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The Cavs' Injuries Are The Best Thing That Could Have Happened To Them

You will find no postgame quotes from unlikely finals hero Matthew Dellavedova. Rather than making it to the interview room for his scheduled podium appearance, Dellavedova received an IV the locker room, walked out to the parking garage, hopped on a stretcher and was loaded into an ambulance and ta...

The Cavaliers Defense Is A Vise, Slowly Crushing The Warriors To Death

Okay, what the hell are the Cavaliers doing on defense? Because after three games of absolutely pummeling the Warriors offense, this clearly isn’t a fluke. Here is a partial list of things the Cavs defense perpetrated on Golden State in Game 3:...

Warriors Owner Couldn't Deal With Sitting Next To Rihanna

Photos caught Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob sitting next to Rihanna during Game 1 of the NBA Finals—and then, abruptly, sitting two seats away with his fiancée in between. It’s not what you think....

The Cavaliers' Defense Deserves All The Love

If you had traveled back in time to Sunday morning and shown me a snapshot of the Game 2 box score as it stood with three minutes left to play in the fourth quarter, I would have assumed that something cataclysmic was in store—that Steph Curry was going to lose his right hand right before tip-off, o...

Brandon Spikes's Car Potentially Linked To Hit-And Run [Update]

Massachusetts state troopers are attempting to figure out the connection between a damaged, abandoned car registered to Patriots LB Brandon Spikes, and a nearby hit-and-run incident....

LeBron James Played The Best Kind Of Hero Ball

I’m still not entirely sure what we saw last night, only that I loved it. This was not a good game by any means—it was sloppy and disjointed and featured as many bad misses as missed calls—but it was the most single most viscerally entertaining game since at least Game 7 of Clippers-Spurs. And it fe...

LeBron's Cavs Outlast Warriors In Overtime For Improbable Game 2 Win

The end of regulation looked familiar. Once again the Cavs found themselves with a potential game-winning shot, having once again blown a late-game lead, and once again LeBron missed, sending Cleveland into overtime looking old and broken and just short. This time, though, the Cavs absorbed the Warr...

Marreese Speights Dunkfail Representative Of This Game As A Whole

Tonight’s NBA Finals Game 2 has been a competitive game. It has not, exactly, been a good game. Marreese Speights attempting to end the third quarter with a big dunk and failing: Exhibit A....

Warriors Fan Hits Half-Court Shot, Wins Car

It’s not just Stephen Curry who can hit long-range shots. Here’s a Warriors fan who landed a half-court shot during a third quarter timeout tonight and won himself a new car. ...

This Fucking Sucks.

Fuck Yeah Andre Iguodala Deserves All This Shine

Watching Andre Iguodala bust his ass in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, scrambling around screens and harrying LeBron post-ups, totally thriving within the confines of his game, was one of the happiest and unlikeliest things to happen this postseason. Andre, who’s been laboring on the outskirts of NBA not...

When The Warriors Play Small They're Unstoppable

In Game 1 of the NBA Finals, neither the Warriors nor Cavaliers were able to perform for more than a couple of minutes at a time. That can partially be attributed to the rust from a week off, but each team also executed a successful defensive scheme. The Warriors didn’t double LeBron James, letting ...

Andre Iguodala Hits Shoeless Three

This game has been too entertaining to take much time off for highlights, but Andre Iguodala hitting a three sin zapato is worth another look....

J.R. Smith Has The NBA By The Shoelaces

Hello again, casual basketball fan! The NBA Finals begin tonight. The heavily favored Golden State Warriors will face the Cleveland Cavaliers; league MVP Steph Curry and rising star Klay Thompson will take on the immortal LeBron James and whiz-kid Kyrie Irving. The Warriors will seek their first tit...

What The Fresh Hell Is This Rob Gronkowski Video?

Gregarious tricep Rob Gronkowski did an interview with DuJour—we have no idea what it is, but it claims to be “Where Luxury Lives”—and while the written profile doesn’t cover much new ground outside of Gronk’s drinking preferences, which we’ll get to later, the video accompanying the article is quit...

Draymond Green Tweeted Some Mean Things About LeBron A Few Years Ago

Draymond Green has been the breakout player of the NBA this season, rumbling, defending and trash-talking his way into a potential max-contract this summer. ...

Four Minutes Of Josh Smith Being Bad Against The Warriors

Josh Smith wasn’t absolutely horrible for the Rockets in their playoff series against the Warriors, but he did have his bad moments. Someone compiled and helpfully annotated his blunders—mostly on defense, with a few bad three-point attempts sprinkled in—in a four-minute video. There’s a nice Easter...

Editor-In-Chief Tomás Ríos Has Left Vice Sports

Vice Sports editor-in-chief Tomás Ríos has left the company in what was described by a source as a mutual agreement to part ways. The Vice Sports masthead has been updated and no longer lists Ríos—or any other staffers—as it did previously. ...