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Deadspin's 2020-21 NBA Preview — Northwest Division: About Dame time for these teams to blossom
The Northwest Division is an intriguing cluster of teams that are always the groomsmen and never the grooms. Or something. There’s a lot of talent, a few ascending rosters, and some teams looking to finally get over the hump and make a run at the Larry O’Brien Trophy. Denver and Portland have each m...

AN OPEN LETTER TO NEW YORK KNICKS FANS: Take the train to Brooklyn ... ASAP
Dear Knicks fans,...

Deadspin's 2020-21 NBA Preview — Southwest Division: Youth gone wild, & the Harden wild card
One of my biggest pet peeves in sports is when divisions are broken down by geography but don’t follow geographic rules. Dallas in the NFC East? Minnesota Timberwolves in the Northwest? All the teams in the Southwest are in the American south. That’s a start. But why are teams on the Mississippi Riv...

Deadspin's 2020-21 NBA Preview — Southeast Division: The heat is on, but not for every team
The Southeast division of the NBA was like a really bad potluck. In most terrible potlucks there’s usually only one edible dish that’s holding it down for your meal and that’s the one you brought....

Deadspin's 2020-21 NBA Preview — Atlantic Division: All or nothin' for a bunch of win-now contenders
If all goes as expected, four out of five Atlantic Division teams will make the 2021 NBA Playoffs. But if all went as expected, maybe we’d be out of a pandemic by now....

Deadspin's 2020-21 NBA Preview — Central Division: Giannis & Bucks shall be first, but the rest ...?
The Indiana Pacers are a pretty good team. They’ve been to the playoffs nine of the past 10 seasons, and they played .616 ball last season — a 50-win pace over a full 82-game season. They still finished 11 games behind the Bucks in the Central Division....

2020 Idiot of the Year Awards: Counting down from 50-41 with Ronaldo, Bolt, Cespedes, and more
UPDATE: We have compiled all 50 items into one handy list, for your reading convenience. It is available here....

Guess Brian Kelly and Notre Dame won't have to worry about boycotting the Rose Bowl
Brian Kelly threatened not to take Notre Dame to the Rose Bowl if players’ parents weren’t allowed to attend the College Football Playoff semifinal....

Brian Kelly and Dabo Swinney should be fired if their jobs are truly about leading and protecting young men
College football coaches love to talk about how their job is to be leaders who earn their astronomical paychecks not only by winning football games, but by molding their players into something better, to guide their growth from high school boys to upstanding men who have learned how to handle the wo...

Packers, who gave more than $750K to police for body cameras, do not understand they don’t stop police from shooting Black people
In another edition of the NFL trying to do right, yet failing, the Green Bay Packers recently gave more than $750,000 to the city of Green Bay for police body cameras in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis., according to the Washington Post....

By the numbers, how does LeBron stack up to the greats?
We get caught up in a lot of drama and narrative when following the NBA, and that’s a lot of what makes it fun. Sometimes, though, there’s something neat about going over the bedrock numbers....

NBA Should Rejoice that Giannis is the anti-LeBron
Giannis Antetokounmpo saved the NBA....

NBA's Adam Silver should be trashed for pushing players to return to the court way too soon
It’s a Trash Talking Tuesday, and today I’m trashing NBA commissioner Adam Silver for pushing the players back on the court too soon....

Ravens vs. Browns: And the bad beats go on
Just two weeks after the Philadelphia Eagles had a meaningless, miraculous cover against the Seattle Seahawks, Monday Night Football delivered an even more ridiculous bad beat....

Thank you, Lamar Jackson, for unleashing an unholy force of the worst jokes
Let’s get this done at the top. This is how you greet a player returning from the locker room after “cramps”:...

Kyrie Irving clarifies ‘pawn’ comment in first media appearance of the season, discusses possible Harden trade
Kyrie Irving spoke to reporters for the first time this season on Monday afternoon, clarifying his ‘pawn’ comments in the process....

Deadspin Fixes The Phillies: A blueprint Dave Dombrowski will never follow
In some ways, anything like this is folly when a team has already hired Dave Dombrowski as President of Baseball. The Phillies clearly aren’t going to wait around for Theo Epstein to finish his year with a Eurorail pass as he takes up poetry or dyes his hair purple or whatever means of self-discover...

Welcome to The Ladies Room, a new Deadspin Sports podcast ... this week, Real Sports' Mary Carillo wonders if there will be an Olympics in 2021?
Welcome to the Ladies Room - A Deadspin Sports Podcast....

Lamar Jackson has chance to silence the critics tonight
In sports, it’s not about how you start. More often, it’s about how you finish....
