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James Worthy Played Bass And The Minutemen's Mike Watt Has The Story To Prove It<em></em>

“Have you always been a basketball fan?” This is me, asking Mike Watt, one of my heroes, a pretty basic question. It is, if we’re being honest, a feeble softball, lobbed with all the force of an Andy Borowitz gag. This happened around noon, an hour earlier than we were supposed to begin our two-man ...

Dwight Howard Heckled By Arena Worker During Post-Game Free-Throw Practice

The hackneyed image of an NBA player taking time after an arena has emptied out to practice getting his shots up becomes a story at least once a season for teams that are failing to meet expectations, or just generally struggling. Fresh off a 115-104 home loss to the Nets that put the Wizards at 5-1...

This is a couple of weeks old, but it’s endearing: A diehard Vancouver Grizzlies fan went on a mission to find the defunct team’s reclusive center Bryant “Big Country” Reeves. Unlike a lot of quests in this vein, she actually reached a satisfying resolution. That resolution at one point includes Big...

Report: Draymond Green's Suspension Came After He Told Kevin Durant The Warriors Didn't Need Him

The Golden State Warriors decided to hand Draymond Green a one-game suspension without pay because during his argument with Kevin Durant, he invited the two-time finals MVP to leave after the season was over since the team had already won a title before Durant’s arrival, according to a report from Y...

Nikola Jokic Is Back To Taunting Defenses With Absurd Passes

Nikola Jokic has gotten his groove back since his horrendous one-shot game against the Memphis Grizzlies last week. But since his recent high-scoring outputs haven’t yielded wins for Denver, he tried his next best strategy against Atlanta: embarrassing teams with mind-bending passes. The Hawks certa...

Argentinian Basketball Broadcaster Makes "Tucker" Sound Like The Best Name In The World

San Lorenzo de Almagro took on Ferro Carril Oeste in the first leg of this quarterfinal match of the Torneo Super 20—an Argentinian preseason basketball tournament. San Lorenzo would take the win on Wednesday, 96-92, thanks to the late-game heroics of former DePaul Blue Demon, and two-time D-League ...

You Wouldn't Want To Work With Draymond Green, Either

They have been historically great for years and are, when at their unholy apex, probably the most beautiful and terrifying basketball machine ever constructed, but the Golden State Warriors are kind of a corny bunch of dudes. This is nothing on them, really: it’s not their job to be interesting, or ...

Report: The Rockets Have Stuffed Carmelo Anthony Into The Closet Behind The Vacuum Cleaner<em></em>

The Houston Rockets are unofficially done with their short-lived Carmelo Anthony experiment—everybody figured that much already. But according to Adrian Wojnarowski, it looks like Anthony’s next chapter might be a fate worse than free agency. Apparently, Melo’s going to stay on the Rockets’ roster, ...

LeBron, It Is Time To Go Full Kratos

Look, there’s no need to belabor the point here. I have great respect for your basketball mind and your body of work. You just reeled off a 44-10-9 in fucking Year 16. But it really doesn’t need to be this way. Just hear me out on this....

Most Annoying Warriors Player Says He And Second-Most Annoying Warriors Player Are Cool Now

Crap, Draymond Green and Kevin Durant have resolved their differences like adults, apparently. One day after it was revealed that Green called Durant a “bitch” a whole bunch of times and questioned him over his forthcoming free agency after he fucked up a critical possession in a loss to the Clipper...

How The Hell Did The Jazz Lose By 50 To The Mavericks?

Before the season started, the Utah Jazz were considered a lock to finish top four in the Western Conference, and many prognosticators even thought they could surpass the Rockets and finish second. Theoretically, Utah seemed likely to rip out of the gates because of continuity, some internal improve...

LeBron James Remembers How To Play Defense Long Enough To Put Nik Stauskas On The Floor<em></em>

LeBron James’s defense this season has been, let’s say, below average. The lowlights have ranged from letting Serge Ibaka blow by him, to missing his assignment entirely because he was too busy sticking his foot out while trying to stop a pass. It would have surprised no one if James had let Nik Sta...

Dwane Casey Gets His Revenge On The Raptors

With 1.2 seconds remaining in regulation, José Calderón found Reggie Bullock five feet from the basket to hit the buzzer-beating shot that gave the Pistons a 106-104 win over the Raptors. It was Dwane Casey’s first game back in Toronto since the Raptors fired him at the end of last season, and he d...

Zion Williamson Wins His Latest Battle Against Gravity<em></em>

In their first game since becoming the new No. 1-ranked team in the country, Duke wasted no time showing that their new position atop the world of college basketball was well-earned. The Blue Devils asserted their dominance the only way they knew how: an obscenely impressive highlight from the high-...

Malcolm Gladwell Goes On Bill Simmons's Podcast, Delivers Sweaty Monologue On Nigerian Basketball Superiority

Malcolm Gladwell appeared on Bill Simmons’s podcast today to advance the claim that Nigerians would be the best possible basketball team composed of members of any one race. He began by arguing that being Nigerian depended on the player’s parents’ country of origin, and then kept building from there...

D-III Basketball Player Hits Opponent With Brutal Elbow Cheap Shot [Update]

The Fitchburg State Falcons’ Kewan Platt, who was recently honored as MASCAC men’s basketball player of the week, put up 16 points, five rebounds, and four blocks in the school’s 84-75 loss to the Nichols College Bison. He also landed this disgusting elbow strike right to the face of Nichols’ Nate T...

Kevin Durant And Draymond Green Are Beefing Over A Lot More Than One Bad Possession

Quick recap: Draymond Green botched the final possession of regulation against the Clippers on Monday night, Kevin Durant yelled at him on the sideline, Green yelled back, one or both of them did some more yelling in the locker room, and Green got suspended one game for conduct detrimental to the Wa...

Report: DeAndre Jordan Isn't Making Friends In Dallas

The Mavericks finally got DeAndre Jordan this year, three years after ... well, you remember. It’s possible this was a Monkey’s Paw–type situation....

Tracy McGrady: Carmelo Anthony Should Just Retire

Soon-to-be former Rocket Carmelo Anthony missed his third straight game tonight with what the team is calling an “illness,” though he’s really been held out since a disastrous game against the Thunder because the Rockets are in the process of getting rid of him and want to save face as they unceremo...

The Warriors' Only Weakness Seems To Be Them Arguing With Each Other [Update]

Draymond Green and Kevin Durant had themselves a nice spat Monday night over some bad decision-making by Green in the final seconds of regulation, a game that the Warriors lost to the Clippers in overtime. Earlier today, ESPN’s Marc J. Spears and Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the conflict continu...