Offbeat

Zach LaVine at the tender age of 21 is developing into quite the player on the court for the Timberwolves and quite the man off of it as well. LaVine donated his winnings for the 2016 NBA Slam Dunk Contest to build a new kitchen for the Metro Deaf School for children in St. Paul [...]

According to ESPN Sports Business Reporter Darren Rovell, American Express and AMC theater in the Bay Area will show a live 3D screening of the Spurs-Warriors game on April 7. According to Rovell this event is the first of its kind and is only for American Express card holders. This may be your best bet [...]

Blake Griffin hasn’t touched an NBA court since Christmas Day, and when he is not busy punching equipment managers or shooting Kia commercials he apparently found some time to make a cameo on the popular Comedy Central series, “Broad City“ In the show, which aired Tuesday night, one of the shows main characters meets Griffin [...]

Michael Jordan’s infamous dunk from the free throw line from the 1988 NBA Slam Dunk Contest was the inspiration for the iconic Jumpman logo that is synonymous with the most successful shoe brand in human history, and now it has also been immortalized in an incredible tattoo. Just for the record, we are not talking [...]

Lakers players are angry at rookie D’Angelo Russell. A video of Russell taping a private conversation with Nick Young was recently leaked. In the video, D’Angelo Russell asked Swaggy P, who recently got engaged to Iggy Azalea, about being with other women. His actions has caused his teammates to lose trust in him and according [...]

Draymond Green has learned a valuable lesson. Don’t snapchat and speed. Hopefully, though, he learned a more valuable lesson. Don’t snapchat while driving, period. Green snapchatted a video of himself driving 118 miles per hour in his BMW. That, needless to say, is illegal and reckless. And, per the Bay Area News Group’s Diamond Leung, [...]

Former 1st Team All-American and star point guard at Louisville, Russ Smith made some history in the NBA Developmental League Thursday. Smith, now a member of the Delaware 87ers scored a record 65 points in Thursday’s game against the Canton Charge. Believe it or not, Smith dropped 65 in a losing effort as the 87ers [...]

Watch as Lebron James walks out of a post-game interview last night, when the reporter asks why he unfollowed the Cavaliers on twitter. Consider a couple of factors. The Cavaliers had just won a game in dominant fashion against the Denver Nuggets. So why is a reporter creating drama about who he’s following on twitter? [...]

Today, in case you haven’t heard, is the 10 year anniversary of the launch of Twitter. Believe it or not there was a time when things such as mentions, hashtags, re-tweets and the always entertaining “Sliding in her DMs” weren’t a part of the cultural lexicon. A time where people didn’t have access to athletes, [...]

March 18, 1995 is another day that has extreme historical relevance in the basketball world and the NBA specifically, as it was the day Michael Jordan announced he was returning to the NBA after a year and a half (to the day) away from the game. Jordan’s decision to return to the NBA after his [...]