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Russell Westbrook Says There's No Particular Reason He Dressed Up Like A Photographer
Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook wore an interesting outfit last night, but that’s something that can be said about him literally anytime he walks out of his front door. This particular outfit caught people’s attention, though....

Wizards And Caps Owner: I Suck Because D.C. Won't Pay My Bills For Me
This motherfucker. Here’s Ted Leonsis, majority owner of the Washington Capitals, the Washington Wizards, and the arena in which both those teams play their home games, D.C.’s Verizon Center, mewling to the Washington Post because he has to pay his own mortgage and building costs instead of passing ...

Draymond Green Shares Totally Genuine Expression Of Sympathy For Cleveland<em></em>
He really had this one holstered all night, huh....

J.R. Smith Rips Shirt Off To Try And Inspire An Indians Rally
J.R. Smith, a man with a tempestuous relationship with wearing a shirt, went and popped that bad boy off on the video board at the Indians’ stadium tonight in an attempt to inspire a late rally....

Sixers And Hornets Give Up, Decide To Just Sort Of Flail Everywhere<em></em>
We’ve brought you a lot of dumb basketball lately, but good lord, this here sequence from the Sixers and Hornets is the worst offense yet. ...

Fast Break Reinvented
One time I was playing basketball and I fell and my shorts came off somehow. That’s about as bad as what happened to Sam Dekker here, or more accurately, what Sam Dekker did to himself....
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Please Help Leandro Barbosa Find His Very Good Doggie [VERY HAPPY UPDATE]
Suns guard Leandro Barbosa has a very sweet looking dog named Maya, who apparently left his Paradise Valley, Ariz. home today and got lost....

NFL Network Suspends Brian Baldinger Six Months For Promoting Bounties
The NFL Network has suspended analyst and former NFL player Brian Baldinger six months without pay, Sporting News reports. On Friday Baldinger went on the radio with Philadelphia’s 97.5 The Fanatic, and recommended that the Eagles put a bounty on and attempt to injure Cowboys running back Ezekiel El...

For One Quarter Last Night, Steph Looked Like Steph Again
In the grand tradition of LeBron’s Heat and, uh, LeBron’s Cavs, the Warriors’ new superteam has gotten off to a bumpy start. There was that dumbfounding opening night massacre at the hands of the Spurs, but even Golden State’s next two victories—an eight-point win over the Pelicans and a six-point w...

Rudy Gay's Game-Winning Attempt Missed Everything But His Teammate's Head
Rudy Gay had 30 points and 12 boards in a valiant loss for the Sacramento Kings down in Miami tonight. The team can take heart in their near-win against an Eastern Conference playoff team on the road. They can not, however, find much to like about the last play of regulation. Gay got the rock, fired...

Let's Check In On Joakim Noah And The Knicks
The Knicks traveled to play fellow mediocre-ish Eastern Conference squad Detroit this evening, and Joakim Noah did this. Turns out, a shitty Vine of someone’s TV is the perfect way to show you this “highlight.”...

Aaron Gordon Got In Some Mid-Game Dunk Contest Practice
Aaron Gordon got robbed at the Slam Dunk Contest last season, and this evening, he got in some early prep for his 2017 run at the title. In the first quarter of the Magic’s game against the Sixers, he robbed Richaun Holmes blind then pulled off a two-handed 360 on the breakaway....

Ray Allen Paved The Way
Ray Allen hasn’t played in an NBA game since July 2014, but the 41-year-old shooting guard was not officially retired until this morning, when he announced his exit from the NBA in an essay published on The Players’ Tribune....

Rick James Is On the Bench For The Clippers
Paul Pierce is out tonight with an ankle injury, so he dressed up as Rick James on the bench. Pierce is one of the most zealous NBA Halloween enthusiasts, and his frog costume is probably his best work. Clips owner Steve Ballmer was thrilled to meet a funk celebrity....

LeBron Roasted The Warriors At His Halloween Party With Some Extremely Rude Cookies
LeBron James, omnipotent shot blocker and NBA champion, loves Halloween. He had a bunch of his Cavs teammates over this weekend, and they all committed to full-on costumes (especially Iman Shumpert). James also used the occasion to stomp all over the Warriors once again in true Halloween spirit. A C...

The Thunder Are Locking Up What They Have
The Oklahoma City Thunder still have to figure out how to be a consistent playoff contender without Kevin Durant anchoring the roster, but they made two moves today that have given the future (the near future, at least) a more defined shape....

I Still Haven't Wrapped My Head Around This LeBron James Pass
I know you’ve seen this pass LeBron James made during Saturday’s game against the Magic:...

DeMarcus Cousins Shows Off A Range Of Emotions After His Fouls
Sacramento Kings center DeMarcus Cousins led the NBA with 17 technical fouls last season, so he’s well acquainted with the art of getting T’d up. But with his first one of this season, in the second quarter of Saturday’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Cousins debuted a new reaction: the ch...

