The NBA play-in tournament, a punchline for NBA podcasters who feed themselves from the league they are addicted to complaining about. ME? Love the play-in. Win or go home. You score more points than the other team, 82 games of sacrifice rewarded. You lose, you failed, the checks cleared but you did all the running […]
My eyes burn, yawns plentiful. My night ended at 1am, as the Houston Rockets pulled ahead of the Phoenix Suns, winning 119-105, in a game I can only describe as *personal*. Kevin Durant returning to Mortgage Matchup Center, one of the worst-named buildings in the country, a country full of buildings named after slavemasters and […]
One cannot build an impactful, effective political movement without a bold leader. The Republican Party, desperate to maintain its existence in a post-Obama world, fearing their quest to turn poor people into indentured servants dying in sweatshop accidents and coal mine collapses slipping from their grasp, passed the baton to Donald Trump to revive their […]
In 2009, 2-time NBA All-Star Stephon Marbury livestreamed himself eating vaseline—claiming it soothed his sore throat—although the justifications are irrelevant. My guy was filming himself eating petroleum jelly, unprovoked. (Former) Chicago Bulls guard Jaden Ivey, caught covered in Vasoline. Monday afternoon, Jaden Ivey giving IG sermons to bloggers and his hometown, hanging from the back […]
On Sunday night, the Knicks lost 100-111 to the defending champions on Peacock. Whole world watching. A potential statement game, declarion to the NBA, New York telling the world they are coming for the belt. Anddddd they got the belt. All eyes on Karl-Anthony Towns, as they are every national broadcast, commentary team lasered focused […]
The Curry spirit visited the wrong locker room, the Orlando Magic starting this game 6-for-6 from the field but the team ranked 19th in offensive rating, joined forces, found a way to exorcise those demons, falling down 20 points in the 2nd quarter, Kon Knueppel and Coby White back-to-back Double Dragon dojo style, continuing the […]
24.5 points, 9.9 assists (2nd in NBA), 5.6 rebounds, 1st seed in the East all year, a PS3 video game main character face—everything coming up Cade Cunningham. A first-team All-NBA spot guaranteed—Top 5 MVP finish automated. Cade Cunningham led a team of guys who will swing on you if you graze their sneakers walking past […]
Look, guys, believe it or not, I’m not Scrooge McDucking into a pool of gold dublooms every AM. Stephen A. Smith is one of the most financially successful black men in media and if I want to make the big dollars, I need to follow his formula to get paid: smooch rich white men—telling them […]
Last season, the Houston Rockets made the playoffs, first time post-Covid, post-James Harden, post-Daryl Morey, post-haste. 7-game battle with the Golden State Warriors but lost in the first round. The problem was clear: Houston needed playmaking in the halfcourt. Their defense could generate turnovers—getting Amen Thompson out for highlight reel fastbreaks—but when the game slowed […]
The Knicks flew to Hollywood with championship rings in their mind’s eye. Winners of 6 of their last 8 games, including big victories over Houston and Denver, putting Wemby in the Spurs in handcuffs, San Antonio scoring only 89 points in the Garden, the Knicks were a Top 5 defense, speeding toward the postseason playing […]
At the trade deadline, the Boston Celtics went hunting for a big man to improve their rebounding and size, got their hands on Nikola Vucevic from the Chicago Bulls. And now their big acquisition will be in sweats, stuffed into a tiny black steel chair watching Jayson Tatum’s triumphant return from the best seats in […]
10 months ago, one of the best players in the NBA tore his achilles in a second round matchup their team was about to lose to the New York Knicks, with or without him. Friday night, Jayson Tatum returned to remind the world how much of a Jayson Tatum fan Jayson Tatum is. Here’s what […]
After witnessing the 15 minutes Kawhi parted the Red Sea at the All-Star game and my singular favorite tournament of the sports calendar: Unrivaled’s psychotic 1-on-1 games, I was ready to see the New York Knicks lock in after the All-Star break, snatch their lick back from Detroit on Prime Thursday, Action Bronson and Joe […]
Doc Rivers alluded to Shams manufacturing Bucks trade reports last week. Felt like an annoyed, soon-to-be-fired, out-of-touch, artifact blowing off steam. Giannis hemming and hawing all trade season, yo-yoing a trade demand behind the scenes while pretending the entire situation was out of his control, Shams his go-to reporter for all the PR-coded tweets he […]
BREAKING: The Chicago Bulls are trading center Nikola Vucevic and a second-round pick to the Boston Celtics for Anfernee Simons and a second-round pick, sources tell ESPN. pic.twitter.com/aScaobfZmv — Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 3, 2026 Celtics receive: C Nikola Vucevic 2nd round pick Bulls receive: SG Anfernee Simons 2nd round pick Boston Celtics […]
Just in: Chicago, Minnesota and Detroit have agreed to a multi-team deal that sends Jaden Ivey and Mike Conley Jr. to the Bulls and Kevin Huerter and Dario Saric to the Pistons, sources tell ESPN. Detroit also receives a 2026 first-round protected swap from Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/pgxqr1WT90 — Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 3, 2026 Bulls […]
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