Offbeat

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 [...]

20-year-old Suns shooting guard and potential future star was a little frustrated along with the rest of the Phoenix Suns Wednesday night after a 120-104 loss. That frustration reached a boiling point with 17 seconds remaining in the game as Booker was ejected for saying something apparently none too pleasant to the referee. He was [...]

Dwight Howard has always loved a good laugh, apparently even if it’s at the expense of his mother. Howard told CBS Sports Radio Tuesday morning that he played a mini prank during the off-season by telling his mom that he signed with the Utah Jazz. She actually cried. [tweet https://twitter.com/CBSSportsNBA/status/798564733804650496] Here is the quote from [...]

John Wall is not happy this year and last night we got to witness his frustration. Wall picked up his second technical foul with just 33 seconds left. Down 111-106 with less than a minute left in the game, he bumped into official Marc Davis on his way back to the bench. [tweet https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/795832945944576000] It [...]

Yes, that’s right, Metta World Peace wishes to be an NBA coach once he retires from the NBA. TMZ Sports spoke with Metta World Peace earlier this week about the praise he has been receiving from the Lakers coaching staff. According to them, Metta’s knowledge and experience are incredibly valuable to his team and MWP [...]

The Suns hosted their second home game of the season Sunday afternoon against the Golden State Warriors at Talking Stick Resort Arena. The upstart Suns played well and hung with the Warriors most of the game before faltering 106-100. Apparently after an 0-2 start to the season, the Suns felt it was already time for [...]

The season has just begun and the Chicago Bulls have released a new 2016-17 season video series starring their very own young ‘reporter,’ and it’s adorable. In the first episode, Henry interviews some of the Bulls’ star players including Robin Lopez, Doug McDermott, Rajon Rondo, and Dwyane Wade. Henry teaches Lopez how not to eat [...]

The Grizzlies will begin the 2016-17 campaign against the upstart and suddenly frisky (most would assume) Minnesota Timberwolves Wednesday night in the Grind House. It won’t be the Grizzlies debut of Chandler Parsons unfortunately who will be sitting the game out, but it will be the first game as head coach for longtime Miami Heat [...]

Advanced statistics and analytics website Five Thirty Eight is back at it again with another outside of the box and interesting piece about the association. They are breaking down which teams in the NBA are the tallest and throwing in some other crazy facts about the amount of height in the NBA in general. In [...]