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The Raptors' Bench Is Good Enough To Kill Playoff Dreams
The Denver Nuggets came into last night’s game against the Raptors in desperate need of a win to keep their ever-shrinking playoff hopes alive. Beating the best team in the Eastern Conference on the second night of a back-to-back isn’t the easiest proposition, but these sorts of games do present a p...
Kevin Love Commits Blocking Foul With His Face, Gets Tooth Knocked Loose
Under two minutes into the Cleveland Cavaliers’ loss to the Miami Heat last night, Kevin Love took Heat center Jordan Mickey’s elbow to the face, which knocked his tooth loose, drew blood, and sent him to the locker room. And he got called for the blocking foul....
Kings Close Arena Again Due To Protests Over Fatal Police Shooting Of Stephon Clark
Only a few thousand fans were able to make it in the arena for the Kings’ loss to the Mavericks on Tuesday night before the building’s entrances were shut down as a “public safety measure” due to the presence of protestors, who were demonstrating in response to the fatal police shooting of Sacrament...
Now Markelle Fultz Can Begin
He wasn’t a revelation. For that matter in many ways he was pretty clunky. A handful of times last night, in his first game action since October—since some mysterious combination of shoulder injury and Steve Blass disease took away his ability to perform basketball’s most fundamental act—Markelle Fu...
Markelle Fultz Shooting Form Update: Never Mind, Shot Not Ready For Actual Game
After months of working on his completely broken shooting form—making it smoother, longer, better—Markelle Fultz was declared ready for game action and came off the bench tonight for the first time since October. Here’s how his six minutes of play in the first half went: ...
Markelle Fultz Shooting Form Update: Shot Ready For An Actual Game
Over the past month, Sixers first overall pick Markelle Fultz has improved his busted-ass shooting form, not only making his shot smoother but also longer. The culmination of all that hard work came today, when the team announced Fultz will play in tonight’s game against the Nuggets. Head coach Bret...
NBA D-League Player Zeke Upshaw Dies After Collapsing On Court
Zeke Upshaw, the Grand Rapids Drive player who collapsed on the court during a game Saturday, has died. He was 26....
Steph Curry Will Miss At Least The Start Of The Playoffs
Steph Curry’s knee injury could have been much, much worse, which is just about the only good thing you can say for the Warriors. It was diagnosed as a Grade 2 MCL sprain, and we won’t see Curry again in the regular season and for at least part of the playoffs. “There’s no way” he returns earlier th...
Now Here Is A Mighty LeBron James Poster Dunk
Man, LeBron James is a damn missile. Look where he takes off for this dunk. He goes through and over Joe Harris like Harris is made of warm air:...
Should The Sixers Just Shut Markelle Fultz Down For The Rest Of This Season?
It is now March 25; the Philadelphia 76ers have 10 games left in what has been a smashing success of a regular season; and we are still getting vague, noncommittal updates on the playing status of young Markelle Fultz. This comes via the Associated Press:...
As Bad News Goes, Steph Curry's Injury Update Is Good News
The alternate headline for this blog is “As Good News Goes, Steph Curry’s Injury Update Is Bad News”—you can choose for yourself whether to be a glass-is-half-full sort on this. At any rate, the update on Steph’s busted knee is in:...
This Ridiculous NBA Season Can At Least Serve Up A Lot Of Hilariously Unwanted Final Scores
A fun thing to track, this time of year, is NBA games that produce outcomes that, purely from a standings perspective, are catastrophic for both teams. This season offers plenty of potential on this front: 18 of the NBA’s 30 teams are firmly in the playoff picture; all but the top two of each confer...
Steph's Ankles Looked Great, And So The Universe Came For His Knee Instead
In the third quarter of Friday night’s Hawks-Warriors tilt in Oakland, JaVale McGee challenged a Mike Muscala shot at the rim and crashed to the floor. McGee’s momentum carried him directly into the lower legs of Steph Curry, who’d helped down into the paint on the play....
For His Birthday, Kyrie Irving Gets A Knee Surgery
Happy birthday to Kyrie Irving, who turns 26 today and hasn’t played since March 11. Let’s open up that leg....
A Used Condom, Screaming, And Porn: There's So Much More To How Bad Harassment Was At The Dallas Mavericks
For years, one guy in the Dallas Mavericks sales department would come into the office and watch porn at his desk. Former employees don’t remember exactly how often he did it—they were trying to avoid seeing it, after all—but it was often enough that multiple people who worked with him remembered se...
The Sixers Are Going To Be Red-Hot Heading Into The Playoffs
The Philadelphia 76ers won their fifth straight game Thursday night, a 118-98 laugher over the Orlando Magic. It could’ve been much worse, as the Sixers rested their starters late in the third quarter. They’d done the same the night before in a 119-105 rout of the the Grizzlies. Joel Embiid played ...
Kemba Walker Scored 46 Points In Less Time Than It Took Me To Write A Stupid Blog About It
It’s okay if you did not happen to plan yesterday evening around watching the tanking Memphis Grizzlies visiting the not tanking but nevertheless shitty and irrelevant Charlotte Hornets. I didn’t either, and that’s too bad. Because while I was watching whatever stupid crap instead—Wheel of Fortune! ...
Kings Owner Vivek Ranadivé: "We At The Kings Recognize Your People's Ability To Protest Peacefully, And We Respect That"
After the Kings’ win tonight over the Hawks was delayed and ultimately played in front of a tiny crowd—with the arena shutting its doors before tip-off, due to the presence of protests over last weekend’s fatal police shooting of Sacramento man Stephon Clark—team owner Vivek Ranadivé discussed Clark...
Grizzlies Continue Remarkable Commitment To Tanking With 61-Point Loss
The Grizzlies’ magnificent losing streak may have come to a stop last week after 19 games, but never fear, the team is still in tip-top losing shape. Tonight against the Hornets, they pulled off the worst loss in franchise history: 140-79, the NBA’s first 60-point loss in two decades....
Kings Game Delayed, Stadium Closed To Fans Due To Protests Over Fatal Police Shooting
Protestors responding to Sunday’s police shooting of Stephon Clark effectively shut down the arena before tonight’s Hawks-Kings game and forced a lengthy delay before the matchup finally tipped off in front of a sparse crowd of fans who made it in before the entrance gates were closed....