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Kobe Bryant Won't Apologize For His Contract, And He Shouldn't
Kobe Bryant has heard all the criticism that has been lobbed in his direction since he signed a $48.5 million contract extension with the Lakers. "Selfish," they called him, pointing out how his giant contract will limit the Lakers in free agency. Kobe Bryant thinks that all his critics can go ahead...

Mizzou's Cheering Section Gets Kicked Out Of Two Games For Being Awful
Mizzou basketball games have long been attended by a student cheering section known as the Antlers, and it is a cheering section that is apparently full of huge dick heads. The entire section has been kicked out of two games this year by university police, and the school's athletic department just r...

Coaches: High School And Its 20-Year-Old Star "Stole" D.C. Hoops Title
Long after the credits should have rolled in the soap opera that was Junior Etou's high school basketball career, we have a plot twist....

Supernat & Smif n Wessun: New York Knicks Freestyle
Via the always-fun Up North Trips, let's go back to the grimey mid-'90s....

Here's Sad Derrick Rose's First Sad Post-Surgery Photo
Welcome back, Sad Derrick Rose. We didn't miss you....

Kobe Bryant Signs Two-Year Extension, Will Be NBA's Highest-Paid Player
It looks like Kobe Bryant is going to be a Laker for life. Making a move that nobody was really expecting, the Lakers just announced that they have signed Bryant to a two-year extension, and he didn't come cheap....

Kirk Hinrich Has A Great Time Wrestling With Nate Robinson
Just more proof that basketball is always more fun when Nate Robinson is involved....

Shirtless, Slurring Lamar Odom Freestyle Raps In Sad Video
Here's some shit that will bum you out. According to TMZ, this video of a shirtless and fucked-up-on-something Lamar Odom freestyle rapping with some other dude was shot sometime in the last month. If that's true, it doesn't look like Odom's recovery from substance abuse issues is going too well....

Monta Ellis Is Great Now. What The Hell Happened?
If you haven't been paying close attention to the Dallas Mavericks this year, you may not have noticed that Monta Ellis, the guy who has spent most of his career acting as the poster boy for inefficiency in the NBA, is having the best season of his career. His PER and true shooting percentage are cu...

Rachel Nichols Breaks News Of Lenny Cooke's Death. (He Is Not Dead.)
Poor Lenny Cooke. The high-school-basketball-legend-turned-tragic-washout got a shout out on TNT's NBA broadcast last night when Rachel Nichols mentioned that Joakim Noah recently helped produce a documentary about Cooke's too-much-too-soon cautionary tale. Unfortunately for Cooke, Nichols teased t...

Dwight Howard Got Owned By A Heckler Last Night
A fun thing happened during last night's Rockets-Mavericks game. Late in the fourth quarter, Dwight Howard got heckled by a very angry man who may or may not have been an extra in Wayne's World 2, and Howard responded by tossing the ball at the heckler....

Here's Pete Maravich Giving Alabama Fans The Double Bird
According to the Reddit user who uploaded this wonderful GIF, this is Pistol Pete unloading both barrels on the Alabama student section after a game in 1970. They probably deserved it....

College Basketball Can't Handle Jabari Parker
Just five games into his college career, it's already frighteningly obvious that Duke freshman Jabari Parker is different from you, me, his teammates, his opponents, and every other college player in the country....

Rajon Rondo Examines Stat Sheet, Does Not Like What He Sees
The Celtics got trounced by the Rockets last night. I could reel off a bunch of stats that demonstrate just how bad of a beating they received, or I could just show you this clip of Rajon Rondo examining a stat sheet during the game. ...

Jabari Parker Throws Down Awesome Coast-To-Coast Dunk
Jabari Parker finished last night's game against East Carolina with 21 points, nine rebounds, and six blocks. If you want to see all of the awesome shit Parker did while accruing those stats, watch the highlight reel above. But if you just want to see his most impressive play of the night, skip to ...

Finally, A "Keys To The Game" Segment That Makes Sense
I mean, he's not wrong....

After A Nightmare, Hoop Dreams
[TACLOBAN, Philippines—Some kids playing basketball on a makeshift hoop in a village wrecked by Typhoon Haiyan. Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images]...

Trevor Ariza Does A Pretty Damn Good R. Kelly Impression
Washington Wizards swingman Trevor Ariza recently had some free time on his hands. Like any bored person does, Ariza decided to entertain himself by dressing up like R. Kelly and making a few videos of himself lip-synching to one of Kelly's songs....
