Offbeat

Klay Thompson just went up a notch or 50 on my nonexistent ladder of respect for professional athletes. Following the Golden State Warriors’ Wednesday night victory over the Miami Heat, Thompson dished on how excited he was to visit “Harry Potter Land” when the team traveled to face the Orlando Magic on Thursday night. This, [...]

Well this is awkward. During his retirement tour, Kobe Bryant has had his share of smiles, laughs and even hugs, but apparently some fans Kobe denies. Wednesday night the Lakers played and lost 128-119 to the Memphis Grizzlies and the FedExForum was on its feet to salute Kobe one last time. Kobe embraced the applause [...]

Aaron Gordon shared his incredible athleticism and world-class dunking prowess in the dunk contest a few weeks back and the basketball world still hasn’t quite recovered from the performance he and Zach LaVine put on that night. Gordon has been getting a lot more opportunity to flash his high energy and freakish athletic ability on [...]

With the Suns 118-111 loss to the San Antonio Spurs Sunday, the Suns finished their seven-game February home stand 0-7. What is significant about this level of futility at home you say? Well, the Suns became just the second team in NBA history to go win-less during a home stand of at least 7 games. [...]

One word and one word only can sum up the 2015-16 NBA Trade Deadline – weak. Maybe, very weak. We saw that one coming though, right fellas? It’s always a game of ‘he said, she said’ after the deadline passes, so we’ll never truly know who was actually close to being on the move. There [...]

Just in case Gilbert Arenas had even the smallest semblance of a legacy left, he is making every effort to squash it. Tonight he took to Instagram and in a weird classless rant, seemed to compliment Kobe Bryant, beg for a 10-day contract, then attack virtually every player on the Lakers bench. Maybe he was [...]

ESPN shared a pretty humorous tweet earlier today that a prospective trade of the entire 76ers roster for Kobe Bryant would work within salary cap constraints according to the handy dandy ESPN’s NBA trade machine tool: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNNBA/status/699990459876253697] There are a number of factors that make this hilarious, the trade obviously wouldn’t be possible as [...]

Ever wonder what a LeBron James emoji would look like? How about Kobe Bryant? Well look no further. Ahead of the All-Star weekend, the NBA has released a series of Twitter emojis. The league released specific characters for each player and TV broadcasters that will appear when their name is used as a Twitter hashtag. [...]

For whatever reason. some of the veterans on the Miami Heat decided to grace the world with their own “Martin” spoof. Martin of course was a highly popular comedy sitcom on Fox starring Martin Lawrence that aired from 1992 to 1997. https://twitter.com/6footer4/status/697803546796957697 Chris Bosh definitely steals the show which is no surprise really. [...]

Dennis Rodman is a colorful character to say the least. We all know about his struggles with addiction, money, and celebrity since his playing days in the NBA. With that said, we also know about Rodman’s hall of fame success on the basketball court, and many players citing Rodman as a rebounding ‘genius’ and others [...]