It’s finally happened. The New Orleans Pelicans have agreed to trade superstar forward Anthony Davis to the Los Angeles Lakers for a large haul of young assets. The Pelicans are set to acquire Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart, and three first-round picks in return, including the fourth-overall selection in the 2019 draft. [tweet https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1140023139142971392] [...]
June 15, 2019
Anou Enright
Blogs
A local sheriff’s office near Oakland alleges that Raptors president Masai Ujiri assaulted a sheriff’s deputy just moments after Toronto won its first NBA title. The alleged incident took place on the court at Oracle Arena just after the Raptors defeated the Golden State Warriors. A spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office says the deputy asked [...]
June 14, 2019
Anou Enright
Blogs
After 24 seasons, the Toronto Raptors can now call themselves champions for the first time. Toronto defeated the Golden State Warriors 114-110 in Thursday’s Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals to win the series. The Eastern Conference champions didn’t lose a single away game away stopping the Warriors from winning three straight titles and [...]
June 14, 2019
Anou Enright
Blogs
As most of you know, Raptors fans have come under fire for cheering when Kevin Durant suffered an injury during Game 5 in Toronto. The have been called trashy and classless from players to fans across the world. So in true Canadian fashion, Raptors fan, Hamzah Moin, has decided to start a GoFundMe campaign to [...]
June 12, 2019
Anou Enright
Offbeat
Head coach Steve Kerr has announced that Kevin Durant will miss Game 4 of the NBA Finals against the Raptors as he continues to heal from his calf injury. “The training staff says he’s not ready to play yet – that’s all,” Kerr said. This is the ninth straight game that KD has missed since [...]
Stephen Curry is returning to Oakland for Game 3 of the 2019 NBA Finals tomorrow at Oracle Arena and during the series he will wear the Curry 6 Thank You, Oakland colorway with the city’s name boldly featured on the side of the shoe. This shoe is a celebration of the nearly 426,000 people who [...]
June 4, 2019
Anou Enright
Kicks
According to the Portland Business Journal, Kawhi Leonard has filed a federal lawsuit against Nike. Leonard claims he designed the “Klaw” logo before signing an endorsement deal with Nike, and that the company copyrighted it without his consent, according to court documents. [tweet https://twitter.com/srl/status/1135664650899660802] The lawsuit states that Nike “falsely” claimed it created a logo [...]
A Game 1 loss in the NBA Finals may be forcing the Warriors to speed up Kevin Durant’s rehab. On Wednesday, Steve Kerr said that Durant was cleared to take part in individual on-court basketball activities, but the 10-time All-Star actually began his on-court basketball workouts earlier this week. Now some members within the Warriors’ [...]
It seems that there is a lot more than we thought when it comes to Kristaps Porzingis’ exit from New York. According to Knicks president Steve Mills, Porzingis gave the front office an ultimatum before he was acquired by the Mavericks in a seven-player blockbuster deal prior to the trade deadline. “(Porzingis) walked into my [...]
May 23, 2019
Anou Enright
Blogs
All-Star point guard Damian Lillard is expected to sign a four-year, $191 million supermax extension with the Portland Trail Blazers this summer. Lillard would be eligible for the supermax if he is named to one of the three All-NBA teams which is likely to happen since he averaged 25.8 points and 6.9 assists in the [...]
May 21, 2019
Anou Enright
Blogs