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The NFL is still reeling from its latest coronavirus news, but the positive tests just keep coming. Fullback Michael Burton of the New Orleans Saints has tested positive for COVID-19. To make matters worse, the team has already flown to Detroit for their scheduled face-off against the Lions in Week 4. The news was reported […]

The torn ACL diagnosis for San Francisco 49ers defensive lineman Solomon Thomas has been confirmed, ending his 2020 NFL season. The confirmation of this injury for the battered 49ers represents yet another season-ending injury after one of the more violent and consequential regular-season weekends in NFL history. 49ers’ DL Solomon Thomas also confirmed to have […]

The carnage from Week 2 of the NFL season continues. Another important player has been knocked out for the season with an injury. The latest player to be sidelined until 2021 is Seattle Seahawks nickelback Marquise Blair, who was ruled out for the rest of this season on Monday. He suffered a knee injury against […]

After the San Francisco 49ers beat the New York Jets on the bad turf at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, head coach Kyle Shanahan said his team will likely bench an injured Jimmy Garoppolo and play backup Nick Mullens next week against the New York Giants in the same stadium (per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport). […]

The New York Jets fell behind the Buffalo Bills 21-0 on Sunday… and it got worse from there. The Jets reduced that 21-point deficit to 21-10, but they lost running back Le’Veon Bell to a hamstring injury. He has been ruled out for the rest of the game. RB Le'Veon Bell (hamstring) is doubtful to […]

Indianapolis Colts running back Marlon Mack was injured early in his team’s Week 1 NFL game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Though more information is coming in and more tests still need to be conducted, Colts officials fear that Mack has suffered a torn Achilles: NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero had the story first. The #Colts fear […]

The Alan Foster situation is some time behind us, but the impact it had on Lonzo Ball, LaVar Ball, and the Big Baller Brand remains relevant today. At the time, Triple-B found itself in another national controversy. But this time, they were the victims. Renouncing ties with Alan Foster, Lonzo Ball publically ended a long-time […]

There was a Cavs owner who will go down as the most impatient NBA owner of all time. The dude was so bad at his job, the NBA literally had to create a rule to stop him from screwing himself over again. No, it’s not Dan Gilbert. This story goes back to Ted Stepien, the […]

Chris Childs served a two-game suspension for punching Kobe in the throat. Carmelo Anthony got 15 games for landing one of the most solid punches we’ve ever seen in an NBA brawl. And Ron Artest got slapped with an 86-game suspension for socking a fan in the face during the infamous Malice in the Palace. […]

The worst Big 3 to touch the NBA hardwood…ever. No, not that one. Rather, we’re talking about Donald Sterling, Shelly Sterling and V. Stiviano. Over the years, the Sterling’s have made up two thirds of the sports world’s most odd, intriguing love triangle. Disgraced former Clippers owner Donald Sterling, his wife Shelly, and mistress V. […]

James Harden and Luka Doncic have perfected the art of the step-back jumper, making defenses across the league look helpless over and over again. They’re not the ones who invented the step-back jumper. Nor are they the first to perfect an unguardable shot. Manu Ginobili brought the Euro over from Argentina.  Kareem won six championships […]

Ever since Supreme bust on the scene, the public has jumped at the chance to get anything they can with the iconic box logo on it, whether it be a shirt or a crowbar. NBA players are no different. What started as a skateboarding brand has become an undeniable symbol of style and status worn […]

Imagine losing $200,000 in 10 seconds. Now imagine losing $108,000,000 in the blink of an eye. Former NBA star Antoine Walker managed to do both. Everybody’s heard the old stat regarding lottery winners: 70 percent of people who hit it big playing the lotto end up broke within three to five years. The people who […]

If you took 10,000 high school basketball players in America today, just three of them would make it to the NBA. That’s just 0.03%. Many of them even had to rise above circumstances that further affected their odds. Like LeBron James, who was in and out of apartments with his single mother, went from unknown […]

Basketball is a truly global game. The number of foreign-born players in the NBA and the number of countries American players are now willing to play in is constantly growing. It’s why the story of Micheal Madanly being so unknown is a bit strange. It’s as interesting as any out there, especially during these strange […]

Joe Smith. A name so ordinary that Wikipedia brings up 56different pages for various people with the same exact name. That includes three different congressmen, a jazz trumpeter, the founder of a religion, and 22 different professional athletes. One of those athletes is the Joe Smith we are about to talk about. Otherwise, they are […]

NBA Draft night 2013 will go down as one of the most hilariously spectacular evenings in the league’s history, as the Boston Celtics and Brooklyn Nets agreed to possibly the most lopsided trade ever. This trade was so epically bad, it still impacts the league many years later! The Celtics sent the decomposing corpses of […]

The Golden State Warriors dynasty faced the Toronto Huskies in the 2019 NBA Fi… wait what?? We mean the Toronto Raptors, but that was almost the real deal. Sound weird? How about the Toronto Towers? Toronto Hogs? Toronto Scorpions? Toronto Bobcats? Toronto Dragons? What the heck is even going on out here? Well, they nearly […]

There was a man drafted ahead of Melo, D-Wade and Chris Bosh who got a ring before all three, but left the league to become a 350-lb cherry picker, literally. His name is Darko Milicic. Once his NBA career was gone, Darko Milicic had a mid-life crisis, trying a bunch of different things to find […]

