On April 27th, 2023, Lamar Jackson signed a huge 5-year, $260 million contract. Troy Aikman made $55 million in his entire NFL career. Lamar will be making $51 million to play quarterback in 2026. And now Lamar, like most people in his new tax bracket, is trying to put his boot on a small business […]
The 2024 WNBA All-Star Weekend was infinitely better than whatever the NBA tried to do this year. These women genuinely cared about the outcome and weren’t just having glorified layup lines. Here are a few lessons I learned from watching this weekend: 1. I wish Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark hated each other Angel […]
With the 34th pick of the 2024 NBA Draft, the Portland Trailblazers drafted point guard, Tyler Kolek, out of Marquette. They traded him to the New York Knicks for a ton of future second-round picks. Felt like a nothing deal when it happened but Summer League has birthed a star in the making. Tyler Kolek […]
This week, Brandon Aiyuk officially requested a trade, after flirting with the idea for years. The San Francisco 49ers aren’t giving him the big payday he believes he deserves and it’s time to find a team that will. He’s coming off the best season of his career scoring 7 TDs and racking up a career-high […]
The league is losing one of the greats. 0-time NBA champion, Patrick Beverley, is taking his 6 points a game from last season and bringing it to Israel to play for Hapoel Tel Aviv BC. BREAKING: @patbev21 is headed to Europe. “They gave me everything I asked for… I couldn’t refuse.” Says Pat Bev He […]
The 2024 offseason is pretty much over, unless you’re on pins and needles waiting to see where Luke Kennard lands, so this will probably be the last NBA content on Deadseriousness for awhile. Let’s go team-by-team and talk about what their front offices were attempting to accomplish (and what I would’ve done if I were […]
On June 14th, the Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 8-1, improving to 50-22, the best record in baseball. Then Boston won the next two games of the series, including a game where they stole 9 bases on the Yankees. 9 stolen bases. Straight up embarrassed New York. And the team hasn’t been the since. […]
The NBA Offseason isn’t totally over yet. I’m sure we are all refreshing our Twitter feeds, impatiently waiting for the DeMar DeRozan move but it’s time to give out some highly respected Deadseriousness awards. The Running The Bill Up and Sneaking Away Through The Bathroom Window Award Boston Celtics Jayson Tatum and Jaylen […]
Kevin Porter Jr is a bad guy. A genuinely bad human who, at best, is like the 211th-best player in the NBA. And the Los Angeles Clippers opened up the 2024 NBA Free Agency period by immediately signing Kevin Porter Jr to not only a 2-year deal but a 2-year deal with a PLAYER OPTION. […]
Something’s brewing in Michigan. On May 31st, Trajan Langdon was named the President of Basketball Operations for the Detroit Pistons. and in 2 short months, Langdon has snapped his fingers and turned the Detroit Pistons into an instant title favorite with some incredible wheeling and dealing. Tobias Harris has agreed to a two-year, $52 million […]
Welcome to Deaderiousness movie reviews where we break down the good, the bad and the ugly of films we love, hate and just watched because we couldn’t find anything else. Spoilers, probably. What happens in A Family Affair? Okay, so Zac Efron plays Chris Cole, a movie star from some sort of Icarus-inspired trilogy concerned […]
The 2024 NBA Draft first round didn’t have the blockbuster trades we expected or a ton of surprises. But I can say with complete confidence there were winners and there were most certainly losers. Let’s start with the biggest winners of the 2024 NBA Draft First Round: 1. Los Angeles Lakers The Lakers haven’t made […]
JJ Redick has managed to become the star of the NBA offseason and while typically, I’d complain about how often we’ve talked about JJ, it’s far better than the alternative: thinking about the Celtics championship. Ew. However, this new JJ Redick story may somehow be worse than the Celtics winning the title. A woman posted […]
The Mikal Bridges Knicks rumors may cease as the Brooklyn Nets finally freed him so he can play with all of his Villanova friends a few subway stations away. BREAKING: The Brooklyn Nets have agreed in principle on a trade to send F Mikal Bridges to the New York Knicks for Bojan Bogdanovic, four unprotected […]
The 2024 NBA Draft is this week, apparently, and from everything I see and hear, it’s one of the worst drafts of all time, which always seems strange to label 60 kids as mediocre players but I’m sure some All-Stars are hiding in plain sight here. Here are the 7 biggest storylines heading into […]
For the first time in the franchise’s 30-year history, the Florida Panthers have won the Stanley Cup after defeating the Edmonton Oilers in 7 games. BARKOV TAKES THE STANLEY CUP AROUND THE ICE! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/kzmOVMJLEt — ESPN (@espn) June 25, 2024 Sure, the Florida Panthers were up 3-0 and gave up 18 total goals in […]
Creator of Deadseriousness.com, The Last Sports Blog.
