Offbeat

During the most recent NBA lockout, the owners hung their collective hat on the fact that they felt they weren’t profitable enough and the players were asking for too much. Since then, the NBA’s brand has grown and the league is as popular as it’s been in a while. Forbes recently assessed the value of [...]

The Raptors are young, and crazy athletic. One of their fearless forwards James Johnson not only can jump out of the gym, but apparently he can do backflips as well. This guy is scary athletic for his size. #WeTheNorth #GoRaps Man of many talents @broke_3 ???? #WeTheNorth A video posted by Landry Fields (@landry2fields) on [...]

As reported back in October, Michael Beasley left the NBA for China and the Chinese Basketball Association in an attempt to rejuvenate his career. Following in the footsteps of another troubled NBA star, Stephon Marbury, the CBA doesn’t look like a terrible place to land, as they pay well, and have tremendous community support if [...]

Two decades ago, future NBA legends Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton had the Seattle SuperSonics flying high, as they arguably formed one of the best inside-outside combinations in Association history. Payton, was in the beginning stages of what would become a Hall of Fame career, earning the nickname “The Glove” for his lock down defense, [...]

We are barely a week and a half into the 2015 calendar year and we have already seen a number of amazing feats on the hardwood. In the pros, Golden State’s Klay Thompson just went off for 40 points,  Pau Gasol dropped 46 points and 18 boards on the Bucks, and the Philadelphia 76ers are…….gulp, [...]

ESPN and the NBA today announced that they are cutting back on televised New York Knicks games in favor of the Toronto Raptors who are in first place in the Atlantic and second in the Eastern Conference. The Knicks are on a 13 game losing streak, a new record for the franchise in one single [...]

Last year we let you know that Lebron James’ son Lebron James Jr. was blowing up as a top prospect for his ripe old age of 9. Then this summer King James showed up to cheer for his son crossing up defenders in AAU. The latest highlights below are courtesy of takemytalent.com and show Lebron [...]

ESPN and the producers of the upcoming film Taken 3 have come up with a pretty clever cross promotional video with Liam Neeson and John Wall. With the upcoming release of Taken 3 (for those that haven’t seen Taken 1 and 2, Neeson is a bad ass father with a ‘particular set of skills’ to [...]

LA Lakers Kobe Bryant tonight passed Michael Jordan with a couple of free throws for third all-time on the NBA’s scoring list. With a whopping 32,293 points, Kobe is only trailing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387) and Karl Malone (36,928). While it doesn’t seem likely Kobe will catch Kareem or Karl Malone, it is an amazing feat [...]

We all know Justin Timberlake is always at his best in front of the camera, but on Sunday night he wanted to see if he’s just as good behind the camera. So he decided to help out the broadcast crew of the Grizzlies… Please enable Javascript to watch this video For those who don’t know, [...]