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With no sports back yet, we’re tripling down on our Last Dance content. Can you really blame us? It’s not only very good, but there’s really nothing else to do right now. We’re now officially four episodes into the documentary and we’ve seen a whole bunch of people. Obviously, you have the main characters: Michael Jordan, Phil […]
Erica Telfair, the mother of former NBA player Sebastian Telfair, has died after she contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, the New York Post reports. She was 64. Just weeks before the passing of his mother, Dan Telfair, Sebastian’s older brother died from the disease on March 28, according to the outlet. Dwayne “Tiny” Morton, the former head coach […]
The Los Angeles Lakers are giving back the roughly $4.6 million they got from the federal government, which was money that was granted to the organization as part of a program aimed at keeping small businesses going throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. If that sentence made you say “wait, what?” then you’ve correctly identified the reason […]
With little else going on in the world of sports, predicting that The Last Dance would be a massive ratings hit was a layup. A record-setting audience tuned into ESPN for the first two episodes of the 10-part docuseries when it debuted last weekend. Chances are almost everybody returned for more Sunday night. The drama that unfolded in the […]
Shaquille O’Neal contributed to the cost of a child’s funeral, after a Louisiana family lost their son in a car accident earlier this month, TMZ reports. Just over two weeks ago, a single car containing an adult (the driver), and four minors went through a stop sign prior to crashing into a ditch and then hitting a […]
Tulane University guard Teshaun Hightower was arrested Saturday night and charged with murder for his alleged involvement in the death of 24-year-old Devante Anthony Long earlier this month, ESPN reports. Hightower was being held without bail in Henry County Jail as he awaited his court appearance, which was scheduled for Sunday morning. In addition to felony murder, […]
The 2008 United States Olympic basketball team will go down in history as one of the best teams ever assembled. Now that he’s retired, Dwyane Wade decided to focus some of his spare time on creating a documentary that details how this team was assembled. During an appearance on The Platform podcast, Wade revealed that […]
Dwyane Wade and Steph Curry got together on Friday night for a cook-off and a little conversation, called The Wine Down Cookoff. During the Instagram Live session, Wade touched on his career, particularly recalling the moment he knew he had made it because Kobe Bryant began guarding him over the entire court. “We was playing […]
The NBA will reportedly allow certain teams to reopen their practice facilities, as the 2019-2020 season remains in limbo. Sources tell ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski that beginning May 1, teams can reopen facilities in areas where social distancing restrictions have been eased. Though group workouts will remain prohibited, insiders say players will be allowed to use the facilities for individual work on a voluntary […]
Draymond Green and Kevin Durant had a tense relationship towards the end of KD’s time with the Warriors. This sparked a narrative—that Durant leaned into—claiming that Draymond was the reason KD decided to leave Golden State. During a recent conversation with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson on their All The Smoke podcast, Draymond said that Durant is using […]
