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Forget LeBron & Giannis, these are NBA players who <em>need </em>to show out in 2020-21
Just as the headline reads....
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....
No, the Miami Heat do not <em>need </em>to trade for James Harden right now
Citing loyalty, Giannis Antetokounmpo found 228 million reasons to remain with the Milwaukee Bucks for the next five seasons....
NBA Should Rejoice that Giannis is the anti-LeBron
Giannis Antetokounmpo saved the NBA....
James Harden might not need cheesesteaks
I don’t want to be hard on James Harden. We all ... look different after this year. Cooped up in our house, downing comfort foods more often than we have in the five years previous combined. For me, it’s peanut butter M&Ms. You have yours. Something you run to when it all gets too much, which it doe...
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....
Houston has a Harden problem, but it's a problem they should wait to solve
Ain’t nobody gonna start defending Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta, or as my homie Jarod Hector of TrueHoop calls him, “The Broke Boy.” There’s no “but,” either, that’s just the opening disclaimer to the following passage....
Mets deal for McCann reeks of failures past, but at least Cohen is shelling out
Meet the new Mets… same as the old Mets?...
If something happens in sports and LeBron doesn’t respond, did it really happen?
A youth football coach in Florida assaulted one of his players on December 7, and LeBron James had a lot to say about it....
James Harden expands his trade list because he has no real leverage
James Harden wants out of the world curated just for him. ...
Even college basketball’s biggest cheerleader on ESPN thinks this is stupid
It’s rare you get any spikiness from ESPN, or evidence of a spine, and especially when it comes to college basketball. For the most part, every analyst for college hoops on the World Wide Leader is there to be a cheerleader and get a good taste of various coaches’ asses. It’s why every coach is addr...
The ‘beef’ between Kyrie and LeBron comes down to one simple truth
Let’s not complicate this....
<em> Sports Illustrated</em> whiffs on Sportsperson of the Year qualifications
This column is not an indictment of LeBron James, Breanna Stewart, Patrick Mahomes, Naomi Osaka, or Laurent Duvernay-Tardif. It is, however, a callout of Sports Illustrated for limiting their “2020 Sportsperson of the Year: The Activist Athlete” to those who were “champions on the field, champions f...
Steelers' James Conner, high-risk as cancer survivor, tests positive for COVID-19
James Conner is alive today because he got hurt playing football....
Penn State coach James Franklin can't mask what is going on in his program
Penn State just can’t help itself. This football program is clearly out of control, but head coach James Franklin is trying his best to disguise it....
The other 29 teams in the NBA should be doing everything they can to stop the Warriors from drafting James Wiseman
During the final scenes of the 1985 cult classic “The Last Dragon,” Bruce Leroy finally reaches his full potential in a battle against his nemesis, Sho’Nuff. By achieving “The Glow,” Leroy became unstoppable. ...
Shouldn’t the Nets include Kyrie in that Harden deal?
No, this isn’t going to happen. But can we argue that it should? ...
Congratulations, Houston, on becoming America’s mightiest bastion of stupid sports deals
Houston deserves this crown....
NBA Draft experts will lie to you and use racially coded language
If you’re a basketball junkie like myself, then the NBA Draft is an annual can’t-miss event. The high school kids and foreign players you heard/read about, along with the players you watched in college, are days away from finding out where they’ll start their careers....
If Westbrook and Harden want out of Houston, there's one place they should go
There is turmoil in Houston....