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Charles Oakley Says NBA Now Hard To Watch; Universe Dies Of Irony
Charles Oakley, a slick passer and midrange jump-shooting specialist who nevertheless is talked about (by himself and others) as though he were the NBA's Cosa Nostra liaison and carried a goddamn shiv in his sock, tells Canadian media* that he isn't super keen on today's NBA. "It's hard to watch," ...
Boogie Cousins And John Wall Put On A Show; Some Team Also Won I Guess
A point guard and a center generally can't duel in the way we usually think of players dueling—directly, one-on-one, attacking each other at both ends. Apart from the occasional defensive switch or confrontation at the rim, they'll mostly compete from a distance, and indirectly, via their teams an...
Read The Bullshit Charts A "Scientist" Is Hawking To Sports Teams
Every team wants the perfect draft pick. It's a deceptively simple-sounding goal that haunts every executive in sports, because they are being asked to do the nearly impossible—predict what human beings will do. Sure, every few years a player like Andrew Luck or Bryce Harper comes along who simply...
Chris Paul Will Help You Clown Yourself
Last night, in Oklahoma City, Chris Paul turned the Thunder into a Swiffer. Attach all the necessary caveats to that, of course—it's just one game; the Thunder were without Kevin Durant and the helpful version of Serge Ibaka who used to exist before somebody decided he needed to become Walt Willi...
High School Player Throws Behind-The-Back Alley-Oop From Half Court
Jalen Adams is one of the best high school basketball players in the country, and next year he'll be playing for UConn. In a recent game, he threw an alley-oop pass behind his back—from half court....
Oblivious Fan Gets Walloped In The Face By The Basketball
It is not baseball where a foul-tipped fastball can smoke you in the face and do serious damage, but you've still got to pay attention when you're sitting in the first couple of rows at a basketball game, especially when Lance Stephenson is on the court. That's the lesson this woman learned when she...
In The 1930s, Every Basketball Player Shot Like J.R. Smith
Today, the Illinois High School Association uploaded this here YouTube video of footage from the Illinois state basketball tournaments. Kinda cool. Now the wrinkle: the footage is from the Great Depression....
Dwyane Wade Sounds Pretty Fed Up With Hassan Whiteside
Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside was ejected from last night's game against the Celtics after plowing straight through Celtics center Kelly Olynyk for no good reason, earning himself a one-game suspension. After the game, Dwyane Wade sounded like a man who is losing patience with Whiteside:...
BYU's Kyle Collinsworth Throws Assist Through Teammate's Legs
BYU beat Portland 84-70 tonight to advance to the WCC Tournament finals, and the star of the show was Kyle Collinsworth. With a line of 13 points, 14 rebounds, and 11 assists, Collinsworth picked up the sixth triple-double of his career, tying the NCAA record for most career triple-doubles held by s...
Hassan Whiteside Ejected After Absolutely Trucking Kelly Olynyk
For the second time in a week, Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside has gotten himself ejected from a game. In the third quarter against the Celtics tonight, Whiteside rammed over Kelly Olynyk, with seemingly no provocation besides the usual amount of contact between big men that had been going on all...
Your Best Stories About Getting Dunked On Like The Losers You Are
We asked you to give us your best stories of getting dunked on and tales of dunking on people, but the former had funnier returns. There were many nuts—some from famous athletes!—in many faces. Here are some of our favorites, in no particular order....
Maybe Tony Parker And The Spurs Aren't Dead Yet
We've all looked foolish for the Is the sun finally setting on San Antonio? thing so many years in a row now that there's an invisible phone book-sized volume of hedges and mealymouthed qualifications and built-in escape routes affixed to the front of each new iteration of it. You just nod in its d...
Have You Been Dunked On, Or Have You Dunked On Someone?
There's a funny post at SB Nation about the experience of getting dunked on by someone (wearing sandals). Obviously, it's not fun. Everyone gets to shame you, and you're basically hoping someone puts the ball in play as soon as possible so you can try and regain your pride. The description of the co...
Steph Curry Is Beyond Reproach
Steph Curry’s statistical output from his last two games isn’t anything to freak out over—22 points and seven assists against Dallas on Friday, followed by 12 points in four assists against the Clips on Sunday—but in each of those games he made plays that should have led anyone who saw them to one c...
Man Crossed Over So Hard His Teammate Feels It
We've covered the exploits of the streetballer known as Hot Sauce before, and judging from this recent clip, he clearly hasn't lost his touch at hitting defenders with mean crossovers. That crossover was so vicious, the poor kid's teammate felt it. Look at him fall over!...
Oklahoma Tops Kansas On Last Second, High-Flying Tip-In
Kansas already clinched their 11th straight Big 12 regular season title, but they could've done without this gut punch from Oklahoma on the final day of the regular season. Oklahoma dumbly fouled Frank Mason III on a three-point attempt with five seconds left, and he made all three free throws to ...
No Big Deal, Just Stephen Curry Dishing Another Unbelievable Pass
Stephen Curry completes passes that nobody else even thinks of. A fake behind-the-back to offhand wraparound pass isn't something you see every day, or any day. Watch Draymond Green sitting on the three-point line and Klay Thompson diving into the paint behind a ball-watching Monta Ellis, and on a...
Let's All Be More Like This Large Fellow Who Slapped Joakim Noah's Ass
You might be tempted to call E'Twaun Moore's game-winning three the highlight of last night's contest between the Thunder and Bulls, but I submit that the night's truly transcendent moment occurred on the ensuing possession, when a portly Bulls fan lost all notion of etiquette and got himself a big ...
Wesley Matthews Tears Achilles, Will Miss Rest Of Season
Wesley Matthews went down on a non-contact play during tonight’s Blazers-Mavericks match-up, and the worst possible scenario has come true, with the Blazers confirming Adrian Wojnarowski’s original report of a torn Achilles tendon:...