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The Monstars have really done a number on Markelle Fultz. In his second NBA season, Fultz has yet to show signs of the player who was named third-team All-American and first-team All-Pac-12 in his lone year with the Washington Huskies. Even worse, he has yet to find his shooting stroke from the charity stripe, which has left him consistently […]
Jimmy Butler is (hopefully) heading to greener pastures with the Philadelphia 76ers after forcing his way out of Minnesota. On Saturday, the Timberwolves dealt Butler to the 76ers in exchange for Robert Covington and Dario Saric, ending the four-time All-Star’s nearly two-month push for a trade. On Monday, NBC Sports Philadelphia caught up with the newest member of the 76ers shortly after his plane landed […]
Jimmy Butler is known for being a bit…passionate about his teammates’ mistakes. Markelle Fultz is currently known for shots like this: So when NBA Twitter learned that Fultz would have to work on his jumper in front of Butler, they couldn’t help but joke about being a fly on the wall of those tense, […]
Most NBA heads remember Joel Embiid‘s attempted online wooing of Rihanna. While a relationship never materialized, it cast the perpetually injured Sixers big in a youthful glow, one that helped the notoriously fickle Philly sports crowd grow to embrace the Process Truster. Once he finally did get on the court, that Philly love blossomed into outright adoration, and now—after […]
Joel Embiid enjoys poking fun at his opponents. It’s part and parcel of a personality that’s tailor-made for an NBA Twitter audience that revels in #pettywarz. So fans should have been prepared when Embiid’s preseason foil, Mo Bamba, came to Philadelphia Saturday night when the Sixers faced the Magic. When Embiid burned the rookie baseline for a jam, the opening notes […]
You spend all offseason practicing. You hype yourself up in the locker room. You go out on opening day and… you get caught by someone on the other team and turned into a poster or worse, Twitter fodder. It can happy to any of us, provided that “us” is “some of the best basketball players in […]
