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Holy Shit, Dwight Howard Played Like It Was 2008 Tonight

Dwight Howard—the same 32-year-old that has spent the last several seasons brewing beef as he scoots from team to team, that Dwight Howard—made a little history tonight. With a 32-point, 30-rebound game in the Hornets’ win over the Nets, he put together the first 30-point, 30-rebound performance th...

The Raptors Scored 79 Points In One Half And Still Couldn't Beat LeBron

The official best team in the Eastern Conference, the Toronto Raptors, went up tonight against the actual best team in the East, LeBron James. And despite an absolutely scorching start, Toronto came up short in Cleveland yet again....

Nobody Knows If Kawhi Leonard Will Play This Season, But Manu Ginobili Isn't Optimistic

After a real rough stretch, the San Antonio Spurs have stabilized and look to be safely headed towards the playoffs after four straight wins, three of which came against fellow Western Conference contenders. That’s reassuring, although the team as presently constituted doesn’t seem like much of a th...

Dwyane Wade Can Still Dunk

Former Hawks Employee Sues Team For Discriminating Against White People

Margo Kline, formerly a community development coordinator for the Atlanta Hawks, has filed a lawsuit against the team in which she claims she was discriminated against because of her race and gender....

James Harden Will Beat You And Humiliate You

Iso-ball, for all its associations with acts of heroism in the clutch, is supposed to be a dicey proposition for the guy with the ball in his hands. Sure, it has created some cinematic shots throughout the years, but its defining trait is its inefficiency. Iso-ball is a tactic that’s more defined by...

Marcus Morris Hits Game-Winning Three To Boost Celtics Over Thunder

A pair of Russell Westbrook free throws put the Thunder up six over the Celtics tonight with 24.7 seconds to play. Boston quickly shrunk that deficit with one bucket from Jayson Tatum and another from Terry Rozier, plus some strategic fouling (and some bad free-throw shooting from Carmelo Anthony)—a...

Royce White Isn't Ready To Believe That The NBA Really Cares About Mental Health

In the month since DeMar DeRozan spoke publicly about his struggle with depression, fellow NBA players Kevin Love and Kelly Oubre have come forward with stories of their own mental health battles and the league has announced plans to name a director of mental health and wellness. The change is encou...

Former Mavericks Employee Who Made Harassment Claims: "I'm Still Not Sure The Mavericks Get It"

Melissa Weishaupt, who worked in the marketing and game operations department for the Dallas Mavericks from 2010 to 2014, has revealed herself as one of the women who told Sports Illustrated about the Mavericks’ culture of harassment. In a piece published in SI today, Weishaupt revealed her identity...

Please Enjoy Vince Carter's Rude Blake Griffin Impression

In a game between two dead-end teams waiting for the draft, the Pistons stuck around for two-and-a-half quarters before the Kings gutted it out and pulled off the loss. Blake Griffin came up big for the Pistons, but the night belonged to Vince Carter, who moved up to 22nd on the NBA’s all-time scori...

Some Cool Highlights From The Knicks' 18-Point Win

The New York Knicks hosted the Chicago Bulls last night. Here’s some stuff that happened in that game....

Let's Enjoy Some Quality LeBron Highlights

It can be easy to take LeBron James for granted, to feel like you know what you’re getting after a decade and a half of this particular brand of greatness and decide that you’d rather watch someone else on any given night. Fine. Fair enough. But—c’mon!—look at him, look at what he did tonight in a g...

We Asked A Sports Science Expert If LeBron Could Have Really Gained Seven Pounds During A Basketball Game

In a revealing piece about LeBron James’s too-good-to-be-believed body and injury prevention, this anecdote from ESPN’s Brian Windhorst stands out:...

Jordan Clarkson Has A Theory That Dinosaurs Were Really Pets For "Bigger People"

New Cavaliers players Jordan Clarkson and Larry Nance Jr. went on Uninterrupted’s Road Trippin’ podcast with DJ Montage and Allie Clifton. Anytime an NBA player who has ever played for the Cavs appears on a podcast, they are apparently bound to give their takes on science, and Clarkson did not disap...

The New Tax Bill Could Unintentionally Force Sports Teams To Pay Taxes On Trades

A single word in the sweeping tax bill that House Republicans passed in December could lead to a host of unintended consequences for American pro sports teams when making trades, according to a report from Jim Tankersley in the New York Times. ...

Cavs Coach Tyronn Lue Takes Leave Of Absence, Cites Health Issues

The Cavaliers today announced Lue will be taking a leave of absence from the team. Lue, who had not previously disclosed the illness or its symptoms, said he has been suffering from chest pains, a lack of sleep “and other troubling symptoms.” Doctors, however, have reached “no conclusions as to what...

Oklahoma City's Wacky Corey Brewer Gambit Is ... Working?

The Raptors are great. They’re virtually a lock to finish the regular season with the best record in the Eastern Conference, and they’re the only team in the NBA’s top five in both offensive efficiency and defensive efficiency, and they’d come into Sunday having won 11 in a row, and 18 of 19, and wi...

The Rockets Are Driving Opposing Coaches Insane

Thursday night, after his Clippers lost to the Rockets in Houston, Doc Rivers described the officiating as “a complete joke” and all but chalked up the five-point loss to a 23-8 free throw disparity between the two teams. For this act of public criticism, Rivers was fined $15,000 by the league....

Glen "Big Baby" Davis Arrested With A Quarter-Pound Of Weed And $92,000 In Cash [Update]

Glen “Big Baby” Davis, arguably the most entertaining player on the Celtics 2010 Finals roster, was arrested in February on seven counts of marijuana possession and distribution....

Look At This Goddamn Photo Of LeBron James

This incredibly well-timed photo was taken by AP photographer Steve Dykes while LeBron James was in the middle of unleashing one of the best dunks of his career on Jusuf Nurkic. It fucking rules. Look at it....