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Just because it was anticlimactic doesn’t mean it wasn’t spectacular. Because what we saw out of the Lakers in Game 6 was an exclamation point. Championships aren’t supposed to be punctuated in such emphatic fashion, but maybe it was fitting the most bizarre season in NBA history, and a roller-coaster NBA Finals, ended with Los […]
Sports fans can be overly harsh at times. Unfortunately for Danny Green, he and his family had to experience the ugly underbelly of NBA fandom following the Lakers‘ game 5 loss. As the clock started to tick away at the end of the fourth, LeBron James drove the ball into the paint bringing a crowd […]
LeBron James isn’t supposed to lose close out games. But Jimmy Butler, the man who loves cowboy boots, country music, and sells coffee for $20 a cup out of his hotel room down at Disney World, has never cared much for popular narratives. So just when we all thought the NBA Finals were about to be wrapped […]
Chris Bosh has been working on his music production talents since retiring from the NBA. Now he’s released his first song, “I Want It All,” with up-and-coming artist Deezie Brown. The track is a tribute to Kobe Bryant. Bosh was forced to retire in 2016 due to recurring blood clots. When that happened, he began filling his […]
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr took a swipe at the Houston Rockets and their polarizing style of play while talking about the makeup of his team heading into next season. While speaking about the revamped roster around the Warriors’ long-standing core of Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green, Kerr essentially told The Athletic […]
This one was rough and rugged—anything but pretty. And the roar LeBron James let out after Anthony Davis basically sealed the deal in Game 5 with a dagger 3-pointer with 39.5 seconds to go was a mixture of euphoria, relief, and a siren to the basketball world that he’s only 48 minutes away from history. […]
2020 has seen a number of high-profile acts of protest in response to acts of violence by police. Players from both the NBA and the WNBA have been at the forefront of such protests, with many deciding to not take the court—or to walk away from entire seasons—in protest of recent police killings of George […]
One is competing in the NBA Finals. The other has been sidelined with an injury since February. Yet somehow, we’re back to talking about the relationship between LeBron James and Kyrie Irving. Given the magnitude of their presence in the NBA and their compelling personalities, this storyline might never die. These two All-Stars have had […]
So do we have a series? Or did the Heat just delay a Lakers coronation for a few extra evenings? After a poor performance by LA and Jimmy Butler having the game of his life, Miami has managed to make the NBA Finals a lot closer, and maybe slightly more intriguing, than just about everybody […]
Everyone thought it would be a blowout. It turned out to be closer than expected. But the results are all that really matter in the end and behind the unstoppable duo of Anthony Davis and LeBron James in Game 2 of the NBA Finals, the Lakers are two wins away from a title. Davis and […]
