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It's Only The Preseason, But Jeremy Evans Put Together As Great A Basketball Sequence As You'll See All Year
You may remember Utah Jazz forward Jeremy Evans from last season's dunk contest. He's the guy who jumped over Gordon Hayward and dunked two balls at the same time....
Deadspin NBA Shit List: Nick Young, Who Is The Devil
A celebration of the NBA's most infuriating players, both past and present. Read other NBA Shit List entries here....
Kentucky Basketball Spent Just About As Much Money Lighting A Basketball Pep Rally As It Does On Football Recruiting
On Friday John Calipari and company kicked off the start of the college basketball season with their version of Midnight Madness, Big Blue Madness. Kentucky is coming off a National Championship-winning year so they're allowed to get a little nuts. We're talking hip-hop music nuts....
Several Fights Broke Out And A Man Was Stabbed During The First Syracuse Basketball Practice Of The Season
Orange Madness, the Syracuse version of the Midnight Madness events that take place all over the country on the first day of basketball practices, devolved into chaos around the periphery of the Carrier Dome last night. Syracuse security told reporters that multiple scuffles broke out around concess...
Student Reporters: Did A College Coach Ever Treat You Like Shit? Let Us Know.
We told you the other day about Charlie Weis, who flipped his shit over the coverage of his mighty Kansas Jayhawks in KU's student newspaper. A flack followed up with some passive-aggressive crypto-bullying of a student reporter. By all indications, going back to his time at Notre Dame, this is how ...
Tracy McGrady Is Going To Play Basketball In China
Unable to find an NBA team to sign with for the upcoming season, Tracy McGrady is going overseas to play basketball. The former star will join the Qingdao Eagles of the Chinese Basketball Association, immediately making him one of the biggest stars in China. He's on a one-year contract, and Chinese...
Manute Bol's Son Is 6'5" And In Seventh Grade
When basketball legend Manute Bol passed away in 2010, he left behind 10 children. Bol Bol, one of his sons, is in seventh grade and already 6'5". And yes, he plays basketball. In the above video from a recent camp in Indianapolis, the gangly Bol resembles a middle-school version of his father. Cons...
Here Is Your Rasheed Wallace Being Hilarious At Knicks Camp Update: "Get In, Girl!"
Training camp continued today for the New York Knicks, which means that Rasheed Wallace had another opportunity to be crazy and hilarious....
Rockets Rookie Wants To Ride The Team Bus To Away Games
Royce White, the Houston Rockets' first-round draft pick, has struggled with anxiety disorder his entire life. Among other things, White is prone to panic attacks and harbors an immense fear of flying. It's tough to be an NBA player if one can't fly....
The New York Knicks' Sad Media Day In 10 Tweets And One GIF
Thanks to Twitter, NBA fans can now get up-to-the-second quotes and information from the various beat writers who cover their favorite team. That's not necessarily a good thing for Knicks fans, though, as is evidenced by the tweets coming out of the team's media day today....
Watch A Little Person Shake A Defender Out Of His Shoes In A Streetball League In Venice
This is Jamani Swanson and he plays in the Venice Basketball League, a league that "combin[es] the hardcore reality of the outdoor street basketball lifestyle with the glamour and glory of a professional league." He is also a little person....
Let's Take A Minute To Remember That The 76ers Part-Owner Is Really Into Crazy Orgies
I mean, who isn't, but: when that video of Romney saying bad stuff to potential donors came out last week, the story birthed other, related stories. A few of those other stories were about Marc J. Leder, the guy who offered up his house for the infamous fundraiser....
Lance Thomas Settled His Lawsuit, So You Can Probably Forget Any Improper Benefits Scandal At Duke
Remember two weeks ago, when we heard about Lance Thomas having defaulted on a loan meant to pay for $97,000 worth of jewelry, and we got all excited and wrote this?...
Kentucky Freshman Misses Dunk In Most Farcical Way Possible
Nerlens Noel is the prized pupil in John Calipari's newest crop of one-year athlete-students. Last night, Noel and a few other Wildcats players swung by the area where hundreds of fans had camped out for tickets to Big Blue Madness. They even played some pickup with a few children, at least until ...
Four LIU Brooklyn Basketball Players Suspended After Fight On Campus
Four Long Island University (Brooklyn) basketball players were arrested yesterday in connection with a Sept. 14 brawl that involved three other men and two women....
Billy Gillispie Has Resigned As Texas Tech's Basketball Coach
You already knew he wouldn't be back, and now the official word out of Lubbock is that Gillispie—recently hospitalized for high blood pressure and stress—wants to focus on his health. The Red Raiders went 1-17 in the Big 12 in his lone season in charge (two years removed from his spectacular flameou...
Watch A Kentucky Student Do The World's Worst Job Of Pitching A Tent
Every year, UK students camp outside Memorial Coliseum in Lexington for a chance at tickets to Big Blue Madness, the introduction ceremony for the Wildcats' men's and women's basketball teams. (It can get violent—Kentucky stations medical personnel at the race to the campsite—and that all this is ...
(Unofficial) Glory Days: 2 Chainz Could Dunk In High School, Played AAU Against Matt Harpring And Shareef Abdur-Rahim
This video, dug up by ESPN, shows 2 Chainz (your favorite rapper's favorite rapper), then just Tauheed Epps, looking not unlike the 2 Chainz of today, balling all over the crosstown kids from Banneker. He sinks a three, he throws down a nasty dunk (after the buzzer, obviously), he shimmies triumph...
Jim Calhoun Is Gone And UCONN Basketball May Follow Him Out The Door
The state of Connecticut's highest paid employee announced his retirement on Wednesday: The press and other members of the college basketball world greeted Jim Calhoun's retirement from UCONN basketball (after 26 years and national championships in 1999, 2004 and 2011) with, mostly, a predictable wh...