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We still can’t have normal conversations about Nikola JokićSBNation writer Mat Issa tweeted out an observation following Game 1 of the NBA Finals. He noticed that the Denver Nuggets were able to get a defensive stop because of something that Nikola Jokić did at the free-throw line....

George Karl tried to stick up for JJ Redick and should have sat this one outGeorge Karl picked the wrong day to go after Kendrick Perkins. On the Tuesday episode of First Take, JJ Redick and Perkins had a discussion about the NBA MVP that was loud, animated, and eventually went viral on social media. Perkins is not one to back off of his opinions so after the episode, he pa...

George Karl has a history of making a punching bag of DeMarcus Cousins and Black playersBehind closed doors, George Karl probably calls successful Black people “uppity.”...

<em>Ten</em>, named for Mookie Blaylock’s number, is 30 years old (Mookie is now 54… How’s THAT feel?!)

There was a time when I used to mark the inevitable march of time by how long ago Pearl Jam’s album Ten came out. This started sometime in the late-1990s when my former high school classmate (who was the only person from high school I chose to stay in contact with — we both pretty much hated everyon...

Mike Francesa Interviews George Karl, Doesn't Seem To Know Who He Is

George Karl, an angry dumpling who wrote a book, is still still on a press tour so that he can sell more copies of a book in which he talks a lot of shit about his former players. Yesterday, Karl’s PR circuit hit Mike Francesa’s radio show, and things got extremely awkward....

Terry Stotts Wishes George Karl Would Just Stop Talking

God bless George Karl, whose incendiary book and accelerant-spraying press tour have given the NBA community something to unite against this holiday season, and given us blogs some sweet, sweet content during these dark days on the sports calendar. As if blaming Carmelo Anthony and Kenyon Martin for...

George Karl: I Struggled Because My Players Didn't Have Good Dads 

Longtime NBA head coach George Karl has written a book, titled Furious George, and in it he partakes in the time-honored and always-wack tradition of coaches talking shit about players they used to coach. (Or so we are told by the New York Post, which got its hands on a copy of the book.)...

Rudy Gay To George Karl: "Welcome To Basketball Hell"

The Sacramento Kings, a failed state of an NBA team run by a clueless owner, will be bad this year, despite internal expectations that they’ll make the playoffs. One of the reasons why they could actually improve this season is because their new coach Dave Joerger seems to have a clue, unlike George...