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Jabari Parker Goes No. 2 To Milwaukee Bucks
Not a huge surprise here: The Bucks took Jabari Parker with the No. 2 overall pick after Andrew Wiggins and Andrew Wiggins's suit were taken No. 1. ...
Cleveland Cavaliers Take Andrew Wiggins First Overall
The Cleveland Cavaliers took Andrew Wiggins with the first overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft. He's the second Canadian-born player to go first overall, after Anthony Bennett last year. Hopefully, he will be better than Bennett....
Andrew Wiggins And His Bitchin' Suit Are Ready For The Draft
Russell Westbrook is sitting at home right now like, "Who the fuck does this rookie think he is?"...
Get To Know The Guy Who Might Be The Steal Of The NBA Draft
One of the savviest picks of last year's NBA draft was made by the Milwaukee Bucks, when they grabbed Giannis Antetokounmpo with the 15th overall pick. The Greek Freak was just a bundle of springy limbs and a fresh face at the time, but he quickly became a player who matters. There is another baby-f...
Why Do NBA Big Men Break Down?
Joel Embiid, the University of Kansas seven-footer who was expected to be the first pick in tonight's NBA draft, just had two screws inserted into the navicular bone in his right foot.1 Embiid is expected to miss 4-6 months and the stress fracture—his second in three months—may cost him millions of ...
Isaiah Austin Diagnosed With Marfan Syndrome, Won't Play In NBA
Isaiah Austin left Baylor to declare for this year's NBA Draft, but his basketball career will sadly end there. The center was diagnosed with a genetic disorder that won't allow him to continue playing basketball....
Joel Embiid Did Not Sweat His Surgery
Not even surgery for a stress fracture in his foot—nor projections of him dropping precipitously in the NBA draft—can dent Joel Embiid's swagger:...
Damn, Zach LaVine Can Jump
Former UCLA guard Zach LaVine worked out for the Lakers today, and it appears that he was out to prove that Andrew Wiggins isn't the only prospect in this year's draft who can jump really damn high....
Attractive Teenage Girl Appears On TV; Sports Press Declares Its Lust
A remarkable thing happened at last night’s NBA Draft Lottery. The Bucks were represented by Mallory Edens, daughter of team owner Wes Edens, and the internet rose up as one to declare, “We would like to have sex with this 18-year-old girl.” ...
Cleveland Cavaliers Win NBA Draft Lottery For Top Pick
For the third time in four years, the Cleveland Cavaliers have won the lottery for the top pick in the NBA Draft....
Damn, Andrew Wiggins Can Jump
Here's Andrew Wiggins jumping really, really high during a workout. Blah, blah, basketball is more than jumping, Rudy Gay Harrison Barnes, whatever. Just look at this shit. ...
Sad NBA Promotion: Bucks Send Ping Pong Balls To Fans
I don't think I understand this. The Milwaukee Bucks, who finished with the worst record in the NBA this season, sent these ping pong balls to a select group of fans because...something....
Adam Silver Denies That NBA Teams Are Tanking
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver does not believe his league's worst teams are losing intentionally. He believes they're just so bad that they can't help themselves....
Proposed Overhaul Of The NBA Draft Would Eliminate Tanking
Tired of the way the NBA draft lottery incentivizes tanking and fills the league with crappy teams slogging through crappy seasons, hoping to grab a No. 1 pick? Well, salvation may be at hand. Look upon The Wheel, and rejoice....
The Decade In Wasted NBA Draft Picks
Everyone should hurry over to HoopsHype, which has a fantastic story and graphic looking back on the last decade of NBA draftees—specifically, which ones signed contract extensions before their rookie deals expired....
Anthony Bennett Explains His Meteoric Rise: "I'm A Great Guy"
A news conference starring a 20-year-old is generally doomed to devolve into scripted platitudes unless the 20-year-old in question strays into honesty. Therein, we prod Anthony Bennett into discussing the reasons the Cleveland Cavaliers made him the surprise top pick in this week's NBA Draft. His ...
The Bobcats Draft Party Booed The Shit Out Of Cody Zeller's Selection
Via Did Charlotte Win, the scene at the Time Warner Cable Arena as the Bobcats made the 4th selection in last night's draft, a slot where Nerlens Noel, Alex Len, and Ben McLemore were still available. You get the feeling 'Cats fans might have wanted one of those three instead....
How Much Money Did The Knee Injury Cost Nerlens Noel?
If we assume that a healthy Nerlens Noel goes first or second in an historically thin NBA draft, he lost somewhere between $4 million and $5 million over the next three years—all because he vaporized his knee in February while playing amateur basketball as a nominally unpaid intern at Kentucky....