can Begin
He wasn’t a revelation. For that matter in many ways he was pretty clunky. A handful of times last night, in his first game action since October—since some mysterious combination of shoulder injury and Steve Blass disease took away his ability to perform basketball’s most fundamental act—Markelle Fu...
Markelle Fultz Shooting Form Update: Never Mind, Shot Not Ready For Actual Game
After months of working on his completely broken shooting form—making it smoother, longer, better—Markelle Fultz was declared ready for game action and came off the bench tonight for the first time since October. Here’s how his six minutes of play in the first half went: ...
Markelle Fultz Shooting Form Update: Shot Ready For An Actual Game
Over the past month, Sixers first overall pick Markelle Fultz has improved his busted-ass shooting form, not only making his shot smoother but also longer. The culmination of all that hard work came today, when the team announced Fultz will play in tonight’s game against the Nuggets. Head coach Bret...
Now Here Is A Mighty LeBron James Poster Dunk
Man, LeBron James is a damn missile. Look where he takes off for this dunk. He goes through and over Joe Harris like Harris is made of warm air:...
Truly There Is Nothing Fishy About USC Hiring The Father Of Two Top Basketball Recruits
In a move that is 100 percent about improving the coaching staff and has absolutely nothing at all to do with the fact that his sons are two of the top high school basketball players in the world, the USC Trojans have added AAU coach Eric Mobley to their men’s basketball coaching staff....
Should The Sixers Just Shut Markelle Fultz Down For The Rest Of This Season?
It is now March 25; the Philadelphia 76ers have 10 games left in what has been a smashing success of a regular season; and we are still getting vague, noncommittal updates on the playing status of young Markelle Fultz. This comes via the Associated Press:...