Stephon Marbury eating Vaseline, with the world consuming the debacle over video, might end up defining his career, but it won’t define him as a person. Unfortunately, it’s a tragic story lost to people preferring to hurl jokes on top of a messy situation instead of acknowledging the gravity of it all. The former All-Everything […]

Actual NBA superstars are rare. The kind who are so good, we know who they are on a first-name basis. LeBron. Giannis. Steph… Dame. Recognizing Damian Lillard as one of the NBA’s elite is long overdue. So why was he snubbed six times? Well, that’s why we are here my friends. To figure out what […]

Money can’t buy you happiness… or friends… or the ability to play music… or a good NBA franchise. Oh, hello there, James Dolan! For those somehow unaware, James Lawrence Dolan is the proud owner of the New York Knicks. And since he’s been in charge of everything that happens inside the World’s Most Famous Arena, […]

Lavar Ball is erratic yet committed. Loud but entertaining. Flamboyant with passion. Extra but determined. Delusional… and completely captivating. Sometimes Lavar Ball is so off base he’s on point. Sometimes he makes his life harder and deserves the criticism. But he just doesn’t care. He’s going to say what’s he’s going to say. Well, so […]

2017 was a simpler time. Netflix wasn’t on a mission to raise their rates every few months; Twitter wasn’t adding features to their app no one wanted; And Charlie Villanueva’s toilet being stolen was the end-of-the-year story everyone didn’t know they needed. Charlie Villanueva, a man who we later learned truly cared for his potty, […]

Shoot a three, you coward! Yeah, that’s right, we’re about to talk about Philadelphia 76ers superstar Ben Simmons. The man, myth and legend. Ben Simmons is an excellent basketball player. He is athletic, defends, can pass, is a large human playing point guard and just about everything else… except for shooting. Ben Simmons can’t shoot […]

Man, Isaiah Thomas had the worst luck, but only after he ended up on the wrong side of a few business decisions that put the team over any form of loyalty. Let’s face it: The NBA is a business. Teams treat their players like assets. Players have the freedom to switch teams in free agency, […]

The heated verbal altercation between then-Thunder star Russell Westbrook and a Utah fan during the OKC’s win over the Jazz a few years back provided America another argument to dive into. Just… fantastic. Westbrook threatened the fan and his wife, and after the game was over, Westbrook said that his response was provoked by a […]

The Philadelphia Eagles select wide receiver Jalen Reagor out of TCU with the 21st overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft. More details to come, stay tuned.

The Las Vegas Raiders select cornerback Damon Arnette with the 19th overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft. More details to come, stay tuned.

The Carolina Panthers select Derrick Brown with the 7th overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft. More details to come, stay tuned.

Rodney Hood has not made a decision about his player option for next season, but he has every intention of playing for the Portland Trail Blazers. On a conference call with Portland-area reporters, Hood said he has not made up his mind on the $6 million option he holds for next season. Before the COVID-19 […]

According to multiple reports, Dak Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys hosted a party on Friday night in which as many as 30 people attended, including Ezekiel Elliott. There are questions about the party and who was ultimately responsible for throwing it, but the principal figures did not immediately respond to queries, creating even more uncertainty […]

The New York Giants brought Jason Garrett in to interview for the team’s offensive coordinator position on Wednesday. It didn’t take long for him to accept the job. According to Ed Werder of ESPN, New York has hired Garrett as the franchise’s next offensive coordinator. The Dallas Cowboys decided to move on from Garrett as their head coach after he spent […]

After missing the past 11 games with a groin injury, Toronto Raptors forward Pascal Siakam will return to the lineup on Sunday to face the San Antonio Spurs. Raptors head coach Nick Nurse told reporters that Siakam will be in the starting lineup, but be on a minutes limit. Pascal Siakam is going to start […]

The Miami Heat may be without All-Star forward Jimmy Butler when they face the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday evening. The team’s official injury report Butler listed him as questionable before the game tips off as he deals with back soreness. Jimmy Butler (back) is questionable today. Justise Winslow will not play. — Tim Reynolds […]

Golden State Warriors guard D’Angelo Russell has missed the past three games as he’s dealt with a shoulder injury. However, there’s some good news on that front as head coach Steve Kerr expressed optimism on Sunday that Russell could return to the lineup for Monday’s matchup with the Sacramento Kings. He returned to practice after […]

Washington Wizards All-Star guard Bradley Beal has been in and out of the lineup lately as he deals with a right leg injury. He missed Friday night’s loss to the Portland Trail Blazers after the injury flared up, and has been listed as questionable for Saturday night’s game against the Denver Nuggets. Bradley Beal is […]

CMarcus Smart has missed the Boston Celtics’ last seven games with a scary eye infection, but he appears to be getting closer to returning to the court. Celtics coach Brad Stevens told reporters on Friday morning that Smart will miss that night’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, but the veteran guard is hoping to return […]

The New Orleans Pelicans’ season has not gone as planned, with No. 1 overall pick Zion Williamson missing the beginning of the year with a knee injury and the team getting off to a 9-23 start. And while Jrue Holiday has not yet asked for a trade, The Athletic‘s Shams Charania is reporting that the veteran […]