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So, The Warriors Got Their Asses Kicked
Let’s briefly acknowledge all the required caveats: that this was just the first game of a long season, that recent history has proven super teams always take time to gel, that the Golden State Warriors are still going to kick tons of ass this year....
Jonathon Simmons Flushed Steph Curry Down The Toilet
Perhaps the most humiliating moment of the Warriors’ ignominious collapse in the NBA Finals came when LeBron James soared out of the sky and pinned Andre Iguodala’s shot to the backboard in utter defiance of gravity and everyone....
Gregg Popovich Offers Touching Story Of His Friendship With Steve Kerr
In his first game without Tim Duncan since the Mesozoic Era, Gregg Popovich got wistful and told a touching story about his relationship with old friend Steve Kerr....
LeBron James's Dunks Are So Violent
The Cavaliers are cruising in the first game of the NBA season, with a nice healthy fourth quarter lead over the Knicks. It’s gone about how you’d probably expect. Kristaps Porzingis has loped around the court and hit a few shots, Kyrie Irving has put Brandon Jennings in the toilet, and, of course, ...
Charles Barkley Says Klay Thompson Is The Second-Best Player In The NBA
The NBA season is starting more or less right now. What better way to kick the proceedings off than to enjoy TNT’s Charles Barkley offering his first astounding take of the year....
Chris Hansen Offers To Build Seattle An NBA Arena Without Public Funding
On Thursday, the Sacramento Kings will play their first game in a new arena that the city chipped in $255 million to build. They scraped together that money in 2013 in order to win an arms race with billionaire Chris Hansen and the city of Seattle. Hansen’s offer to the Maloof family was $39 million...
Andrew Bogut Dunked On, This Time On Twitter <em></em>
Dallas Mavericks and former Golden State Warriors center Andrew Bogut’s political beliefs are exactly what you would expect them to be. He complains about the rappers, cars, and the bling bling in the NBA; goes on random right-wing podcasts; is anti-workers rights; and frequently tweets profoundly u...
Zero Tolerance For Domestic Violence Will Only Make It Worse
Over and over in her interviews with law enforcement, Molly Brown said that money was one of the topics that made her husband, New York Giants kicker Josh Brown, angry. A fight over financial mail preceded him pushing her into a door while she was pregnant; years later, when she called King County s...
NBA TV's Kristen Ledlow Says She Was Robbed At Gunpoint
This evening, NBA TV reporter and NBA Inside Stuff host Kristen Ledlow posted a short note on her Twitter and Instagram pages saying she was robbed at gunpoint yesterday. She says that she’ll be taking a social media hiatus for a bit....
Lauren Holiday Recovering From Brain Surgery, Gave Birth In September
Retired U.S. Women’s National Team midfielder Lauren Holiday underwent brain surgery Thursday to remove a benign tumor and is recovering in North Carolina. In September, Holiday gave birth to a daughter, who shares a name with her father, NBA player Jrue Holiday....
Draymond Green's Taekwondo Skills Are Already In Midseason Form
Draymond “The Human Vasectomy” Green, whose reputation is rooted in his kicking ability as much as it is his actual basketball skills, is back at the martial arts-ing, even in preseason. Here he is last night against the Blazers, leveling his big foot toward Allen Crabbe:...
Rudy Gay To George Karl: "Welcome To Basketball Hell"
The Sacramento Kings, a failed state of an NBA team run by a clueless owner, will be bad this year, despite internal expectations that they’ll make the playoffs. One of the reasons why they could actually improve this season is because their new coach Dave Joerger seems to have a clue, unlike George...
WNBA: Refs Screwed Up, Go-Ahead Basket Should Not Have Counted
With the score tied up at 71 with under two minutes left in the last game of the WNBA Finals, the Sparks recovered an offensive rebound, swung the ball around, and eventually found their star Nneka Ogwumike for a relatively easy turnaround shot. She made it, and eventually would make the game-winnin...
Aaron Rodgers Goes As "The Dude" For Halloween
Aaron Rodgers helped the Packers close out a home stand with a 26-10 win over the Bears tonight, and afterward showed up for the presser in his finest from the wardrobe of The Big Lebowski....
L.A. Sparks Win WNBA Finals After Insane Final Two Minutes
The Los Angeles Sparks took down the mighty Minnesota Lynx in a wild Game 5 this evening to win the franchise’s third championship. The last two minutes of the game were an incredible back-and-forth affair; Lindsey Whalen tied it up at 71 with 1:47 left, then Nneka Ogwumike gave the Sparks the lead...
Nick Kyrgios Picks NBA Celebrity Game Over Tennis Tournament, Which Is Actually Good As Hell
Nick Kyrgios has done dumb things lately and has taken plenty of heat for it—from disappointed fans, from hand-wringing commentators, and from the ATP itself via heavy fines and suspension. They’ll all be tempted to wag their fingers again after Kyrgios’s latest move: pulling out of February’s Rot...
Report: Eddie Lacy Fat Again
Packers running back Eddie Lacy’s weight is under constant scrutiny by both his coaches and the media, and head coach Mike McCarthy has publicly pleaded with Lacy to lose weight in the past. Things were looking good this offseason when Lacy reported to camp in shape, but he seems to have backslid th...
Celtics Fan Enjoys Himself
I’m usually unimpressed by the dinguses who do wacky things behind the broadcast table at NBA games, but I have to admit that this dude’s routine during last night’s Knicks-Celtics game made me chuckle:...
Joel Embiid Appears To Actually Be The Truth<em></em>
We rip on the Sixers more or less constantly because of their cynical, anti-fan approach to sports and their former tech-worshipping leader’s insane hubris, but goddamn it, Joel Embiid is actually cool. Please enjoy him dancing a bunch then casually flushing a huge windmill. ...
Draymond Green Will Be Tolerated As Long As He Continues Helping The Warriors Win<em></em>
Draymond Green is the straw that stirs the Golden State Warriors’ drink, and that is precisely the problem, posits an ESPN deep dive into Green and the Warriors. All last season, small instances of Green simmering—chasing triple-doubles, yelling at his teammates—were reported, but mostly filed away ...