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Dan Gilbert: That Championship Guarantee "Probably Was Not the Most Brilliant Thing I've Ever Done In My Life"
Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert now wishes he wouldn't have guaranteed his team would win an NBA title before LeBron James....


James Harden And Jeremy Lin Are Free And Really Fun To Watch
Prior to this season, James Harden and Jeremy Lin were two players who'd never had the chance to write their own stories. In New York, Lin was pressed into service as both a humble standard-bearer and a basketball messiah, one whose actual abilities were obscured by the phenomenon he created. In Okl...

The Bill Simmons Problem, In Two Paragraphs
Here, from Grantland, is a passage of astute and passionate basketball analysis by Bill Simmons, about the breakup of the Oklahoma City Thunder:...

The Miami Heat's Championship Rings Are Pretty Insane
That's 14-karat white and yellow gold and a total of 219 diamonds on each one. The 2006 ring only had 159 diamonds, so a nice upgrade, really, if 159 weren't enough for you....

The NBA, On The Midnight James Harden To Houston Trade: "Wow"
Tweets compiled with the help of Samer Kalaf....

Report: OKC Has Traded James Harden To Houston
Everyone's favorite out-of-town NBA team just got approximately 40 percent less cool if Y! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski's reporting is accurate:...

What Exactly Did LeBron James Do To Earn A Technical Here?
Poor LeBron, never getting the calls, always being targeted by the refs. But that's life in bizarro preseason, where the Raptors are 5-1, the Lakers are 0-6, and the Bobcats get every whistle against the Heat....

The Miami Heat Are Fully Embracing The Positional Revolution
This morning, ESPN's Tom Haberstroh published a piece about the evolution of the Miami Heat, and it looks like this year's Heat team is not only going to be a frightening opponent for the rest of the NBA, but also incredibly fun to watch. Why? Because the team has finally embraced its versatility a...

"Mild" Concussions, Magical Helmets, And Other Ways Football Lies To Itself
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Eric Decker's Fiancée Wants Everyone To Know That Eric Decker Has A Big Dick
During last night's Broncos-Chargers game, Broncos wide receiver Eric Decker tripped on his own feet after catching a pass that should have led to an easy touchdown. As you can see below, it was embarrassing:...

James Harrison Didn't Sack Michael Vick Because He Was "Worried More About A Fine"
Since the NFL instituted its "more significant discipline" for shots to the head two years ago, James Harrison has been a remorseless re-offender. He's been fined six times under the new protocol, and he's seemingly bitched about it just as often. Hell, even after his destruction of Colt McCoy la...

Phil Jackson Doesn't Think He Can Physically Handle Coaching Again
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: But a GM job? Now that's a different story....


LeBron James Is Now Being Used To Sell Heroin
That's according to the Philadelphia Daily News, which said cops in suburban Upper Darby busted a "major heroin dealer" who possessed 140 packets of the stuff—all of it marked with LeBron's name and the image of a dunking basketball player:...

Sign Of The Apocalypse
For nearly two decades now, Sports Illustrated has stirred the tea leaves to discern a weekly Sign of the Apocalypse. Deadspin salutes the magazine's ongoing effort to head off the end of times, but declines to quietly cede to SI the scoop on the biggest event in world history....

Toronto Film Festival: In Praise Of The Shamelessly Trashy <em>Spring Breakers</em>
For the past week, Grierson has been at the Toronto Film Festival seeing the movies we're all going to be talking about for the next few months. Today is his second of two dispatches....
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Video of James Harden at a strip club....

Knicks Fans Nearing Long-Awaited Reunion With Former Point Guard Isiah Thomas
In the 2007-2008 season, Bill Belichick won 18 games and was hailed as a genius. In the same year, Isiah Thomas won 23 games. He was fired. The Knicks have made a lot of mistakes in the last decade, but letting Thomas go was surely the most egregious. He was canned just days after leading the Knick...

Hey Knicks, Marlins, Orioles, Redskins, And Islanders Fans: ESPN Says The Sacramento Kings Have The Worst Owners In Sports
Venerable Kings blog Sactown Royalty notes that ESPN: The Paper Thingy ranks the Maloofs as the worst owners in sports—all of sports!—in their "Ultimate Standings 2012," which rates organizations across the four major sports based on some arbitrary methodology that I don't care to look into. (The o...