Offbeat

Lance Stephenson’s glorious return to the Indiana Pacers (cue the “I’m Coming Home” song we’ve all heard a million times) is less than a week old and it has already brought so much intrigue, a controversial garbage time layup that drew the ire of the Raptors, twitter battles, a comparison of his Pacers return to [...]

One of the most common topics that takes place in any barbershop or local watering hole around the country that is full of NBA fans is who are the most overpaid and underpaid NBA players. ESPN decided to take that discussion to a analytical level to determine who the best value, or in other words, [...]

With April Fool’s Day right around the corner, NBA All-Star and DEW athlete Giannis Antetokounmpo got a chance to mess with several fans who sat down to catch a ride at a fake bus shelter. Yesterday, Giannis leaked his phone number to his 192K followers on Twitter, giving NBA fans nationwide the opportunity to reach [...]

There have been some memorable inbound passes and flubs over the history of basketball, the classic “Havlicek steals the ball!” of the 1960s, Larry Bird picking off Isaiah Thomas’s pass to literally and figuratively steal a victory over the Pistons in Game 5 of the 1987 eastern conference finals, and Grant Hill’s three-quarter court lob [...]

Dwight Howard’s legendary sweet tooth has been discussed numerous times over his 12 year NBA career and makes sense with his general child-like demeanor right? But the true level of Howard’s sugar addiction is even more mind-boggling than you would think. Here is a breakdown of the depths of Howard’s need for candy from Baxter [...]

Yes you read that headline right, the highly popular mobile dating (or hook-up depending on how you choose to use it) app Tinder has had a huge effect on the effectiveness of NBA players in the midst of a road trip and therefore has limited the home court advantage in the league. Let me explain. [...]

LaVar Ball, father of star UCLA freshman point guard and top 2017 NBA Draft prospect Lonzo Ball, has made himself famous with his seemingly never-ending stream of controversial and foolish comments. He has called his son better than Steph Curry, himself better than Michael Jordan in his heyday basically, and that he, LaVar, could beat [...]

NBA fans are a passionate breed, some of which live and die with the successes and failures of their favorite NBA teams or NBA stars and these days you can slap an NBA logo on anything and many companies do. Current NBA legend and mayor of Dallas Dirk Nowitzki received fan mail on Wednesday. This [...]

While the tornado that was Joel Embiid’s brilliance on an NBA court during his rookie season is over now that he has been sidelined to recover from his knee issue, it appears he is still doing some pretty cool things off the court like only Joel does. While he is not killing a lion in [...]

The DeMarcus Cousins and Anthony Davis experiment in New Orleans hasn’t gotten off to a roaring start thus far as the Pelicans are 2-5 since their blockbuster trade deadline move and Cousins and Davis haven’t quite found their on court chemistry yet. That is somewhat to be expected though as the two most gifted young [...]