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 […]
On Saturday night, I watched my guy Jey Uso win the 2025 WWE Royal Rumble then switched over to ABC to catch the second half of the Lakers coming into my city for a battle against the Knicks. You know the game is over when the white Knick on the end of the bench starts […]
Watching West Coast games is a burden. Typically, I just hope there’s a blowout so I can sneak off to bed at halftime—like Friday night when the Phoenix Suns stuffed the Golden State Warriors in a locker and took their lunch money. But on Thursday night, I decided to stay up til 1am watching the […]
When Zion Williamson is healthy and focused and on the court without Wendys BBQ sauce packets falling out of his pockets, he is an unstoppable force. Zion is a once in a generation athlete whose career has been grounded by his DoorDash history, and insatiable lust for mentally unwell porn stars and knee ligaments you […]
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