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LeBron James Still Thinks About Dan Gilbert's Insane Letter
GQ has a big LeBron James feature out today, and in it the Cavs superstar is asked about the crazy letter Cavs owner Dan Gilbert wrote after James left Cleveland for Miami in 2010. Specifically, he’s asked if he believes Gilbert’s letter had racial overtones:...
De'Aaron Fox Says In-N-Out Is "Just Not Good"
Kings rookie PG De’Aaron Fox was born in Louisiana, went to high school in Texas, college at Kentucky, and is settling in to his new life in Sacramento. And, as with anyone who goes to California for the first time, he’s been bombarded by locals’ boasts about a certain fast-food chain. He’s supremel...
Gregg Popovich Called Up Dave Zirin To Call Donald Trump A "Soulless Coward"
Gregg Popovich has never been hesitant to criticize Donald Trump when reporters ask him for his thoughts. However, in the wake of the president’s baffling claim that Barack Obama “and other presidents” never called grieving military families, Popovich, who served in the Air Force, went out of his wa...
Can The Knicks Defense Be Historically Bad?
A few weeks ago, while catching up on some Big Apple sports news, I came upon this incredible sentence:...
C.J. McCollum Suspended One Game For Walking A Little Bit
The Trail Blazers will be without C.J. McCollum for their season opener, and McCollum will be without a game check of $165,000. The NBA suspended Portland’s guard one game after he walked away from the bench and onto the court during Wednesday’s preseason scuffle between Caleb Swanigan and Alex Len....
Markelle Fultz Joins Anthony Bennett On A Very Troubling List
Sixers head coach Brett Brown has reportedly decided that number one overall draft pick Markelle Fultz will start the upcoming NBA season on the bench....
Dumb ESPN Analysis: Numerology Tells Us The Nuggets Are The Next NBA Dynasty
The Denver Nuggets are fun. Nikola Jokic is very good. Paul Millsap is very good. Gary Harris is pretty good. There are other guys on the Nuggets who might turn out to be pretty good. It’s entirely possible the Nuggets will find their way into a playoff spot this season, because they play a brand of...
Joel Embiid And Hassan Whiteside Appear To Not Like Each Other Very Much
Here’s a date to circle on your NBA calendar (you’ve got an NBA calendar, right? Hanging up in your bedroom? Next to the John Wall Fathead and above your candlelit John Wall shrine? Of course you do): February 2. It’s a long way off, but it is the first regular season meeting between Joel Embiid’s 7...
What In God's Holy Name Are You Blathering About, Kevin McHale?
Blathering goofus Kevin McHale waded back into the James Harden leadership beef last night, using a NBA on TNT segment to once again opine on the leadership qualities of his former star player. Watch the video below and see if you can spot the exact moment when McHale should’ve shut the hell up....
A League Apart
This piece originally appeared on Victory Journal....
Steph Curry Is Apparently Into The Feet
Here’s Ayesha Curry, acclaimed Twitter user, on today’s episode of The Real discussing Steph Curry’s desire to see the feet. “My husband really loves my feet,” she explained, “So, when he says to send nudes, he gets a picture of my bare feet!” Aww!...
I Can't Stop Watching These Lovely Miloš Teodosić Passes
Maybe shaggy Serbian guard Miloš Teodosić, the Clippers’ new 30-year-old rookie, will turn out to be a matador defender. Maybe he will be an asshole who smokes clove cigarettes in the locker room and sneers at his teammates about the vulgarity of the American cinema. Maybe he will rip egg farts with...
Jahlil Okafor Travels From Philly To New York To See Movies
Jahlil Okafor likes movies. A new profile of him at SB Nation opens with Okafor watching Home Again with his girlfriend. And he mentions at curious fact: Okafor has “been known to take a train from Philadelphia to Manhattan just to catch a flick or two at the iPic.” That wording doesn’t explain how ...
Kyrie Irving Sure Seems Happy To Be Out Of Cleveland
Kyrie Irving plays for the Boston Celtics now, and based on an interview he recently gave to the Boston Globe, he’s come to realize something that a lot of young people who leave the midwest have: that big cities are fun to live in....
Joel Embiid Plays At All-World Level After Being Removed From Glass Case<em></em>
NBA preseason games are not fun to watch, but when they give you the opportunity to see a singular talent whose appearances on the court are far too scarce, then it’s time to tune in. The 76ers’ Joel Embiid, ostensibly somewhat healthy, lent his game some value tonight when he hit the court for the ...
Isaiah Thomas Has Had It Rough
The new Lee Jenkins jam does what it usually does—suffuse its subject with a big old cloud of pathos—and his current subject, Isaiah Thomas, couldn’t be more deserving of the treatment. Thomas landed in Boston after languishing under-appreciated in Sacramento and Phoenix, made All-NBA teams, led the...
Report: Joel Embiid's Huge Deal Lets The Sixers Dump Him If He Has A Bum Foot Or Bad Back<em></em>
When frequently injured Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid signed a five-year, $146.5 million maximum contract extension the day before yesterday, ESPN’s Zach Lowe quoted a source calling it “perhaps the most complex” contract in NBA history. Now some of that complexity is coming to light, and th...
What The Hell Is Going On With Markelle Fultz's Free Throws?
Have you ever found a caterpillar, fed and nurtured it in a jar, seen it through its cocoon phase, watched it emerge as a nice butterfly, and then released it into the wild with a happy little hop? Maybe Markelle Fultz did a lot of that back in the day because that’s how he shoots a damn free throw ...
Joel Embiid's Contract Will Be All About The Details
This isn’t a thing that you can often say about an NBA contract extension, given that they do not usually contain labyrinthian incentive structures or non-guaranteed money, but it’s hard to make any kind of value judgment on the five-year, $148 million extension the Sixers just gave Joel Embiid....
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