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ESPN Has Created Another Phony News Cycle Out Of Its Own Fart<em></em>“Anthony Davis trade talk is the biggest story in the NBA,” screeches the headline on this Zach Lowe article on ESPN.com. In a blog making broadly the same argument over on the Ringer, Kevin O’Connor writes that a Davis trade could cause “a seismic shift in the league,” like trades involving Wilt C...

Russell Westbrook MVP Truthers Are Truly Around The BendIf I weren’t a basketball fan—if you aren’t one right now—basketblogging, I swear, would itself be an insurmountable barrier to entry. Cricket has incomprehensible structure; baseball has interminable periods of non-action; basketball has a breathtakingly pretentious universe of bloggers and Twitte...

Answer For Your Awful Basketbloggers, Warriors FansWhat the hell am I even reading right now?...

The Best Team Had More Good Players And Won

The thing about having known for more than a calendar year how the 2017 NBA Finals would go is that by the time it actually happened, man, the Well of Takes was sending up buckets of straight-up mud. The basketblogs are bad this week, my friends! They’re bad....

Deadspin Fears The Basketblogging Horde

There is a private Slack channel that exists entirely to serve as a gallery of weak-sauce garbage takes culled from the big, bloated hellhole that is NBA basketblogging. All your favorites can be found there: Such-And-Such Good Player is Actually Bad Because Analytics; Sam Hinkie, Tragic Hero; Is Su...

NBA Players Will Vote On Their Own Awards

According to USA Today, the NBPA will vote on a series of end-of-season awards, including MVP and Man of the Year, presumably out of an abiding hatred of basketball reporters. ...

Warriors Fan With "King Slayer" Jersey Has Gone Too Far

This is all your fault, basketbloggers....