Offbeat

Lucas Nogueira is a third-year player out of Brazil who is seeing his first consistent playing time in the NBA this season. He is a valuable shot blocker and rebounder in a reserve role for the Toronto Raptors playing 19 minutes per game. Fun fact, when I was in Las Vegas for NBA Summer League [...]

Tuesday night was a good night to be a Lakers fan at the Staples Center as the Lakers trounced the visiting Grizzlies 116-102 behind the third career triple-double of Julius Randle. Although it was a good night for all Lakers fans in attendance, it was especially life altering for one lucky and clutch fan. An [...]

Javale McGee has been given a golden opportunity this season as a member of the juggernaut Golden State Warriors Especially considering how he has been toiling away for a few seasons and failing to stay on an NBA team for any length of time. McGee, with his rare combination of size, length and mobility, has [...]

Always one to come up with some interesting factoids and numbers about the NBA, ESPN Reporter Tom Haberstroh is at it again by breaking down just how arduous a journey an 82 game schedule is for NBA teams. This tweet from Haberstroh puts in perspective the amount NBA teams travel every season… This is what [...]

The Milwaukee Bucks are having a decent season thus far, currently sitting at 8th place in the eastern conference with a 14-15 record. They have a lot of young talent, including a potentially transcendent and MVP caliber superstar in 21-year-old Giannis Antetokounmpo. Despite all of this though, the Bucks are still 27th in the NBA [...]

Fans who were looking forward to watching two of the most gifted young centers in the NBA square off for the first time last night were sadly let down as the scheduled game between the Kings and 76ers was postponed due to a slippery floor. Although neither team has a game scheduled Thursday night, there [...]

Last night the Cleveland Cavaliers’ lost and while J.R. Smith’s “gaffe” wasn’t the reason they did, it certainly didn’t help. J.R. suffered a massive brain fart, letting Tony Snell score an uncontested layup after leaving the court to hug his friend Jason Terry. The Bucks were setting up for an inbound play when Smith saw [...]

Joel Embiid and Chandler Parsons are apparently good friends off the basketball court—which, come to think of it, makes more sense than anything else in the world. From CSN Philly’s Jessica Camerato: Embiid and Parsons met through mutual friends in Los Angeles in 2015. They quickly clicked over their similar outgoing personalities, a love of [...]

As someone who grew up in Chicago and played his first eight NBA seasons in his hometown, Derrick Rose never had to worry about being far from home for Thanksgiving. Now, as a member of the New York Knicks, it appears as though he won’t have an opportunity to make it home for turkey day [...]

The Kings-Raptors game in Sacramento Sunday night ended with a fair deal of controversy as the Kings pulled off the season sweep of the Raptors with a 102-99 victory after a Terrance Ross three-point shot, that would have tied it, was waved off when it shouldn’t have been. Outside of all of the drama on [...]