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Serge Ibaka Returned To Oklahoma City To Bury The Thunder
When the Thunder traded Serge Ibaka to the Magic on the night of the 2016 draft, it was an implicit acknowledgement that the franchise had passed him by. Oklahoma City had just pushed the Warriors to the edge of elimination in the Western Conference Finals behind the strength of their own Lineup of ...
Gifts For Golden State Warriors Fans
The Golden State Warriors went 73-9 during the 2015-16 NBA regular season, only to see their championship aspirations dashed in the Finals, where they blew a 3-1 lead to LeBron James’s Cleveland Cavaliers....
Warriors And Suns Enact Humanity's Doomed Search For Meaning<em></em>
The Warriors beat the Suns 133-120 tonight, but the game wasn’t entirely the display of offensive efficiency suggested by that final score. Here’s a sequence of abject futility and a metaphor for the human condition in 2016—saved, as we are always, by Stephen Curry....
Titans Start Game With Failed Onside Kick
The Green Bay Packers had the first offensive possession against the Tennessee Titans today, so instead of a kickoff punt, the Titans tried an onside kick instead. The Packers recovered it anyway, and began their first drive just inside the Titans territory. The onside kick could have come back to h...
Chalk One Up For The Process
For the past few years, winning has not been an autumn endeavor for the Philadelphia 76ers. The fall is strictly for setting expectations low, and the precious few wins come scattered throughout the winter and spring. But not anymore, folks. Last night, for the first time since 2013, the Sixers won ...
Gregg Popovich Blasts Donald Trump's Election In Lengthy Monologue: "We Are Rome"<em></em>
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, who has long given well-thought-out responses to a host of social and political issues, spent six minutes of his press conference before tonight’s game against the Pistons harshly criticizing President-elect Donald Trump, and the fact that people voted for him after the c...
Julius Randle Is Getting In People's Heads
Have you been watching any Lakers games this year? Perhaps you haven’t given them much thought ever since Kobe Bryant finally fucked off and took all the schadenfreude-driven reasons to watch the Lakers with him. Well guess what, the Lakers are kind of fun now!...
<i>Inside The NBA</i> Crew Talks Politics; EJ Wrote In John Kasich
Instead of previewing the upcoming game between the Heat and the Bulls, the hosts of Inside The NBA instead spoke for a solid 10 minutes about the election of Donald Trump and how they felt a day removed from it. None of the panel supported Trump, but everyone urged their fellow disaffected citizens...
President Obama Notes That The Warriors Blew A 3-1 Lead In The Finals
In these, the precious final days before the title of Leader of the Free World is officially handed over to an unhinged megalomaniacal trash TV star, it is important to treasure the relatively good times we have today. To help us at least temporarily forget about this lost world we find ourselves in...
New York Basketball Is Perfect And Pristine
We’ve been blessed with a few sequences of perfect basketball already this season, and last night the Knicks and Nets served up a hot slice of authentic “Big Apple” hoops. This encapsulates everything you need to know about the state of basketball in this city, whose crown prince is Brandon Jennings...
The Clippers' Bench Has Somehow Gone From Terrible To Amazing
For five seasons, the Los Angeles Clippers have been the exact same team. In the regular season they win 50-something games, and in the playoffs they flame out before the Conference Finals. But things might just be different this year, because their previously worthless bench unit is dominating game...
Steven Adams And Enes Kanter Met Some Dogs And Some Kids
Hey, want to smile for a few minutes? Then please enjoy Thunder centers Steven Adams and Enes Kanter hangin’ with dogs and kids:...
James Harden Is Free To Be Great
The Houston Rockets, while in the final throes of the failed partnership between James Harden and Dwight Howard, transformed from a contender into one of the saddest-ass teams in the NBA last year. Now Howard is gone, Mike D’Antoni is the new coach, and James Harden is, uh, holy shit, look at James ...
Steve Kerr Rips Donald Trump And The Whole Damn Election
The Warriors ran the Mavericks 116-95 in Oakland last night, but way more interesting and important were Golden State coach Steve Kerr’s pregame comments on the campaign and the new President-elect: “The man who’s going to lead you has routinely used racist, misogynist, insulting words. That’s a tou...
DeMar DeRozan Is Off To A Historically Hot Start
DeMar DeRozan is an outlier among NBA shooting guards, in that he can’t shoot. The Raptors wing is a career .282 three-point shooter, which is lower than DeMarcus Cousins’s career mark, and he’s shooting even worse this year. Dwyane Wade had a distinguished career without being able to stretch the f...
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Like The Rest Of Us, John Wall Wants Nothing To Do With Wizards Games [Update]
This afternoon, John Wall caught a $25,000 fine after he was ejected for bumping into an official on Monday night. It was perfectly emblematic of a 2-5 season in which they’ve allowed more than 110 points in four of those games and their two most important players appear to hate each other’s guts....
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What NBA Players Thought About The Election [Update]
Unlike Nick Saban and his leather-and-laces heart, a range of NBA players expressed their thoughts about the results of the presidential election. Stan Van Gundy fired quite the salvo this morning, and a handful of players have also weighed in....
Stan Van Gundy On Trump's Victory: "We Have Just Thrown A Good Part Of Our Population Under The Bus"
Detroit Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy, like a portion of the country, spent his morning processing the news that Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States....
The Pelicans Are A Damn Disgrace
The New Orleans Pelicans are 0-8. In a vacuum, there’s nothing particularly alarming about a bad basketball team starting the season with eight consecutive losses, but the Pelicans have failed in a way that shouldn’t really be possible in today’s NBA....