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Joakim Noah is no longer a member of the New York Knicks, according to ESPN. After several years of failing to live up to his pricey contract, the team waived the veteran center on October 13. The move will spread out the money the team owes Noah over several years, freeing them up to pursue […]
Miami Heat president Pat Riley denied claims that he called Minnesota Timberwolves coach Tom Thibodeau a “motherf*cker” for requesting too high a price in trade negotiations for disgruntled superstar Jimmy Butler. Riley shared most of a statement on the rumor to the Heat’s official Twitter account on Oct. 12. Pat Riley Statement “As to what […]
LeBron James and business partner Maverick Carter are going big with their HBO series The Shop. The first episode included appearances from Vince Staples, Odell Beckham Jr., Candace Parker, and Snoop Dogg, among other notable figures. For episode two, OVO boss Drake stops by, and according to barbershop owner Kelly Gorsuch, it got “pretty heavy with their conversation and will probably break the internet.” In […]
The Lakers landed LeBron James this summer, but it wasn’t the foregone conclusion many followers of the league have surmised. No, it took an embrace of power as serious as Daenerys Targaryen’s on Game of Thrones. That’s the metaphor running through the first part of Sam Amick’s densely reported Athletic feature on how Lakers owner Jeanie Buss actually went about landing […]
As people around the NBA try and make sense of Jimmy Butler’s orchestrated antics during Wednesday’s Timberwolves practice, the players themselves had the day off. Instead of resting on their laurels, or throwing cupcake emojis in Karl-Anthony Towns’ IG comments, they attended a players-only meeting, called by—you guessed it—Jimmy Butler. Timberwolves All-Star Jimmy Butler called a players-only […]
