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Dwyane Wade is now a minority owner of … the Utah Jazz?!
Dwyane Wade, three-time NBA Champion, Miami Heat legend, TNT Analyst, and all-around solid dude, is now a minority owner of the Utah Jazz....

Why the hell is Grady Sizemore trending on Twitter in 2021, and what does it have to do with Bo Jackson?
People apparently enjoy painful memories, as the twitterverse is currently talking about a lot of “what could have beens.” Waking up this morning, not quite fully caffeinated, I saw that Grady Sizemore was trending, and immediately questioned the entirety of the space-time continuum. A tweet was pos...

Which team played the villain role best?
With the Houston Astros now wearing the crown as the most hated team in professional sports — as indicated by the chorus of boos and piercing screams of “CHEATER!” that rang through the Oakland Coliseum (whatever ridiculous name it has today) last night on Opening Day (ahh… welcome back baseball, an...

17 NFL games, 2,000 yards rushing, 7-9 records and more math to make your head hurt
The NFL has officially voted to expand the regular season to 17 games, opening up a whole can of oddities to accompany it. What happens to single-season NFL records? What about playoff seeding? What even is a .500 team? There’s so much to unpack. I’m sitting over here absorbing this news playing a h...

Bulls’ Nikola Vucevic pickup is a commitment to Zach LaVine
Nikola Vucevic is coming to save Zach LaVine....

Candace Parker keeps cooking Shaq like BBQ chicken
Candace Parker making Shaquille O’Neal look like an idiot on national television is now a regular occurrence. It’s becoming a must-see event on Tuesday nights....

Tanks a lot! Rockets going from 44-28 to 11-28 is putrid, but not most historic NBA drop-off ever
On Feb. 4, the Rockets went to Memphis and beat the Grizzlies by 12 points for their seventh win in eight games, moving to 11-10 for the season. Certainly, Houston was outperforming expectations after trading away James Harden, but nobody knew how bad things were about to get....

The 10 best men’s college basketball national champions from 1990-1999
If you lived through the ‘90s then you understand just how important and historic that decade was. And if you didn’t, someone who did has probably tried to explain it to you over, and over, and over again....

Tom Brady takes less money again? How is that possible? Oh now I remember
I feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog’s day....

A few thoughts on Shaq’s AEW ‘Dynamite’ appearance
Shaquille O’Neal is a better wrestler than he is a TV analyst....

Candace Parker’s basketball lesson confirms Shaq is a ‘casual’
WNBA superstar Candace Parker dropped knowledge on Shaq last night during their show and had the Big Fella looking real out the loop on national television. ...

It’s OK to not be Shaquille O’Neal, and he should realize that
Respectfully, what is it about Shaquille O’Neal — who is in the one percent of most accomplished living human beings on earth — that causes him to engage in rankism?...

Amid Shaq-Donovan Mitchell beef, Utah House passes resolution that <i>Kazaam</i> sucked
In today’s “sports are hilarious” moment, the Utah House of Representatives decided to actually hear, and vote, on a resolution “honoring Donovan Mitchell over Shaquille O’Neal,” which also included naming “Spida” the official state arachnid. Apparently, elected officials decided that young Jazz sta...

We don't have to watch Charles Barkley disrespect Black women until next season
The Denver Nuggets weren’t the only ones the Los Angeles Lakers put out of their misery on Saturday night. ...

I Wrote a Book That Features a Raw Portrait of a Young Kobe Bryant, Then He Died ...
For more than 25 years I have made my living placing words on paper, which means I should be able to express how I feel at this precise moment....

Project ShaqBox: The Other Torre from the Famous High School Class of James Madison, Brooklyn, 1950
Welcome back to Project ShaqBox, where you can get 10 baseball cards in the mail, free, just by letting us know where to send them, and can get 10 cards from the team of your choice by making a donation to charity....

Project ShaqBox Remembers Tom Seaver
I don’t know if I ever saw Tom Seaver pitch live. His last season was when I was 5, so it’s possible that at some point my parents did take me to a game where Seaver was on the mound, but if that happened, I don’t remember it....

When Magic Johnson Is Criticizing You On Twitter, You Know You've Screwed Up Something. Badly
There is nothing on the internet that is more wholesome and less controversial than Magic Johnson’s Twitter feed. Even in this time of pandemic, there’s nothing quite like logging on and seeing tweets from a legend of basketball and humanity like the one he had on Sunday....

They Were Great, But Not <i>That</i> Great: The 10 Most Overrated Players In The NBA Since 1990
Let’s clear up a couple of things here before anyone starts calling for the heads of any of the writers who put together this list:...

<i>Inside The NBA </i>Desk Argues About Daryl Morey And The League's Standoff With China
Before the NBA’s season opener Tuesday night, the Inside The NBA crew discussed the ongoing feud between the NBA and the Chinese government for a good nine minutes. In the Free Speech corner: Kenny Smith. In the Be Nice To China corner: Ernie Johnson and Charles Barkley. In a third corner: Shaq....