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LeBron Has Been A Damned Statistical Marvel In The Finals
There’s a way to look at Steph Curry’s stat line as an artifact of not just box score accounting, but his style. If you look closely, there are traces of the visceral experience of watching Steph double axel around a screen and fire up a three from the hip in arcane statistical whimsy, like fast bre...
Dingy Goon Matthew Dellawhatever Is Giving Up Coffee Before Games
After being hospitalized for dehydration when Game 3 ended, War Boy with hair Matthew Dellavedova says he’ll skip his usual tradition of having coffee before a game and during halftime, because he thinks it might be affecting his on-court performance....
Andrei Vasilevskiy Is Not Quite Good Enough As Blackhawks Even Series
In Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals, Lightning goalie Ben Bishop went in and out of the game in the third period, possibly because he had the runs. In Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals, Bishop was obviously hobbled yet still good enough to stone the Blackhawks. Finally, in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup F...
Draymond Green Is Killing The Warriors
After the Warriors seared the exhausted Cavaliers in overtime of Game 1, our own Kevin Draper wrote a smart piece about how Draymond Green’s versatility enables Golden State to use him as the center in a terrifyingly fast and rangy small-ball lineup. “When the Warriors play small they’re unstoppable...
Warriors Fan Calls LeBron A "Pussy-Ass Bitch," Quickly Regrets It
If the Cavaliers win in five games, it’s at least partially the fault of this Warriors fan for calling LeBron James a “pussy-ass bitch” after Game 2....
The Cavs' Injuries Are The Best Thing That Could Have Happened To Them
You will find no postgame quotes from unlikely finals hero Matthew Dellavedova. Rather than making it to the interview room for his scheduled podium appearance, Dellavedova received an IV the locker room, walked out to the parking garage, hopped on a stretcher and was loaded into an ambulance and ta...
The Cavaliers Defense Is A Vise, Slowly Crushing The Warriors To Death
Okay, what the hell are the Cavaliers doing on defense? Because after three games of absolutely pummeling the Warriors offense, this clearly isn’t a fluke. Here is a partial list of things the Cavs defense perpetrated on Golden State in Game 3:...
Gawk At NBA Finals Highlights Slow-Motion Phantom Videos
Above, see Timofey Mozgov, who is strongest man in NBA, block Draymond Green into the D-League at 120 frames per second. As a public service reminder, the NBA makes a load of these for every game, uploaded while the games are being played. ...
Matthew Dellavedova's Night, In 30 Seconds
Alleged worst player in the finals to get major minutes Matthew Dellavedova had a huge night in helping the Cavaliers take a 2-1 NBA Finals series lead over the Warriors. Here’s his highlight reel....
LeBron's Teammates Are Actively Playing Defense On Him
This is the NBA Finals, and the Cavaliers are committing goaltending against themselves. ...
NBA Admits Officials Botched Four Calls At The End Of Game 2
The NBA released its officiating report from Game 2 of the finals today, and, not surprisingly, the league found that the refs made a mess of the four calls that had you screaming at your TV during the closing minutes of the game. ...
Story About The Lifecycle Of NBA Basketballs Is Entertaining As Hell
ESPN’s Baxter Holmes has a long, thoroughly entertaining piece about the lifecycle of an NBA basketball, pegged to the Finals. I’d urge you to go check it out, but it’s almost unreadable on the Worldwide Leader’s overbusy nightmare of a website; it’s like they printed it in 11-point font on the surf...
Warriors Owner Couldn't Deal With Sitting Next To Rihanna
Photos caught Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob sitting next to Rihanna during Game 1 of the NBA Finals—and then, abruptly, sitting two seats away with his fiancée in between. It’s not what you think....
The Cavaliers' Defense Deserves All The Love
If you had traveled back in time to Sunday morning and shown me a snapshot of the Game 2 box score as it stood with three minutes left to play in the fourth quarter, I would have assumed that something cataclysmic was in store—that Steph Curry was going to lose his right hand right before tip-off, o...
LeBron James Played The Best Kind Of Hero Ball
I’m still not entirely sure what we saw last night, only that I loved it. This was not a good game by any means—it was sloppy and disjointed and featured as many bad misses as missed calls—but it was the most single most viscerally entertaining game since at least Game 7 of Clippers-Spurs. And it fe...
Marreese Speights Dunkfail Representative Of This Game As A Whole
Tonight’s NBA Finals Game 2 has been a competitive game. It has not, exactly, been a good game. Marreese Speights attempting to end the third quarter with a big dunk and failing: Exhibit A....
Warriors Fan Hits Half-Court Shot, Wins Car
It’s not just Stephen Curry who can hit long-range shots. Here’s a Warriors fan who landed a half-court shot during a third quarter timeout tonight and won himself a new car. ...