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We’re almost back to real basketball. All the teams that have been invited to Orlando have arrived there to quarantine and start practicing for the first time in what feels like five years. We’ll see if this thing gets off the ground and actual games actually start at the end of this month. If nothing […]
It looks like Shaquille O’Neal was in the right place at the right time once again. The NBA legend pulled over on the side of the road to help a stranded driver in Florida who had been in an accident. Shaq’s role as a good samaritan was also caught on police video—where, standing at 7 […]
The NBA bubble is the focus of the sports world right now. As the league attempts to restart their season after shutting down in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 22 teams have taken over the Walt Disney World sports complex in Orlando. There’s really no telling if this entire thing will work yet, but […]
He is—in relative terms in a land of giants—small in stature and raw, magnetic star power. But as days went by and Kyle Lowry appeared absent from the Toronto Raptors’ stay in Naples, Florida prior to their arrival in Orlando, it became increasingly clear who possesses the central gravitational force for the defending NBA champions. […]
Washington Mystics star and reigning WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne told ESPN Monday that the league’s panel of physicians have denied her request to opt out of the 2020 season due to medical concerns. “The independent panel of doctors the league appointed to review high-risk cases have advised that I’m not high risk, and should be permitted to play in […]
In what should probably serve as a cautionary tale for other players attempting to test the sanctity of the NBA’s Disney-quarantine bubble, the Kings’ Richaun Holmes is currently on day two of a mandatory 10-day quarantine, after he briefly left the league’s isolation zone to pick-up some food being delivered to him. Holmes’ transgression comes […]
Raptors basketball is returning, within the confines of an Orlando bubble, and we don’t really know what it will look like. What we do know is that the team’s 2019-20 season, before the pandemic hit, was a joy to watch. There was a purity to watching this particular group root, fight for, and lift each other through 64 […]
Kyrie Irving issued a stern warning to anyone questioning his passion for the game of basketball in light of his increased focus on police and social reform, in addition to his outspoken opposition to a restart of the 2019-20 NBA season: “Don’t play with me.” Irving appeared on Instagram Live with his sister Asia on Sunday to give people a […]
According to Sports Business Daily, the Washington Redskins are set to drop their nickname, which they’ve had since 1933. A formal declaration on the subject is expected to be made on Monday. This decision (forced or otherwise) comes 11 days after FedEx (who has spent millions on naming rights for the team’s home stadium, FedExField) made a recent […]
On Sunday afternoon, LeBron James added his name to the #FreeWOJ movement with a pretty hard to misinterpret tweet that said “#FreeWOJ!!!” with some fist bump emojis: James’ tweet comes during the same weekend in which it was reported that ESPN had suspended their star NBA writer/reporter Adrian Wojnarowski (see “Woj,” which I’m pretty sure you already […]
