Offbeat

Jeff Teague will have the opportunity to play for his hometown team this season as the Indianapolis native and Pike High School product was traded from the Atlanta Hawks to the Indiana Pacers for the no. 12 pick in the 2016 NBA Draft. Teague is excited to return to his old stomping grounds and apparently [...]

Victor Oladipo like many other NBA players this time of the year is currently participating in a summer basketball camp for youth and high school basketball players. Oladipo is involved with the camp at DeMatha Catholic High School in Maryland. Today at camp an irrationally confident and very unwise high school camper decided it was [...]

Gilbert Arenas has plenty of free time and an exorbitant amount of money to spend these days as he made $140 million in his NBA career. We all know that Gilbert Arenas is a very outspoken, definitely crazy prankster expert who does as he pleases in order to humor himself and potentially humiliate others. Arenas [...]

We are finally entering the down period of the NBA calendar where free agency has cooled down. Outside of the rookies and second year players or those on the periphery of the NBA playing for their careers in summer league, most of the league has a good amount of downtime. Apparently when Aaron Gordon is [...]

Apparently even athletes with billion dollar deals can be cheap. Soon to be Chicago Bulls guard Dwyane Wade co-hosted ‘Live with Kelly’ this morning and LeBron James’ former teammate was very quick to answer when asked who the cheapest basketball player was. According to Wade, James is the cheapest player out there, no hesitation. Gabrielle [...]

Foot Locker launched two 30-second commercials featuring top Draft prospect Ben Simmons. The brand’s latest spots focus on Simmons seeking advice for his upcoming rookie season. In the first spot “It’s Not Real Yet” – set prior to the Draft – Simmons produces his own, homemade Foot Locker commercial alongside a life-sized papier-mâché version of [...]

As I’m sure you’ve heard hundreds of times by now there are a number of real and legitimate concern many athletes are faced with as they consider participating in the summer Olympic games in Rio De Janeiro this summer, one of which is the Zika virus. This is a virus that is spread by the [...]

The Warriors had the chance to make history last night in Game 5 of the 2016 NBA Finals by winning their second consecutive NBA title and completing the best season in NBA history with their record 89th win, but they didn’t. As you can imagine that meant ticket prices were through the roof for that [...]

According to a study done by Kathleen Ponder of the San Francisco Chronicle and based on data compiled from Personal Capital, a wealth management company, your average NBA player spends $42,000 a month. According to recent data from the Social Security Administration, in 2015 51 percent of Americans made less than $30,000 per year. We [...]

Stephen Curry is just like you, only waaaaaaay better at basketball. Way richer, too. But that wealth hasn’t stopped him from becoming a man of the people. He, like many of us, uses the contemporary taxi service uber, per Mike Bresnahan of the Los Angeles Times: This is pretty freaking cool. I mean, could you, [...]