Offbeat

Kobe Bryant made a guarantee to the media, his teammates, and the organization. That guarantee throughout the Lakers regular season struggles was ‘don’t worry, we’ll make the playoffs’. Skeptics thought there was no way in hell the Lakers would make the playoffs in the tight Western Conference, but the team played great down the stretch [...]

Throughout the majority of the Lakers-Spurs Game 1 today, injured Lakers star Kobe Bryant was tweeting thoughts and advice for LA to anyone who was listening. As if Kobe Bryant’s tweets don’t get enough attention, a bunch of his tweets were mentioned on air by the TNT crew. So of course reporters had to ask [...]

This little photoshop gem is already floating around the interwebs. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, Tracy McGrady makes an NBA comeback with the San Antonio Spurs in time for the 2013 NBA playoffs. And we present T-Mac to Spurs Nation…. [...]

Stephen Curry is on a torrid pace the last few games of the season in efforts to break the NBA’s single season record for most three pointers. The record is currently held by Ray Allen, back with the Supersonics in 2006. Curry is now just one three pointer shy of the record. Curry hit seven [...]

An ESPN reporter had this mind bending tweet today about the NBA playoffs. The last time we had an NBA Playoffs without Kobe Bryant or Dirk Nowitzki was 1996. — Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) April 14, 2013 It’s a testament not only to their durability and career longevity, but also to the fact they are leading [...]

Well after Dirk Nowitzki and the Mavs beat the New Orleans Hornets last night to reach .500, it didn’t take him and teammates long to shave their grisly beards. As you remember, a few months ago they had made a pact not to shave until they reached .500. I’m not sure they expected it to [...]

By now, the whole basketball universe is still dealing with the shock of future Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant’s untimely Achilles injury from Friday night’s game against the Golden State Warriors. If you’re like me, surely everyone thought the “Mamba” was going to walk it off and continue to lead the Lakers on their quest [...]

With sharpshooters like Steve Novak, JR Smith, and Carmelo Anthony its hard to argue that you’re not going to be getting significant buckets from downtown. But I’m not sure anyone expected the Knicks to be this lethal from beyond the arc. Last night JR Smith knocked down a three against the Bulls to help the [...]

By now, seemingly everyone and their mother has weighed in on the Mike Rice firing at Rutgers.  Just in case, you’ve been living under a rock or something, Rice is the now deposed coach of the men’s basketball team at Rutgers, who was caught on tape heaving basketballs and shouting homosexual slurs at his team [...]

(H/T to @ESPN_Numbers) [...]