Kevin Garnett has rookie Karl-Anthony Towns’ back. The 19-year-old Towns, who was selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the first over pick in this year’s draft, was born a little bit after the 39-year-old Garnett made his NBA debut, and now they’re teammates, which is flipping cray and just out of this world. Towns himself [...]
September 8, 2015
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Hey! Psst. Hey, you! Did you know Markieff Morris wants to be traded from the Phoenix Suns? Of course you did, because you’ve haven’t been living on Pluto these last few months, and even if you were, you’d probably still know. I’m not sure how, and I know it’s impossible on every front ever, but [...]
September 8, 2015
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So much for Carmelo Anthony not being committed, or particularly keen on, the New York Knicks’ future. Perhaps he’s still not feeling great and struggling to sustain an optimistic slant in the face of an extensive rebuild that became all too real as soon as the Knicks drafted long-term project Kristaps Porzingis. But, at the [...]
September 7, 2015
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Ready for some good news? Yeah you are. I’ll be leaving for vacation soon, probably, I think. Oh, and there’s a growing sense on some level within the NBA that there won’t be another lockout in 2017, when both the owners and players have the opportunity to opt-out of the current deal that expires in [...]
September 7, 2015
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The Miami Heat are an enigma. Most of the time, in the NBA, that’s considered a bad thing. The best teams offer hope in the form of certainty, not assurances and pipe dreams and potential flexibility and possible, though not guaranteed, returns. But the Heat are different. They’ve always been different. Sort of like how [...]
September 2, 2015
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Kobe Bryant joined former teammate/rival Shaquille O’Neal on The Big Podcast with Shaq, and it was everything you could ever expect. So long as you were expecting a ton of cliches that only supported the notion that these two, once serial head-butters with the Los Angeles Lakers, are now cool. One of the anecdotes, however, [...]
September 1, 2015
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DeAndre Jordan is changing his mind again. No, he’s not trying to renege on his deal with the Los Angeles Clippers. But he is leaving his agents at Relativity Sports following a controversial free-agency process in which he almost spurned the Clippers for the Dallas Mavericks. Broderick Turner of the Los Angeles Times first broke [...]
September 1, 2015
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Anthony Davis is like the Energizer Bunny of fear: He just keeps getting scarier and scarier and scarier and scarier. Last week, we riffed on the Brow bulking up and turning the NBA’s fellow power forwards and centers into his own personal playthings. Now we’re back to him incorporating three-pointers into his already-expansive arsenal. Yes, [...]
August 31, 2015
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For someone who’s battled myriad injuries and, as of now, doesn’t rank in the top half of his position pool, Ricky Rubio ambles his way into the NBA’s rumor mill quite often. While responding Bleacher Report’s Ric Bucher buying that the Minnesota Timberwolves would move, or at least shop, Rubio this coming season, ESPN 1500’s [...]
August 31, 2015
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Derrick Rose is officially on the record claiming his innocence after being accused of drugging and gang raping an ex-girlfriend. TMZ first brought word of the accusations, and Deadspin has since released additional details of the complaint, all of which are worth a read. But Rose responded himself on Thursday night, issuing a statement to [...]
August 28, 2015
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