Offbeat

While players like Dante Exum, Marcus Smart, and Doug McDermott showed up and improved their draft stock at this year’s NBA Draft Combine, the consensus Top 3 players, Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker, and Joel Embiid, decided to stay home rather than participate. Depending on Tuesday’s Draft Lottery results, it’s a given that one of these [...]

One play typically doesn’t decide the outcome of a game. Especially when a team is up by 13 with four minutes to play, and up 7 with less than a minute to go. OKC topped the Clippers in game 5 last night, but all anyone is talking about is this controversial out-of-bounds play. It appears [...]

During his illustrious NBA career that included 7 All Star appearances, 2 scoring crowns, and 2 All NBA 1st Team nods, Tracy McGrady often gets forgotten about as one of the best players during the 2000’s because injuries cut short what was a surefire Hall of Fame career. Still only 34 years of age, T-Mac [...]

Yesterday, Kevin Durant was officially introduced as the league’s Most Valuable Player. And in doing so, that also meant it was time for him to give a speech. Durant is an emotional guy and we saw evidence of that when he cried after losing in the Finals to the Heat a few years ago. Well, [...]

En route to a dominant Miami Heat win over Michael Jordan’s Charlotte Bobcats tonight, Lebron James wanted to send a message to the GOAT sitting on the Bobcats sideline. As he ran the break on way to one of his patented and vicious one-handed dunks, he looked over at MJ for more than a few [...]

In case you have been living under a rock for the past couple of days, you’ve probably heard the audio tape of Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling being a racist jerk in a conversation with his girlfriend. Even talking smack about Magic Johnson saying he doesn’t want him or other ‘black people’ to come to Clippers [...]

Craig Sagar and Gregg Popovich have had some hilarious courtside interviews during the NBA Playoffs. No one misses the banter more than Popovich himself as he has publicly stated as much in his pleas for Sagar to battle hard against his leukemia and get back to the courtside as soon as possible. In the mean [...]

Blake Griffin and the LA Clippers had their hands full with the lower seeded Golden State Warriors in today’s opening match of the Western Conference playoff round one. There were probably a few times the Clippers players showed frustration on the sidelines, but none of which were as funny as Griffin reacting to a replay [...]

Yesterday, Houston Rockets big man Dwight Howard posted this video on Instagram of teammate Chandler Parsons getting a mohawk style haircut… But not long after ‘the haircut’ video was posted, another video surfaced with a rumor that Dwight Howard dared Parsons to get the mohawk, and even offered to buy him a Ferrari if he [...]

Whoever said truckloads upon truckloads upon truckloads of money couldn’t buy a clean-shaven face? Probably James Harden. During an interview with ESPN’s Hannah Storm, the Houston Rockets superstar discussed a number of important topics, including his departure from the Oklahoma City Thunder. He confirmed that money forced his hand in leaving and that if it [...]