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Great Defense, LeBron
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Here Are Your NBA All-Star Starters
Who’s ready for some Kobe??? Hopefully whoever it is that actually watches the NBA All-Star game will be (since he’s starting)....
Cliff "Uncle Spliffy" Robinson Is Opening A Weed Store In Portland
Oregon recently legalized weed, and the first stores catering to recreational users opened last October. You have to be 21 or older to buy, and they’re a tad restrictive on how much you can buy at one time, but it’s a rather relaxed experience. In Portland, you can get a pre-roll of decent quantity ...
Gregg Popovich Loves Photos
While the Spurs were in New York for a Jan. 11 game against the Nets, coach Gregg Popovich apparently nabbed a ticket to Hamilton. Another audience member got the evidence by taking a photo with Popovich, who looked absolutely delighted in his beatnik sweater....
Here's Michael Jordan Gossip That We Desperately Want To Believe
This week, a day after former Chicago Bulls assistant coach Johnny Bach died at 91, we got an email. A friend of a friend had sent the tipster a summary of a 2011 dinner with Bach. It was filled with all sorts of fun anecdotes about Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Jerry Krause, and more characters o...
Just Three European NBA Players, Making Jokes And Burning Hassan Whiteside
Jazz center and large Frenchman Rudy Gobert sent a semi-hot, cryptic tweet two days ago:...
The Rockets Just Took Intentional Fouling To Its Logical Extreme
I swear that the following is a real, legitimate box score:...
Clint Capela Had Just The Saddest Possession
Rockets center/power forward Clint Capela has developed into a nice young player, but that won’t prevent him from appearing on Shaqtin’ a Fool this week....
Here Are The NBA's Best-Selling Jerseys
The NBA has released the season’s first rankings of its most popular jerseys, and the very top of the list looks like the last one. But coming in at number four with a bullet is a new name. The photo above may have given it away....
Russell Westbrook Dunked The Nuggets Out Of The Arena
The Denver Nuggets, a bad basketball team, actually gave the Oklahoma City Thunder a close game last night. A rejuvenated Danilo Gallinari hung 27 on them, Kenneth Faried did some Kenneth Faried things, and rookie point guard Emmanuel Mudiay managed to play 33 not-totally-embarrassing minutes. Denve...
Mexican Pacific League Playoff Semifinal Ends In Game 7, 16th Inning Squeeze
It is January and a cold front is sweeping across the United States, but our neighbors to the south are still playing some stick and ball. The Mexican Pacific League playoffs are underway, and yesterday featured a Game 7 for the ages between Águilas de Mexicali and the Mayos de Navojoa....
Which Band Has Caused The Most Junior High Dance Boners?
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A Brief But Amusing Math Lesson From Kyle Lowry And DeMar DeRozan
The Toronto Raptors played in London last week. During a post-practice media scrum, shooting guard DeMar DeRozan was asked asked about his strong offensive performances in the previous two games he’d played in London. That’s when a hum-drum interview suddenly became very entertaining....
Steph Curry Is Rude As Hell
Steph Curry and the Warriors beat some ass against the Cavaliers last night. Curry scored 35 points in the laugher despite not playing the fourth quarter, but he had plenty of time to toy with the Cavs before taking a rest....
Mike McCarthy Says Eddie Lacy Needs To Lose Weight
It was a bad year for Packers running back Eddie Lacy, who entered the season as a young, rising star and spent it battling through injuries, briefly losing his starting job due to ineffectiveness, briefly losing it again after missing a curfew, and setting career lows in carries, yards, and touchdo...
All That's Left Is For The Warriors And Spurs To Rumble
The Cleveland Cavaliers screwed the goddamn pooch. They dropped the ball. They shit the bed. They crashed and burned. They were on the ass-end of a trainwreck. They blew it....
Life As A Cleveland Sports Fan
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Knicks Win In Double-OT After Carmelo Anthony Hits Tying Three At End Of Regulation
What could possibly get the whole Internet talking about a January afternoon Sixers-Knicks game? The combination of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and a free League Pass preview. Just when we were ready to rub a Sixers win in the face of our New York-based co-workers, ‘Melo had to pull this rabbit out o...
The World Needed Another Latvian Rap Song About Kristaps Porzingis
One music video about Latvian-born New York Knicks rookie Kristaps Porzingis wasn’t enough. There’s a second one titled “Keep Calm Like Kristaps Porzingis,” which features Lamborghinis in the snow, dabs, and heavy influences from Future....
Giant Monster Dunks On Poor Sucker; Poor Sucker Laughs
San Antonio’s “sort of an odd thing” Boban Marjanović (pictured here) is 7-foot-3, very strong, and has hands the size of Manu Ginobili. What I am saying here is that one can only do so much to prevent him from catching and dunking basketballs. Sometimes he’s just gonna catch a basketball and dunk i...