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The Knicks Made Carmelo Anthony Apologize For The Dumbest Thing
Ah yes, we’re finally right back where we belong, in a world where the New York Knicks aren’t a surprising feel-good story, but a bumbling franchise that specializes in pulling bad PR out of thin air. I’m actually surprised it took us this long to get back here....
Let's Throw Some Ideas For Stopping Steph Curry Against The Wall!
After the Warriors stormed back to defeat the Thunder 121-118 in overtime on Saturday night to improve to 53-5 (16-0 against the top 10 teams in the NBA), and with NBA legend Oscar Robertson’s grousing fresh in everybody’s minds, our Kevin Draper and Albert Burneko exchanged some emails about how to...
Washington, D.C. Makes Sure No Billionaire Sports Team Owner Is Left Behind
On February 18, construction crews began knocking down sections of St. Elizabeth’s, the Washington, D.C. psychiatric hospital famous for having housed, among others, John Hinckley, Josh Gibson. and the Shotgun Stalker. Mayor Muriel Bowser got in an excavator to kick off the demolition of Buildings #...
Some Top Notch Free Throw Distractors Worked The Rockets Game Tonight
I don’t know what to say about all these women attempting to distract Pelicans free throw shooters in Houston tonight, except that they’re certainly committed to their craft. I mean, for the above screenshotted gag, they got two children(?) to play Thing 1 and Thing 2 to accompany their sexy Cat in ...
Small Child Cooks Kristaps Porzingis, Eats Him, Dabs
Knicks rookie Kristaps Porzingis had to go to some promotional event today and entertain some jamokes with a few half-hearted games of 1-on-1. He probably should have taken this kid a bit more seriously:...
Draymond Green Proves That Steals Can Be Highlights
Draymond Green had a big game last night, helping the Steph Curry-less Warriors scratch out an overtime win against the Hawks. He swelled the box score as usual, finishing with 15 points, 13 rebounds, 9 assists and four steals. He also hit an absurd shot in the final minute of OT to help put the gam...
Kevin Garnett Tells Eric Gordon Exactly What He Thinks Of Him
Kevin Garnett may not have been fit enough to play in Saturday’s game against the Pelicans, but he still came to arena ready to talk some shit. That’s because KG is always ready to talk some shit....
D'Angelo Russell Caps Career Night By Pointing Out The Ice In His Veins
There’s still a decent chunk of games left in the NBA season, but I feel pretty comfortable naming Lakers rookie D’Angelo Russell’s swaggering reaction to his clutch three the winner of the 2015-16 Feeling Yourself Award. (Sorry, Evan Turner. Better luck next year.)...
Oklahoma City Thunder Part-Owner Indicted For Bid-Rigging Oil And Gas Land Leases
Oklahoma City Thunder part-owner Aubrey McClendon—who owns 20 percent of the team and was part of the group that bought the then-Seattle SuperSonics from Howard Schultz and moved them to Oklahoma City—was charged today by the Justice Department with violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. Each charge c...
Carmelo Anthony Rejected, Thrown To The Floor By The Rim
After the whistle had blown, too. Even no knee cartilage-havin’ Amar’e Stoudemire has a higher vertical than this....
This Rick Reilly Thing Sucks So Much
Last we heard from Rick Reilly, he was retiring to Italy after ESPN finally got tired of him recycling his own material. So what happens when you give an old sportswriter who perfected the art of mailing it in a shot at a Sports Illustrated cover story? You get this pile of shit....
Steve Ballmer Trampoline Dunk? Steve Ballmer Trampoline Dunk.
The Los Angeles Clippers unveiled a new mascot during halftime of their game against the Nets, and for some reason they went with a condor that looks suspiciously like a toucan. Vince Staples, your thoughts?...
Everybody's Mad At The Heat For How They Got Under The Luxury Tax Threshold
After the Brooklyn Nets bought out the rest of Joe Johnson’s contract, the Miami Heat quickly moved to sign him. While Johnson will probably help the Heat out on the court, signing him barely put the Heat over the luxury tax threshold....
Gus Johnson Says Dwight Howard Told Him He Almost Ended Up In Milwaukee
Dwight Howard was much closer to being traded at the deadline than previously reported, according to a probably reliable source: Dwight Howard....
Don't Count Your Game-Winners Before The Buzzer Buzzes
You know that thing where a team recovers possession with time running out and thinks it has the game won, so a player hurls the ball up into the air in celebration even before the buzzer sounds? The video above is the cautionary tale: make sure that ball doesn’t come down with time left....
Sergio Llull Swishes Buzzer-Beater From The Opposite Three-Point Line
Sergio Llull was drafted by the Nuggets in 2009, but he’s stayed in Spain his entire career. Last year’s ACB Finals MVP nailed one of the longest buzzer-beaters we’ve seen all year today, giving Real Madrid the win over Valencia by a point, right after Valencia hit a kinda-sorta buzzer-beater of the...
This Pass From Isaiah Whitehead Is Extremely Good And Cool
Okay, so it’s not as good as Isaiah Thomas’s dime, which I still can’t wrap my head around, but this is still pretty cool. ...
James Harden Saved The Day
Time zones are weird. Here on the East Coast, the Houston Rockets had a really, really lousy February 25th, and it was all James Harden’s fault; on the West Coast, it turned out okay, all thanks to James Harden....
Rockets CEO Denies That His Team Is A Big Fucking Mess
Despite getting a nice win over the Blazers and a superstar performance out of James Harden last night, the 29-29 Houston Rockets are still in a bad place. They failed to trade Dwight Howard, the one deadline deal they did pull off fell apart because of a failed physical, and now it’s been reported ...
The Warriors Are The Best Team Ever, And They Can Eat Shit
Earlier today in Deadspin’s staff chat room, our editor Tim Marchman and I floated the idea of a “Fuck The Warriors” post, which would fully acknowledge everything great and fun and astonishing about these Golden State Warriors but also air out the completely irrational hatred he and I both feel tow...