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Carmelo Anthony After Russell Westbrook's Ejection: "I'm Done With The Refs"
Russell Westbrook got ejected from Monday’s Kings-Thunder game with just one very sudden traveling call. With under three minutes to go in the game, Westbrook drove and thought he got fouled. He went down holding his face, but only drew the traveling violation from referee Matt Boland. When Westbroo...
The Warriors Still Look Unstoppable
For the second time this season, a Cavs-Warriors holiday game didn’t give much hope that any team but Golden State could win the NBA title this year. Playing in Ohio for their final scheduled meeting with the Cavs this season, the Warriors calmly took care of a Cleveland team that put up perhaps the...
De'Aaron Fox Goes Coast-To-Coast In 4.4 Seconds
In this highlight, De’Aaron Fox receives the inbounds pass under his own basket with 13.3 remaining in the first half. With 8.9 seconds to play, he has already dunked it....
Ben Simmons And Kyle Lowry Plan To Meet In Tunnel After Ejections, Deny Any Actual Meeting
Ben Simmons and Kyle Lowry were both ejected with less than 10 seconds to go in today’s Raptors-Sixers game. At least on the court, the “incident” looked like a whole lot of nothing, but a little gesture from Simmons as the two went off made it seem like he and Lowry were going to finish their chat ...
Brett Brown Is As Perplexed By Markelle Fultz's Shot As You Are
The fog surrounding Markelle Fultz and his possibly injured shoulder and definitely broken jumper has started to lift, and the Sixers are now beginning to admit that everyone’s worst fear has come true: Markelle Fultz is healthy, but he still cannot shoot a basketball properly....
Sleepy DeMarcus Cousins Pays Dearly For Passing Ball To Wrong Team
In the opening minutes of today’s Knicks-Pelicans tilt DeMarcus Cousins found himself in an awkward spot, loading up a pass to teammate Anthony Davis just as Davis shifted inside, and as defenders Enes Kanter and Kristaps Porzingis closed in to deny the action. Sunday afternoon basketball is sometim...
Markelle Fultz's Shoulder Is Healed But His Jumper Is Just As Busted As Ever
We’re at the point, now, where practice court videos of a close-to-healthy Markelle Fultz taking unbearably bad-looking jumpers are just sad and infuriating. What the fuck happened? Who did this? Who can I yell at, right now, about what has happened. Anyway, God, look at this:...
Knicks Point Guard Options Are Somehow Getting Even More Depressing
A lingering sore spot for your New York Knicks, who’ve spent most of the last month sucking and losing, is point guard: Frank Ntilikina might one day be the answer at the NBA’s most important position, but right now he’s a wildly inefficient offensive player playing backup minutes behind, of all peo...
Trae Young Buried TCU Under A Barrage Of Insane Three-Pointers
Trae Young rules. He leads all of NCAA Division 1 basketball in both scoring and assists, and his 9th-ranked Sooners lead the nation in points per game. Back in mid-December, Young, a freshman playing in his 10th official college game, tied an all-time record when he dished 22 assists in 29 minutes,...
Now The Doomed Clippers Are Missing The Indestructible DeAndre Jordan
DeAndre Jordan hasn’t missed a game due to injury in his entire 10-year NBA career, a pretty remarkable streak for anyone, let alone a gigantic behemoth of a man. That streak has now ended: Jordan suffered an extremely nasty-looking ankle injury Thursday night against the Kings, and is not playing i...
Lance Stephenson Is A Marvelous Weirdo And LeBron Absolutely Hates Him
Because it’s hilarious and wonderful, here is bonafide NBA weirdo Lance Stephenson zipping a sweet pass inside and also seeming to get stung in the face by a bee, at the same time:...
Illinois High School Rivalry Game Ends On Delicious Game-Winning Buzzer-Beater
You like buzzer-beaters. Of course you do. Last night, in a rivalry game between St. Charles East and St. Charles North, in, umm, St. Charles, Illinois, East came back from a 12 point deficit to tie the game at 47 with just over a minute remaining. The teams traded buckets and free throws over the n...
Gregg Popovich: LaMarcus Aldridge Asked To Be Traded This Summer, But We're Cool Now
Spurs big man LaMarcus Aldridge is having perhaps the most efficient season of his career while standing in for Kawhi Leonard as San Antonio’s main dude. While the Warriors and Rockets are in an arms race to see who can shoot 100 threes in a game first, the Spurs are sneakily right there in the mix ...
Hornets Coach Steve Clifford To Return To Team After Spending Month Away For Health
Charlotte Hornets head coach Steve Clifford will return to the team next week after spending more than a month away with a health issue....
Live Dog Mascot Runs Over Women's College Basketball Player During Game<em></em>
The first quarter of Wednesday’s women’s college basketball game between Drew University (N.J.) and Moravian College (Penn.) ended bizarrely when one of Moravian’s live greyhound mascots had a run-in with a Drew player. It’s hard to be more specific beyond a “run-in,” because it happened away from t...
Lauri Markkanen Beat Kristaps Porzingis At His Own Game
Remember the end of the last Knicks season, when Phil Jackson, having totally alienated and depressed the trade value of Carmelo Anthony, hinted that he might go full demon and undo the only good thing he’d ever done, drafting Kristaps Porzingis? Remember when he reportedly wanted to dangle him for ...
We Got Some Extremely Lame Pac-12 Coach Beef
Colorado Buffaloes men’s basketball is about as mediocre this year as it is almost every year, but on Saturday, their home win against Arizona had coach Tad Boyle feeling a little bit cocky:...