Ricky Rubio was one of my favorite players coming into the 2009 draft. I watched all of his grainy Spanish highlight reels on YouTube. Growing up in New York and having Nets games played locally, I held a place in my heart for point guards like Jason Kidd who shined in the fastbreak with flashy […]
ESPN has spent the summer sending everyone and their mothers to the unemployment line including Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson—two-thirds of their main NBA broadcast team. Mike Breen remains but he will be joined by recently fired Sixers coach, Doc Rivers and Doris Burke. Well Jason Whitlock—an expert on being fired by ESPN—has shared […]
Growing up, retired NBA players joining the media was the most boring, fast-forward-able part of every ESPN broadcast. Outside of the TNT crew, it’s gotten astronomically worse today. Kendrick Perkins TV segments are punishments. Jay Williams will defend everything Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving does because they’re in a group chat together. Does anyone else […]
The BIG3 is a 3-on-3 basketball league created by antisemitic rapper Ice Cube and his long-term Jewish business partner Jeff Kwatinetz—where retired basketball players wheeze through half-court pickup games you’d see at your local YMCA. I never wanted the league to fail. I was indifferent about the whole thing. It’s cool these old-timers get a […]
NBA players requesting trades has broken so many brains. A star player says he wants to change cities and suddenly, everyone turns into anti-labor union busters. Julius Erving joins the growing list of butt-hurt dorks who think players who demand trades should be shot in the face for their war crimes. “They have not helped […]
The Boston Celtics season ended at home in an 84-103 Game 7 beatdown to the Miami Heat. Jaylen Brown was 1-for-9 from 3 and committed 8 turnovers—one of the nastiest games you’ve ever seen. BREAKING: Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown has agreed to a five-year, $304 million supermax contract extension with the franchise, per sources. […]
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Evan Fournier had a roughhhh 2022-23 season with the New York Knicks. In 2021, the Knicks gave Fournier a 4-year $78 million deal. He started in all 80 games he played, averaging 14 points a night while shooting 39% from 3. Oh, and that Knicks team went 37-45 in Fournier’s first season with the team. […]
Ja Morant will be starting next season with a 25-game suspension following an Instagram Live video where he was waving a gun just a few months after he was already suspended for doing the same lame shit. Some people fear Ja isn’t learning his lesson and he refuses to grow up and represent the NBA […]
Whenever Karl-Anthony Towns finds himself holding a microphone, a part of his brain activates that causes him to say the most insane nonsense anyone has ever said. KAT either has an inflated ego or lacks self-awareness but he cannot stop himself from saying absurd shit. This week, Towns found himself at some strange town hall […]
There are new rule changes coming to the 2023-24 NBA season including penalizing players who flop by awarding the other team a technical foul free throw. Just in: The NBA Board of Governors has approved two new gameplay changes for the 2023-24 season, per sources: – In-game penalty for flops resulting in technical foul free […]
Standing at 7-foot-5 and going no. 1 overall in the 2023 NBA Draft, the French phenomenon, Victor Wembanyama, is going to find himself the center of attention everywhere he goes. Sometimes it’ll be random fans bothering him and other times, it’ll be pop music legends like Britney Spears who try to get too close and […]
With Michael Jordan selling his majority stake in the Charlotte Hornets, the alcoholic sociopath had one final draft left in him. Everyone and their mothers said Scoot Henderson was a future NBA star and with the no. 2 pick in the 2023 draft, the Hornets selected Brandon Miller. Scoot Henderson even has an NBA Hall […]
It looks like most of the big free agents have been signed and I’m not waiting for Grant Williams to make a decision so let’s see who won free agency and who lost. Let’s start with the biggest winners: 1. Damian Lillard Congrats to Damian Lillard for finally ending his abusive relationship with the Portland […]
Free agency starts on July 1st which means we’re only a few days from my favorite time of year. The time when I sit outside on a nice day, refreshing my Twitter feed as Woj and Shams take turns leaking where every player is signing. Let’s specifically focus on the New York Knicks who are […]
The 2023 NBA Draft was last week. I love seeing these young men enter the NBA with a clean slate and a smile on their face before we all join forces to dissect all of their decisions and shit on them whenever the opportunity presents itself. I will be mocking literally all of these players […]
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