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Derrick Rose's Brother Is Not Happy With The Bulls
While Sad Derrick Rose continues his sad comeback, his brother and business manager, Reggie Rose, decided to take a few shots at the Bulls organization. In an interview with ESPN Chicago, Reggie Rose expressed his displeasure at the Bulls for not making a deal before this year's trade deadline....
Kobe Bryant Guarantees The Lakers Will Make The Playoffs
What do Dwight Howard, Steve Nash, Pau Gasol, and Metta World Peace have in common with Chris Mihm, Chucky Atkins, Lamar Odom, and Caron Butler? If the season ended today, those would be the only two supporting casts in Kobe Bryant's career with which he didn't make the postseason. One of these rost...
Bulls Fans Roared With Approval When They Realized LeBron James Was Injured By A Hard Foul
Midway through the final stanza of tonight's Heat-Bulls matchup, Chicago hadn't shown much bite. Down 16 and lacking much motivation at all, Chicago brought United Center fans to their feet, finally, when Nate Robinson chased down LeBron James and stopped the Heat star from making an easy transiti...
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Ladies, J.R. Smith's Twitter Come-On Will Have You Sopping Wet [UPDATE: J.R. Responds]
Last month, as the Knicks were in Philadelphia to play the Sixers, J.R. Smith was up to his old tricks. J.R.'s got something of a history with Twitter, and women, (and asses), so it's not like the young lady who chatted him up via direct message couldn't have known what she was getting into. Still, ...
The NBA Trade Deadline Was A Flurry Of Crap
What a frenzied day it has been out there on the NBA marketplace! Today was the last day for teams to trade during the 2012-13 NBA season, and so teams are wheelin' and dealin' and securing their championship futures! ...
Hugh Hefner Remembers Jerry Buss
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: The Playboy head honors a party legend....
Finally, Someone Has Written The Perfect Metta World Peace Sentence
Here it is, from today's Los Angeles Times:...
The Lakers Set Their Pregame Jerry Buss Tribute To The Song "Good Riddance"
The Lakers crushed Boston last night 113-99 in a game preceded by a memorial tribute to late owner Jerry Buss—complete with moment of silence, speech from Kobe Bryant, and slideshow set to moving music....
Greg Monroe Will Not Be Purchasing The Poster Of This Michael Kidd-Gilchrist Dunk
Shame is not the reason Monroe won't seek out this dunk again. It's because he's dead. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist killed him. He exploded Monroe into a million pieces. There are bits of sinew and gristle dotting the upper reaches of the Time Warner Cable Arena. Monroe's parents and sister were notifie...
This Hawks Bro Is So Amped He Can Barely Move
Goldthwaitian is the only way I can describe this guy. He is so psyched he cannot properly form the usual manifestations of joy so he just kind of vibrates....
James Harden Sinks Half-Court Buzzer-Beater
As time ticked away in the third quarter of Oklahoma City-Houston, Russell Westbrook was hanging on for the last shot of the period and finally drove to the basket with about seven seconds left. He promptly lost the ball, which wound up in former teammate James Harden's hands with three seconds le...
Kobe Gets Asked If LeBron's Better Than Him. Kobe Says LeBron's "In That Same Room."
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: It's not true, but he can say what he wants....
Giancarlo Stanton Got Drilled In The Head With A Fastball
Giancarlo Stanton, the Marlins' best player and only hope of selling tickets, took a ball to the dome during a simulated game this afternoon. The offending pitcher? Jose Fernandez, Miami's first pick in 2011 and their top young arm. Fernandez has been sent to Jeffrey Loria's zinc mines in the DRC....
Inconsequential Rapper Confronts Inconsequential Basketball Team's Play-By-Play Announcer
On a scale of one to Lil-Wayne-claiming-to-have-humped-Chris-Bosh's-wife, this particular hip-hop/NBA beef rates at about a two. The Toronto Raptors played the Washington Wizards last night, and D.C. rapper Wale was sitting courtside. After watching Raptors forward Rudy Gay hit a three-pointer and ...
God Bless The Brooklyn Nets' PR Staff
Numbers are all the rage in sports today. Basketball's no exception. Every well-intentioned team has snapped up a stathead or several and stuck 'em in the front office. But we assume they don't fraternize too much with the public relations types. If they did, we wouldn't get nuggets like this....
Michael Jordan's Trainer Says He Could Average 20 A Night If He Came Back
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: It's not true, but he can say what he wants....
Andrew Bynum's Hair Is Just All Fucked Up Now
The only thing worth talking about that has come from Andrew Bynum's first season with the 76ers has been the big man's ever-changing, ridiculous hairstyles. Today, Bynum met with the local media to give an update on the progress of his rehab (Spoiler alert: he's still a few weeks away from returni...
Here's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Wearing A Darth Vader Mask And Posing With Katherine Webb
If we wanted to, we could probably track down information that would add context to this photo. But we aren't going to do that, because context does not matter in this case. All that matters is that this photo exists and that it makes us laugh, as do all photos of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar posing with sh...