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The Thunder Gave Kevin Durant's Old Number To An Undrafted Rookie
P.J. Dozier, an undrafted rookie who signed with the Oklahoma City Thunder yesterday and will be wearing the No. 35 jersey for as long as he is with the team, told reporters that his choice in jersey number had nothing to do with Kevin Durant, who wore No. 35 for nine years in Oklahoma City before l...
Golden State Warriors Fall To Last Place In Western Conference<em></em>
After officials waved off an apparent Kevin Durant buzzer beater upon further review, the Golden State Warriors fell to 0-1 on opening night at home. They lost to the Rockets 122-121 on the occasion of their championship ring ceremony. Awwww....
Nick Young Is Already In Paradise
The Golden State Warriors were, by a mile, the best possible team for a goofy open-three shooter like Nick Young. But probably not even in Young’s wildest dreams did he know that playing for the Dubs would be so easy and fun so quickly....
A Timely Preview Of The 2017-18 NBA Season, Which I Am Now Hearing May Have Begun Already
That’s right, folks: The NBA is back, baby! Literally it is already back, literally the first game has already tipped off. Seems like a good time for a thorough and detailed season preview blog. I hope you know where to find one, because this one is some half-assed shit I just whipped up today!...
Report: Nikola Mirotić Went To Hospital After Teammate Bobby Portis Punched Him In Face
The NBA season hasn’t even started yet, and the Chicago Bulls are already falling apart. The Vertical’s Shams Charania reports that Bulls forward Bobby Portis put his teammate Nikola Mirotić in the hospital after a fight at practice....
Rick Pitino Files Federal Lawsuit Against Adidas For Emotional Distress
Rick Pitino was officially fired by Louisville and dropped by Adidas yesterday, and it took him exactly one day to file his first lawsuit. This afternoon, Pitino sued Adidas in United States District Court on grounds of intentional infliction of emotional distress, claiming that Adidas’s alleged pay...
Do Not Under Any Circumstances Bring The Following Objects To An NBA Game
It’s opening night of the NBA season! It’s time to enjoy basketball, the best sport. But if you’re planning on attending an NBA game and getting up close and personal with your favorite players, you should know what objects not to bring to the arena....
It's Not Too Early To Get Excited About Luka Dončić
Predicting how good an NBA draft class will be is a sloppy exercise, but as far as anyone can tell, the top of the 2018 NBA draft appears to be loaded. Incoming college freshmen Marvin Bagley III, Michael Porter Jr., Mohamed Bamba, and DeAndre Ayton are all considered to have star potential, yet the...
LeBron James Still Thinks About Dan Gilbert's Insane Letter
GQ has a big LeBron James feature out today, and in it the Cavs superstar is asked about the crazy letter Cavs owner Dan Gilbert wrote after James left Cleveland for Miami in 2010. Specifically, he’s asked if he believes Gilbert’s letter had racial overtones:...
Gregg Popovich Called Up Dave Zirin To Call Donald Trump A "Soulless Coward"
Gregg Popovich has never been hesitant to criticize Donald Trump when reporters ask him for his thoughts. However, in the wake of the president’s baffling claim that Barack Obama “and other presidents” never called grieving military families, Popovich, who served in the Air Force, went out of his wa...
Louisville Officially Fires Rick Pitino, Who Is Fighting Back
Making official what it set forth to do three weeks ago, the Louisville Athletic Association’s board voted unanimously on Monday to fire men’s basketball head coach Rick Pitino. Again, just to avoid any confusion, Pitino is not being fired for the other recruiting scandal, in which Louisville hired ...
Can The Knicks Defense Be Historically Bad?
A few weeks ago, while catching up on some Big Apple sports news, I came upon this incredible sentence:...
C.J. McCollum Suspended One Game For Walking A Little Bit
The Trail Blazers will be without C.J. McCollum for their season opener, and McCollum will be without a game check of $165,000. The NBA suspended Portland’s guard one game after he walked away from the bench and onto the court during Wednesday’s preseason scuffle between Caleb Swanigan and Alex Len....
Markelle Fultz Joins Anthony Bennett On A Very Troubling List
Sixers head coach Brett Brown has reportedly decided that number one overall draft pick Markelle Fultz will start the upcoming NBA season on the bench....
Dumb ESPN Analysis: Numerology Tells Us The Nuggets Are The Next NBA Dynasty
The Denver Nuggets are fun. Nikola Jokic is very good. Paul Millsap is very good. Gary Harris is pretty good. There are other guys on the Nuggets who might turn out to be pretty good. It’s entirely possible the Nuggets will find their way into a playoff spot this season, because they play a brand of...
Joel Embiid And Hassan Whiteside Appear To Not Like Each Other Very Much
Here’s a date to circle on your NBA calendar (you’ve got an NBA calendar, right? Hanging up in your bedroom? Next to the John Wall Fathead and above your candlelit John Wall shrine? Of course you do): February 2. It’s a long way off, but it is the first regular season meeting between Joel Embiid’s 7...
What In God's Holy Name Are You Blathering About, Kevin McHale?
Blathering goofus Kevin McHale waded back into the James Harden leadership beef last night, using a NBA on TNT segment to once again opine on the leadership qualities of his former star player. Watch the video below and see if you can spot the exact moment when McHale should’ve shut the hell up....
A League Apart
This piece originally appeared on Victory Journal....
N.C. State Freshman Braxton Beverly Ruled Ineligible For Going To School
After Thad Matta abruptly left Ohio State this summer, incoming freshman Braxton Beverly was granted his release by the Buckeyes and he transferred to N.C. State. The four-star point guard recruit (who once scored 70 points in a single high school game) hadn’t played for the Buckeyes or anything, an...
I Can't Stop Watching These Lovely Miloš Teodosić Passes
Maybe shaggy Serbian guard Miloš Teodosić, the Clippers’ new 30-year-old rookie, will turn out to be a matador defender. Maybe he will be an asshole who smokes clove cigarettes in the locker room and sneers at his teammates about the vulgarity of the American cinema. Maybe he will rip egg farts with...