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This Heartwarming Story About A Small-Town High School Basketball Game Will Warm Your Heart
The Oregonian just published a story (with video!) that the reporter realized wouldn't jilt the planet off its axis. The lead, after all, reads: "In a small gym in the middle of nowhere, two boys locked eyes last fall in the final seconds of a meaningless, one-sided high school basketball game." Su...
The Ball Went Into The Stands, A Fan Passed It Out To LeBron James, And LeBron Passed It Right Back To The Fan
LeBron James, who is leading the league in PER, plays in a league of two with Kevin Durant when it comes to estimated wins added, and is shooting 56% from the floor, took some time out from walloping the Clippers last night (without Ray Allen or Chris Bosh) to play catch with a fan....
John Wall Blocks Carmelo, Jukes Out Jason Kidd, Reminds Us That He's Still Very Good At Basketball
Remember when you saw a John Wall highlight reel for the first time? My first experience with him came courtesy of this mixtape from his high school days, in which Wall fast-twitches all over various high school gyms and generally looks like a space alien come to destroy our previous notions of wh...
Pau Gasol Has A Torn Plantar Fascia, Will Miss Six Weeks Of Being Included In Trade Rumors
You all won't have Pau Gasol to push around anymore. At least for the next six weeks, anyway. Gasol left last night's Lakers-Nets game after hearing a "pop" in his foot, and he has now been diagnosed with a tear in his plantar fascia....
The 10 Commandments Of Basketball Refereeing
Last week, FIBA Asia held its annual referee clinic in Singapore. Along with boring clerical matters like getting licensed, attendees also received a pen! With a roll-out scroll featuring FIBA's 10 Referee Commandments. Like Moses down from the mountain, a Reddit user has passed along the wisdom con...
Danilo Gallinari's Circus Shot Sealed A Crazy Nuggets Win
Oh you know, just your standard fast-break, flip-the-ball-behind-your-head-from-below-your-hip-while-getting-fouled layup that hits every part of the rim before gently falling through the net. Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari somehow managed to pull off this shot in the final minute of last night'...
Look At This Pathetic Baby's Terrible Shooting Form
This video has been making its way around the internet today, and everybody who watches it is like, "Awwww look at that precious little baby throwing balls into his little baby-sized basketball hoop. What a cute, talented baby that is!" Even those saps at Gawker got in on the act....
J.R. Smith Airballs A Free Throw, Crashes A Children's Basketball Game
Knicks guard J.R. Smith is a career 74 percent free-throw shooter, and his nickname is "J.R. Swish." So, he's not the player you would expect to airball a free throw, and yet that's exactly what Smith did during the second quarter last night's Pistons-Knicks game. Everyone found the moment to be r...
FIBA: No, D.C. High School Basketball Star Junior Etou Really Is 20 Years Old. It Says So On His Birth Certificate.
In response to our report that its newest basketball star will turn 21 years old this year, Bishop O'Connell High School is standing by its, um, man. But that support's not making Junior Etou any younger in the eyes of global basketball authorities, who now say they have an "official" copy of the pl...
You Can Now Purchase Classic NBA Games On iTunes
Well, this is pretty goddamn cool. The NBA has made ten classic games available for purchase on iTunes. You can now download and watch Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's first game, Game 7 of the 1987 Eastern Conference Finals, and Game 1 of the 1997 finals as many times as you want. And the best part is that ...
Duke Fan Writes Unbearably Condescending Letter After Being Harassed At Duke-Miami Game
This letter, written for the Duke Chronicle by a former Duke undergraduate and current Miami graduate student about her experience at the Duke-Miami game, is a perfect storm of insufferable behavior....
Rajon Rondo Has A Torn ACL, Will Miss The Rest Of The Season
Aw, fuck. During the Heat-Celtics game on ABC, Doris Burke reported that Rajon Rondo, the heart and soul of an already struggling Boston team, is out for the season with a torn ACL. Rondo played 45 minutes and had a triple-double during the Celtics' Friday night game against the Hawks. In his absen...
Chris Bosh Says He's A Lock For The Hall Of Fame, And He's Not Too Far Off
A couple of days ago, Chris Bosh told Fox Sports that he feels good about his chances of making the Hall of Fame:...
This Fan Getting Hugtackled By LeBron James After Hitting A Half-Court Hook Shot Is The Greatest Thing Ever
During tonight's Pistons-Heat game, one lucky fan got the opportunity to shoot a half-court hook shot for $75,000. By some miracle, the shot went in, and nobody found themselves more excited about that fact than LeBron James, who rushed onto the court and leaped onto our cargo-shorted hero in a di...
JaVale McGee Throws Himself An Alley-Oop, Dons A Celebratory Fingerstache
JaVale McGee continues to be a delight. A normal basketball player, after fooling Omer Asik with a savvy pump fake, would have finished this play with a simple step-through move and a gentle layup. But JaVale McGee is not a normal basketball player, and so the fact that he decided to throw himself...
Watch Glen Davis Interrogate A Frightened Rookie About A Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwich
NBA hazing rituals will always be a tremendous source of entertainment. I may or may not have watched Delonte West tell J.J. Hickson, "I don't care if you gotta fly! Trains, planes, or automobiles: you better have my do-nuts!" over 100 times in my life....
The Lakers Are Terrible, And Kobe Bryant Is Starting To Lose It
Here is the lede from Adrian Wojnarowski's story on last night's Lakers-Bulls game, which ended in a 95-83 victory for the Bulls:...
D.C.'s Newest High School Basketball Star Will Turn 21 This Year, According To FIBA
Another birther movement burgeons on the shores of the Potomac. It kicked up last week, in the wake of Bishop O'Connell's 68-48 rout of DeMatha, for decades the touchstone hoops program in the nation's capital. ...
Incredibly British Recap Of Knicks-Pistons Game In London Frets About "Jaunty Accordion Music" Playing Over The P.A.
The Knicks and Pistons played a basketball game in London this past Thursday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, which is among the reasons you likely did not know about it. David Stern has been talking for some time about putting an NBA team in London permanently—multiple teams in Europe within the nex...
High School Hoops Coach Fired After Telling Player To Flatten Opposing Coach
On Monday night, a junior guard at Amherst (Mass.) Regional High School twice ran full speed into the other team's coach, South Hadley's Jeff Guiel, knocking him to the ground. (One of those shoves can be seen below.) That player, Tyrell Jackson, was suspended indefinitely—but he and five teammates ...