Offbeat

As we all know the eyes of the world are currently on Rio as the 2016 Summer Olympic Games are underway and will dominate the sports world for the next few weeks. One of the many sports featured in the games is Olympic basketball. The game of basketball is now a global game and high [...]

Allen Iverson’s practice rant was one of the most memorable moments of his career. In fact people still want to ask him about it more than 14 years later. Iverson hosted a charity basketball game on Friday August 5th and was questioned by a reporter on whether or not he still felt the same way [...]

It’s easy to understand why some kids want to be exactly like NBA champion Kyrie Irving and now Foot Locker has done just that. As part of it’s new back to school campaign Kids Foot Locker launched its new commercial titled “Swap” starring 2016 NBA Champion Kyrie Irving. In the spot, Irving meets one of [...]

Larry Sanders is very a enigmatic, wild-card of an athletic, rim-protecting big man who decided he no longer wanted to play in the NBA midway through the 2014-15 season after four seasons in the league. There have been some murmurs for a while now that Larry Sanders has decided he would like to be an [...]

Kevin Durant has had a very eventful and emotional past few months. He lost a 3-1 lead in the western conference finals including a meltdown in Game 6 and then decided to leave the Oklahoma City Thunder to join a 73 win team and create a super team the likes of which we have never [...]

Jeremy Lin has been going through somewhat of a mid-career crisis, as once a subdued Harvard graduate with a short and clean cut haircut in the his early NBA days and during the great Lin-sanity of 2012, Lin has cycled through a number of crazy hairstyles in the past year or so. Now it appears [...]

The Chicago Bulls and the Chicago White Sox have a unique connection as franchises. In 1993, the greatest player in Chicago Bulls (and NBA) history, Michael Jordan, decided after winning three consecutive NBA titles that it was time for a new a adventure. Time to make his childhood dream of being a professional baseball player [...]

Gregg Popovich is arguably the greatest coach in NBA history (I would argue that he is) and has served as the coach and GM for the NBA’s most consistently successful franchise for almost two decades. Most of his on court highlights are of him devouring poor sideline reporters with a glare, a well-placed sarcastic quip [...]

The Orlando Magic’s official Twitter account decided it would be a fun idea to ask their fans to describe the Magic’s offseason in three words. They wanted fans to tweet the team’s twitter account with the hashtag #2016in3words and the results were absolutely disastrous. Unsurprisingly, many fans are none too pleased with the bizarre offseason [...]

Tim Duncan made the decision to retire on Monday after the best 19 year run with one team in the history of the NBA. He did it in a very private and subdued Tim Duncan way of course without the frills or attention. It will be very bizarre to see the Spurs take the floor [...]