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The NBA isn’t often a place for compliments. Opponents will take compliments as a sign of weakness. That’s the theory at least, and no player is exempt. That maxim certainly holds for rookies, who sometimes have a hard time garnering a compliment from their own teammates. And it’s basically unheard of for European imports playing their initial bit of […]
The Cowboys and Giants were supposed to lollygag through their final matchup in Week 17. The NFC East rivals weren’t really playing for anything. Dallas had already locked up the division last week and New York was simply playing out the season before Odell Beckham, Jr. spends his summer covertly shading Eli Manning on Instagram. […]
We’ve come a long way from the 1973 match between aging antagonist Bobby Riggs and annoyed victor, Billie Jean King. King’s win mirrored the exploding women’s liberation movement and foretold an underrated Steve Carrell, Emma Stone flick. But on New Year’s Day the greatest tennis player in history will face Roger Federer in Perth, Australia at the Hopman Open, according to Tennis.com. “You […]
The NFL regular season ended on Sunday, and with it, the future of at least six head coaches as of this writing, not including the two coaches canned before the season could even conclude. Let’s go through them all first to catch you up: In late October, the Browns fired Hue Jackson. Interim coach Gregg Williams is in […]
Always a straight-shooter, the Thunder‘s Russell Westbrook gives an honest answer on who to blame for Oklahoma City’s recent slump, himself. “I’ve just got to do a better job, man,” Westbrook said to ESPN following Sunday’s (Dec. 30) lost to the Dallas Mavericks. Westbrook’s self-criticism has some validity. Russ scored just 9 points against the Mavericks […]
It’s best to not take Joel Embiid entirely seriously. More than most MVP candidates, and he’s in that discussion this season, Embiid realizes the unimportance of most off-the-court matters. When most everything can be construed as a joke, the tension inherent to contests of athleticism lessens. That’s likely why he got in a dig at Jazz big man Rudy […]
LeBron James has said Ben Simmons has the opportunity to be better than him, which isn’t an aggressive reach since the Sixer has won 2018 NBA Rookie of the Year. It doesn’t hurt that Simmons is pretty self-confident. He raced against the Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell for the ROTY prize, and Simmons angered hair-trigger Jazz fans when […]
For all the praise David Fizdale has received, only the LeBron-less Cavs have a worse record than the Knicks through the first 35 games of the season. The biggest reason isn’t the coaching, or even the ownership—though that’s always an issue. It’s their decided lack of talent. Kristaps Porzingis will likely convalesce well into the new year and maybe even […]
Coming into the 2018-19 NBA season, only the Warriors and Rockets really rivaled the Celtics in terms of talent. This was made even more apparent after the team, missing Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward, came within one game of advancing to the 2018 Finals. But the team stumbled out of the gate this season, which according […]
LeBron James was swept in the 2018 Finals. After the loss, he left the Cavaliers for the second time in his career to sign with the Lakers. But Bron’s legacy is very much in tact, as evidenced by him being named the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year for the third time in his career (winning previously in […]
