Ty Lawson’s previous DUIs seem like a lifetime ago, but he still hasn’t been punished by the league. Even though he’s in Houston now, the NBA has come down and suspended the PG for two games for his past transgressions. Houston Rockets’ guard Ty Lawson has been suspended for two games without pay for driving [...]
December 21, 2015
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Rumors
Charles Barkley has never been one to bite his tongue or hold back an unpopular opinion, not to mention wax poetic about how much tougher the league was in his heyday and atayed in that vein when he was recently asked if this year’s Warriors team could compete with the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls and Michael [...]
December 20, 2015
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Blogs, Ryan Bawek
In order to get a courtside seat for a Cavaliers-Thunder game you will have to pay a pretty penny, but professional golfer Jason Day’s wife Ellie Day paid for the experience in a different way: getting toppled by a 260 pound LeBron James diving for a basketball. Midway through the fourth quarter of the Cavs-Thunder [...]
December 18, 2015
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Is it true that Dwight Howard is unhappy with his role in Houston? Will he leave in free agency, or will Houston try to trade him first? Will Kobe start in the all-star game and why in the world are the Warriors upset that the Bucks “celebrated” too much after handing Golden State their first [...]
December 18, 2015
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Podcast
Al Horford is switching agents. Again. According to basketball reporter David Pick, the Atlanta Hawks superstar has decided to part ways with his latest agent, Bill Duffy: Hawks All-Star Al Horford, I've been told, has fired BDA and agent Bill Duffy. — David Pick (@IAmDPick) December 18, 2015 This is kinda-sorta weird. Horford only hired [...]
December 18, 2015
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Yes that may be one of the most confusing and ridiculous headlines you’ve read in quite some time, but it is entirely true. According to Iman Shumpert’s fiancée Teyana Taylor, their first born decided she was ready to make her entrance into the world very early and very unbeknownst to Shumpert and Taylor. The baby [...]
December 17, 2015
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Offbeat
With six points in the Clippers 103-90 win over the Bucks in Los Angeles Wednesday night, Paul Pierce became the 16th player in NBA history to reach 26,000 points for their career. Earlier this season his former teammate Kevin Garnett became the 15th player in NBA history to reach the milestone. Congratulations to The Truth! [...]
December 17, 2015
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Blogs, News, Ryan Bawek
Greivis Vasquez may have already played his last game for the Milwaukee Bucks. The 28-year-old point guard, whom the Bucks acquired in an offseason trade with the Toronto Raptors, hasn’t played in a game since late November while nursing an ankle injury that, per Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe, officially required surgery: #Bucks announce [...]
December 17, 2015
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Kyrie Irving is almost back, which is not to be confused with him actually being back. Because he’s not back. Only almost back, sans a concrete return date. We apparently needed that explanation, because no one can quite get a hold of when the Cleveland Cavaliers All-Star is returning. Irving has spouted off all the [...]
December 16, 2015
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According to Dwight Howard, Dwight Howard isn’t looking to move on from the Houston Rockets. You read that right. Rumors have started to surface that he isn’t entirely happy playing second fiddle to James Harden. This scuttlebutt sounds all too familiar to the hearsay emanating out of Staples Center back in 2012-13, when Howard was [...]
December 16, 2015
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