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These Dudes Have Recorded A Rap Tribute To The NBA All-Stars For 13 Straight Years

The important thing to bear in mind when assessing anything that happened in 1989 is that, from the perspective of 2018, the thing being assessed happened in a different world. That world still had people in it, which meant it had about equal amounts of vicious awful dumbassery and goofball beauty, ...

Adam Silver Still Wants To Overhaul The NBA Playoffs

At his big pre-dunk contest press conference Saturday night, NBA commissioner Adam Silver used a question about All Star selections to prompt a discussion about the format of the league’s playoffs. It sounds like he would still very much like to do away with the current format, which has the top eig...

Report: Part Of Solution To NBA Player-Referee Acrimony Is Cutting Out The League Office

ESPN’s Brian Windhorst reported Saturday night on a meeting held between representatives of the NBA players’ union and members of the referees’ union, to discuss the ongoing and escalating hostility between the two groups this season....

The Dunk Contest Is Bad Again

It is with great sadness and more than a little frustration at having stayed up to watch the stupid thing that I must report that the NBA dunk contest, which looked for a few years there like it might be good again, is, in fact, bad again....

Dang, Bogdan Bogdanovic Can Really Let It Fly

Last night’s NBA Rising Stars Challenge was a laugher, and not even just for the usual reasons (no defense, sloppy passing, reckless shooting, general exhibition behavior): This time, the World team just kinda flattened the U.S. team, from start to finish, so that what is always a talent show masque...

Ha Ha, Look At These Two Chumps Who Got Picked Last For The NBA All Star Teams

Part of the discussion around the NBA’s new All Star format, where the teams are selected via a draft by the top two players in fan voting, is whether the draft should be televised, or otherwise broadcast, or in any way made public. You see, that was not done this time around, and so fans (and playe...

Here is a fantastic profile of L.A.’s own DeMar DeRozan, shortly before he plays an All-Star Game in his Southern California for the first time....

Fox News Host Laura Ingraham Blows The Dog Whistle On LeBron James [Updated]

Laura Ingraham is a Fox News personality whose job is to say nice things about Donald Trump and generally seem kind of impatient, a job that she carries off while exuding all the charisma and personal warmth of a clenched butt cheek. Last night, during her show Laura Ingraham Would Like To Speak To ...

Well That Was A Spectacular, Historic Game From Nikola Jokic

The Denver Nuggets have this acutely entertaining habit of hanging one million or so points on their opponents, and nobody is more central to that sort of offensive eruption than Serbian center Nikola Jokic. And tonight’s 134-123 thriller against the Bucks showed exactly why, as Jokic had one of the...

The Once-Unstoppable Celtics Are Returning Back To Earth

Brad Stevens warned everyone. After the Celtics’ 16-game winning streak was finally snapped earlier this year, he admitted that the impressive run of wins right after the team lost Gordon Hayward was “a little bit of a mirage.” Still, though, Boston was at the top of the Eastern Conference for most ...

Markelle Fultz Shooting Form Update: Shot Better?

No. 1 pick Markelle Fultz has apparently been granted permission to shoot outside the paint. He was exercising this new freedom in the shootaround before the Sixers’ win over the Heat last night....

Here Are Two Minutes Of Loopy Bill Walton Quips From Last Night

Bill Walton, Doris Burke and Dave Pasch did commentary for last night’s Warriors-Blazers game. It was in honor of Oregon’s 159th birthday, Walton said. And it was a blast....

At Least Draymond Green Is An Honorable Bettor

Between the serial testicle-kicking and overall dickishness, it’s easy to be annoyed by Draymond Green. But after last night’s loss to the Blazers, he showed that when it comes to settling bets he is a chill and honorable dude....

Isaiah Thomas And Rajon Rondo Ejected After Feisty Dance Routine

This is far from one of the most interesting beefs of the NBA season, but you might remember that last month, former Celtics champion Rajon Rondo had a pretty sick burn on former Celtics non-champion Isaiah Thomas....

Steve Kerr: "It Doesn't Seem To Matter To Our Government That Children Are Being Shot To Death"

Steve Kerr—never one to shy away from expressing his takes on politics and gun control in particular—was asked about the horrifying school shooting in Broward County, Florida before tonight’s game against the Blazers. A subdued Kerr called for Americans who are also fed the hell up with the NRA’s in...

Kyrie Irving Has No Concern For Earthly Matters Like TV Families<em></em>

The Celtics ran one of those cute commercial-break videos at their game tonight where players answer innocuous questions about their pop culture faves. Naturally, it served as another opportunity for Kyrie Irving to show off that he is way cooler than everyone else....

Dwight Howard Seemingly Forgets That You're Allowed To Jump In Basketball

Dwight Howard, who is listed at 6-foot-11 with a seven-foot wingspan, decided to use absolutely none of his god-given physical gifts as he tried to score on his old team tonight. Maybe he thought it would be unfair to the shorter Evan Fournier; maybe, in a burst of whimsy, he wanted to pretend to be...

Happy Valentine's Day From Giannis Antetokounmpo, "A Freak On The Court And On The Sheets"

Giannis Antetokounmpo got a lovely Valentine’s Day present! Aww! Let’s see what his “sexy little thing” got him!...

Palimony Lawsuit Claims Blake Griffin Beefed With Chris Paul, Dumped Mother Of His Children For Kendall Jenner

Pistons forward Blake Griffin is being sued for palimony by Brynn Cameron, his former fiancée and the mother of his two children, who claims that Griffin asked for an unreasonable prenup a month before their wedding, postponed the ceremony when she would not sign, and then quickly began dating Kenda...

An Interview With A Shooting Expert About Markelle Fultz

Herb Magee is the all-time Division II leader in wins, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, and No. 3 among all NCAA men’s basketball coaches in wins, ever. In his 51st season as the men’s basketball coach at Jefferson University—formerly known as Philadelphia University—he’s also a renowned sho...