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 […]
I’m embarrassed by New York fans who still chant “Fuck Trae Young” at sporting events because he beat an Elfrid Payton-led Knicks team in 5 games in the first round of the 2021 playoffs—as if Reggie Bullock was about to lock down the Giannis that scored 50 points to win the NBA Finals that season. […]
This year’s NBA trade deadline is February 6th, 3pm Eastern. So far, all we’ve got is Dorian Finney-Smith and Nick Richards changing teams. The NBA is dry as hell at the moment. Not on the court. On the court we’re witnessing some of the best basketball I’ve ever watched but I want to shake the […]
The 2024-25 NBA season started with the Boston Celtics blowing out the New York Knicks 132-109, tying the record for the most made 3’s in a game and creating the avalanche of indolent, concern-trolling about TV ratings and the NBA product being watered down by too many perimeter shot attempts. The NBA is fine but […]
With Mike Brown being fired via text after a full day of practice, it’s safe to say the Kings are done. They had their shot a couple seasons ago but Draymond Green powerbombed Domantis Sabonis and Steph Curry dropped 50 on them as the Golden State Warriors strangled them in the first round. The Kings […]
We always want what we can’t have. JJ Redick didn’t need to be the Los Angeles Lakers head coach. His life was fulfilled. JJ is one of the best college basketball players ever. 15 NBA seasons, playing in massive games for the Orlando Magic, Los Angeles Clippers and Philadelphia 76ers and establishing himself as one […]
Often times in this new reactionary, clickbait world we live in today, we are so quick to label someone a victim that we frequently miss who the real victims are. Prior to the 2022 NBA season, TMZ leaked a video from the Golden State Warriors practice facility showing Draymond Green knocking Jordan Poole from the […]
Friday afternoon, Mike Brown walked out of Sacramento Kings HQ with his possessions in a box . Just In: The Sacramento Kings are parting ways with head coach Mike Brown, sources told ESPN. pic.twitter.com/mNdn5EOv4U — Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 27, 2024 Can’t look away from how Mike Brown was fired. Brown led a full Friday […]
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