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J.R. Smith Breaks Down When Asked To Describe The Inspiration Of His Father
“If it wasn’t for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn’t be able to mess up and keep coming back and being able to sit in front of you as the world champion.”...
Here's The Moment These Cleveland Newscasters Learned Live On-Air The Cavs Were NBA Champions
Here’s your WJW (Fox) Cleveland crew live on-air watching and announcing that the Cavaliers were NBA champions. (They immediately went live to Akron.)...
Listen To The Cavaliers' Radio Calls Of Cleveland's First Title In Decades
As you might imagine, the Cleveland Cavaliers’ first-ever NBA championship—and the first in any sport for that city in decades—launched the team’s radio announcers into ecstasy. Up above you can hear the Cavs’ English-language announcers; below, their Spanish-language feed....
Holy Shit, Cleveland Won A Championship
We’ll have plenty of analysis later, but for the moment: holy shit....
Blind MLS Refs Botch Obvious Own Goal Call
This is so obviously an own goal it almost hurts to watch, but neither an always-attentive MLS referee nor any of his assistants were able to notice the ball traveled well past the line. Great job, everybody....
Tristan Thompson Is The Cavs' Secret Weapon
Whether they win Game 7 or turn back into pumpkins on Sunday, the Cleveland Cavaliers have already put in a better effort than they did in last year’s Finals. Even though they got extinguished like a bug against a fly zapper in the series’ opening games in Oakland, they’re back again for Game 7 with...
Eleven Very Important Takes About The Golden State Warriors
1. They are not the best team ever....
The Currys Snapped, Just Like Everyone Else
After he got his sixth foul and ended his Game 6 early Thursday night, Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry lost his shit. A few minutes later, his wife Ayesha Curry lost hers....
The NBA Finals Have Blessed Us With Dank Memes
LeBron James and the Cavs just dunked all over Steph Curry and the Warriors, providing the fuel to run a thousand take machines for a century. While the games in the NBA Finals have been lopsided, the bizarre subplots—Draymond’s dick and balls violence, LeBron’s utter dominance, Steph Curry’s terrib...
LeBron James Is Omnipotent
Shortly after Steph Curry left the floor, grinning in embarrassment over getting ejected, LeBron James shot a pair of free throws to deafening “MVP!” chants. He is not, of course, the MVP of this 2016 season, but make no mistake: He is very much still the best player in the NBA, and after a glorious...
J.R. Smith's Daughter Burns Him On National Television
Aside from a 20-pointer in Game 5, J.R. Smith hasn’t really shown up in these NBA Finals. That’s okay! His daughter is proud of him anyway. Why’s that? Because he made it this far into the season without getting kicked off the team....
The Pandora's Box Of Doping Cases Is About To Be Opened
Ten years ago, the Spanish Guardia Civil raided the Madrid lab of Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes and discovered 211 bags of blood from athletes Fuentes had worked with. Fuentes has faced 10 years of legal trouble, and some athletes he worked with have received bans, but the massive stash of frozen, damning s...
Jayson Werth Has A Profane, Shaggy Message For His Haters
The Washington Nationals took the rubber match against the Chicago Cubs this evening after an insane 12-inning affair that featured the Nationals going ahead in the 8th, losing the lead in the ninth, forcing extra innings, falling behind in the 12th, then finally walking off after Jayson Werth singl...
Report: Padres Were Eager For San Diego To Install Jagged Rocks To Keep Homeless People Away From The All-Star Game
The San Diego Padres were interested in the city’s plan to place jagged rocks along an underpass in order to deter homeless people from congregating there ahead of the MLB All-Star Game, according to a report from Voice of San Diego. ...
Let Us Introduce You To The Dankest Of All <i>Game Of Thrones</i> Theories
For all of the casual viewership and cultural ubiquity Game Of Thrones has achieved by being a show about “tits and dragons,” the show only works because of the writing. Almost everything about the plot is just goddamn preposterous, but it works because it’s anchored in characters having conversatio...
Shaun Livingston Throws It Down
Shaun Livingston has been one of the quiet pleasures of this mostly-joyless NBA playoff season. Here’s how his second-quarter dunk sounded on ESPN Deportes; below is how it was called on Russian TV....
Draymond Green Is An Asshole
“Golden State’s reliance on an unstable isotope is a high-stakes gamble that has finally blown up in their face,” FreeDarko founder Bethlehem Shoals writes for GQ re: Draymond Green’s Game 5 suspension for whacking LeBron James in the dick and balls. “The degree to which Golden State depends on Gree...
Where Can The Sharks Go From Here?
The pessimists’ view—the Sharks fan’s view, perhaps, by this point—is that after all this, after two fantastic months, San Jose merely found a brand new form of dickpunch. They’ve lost every other way before, in every other round, but not until 2016 did the Sharks and their fans discover what it’s l...