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Ron Artest/Metta World Peace/Panda Friend is now officially going by a new name. This time he’s dropping the World Peace, taking his original last name back, and hyphenating it with his wife’s. Put simply (no, wait, confusingly) he’ll be going by Metta Sandiford-Artest from here on out. Sandiford-Artest revealed this new switch-up during an appearance […]
Friday would have been Gianna “Gigi” Bryant‘s 14th birthday. To help her family celebrate, Kobe Bryant‘s former teammate, Pau Gasol, sent Vanessa Bryant a birthday cake dedicated to her daughter. Vanessa Bryant shared a picture of the white and gold cake on her IG Stories. It was decorated with multi-colored butterflies with a topper that read “Happy […]
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 […]
It’s been nearly a month since the NBA suspended its season over coronavirus fears. League officials announced the move after a number of athletes tested positive for the disease, and said they “will use the hiatus to determine next steps for moving forward.” The NBA has not indicated whether the 2019-2020 season will resume or be completely scrapped—and it seems […]
There’s no doubt that LeBron James loves the game of basketball, but he’s not interested in playing games that the fans aren’t able to attend and enjoy. On Friday, the NBA told reportedly told teams to start preparing to play games without any fans in attendance. The NBA appears to be following the lead of […]
One of Kobe Bryant‘s sisters, Sharia Washington, has decided to pay tribute to her late brother and niece, Gianna, by getting a black mamba shaped like the symbol for infinite, with their numbers (2 and 24) tattooed onto her left shoulder blade. You almost certainly don’t need to be told, but this particular snake was chosen […]
Kobe Bryant was a true renaissance man. Not only was he one of the greatest basketball players of all time, but he was also well-versed in the arts. He may have even had a rap career if a certain legend of the genre didn’t intervene. During a recent conversation with Entertainment Tonight, LL Cool J recalled […]
DeMarcus Cousins‘ time with Lakers has reportedly come to an end. On Friday, ESPN‘s Adrian Wojnarowski and Ramona Shelburne reported that the Los Angeles Lakers will waive the four-time All-Star, who signed a one-year, $3.5 million contract with the franchise back in August. A month after joining the Lakers, the 29-year-old center sustained a torn ACL during an off-season workout in Las Vegas. The […]
DeMarcus Cousins thinks LeBron James would be a good fit for the Oval Office. Cousins appeared on Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson’s show All That Smoke, where Cousins discussed James running for President of the US. “I told him the other day, I’m like—he’d probably get pissed for me saying—’Bro, you need to run for president.’ If there’s […]
The world is still reeling from the passing of Kobe Bryant. An avid basketball fan and son of Chicago, former president Barack Obama used his speech during the NBA All-Star Weekend Newsmaker Brunch to acknowledge Kobe and Gianna Bryant’s deaths, as well as the seven others killed during the helicopter accident. “That loss is something that I know […]
