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This Is A Suboptimal Basketball Result
Throw it down, big man! Just throw it down a bit closer to the basket....
Lefty Spinning Bounce Passes Are The Best Bounce Passes
A spinning lefty bounce pass to a guy who didn't even seem to be open? Usually we only see those from Manu Ginobili, but Ohio State's D'Angelo Russell shows he has a little game, too. Even though it is probably somehow an NCAA violation, Sam Thompson should have to owe Russell for blowing the layup ...
Chelsea Is Terrifying, Scores Beautiful Goal After Intricate Buildup
Facing Chelsea is downright horrifying, and Swansea are learning that firsthand today. This is their second goal—Oscar scored in the first minute—and it is a beautiful interplay of passes reminiscent of, dare I say it, peak-Barcelona. Few teams in the world are so stocked with talent to have playe...
Mo Williams, Of All People, Scored 52 Points Last Night
The Elias Sports Bureau says that the 15-game losing streak Wolves guard Mo Williams broke with his 52-point explosion last night is the longest ever broken by a 50-point game. The second-longest was an 11-gamer, in 1962, broken by Wilt Chamberlain. That's a neatly truth-telling factoid: Only a ...
Zdeno Chara Drops Cedric Paquette With One Punch
I went to go look up Cedric Paquette's height and weight, figuring a "Cedric Paquette is tiny. Zdeno Chara is 6'9", 255 pounds. The result when they fought was predictable." lede would be pretty good. Except I learned from Hockey Reference that Cedric Paquette is actually 6'1", 198 pounds: Zdeno C...
Nikola Vucevic Whomps On Pau Gasol's Head With Dunk
Pau Gasol is having his best season in a couple of years, suggesting that his recent demise wasn't about physical ability but the psychic torture that the Mike D'Antoni-Dwight Howard-Old Kobe Bryant-Nick Young Los Angeles Lakers imposed upon him. But one of the cool things about the NBA is that almo...
Football Player Gets His Soul Juked Out Of Him
This is like if someone got simultaneously crossed up and posterized during a basketball game. You might want to look away if you have issues with second-hand shame:...
Damian Lillard Is Fearless
The Portland Trail Blazers are a very good basketball team that is fun to watch, and human firecracker Damian Lillard is a big reason why....
You're Unlikely To Find A More Impressive Incomplete Pass
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The Play's Over, Man
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Trevor Booker Scores Volleyball Pass Shot With 0.2 Seconds Remaining
Here's an excerpt from the NBA rule book: ...
Gareth Bale Puts Real Madrid Up 2-0 With An Unstoppable Free Kick
It's tough to imagine a more perfect free kick goal than the one Gareth Bale scored today against Espanyol. We've covered numerous amazing set pieces launched by Cristiano Ronaldo, but Bale's providing evidence that he's the strongest man for the job at Real Madrid....
Knicks Run Razzle Dazzle Fastbreak For Alley-Oop Dunk
Sure, after three quarters the Knicks are losing to the Houston Rockets by 24 on their way to a league leading 34th loss, but at least these three guys were able to run this nicely souped-up fastbreak! ...
Yeah, So, Andrew Wiggins Is Getting Good
There wasn't a whole lot to say about Andrew Wiggins in the early part of the season, because before dunking all over Kevin Love, he wasn't really doing much to get excited about. Lately, however, the 19-year-old rookie has started to look like a pretty damn good NBA player....
Here Is The All-Time "Albert Achievement Awards" Blooper Reel
Veteran announcer Marv Albert has been running blooper reels as a guest on David Letterman's program for decades. In his 126 appearances on either Late Night With David Letterman or Late Show, the "Albert Achievement Awards" (set, always, to that ragtime vamp) have established the canon of sports ...
Bad Knicks Goober Flings Hook Shot To Nowhere
That's Cole Aldrich, starting center for the New York Knicks, draining a sweet turnaround hook shot on the invisible ghost-hoop six feet to the right of the regular one. Good move....
Goddamn, Steph Curry Is Amazing
There may not be a better ticket in sports right now than the Golden State Warriors, and that has a lot to do with the fact that Steph Curry is liable to do something that will leave you slack-jawed and drooling on any given night....
Klay Thompson Throws Down Alley-Oop
We haven't even finished the first quarter yet and Warriors-Thunder is already the highlight reel-fest you'd expect when players like Curry, Westbrook, Durant, and Thompson get together on the same court for a (sort of, it's on NBA TV) nationally televised matchup. That being said, a Klay Thompson a...
Jimmy Butler Is A Bad, Bad Man
We already gushed over Jimmy Butler last week so no need to repeat it, but man is he fun to watch. Here he is throwing down a backdoor cut (down the middle of the court) alley-oop, just minutes after he absolutely stuffed James Harden to the ground on an attempted end-of-quarter buzzer beater....
Roy Hibbert's Attempted Game-Winner Was, Um, Not Good
Roy Hibbert's box score from last night's game against the Lakers is nothing to sneeze at—12 points and 11 rebounds in 29 minutes is ...fine—but the Pacers' giant did not end the game on a high note....