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Steve Ballmer Trampoline Dunk? Steve Ballmer Trampoline Dunk.
The Los Angeles Clippers unveiled a new mascot during halftime of their game against the Nets, and for some reason they went with a condor that looks suspiciously like a toucan. Vince Staples, your thoughts?...

Robot Rondo Crashes Operating System, Earns Bizarre Back-To-Back Delay Of Game Fouls
The Oklahoma City Thunder grabbed two technical foul free throws with 1.2 seconds left in the half at Sacramento tonight when Rajon Rondo found himself incapable of handling the ball for an inbounds play—twice....

Everybody's Mad At The Heat For How They Got Under The Luxury Tax Threshold
After the Brooklyn Nets bought out the rest of Joe Johnson’s contract, the Miami Heat quickly moved to sign him. While Johnson will probably help the Heat out on the court, signing him barely put the Heat over the luxury tax threshold....

Gus Johnson Says Dwight Howard Told Him He Almost Ended Up In Milwaukee
Dwight Howard was much closer to being traded at the deadline than previously reported, according to a probably reliable source: Dwight Howard....

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Update: Every Steph Curry Three-Pointer From 28+ Feet This Season
Stephen Curry’s overtime-winning rainbow Saturday night just added to the league MVP’s legend as one of the greatest long-range shooters the game has ever seen. Not only did it break his own records for consecutive games with a three-pointer and threes in a season, it tied the NBA record for three-p...

Amar'e Stoudemire Doesn't Think Carmelo Anthony Has Handled This Knicks Thing Very Well
“I was so involved with creating a positive atmosphere around the Knicks,” Amar’e Stoudemire said before Miami’s 98-81 win in his first trip back to Madison Square Garden since being bought out last year. “Now it’s gone the opposite way.”...

Steve Kerr Burns Warriors Haters
Surely you’ve seen Steph Curry’s celestial game-winner from last night by now. It was one of the coolest sports moments of 2016, as well as a well-timed rebuttal to the newish wave of old-ass basketball players doing the “back in my day,” routine. Steve Kerr used the opportunity to lace a pretty sea...

Here's Stephen Curry's Miracle Game-Winner As Called In Spanish And In Russian
Stephen Curry’s multiple-record-breaking series of three pointers tonight against the Thunder sent the Warriors out of Oklahoma City with a win they had absolutely no business taking. None of the threes were more mindblowing, of course, than the last-second-of-overtime long-range bomb that earned th...

Stephen Curry Hits Game-Winning, Record-Breaking Jumper From Mars To Beat OKC
Stephen Curry, whose fate (and ankle) we questioned just an hour ago, hit a last-second three from 30 feet out to dispatch Oklahoma City in a game it seemed the Thunder couldn’t possibly lose. It was Curry’s 12th three-pointer of the game....
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Stephen Curry Heads To Locker Room With Ankle Injury [UPDATE: He's Back]
Stephen Curry left tonight’s matchup in Oklahoma City early in the second half after twisting his ankle in an attempt to drive to the basket....

"WE BE CHAMPIONSHIP": Draymond Green's Mother Pens Open Letter To Warriors Haters
The Warriors are probably going to win at least 70 games, and are currently on pace to eclipse Michael Jordan’s 1996 Bulls and win 73. They’re good and fun and they’re killing everyone, but even they’ve drawn some haters. Draymond Green’s mother wrote an open letter to those haters. Hey, Oscar Rober...

Are You A Bay Area Pro Athlete? San Francisco Might Owe You A Parking Ticket Refund
Today, at 3:43 EST, Deadspin received one of the better tips we’ve seen in a while. Reader Zain was checking to see if the City of San Francisco owed him any money from parking tickets that he overpaid. Unfortunately for him, they did not. But fortunately for us and Tim Lincecum, Zain discovered tha...

I Think These Sixers Fans Have Stockholm Syndrome
What is the saddest thing?...

NFL Network Screwup Catches Analysts Mocking Prospect
NFL Network inadvertently aired its analysts’ off-air commentary on a quarterback prospect at the NFL combine, mocking both his singing and throwing ability while declaring him “the next former Browns quarterback.”...

DeMarcus Cousins And Chris Paul Are Still Going With The NBA's Most Vertically Offset Beef
Boogie Cousins and Chris Paul are probably the two most easily riled up dudes in the Pacific Division, so even though they don’t play the same position, it makes sense that they could very well find themselves beefing. They’re pretty good foils for each other, all told: both guys play with an unveil...

Here's A Video Of 35 Times Stephen Curry Hit A Shot From 28+ Feet This Season
Warriors superstar Stephen Curry is en route to demolishing his own NBA single-season three-pointer record, and if the quantity weren’t astonishing enough consider this: at least 35 of the 276 threes Curry has hit this season have been from 28 feet or further, more than four feet behind the three-po...

Report: Brooklyn Nets Tickets Will Be Cheaper Next Season Because Nobody Wants To Pay To See That Garbage
The Brooklyn Nets have realized that fielding a roster of chumps and Brook Lopez doesn’t put butts in seats, so they’re solving half of the problem by making it cheaper to watch their dull team....

James Harden Saved The Day
Time zones are weird. Here on the East Coast, the Houston Rockets had a really, really lousy February 25th, and it was all James Harden’s fault; on the West Coast, it turned out okay, all thanks to James Harden....