Game 82 is one of my favorite sports days of the year. All the teams play in the afternoon, around the same time. One-third of the league is battling for playoff seeding. One-third has one final opportunity to lose and increase their draft lottery odds. And one-third has their playoff seeding locked in so they’re […]
Project 2025 enacted. DEI is dead. The White Walkers have breached the Wall. Cooper Flagg is coming. 18 year old Cooper Flagg explosive athleticism pic.twitter.com/aPcw1vu5Qr — Pitless (@pitlessball) April 8, 2025 I finally understand why the White House is Eternal-Sunshining the country to forget Jackie Robinson’s existence—they’re changing all the textbooks to say Cooper Flagg […]
Ja Morant is lobbing grenades at civilians. On Thursday night, the Memphis Grizzlies were steamrolled by the Minnesota Timberwolves, 141-125. Memphis was outscored 52-25 in the third quarter as the Grizzlies stepped on every rake and slipped on every banana peel—egregious fouls, nasty turnovers and an offense vacant of actual plays or any existence of […]
The Knicks have consecutive 50-win seasons—a dry-mouthed mirage becoming reality after years of crawling the desert sands, dragging the remains of Derek Fisher and Steve Mills and David Fizdale and Mario Hezonja. Yet still—as the Knicks have their most successful ball club since I was using AOL disks to load up pixelated photos of Anna […]
The 2025 NBA Playoffs are a few weeks away—you can tell from the god awful basketball played nightly as half the NBA loses everything for a chance at a teenager—like Subway Jared—and the other half exhausts their PTO in an attempt to maintain their health for the postseason. It’s the worst time in the calendar […]
Breaking: The Grizzlies have parted ways with head coach Taylor Jenkins, the team announced. pic.twitter.com/iPOs4lvNTa — ESPN (@espn) March 28, 2025 The Memphis Grizzlies are 44-29—tied for 4th in the Western Conference. With the playoffs about 3 weeks away, this team has a great chance of entering the tourney with homecourt advantage. No better time […]
Since Luka arrived in Los Angeles, the Lakers became an instant title contender—which meant ESPN would devote all of their energy into developing weeks of surface-level analysis of box scores or quick glimpses of games they caught looking up at a few times behind the bar while they were out to dinner with execs, colleagues, […]
For too long, we have allowed LeBron James to go about his career without any real criticism, examination or pushback. He’s been untouchable from his first steps onto an NBA court—never questioned or faulted for any mistakes he’s made. The media, as well as the fans, all treat LeBron like an untouchable diety—fearing internal damnation […]
Coming into Thursday night’s showdown of my favorite basketball team and ESPN’s, the Knicks were 0-8 against the top 4 teams in the NBA—including the Lakers flying into Madison Square Garden and beating them by 16 before they stole Luka from the Mavs. Meanwhile, LA was on a 7-game winning streak with JJ Redick suddenly […]
Every minute Landry Shamet is on the court is stress. At 27 years old and in what should be the prime of his career—Shamet finds himself on his 6th NBA team in 7 years—as the last man off the bench for the championship-contending New York Knicks. Yes, I know the Knicks are 0-7 against OKC, […]
This is an excerpt from the Let’s Get This Dread Newsletter. Subscribe for the full Lessons Learned From The NBA This Week article. Rooting for the Boston Celtics or Los Angeles Lakers will always feel like dweeb endeavors. Vanilla ice cream, Dasani water, white generic New Balance behavior. “Hey, I’m not starting this car until […]
Growing up, I would have to downstairs to my family’s corded, landline phone to call my buddies—excited as hell to talk about the latest episode of Digimon. Y’all wasn’t outside when Patamon finally digivolved into Angemon. By the time I got a cell phone in high school, you still couldn’t really text all day every […]
Lavar Ball—father of Lonzo, LaMelo and the other one—had a few weird months in the spotlight back around 2017 when his oldest, Lonzo, was drafted to the Los Angeles Lakers with the no. 2 pick. He had his 15 minutes of fame and enjoyed them. I have nothing negative to say about Lavar, really. According […]
The 2025 NBA All-Star Weekend started up Friday night with me having no interest in the Celebrity Game. Shout out to Rickea Jackson serving looks. I think Druski was there but I’ve seen nonstop AI photos of him in so many different jerseys to mock guys after they have bad nights that I have no […]
At age 30, Giannis Antetokounmpo is having one of the best seasons of his life. And it doesn’t matter. The Bucks are currently the 5th seed in the East behind an Indiana Pacers team led by a dork who hits more 3’s off the court than on it. Milwaukee started this season losing 8 of […]
Imagine dedicating your entire life to become the greatest professional athlete on the planet. Truly, envision a world in which you are a teenager who decides they will sacrifice everything to be great. You make the NBA the most popular league in the world. You turn Nike into the biggest athletic brand ever. You literally […]
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