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Allen Iverson Finally Obeys Laws Of Nature, Officially Retires
Allen Iverson made his retirement official today, even though it's hard to know how, exactly, to define such a thing for him. Iverson, now 38, was never a professional basketball player so much as he was, foremost, an object in motion, tending always to stay in motion. If Iverson can be said to reti...
Drake And These Violins Want You To Be Excited About The Raptors
Drake is the new global ambassador for the Toronto Raptors, and he's here to get everyone hyped about the upcoming NBA season in Toronto. He will do this by wearing a very nice suit and sitting in front a lens flare while saying things like, "It's our time."...
Watch Iman Shumpert Get A Very Somber Haircut
Iman Shumpert shaved off his signature flat top a few weeks ago, and everyone was kind of bummed about it. But nobody took the event more seriously that Shumpert himself, as evidenced by the extremely earnest vignette above....
How Many NBA Name Drops Can You Pick Out In This Song?
Here is "Jumpin' Out The Gym," a song from Migos, Riff Raff, and Trinidad James. Not only does the new video (which you can watch here, it's not embeddable) feature tons of NBA highlights, the song itself is littered with NBA name drops. See how many you can pick out!...
Chris Bosh Is Getting Ornery For Some Reason
The NBA season starts tonight, so journalistic outlets the world over are publishing stories on the Miami Heat, because last year they repeated as champions, and this year they could three-peat as champions, and LeBron James and Michael Jordan and legacy and narrative. ...
NBA Stat Guru Kevin Pelton On Greg Oden, The Fraudulent Knicks, And More
Kevin Pelton is one of the smartest guys covering the NBA, and his SCHOENE projection system is one of the best predictive tools in NBA analytics. He was nice enough to answer a few questions about the upcoming NBA season....
Sorta Photogenic Man Plays Basketball On Ridiculously Photogenic Donkey
After seeing the photo of Cam McDaniel, the ridiculously photogenic running back, I was reminded of a picture of my friend Jonathan from earlier this year. Here he is, holding a basketball while riding a donkey in a gym. No context is really needed. Look at that ridiculously photogenic donkey, thou...
NBA 2K14 Is So Realistic That It Features Failed High Fives
A Reddit user spotted this bit of inspired game action while playing NBA 2K14. Never has a video game felt more realistic....
This Cavaliers Fan Turned His Beard Into A Basketball Hoop
This is Gary from Cincinnati, whom we've met before. He was spotted at last night's Cavaliers game, sporting his latest beard modification and some cool wristbands. Looking good, Gary....
Woody On the Pleasures of Basketball
I was All-Schoolyard, tell her, Max....
Dwyane Wade Is Very Afraid Of Birds
Dwyane Wade doesn't like birds, so sometimes he sits outside his house and yells at birds. Stupid birds....
Kevin Love Wins White Guy Award From NBA Executives
The NBA season is right around the corner, and you know what that means: Time for another preseason survey in which the league's 30 general managers answer various questions of varying degrees of inanity. You'll note that, way down at the bottom, the NBA asks an especially weird one:...
You Know He's Going To Try, But Should Kobe Save The Lakers?
So... we would be remiss if we didn't note at some point before opening night how bad the Los Angeles Lakers are, or at least appear to be....
The Milwaukee Bucks Made A Starbucks Drake Hands Video
I don't know if the #StarbucksDrakeHands thing is officially stale and unfunny yet, but this made me laugh. Ersan Ilyasova really steals the show....
The Playmaker Gives Up The Ball
Paul Solotaroff profiles Jason Kidd in the latest issue of Men's Journal:...
GQ
Up North Trips gives us some of GQ's basketball covers. I remember most of these issues well—from our man Peter Richmond's heyday at the magazine. ...
20 Minutes At Rucker Park
Nice piece by Flinder Boyd over at SB Nation Longform. ...
Kareem As A Young Man
From Independent History dig this classic photograph of Lew Alcindor by Richard Avedon. ...
Manu Ginobili's Contract Got Lost In A Bird Attack
The New York Times has a story about the San Antonio Spurs' legacy of fostering foreign talent, and it contains a wonderful anecdote about an offseason mishap in Argentina involving Manu Ginobili's contract, a frightened intern, and an angry bird....
Nick Young Takes Video Selfie While Crashing His Toboggan
The Los Angeles Lakers' Chinese tobogganing trip is the gift that keeps on giving. First, it allowed us to laugh at Chris Kaman's account of the very real dangers that come with tobogganing down the Great Wall of China, and now it's given us an even greater gift: Nick Young filming himself as he los...