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Report: Steve Ballmer Bid $1.8 Billion For The Clippers
According to a Forbes source, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has offered a bid of $1.8 billion to buy the L.A. Clippers. But don't get your hopes up, Seattle....
Last Night Belonged To Crazy-Ass Lance Stephenson
Aside from Paul George's second-half explosion and its madcap ending, last night's game between the Heat and Pacers was pretty damn unwatchable. That's what happens when the best player in the universe has to spend most of the game on the bench with the foul trouble and the Pacers decide to do... wh...
Heat Fan Grandma Is A Pretty Great Grandma
This grandma is a really big fan of the Miami Heat, and so her grandson decided to record her while she watched Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals. Based on the video evidence, watching a game with this lady is probably be a lot of fun....
Here's A New Attempt At Gauging The Defensive Impact Of NBA Players
The defensive impact of individual NBA players is hard to measure, as it's so intertwined with their teammates' performance. Austin Clemens, undeterred, has taken an ambitious shot with his new Adjusted Impact by Court Location model, which attempts to parse out individual impacts on opponent shot s...
Even When The Spurs Lose, Gregg Popovich Wins
The Spurs may have lost to the Thunder last night, but Gregg Popovich continued to win his war against reporters who dare to ask him questions. ...
The Thunder Are The Thunder Again, And This Is A Brand New Series
I suppose we can go ahead and forget about the first two games of the Western Conference finals, which saw the Serge Ibaka-less Thunder getting swallowed whole by the Spurs while Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant did their best to fight off the inevitable. We can forget those two games because Ser...
Russ Killing It, Animated
[The Oklahoma City Thunder evened their series with the Spurs last night behind a dominating 40 point, 10 assist and 5 steal night from Russell Westbrook. Artist and Deadspin favorite Chris Edser put together this animation of the fellow Deadspin favorite's other talents.]...
Sterling Calls Ban "Illegal," Claims Team Can Be Sold For $2.5 Billion
Remember when it was reported that Donald Sterling would peacefully relinquish his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers and let his estranged wife Shelly take the team? Yeah, that's probably not happening....
The Thunder Got Back Serge Ibaka, May Have Gotten Back Into This Series
Now this is more like it. When the Thunder announced they'd lost Serge Ibaka for the remainder of the playoffs to a calf injury, it seemed like we'd all miss out on another classic clash of age vs. youth, savvy vs. athleticism, creative offense vs. "dribble around, then someone shoot!" Ibaka's retur...
The Grizzlies' Front Office Is A Dysfunctional Zoo Of Obtuseness
The briefly open relationship between the Memphis Grizzlies and head coach Dave Joerger reset curiously this week when the Minnesota Timberwolves did not hire him away. Hall pass thus revoked, Joerger came back and made nice with his bosses, who, if this delightful bit of reportage by SI's Chris Man...
Ray Allen Capitalizes On Lax Pacers Defense With Superb Fourth Quarter
Ray Allen played a large part in allowing the Heat to break away from the Pacers Saturday night with four threes in the fourth quarter in a Game 3 win. Indiana's defense saw the three-point specialist as an afterthought, and he made them pay....
V. Stiviano Text With Audio To Clippers Employee: "LET THE GAMES BEGAN"
Before the recordings of Donald Sterling leaked to the public, V. Stiviano sent one tape to a Clippers employee—along with an ominous, all-caps message—when Sterling distanced himself from her....
Reports: Donald Sterling Steps Aside, Wife To Sell Clippers
As first reported by TMZ, and just confirmed by ESPN's Ramona Shelburne, the Donald Sterling saga may end painlessly and without going to court. According to the reports, Sterling will leave it to his maybe-estranged wife Shelly to negotiate the sale of the Clippers....
Lebron's Game 2 Buzzer Beater, 5 Years On
[LeBron James shoots the game winning three pointer over Hedo Turkoglu in Game Two of the Eastern Conference Finals during the 2009 Playoffs in Cleveland, Ohio five years ago today. Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images.]...
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Did New Clippers CEO Dick Parsons Really Play College Basketball? [Update]
Dick Parsons has had, as they say, a long and distinguished career. A one-time aide to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and a former chair of organizations ranging from Time Warner to Citigroup to the Jazz Foundation of America, he's if anything overly qualified for his current role as CEO of the L...
This GIF Is All The Spurs-Thunder Analysis You Need
This GIF has been making its way around Twitter this morning, and it's all that really needs to be said about what has happened so far in the first two conference finals games between the Spurs and Thunder. ...
Russell Westbrook To Kevin Durant: "Wake Up"
What we have here (via CJ Fogler) is an excellent opportunity for projection. A fairly innocuous exhortation from one frustrated player to another after a defensive lapse, but in the context of the Spurs' blowout, their 2-0 series lead, and Kevin Durant's and Russell Westbrook's shitty shooting nigh...
Attractive Teenage Girl Appears On TV; Sports Press Declares Its Lust
A remarkable thing happened at last night’s NBA Draft Lottery. The Bucks were represented by Mallory Edens, daughter of team owner Wes Edens, and the internet rose up as one to declare, “We would like to have sex with this 18-year-old girl.” ...