The Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Denver Nuggets 112-96 in Game 4 to go up 3-1 in their first-round series. Minnesota Timberwolves up 2-1. Jaden McDaniels said the Nuggets can’t play defense, then went out there and proved they don’t play defense. Tipped his cap and strut away, cut away to the credits. Game 4 began […]
The Houston Rockets are a lot of nonsense. Tilma Fertilla, one of the poorest owners in the NBA, wealth accumulated through a plethora of Rainforest Cafe cash registers. Rafael Stone, the GM whose first order of business, acquiring Christian Wood and Kevin Porter Jr, two players later suspended after they were benched early in a […]
Friday night, America’s most blunted, ready to watch two basketball games simultaneously with NFL Draft alerts on, Yankees on the iPad. Oh, what a night. Let’s start with Boston and Philly tied 1-1—”it’s not a series until the home team loses”. The postseason, when reporters and podcasters trade barren axioms like “poking the bear” or […]
New York Knicks owner, James Dolan, recent victim of Pablo Torre’s quest to be banned from every sports arena. Dolan found using should-be-illegal facial recognition technology to watch people around Madison Square Garden and The Sphere in Vegas. The bigot spied on a trans woman who frequented Knicks games for 2 years straight, writing up […]
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 […]
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 […]
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