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Kendrick Perkins rose to Boston Celtics lore with the “Ubuntu” title team of 2008, one of the most revered teams in NBA history in terms of unselfishness and an overall collective responsibility to the greater good. It should come as no surprise, then, that he’s dismayed by watching the current Celtics play with such a […]

So much for the dissolution of Big Baller Brand. According to celebrity gossip site TMZ, LaVar Ball is in the process of expanding the company despite a recent scandal involving one of its original founders that cost the business and Los Angeles Lakers guard Lonzo Ball millions of dollars. “But now, we’ve learned LaVar is […]

Josh Hart’s sophomore season didn’t exactly as planned. To avoid the struggles going forward that kept him from living up to expectations in 2018-19, the Los Angeles Lakers guard first needs to achieve a clean bill of health, and seems well on his way to doing so. In an Instagram post on Wednesday captured by […]

Coming into the 2018-19 season, much of the Boston Celtics’ expected dominance stemmed from the assumption that Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown would continue on the path toward imminent stardom uninterrupted. Instead, beset by the presence of Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward, both of whom missed last year’s playoffs, the Celtics’ young wings have mostly […]

Remember when it seemed like Al Horford and the Boston Celtics might have Giannis Antetokounmpo’s number? That was barely more than a week ago, after the Celtics beat the Milwaukee Bucks by 22 points in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Now, Milwaukee is on the verge of sending Boston home on Wednesday night […]

In a way, it’s easy to take Zion Williamson’s game for granted. The Duke sensation’s dropped-from-the-sky dunks, soaring weak-side blocks, and looming overall athletic supremacy is what propelled him to nationwide fame as a high-schooler, and what separates him most from any draft prospect the NBA has ever seen. But those imminently highlight-worthy exploits inevitably […]

Zion Williamson isn’t just a generational NBA prospect. As one teacher at Spartanburg Day School tells it, the Duke University sensation is an extremely gifted poet, too – to the extent he could have potentially made a career as a writer. “I hope he won’t mind me saying this, but he’s a hell of a […]

The Milwaukee Bucks will be getting a big lift for Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals. According to ESPN’s Malika Andrews, Bucks guard Malcolm Brogdon is set to return to the lineup as his team tries to close out the Boston Celtics, coming off the bench and playing on a minutes restriction. Malcolm Brogdon […]

Tom Brady will apparently look a little different during his 20th NFL campaign. According to NFL Network’s Michael Giardi, the New England Patriots superstar plans on bulking up for the 2019 season in hopes of avoiding the weight loss that plagued him a year ago. “He wants to get to 232, 233 pounds to start […]

Veteran running back Bilal Powell, currently a free agent, has fully recovered from a neck injury that once seemed poised to end his career, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. Long-time #Jets RB & now FA Bilal Powell was fully cleared from a neck injury that was once thought to threaten his career, teams were […]

If Odell Beckham, Jr.’s assessment of his new quarterback is any indication of what’s to come both this season and going forward, the Cleveland Browns will be competing for championships sooner rather than later. In an interview with Cam Wolf of GQ, Beckham lavished praise on Browns franchise quarterback Baker Mayfield, comparing him to an […]

What a difference a year makes – just ask Eric Ebron. Before last season, the 2014 first-round pick was mostly known for being a cautionary tale about drafting tight ends in the top-10. Many Detroit Lions fans, for instance, blanched at their team selecting Iowa T.J. Hockenson with the eighth overall pick in this year’s […]

DeSean Jackson, occasionally criticized for a supposed lack of maturity during his first stint with the Philadelphia Eagles, is already proving that won’t be a problem this time around. During an appearance on SportsRadio 94WIP on Tuesday, Eagles vice president of football operations Howie Roseman noted that the veteran wide receiver’s off-the-field life seems to […]

The New York Jets may very well have a bright future. Rising sophomore quarterback Sam Darnold, while hardly spectacular, still showed flashes of immense promise as a rookie, and defensive tackle Quinnen Williams, the No. 3 overall pick of the 2019 NFL Draft, has the makings of a multi-year all-pro. With organizational building blocks on […]

Breaking news: Tom Brady is still very, very popular. Just short of 20 years into his legendary NFL career, the New England Patriots quarterback ranked first among all players last season in number of officially-licensed merchandise sold. A full breakdown of the NFL Players’ Association top-50 player sales list can be found HERE. Brady threw […]

Before taking N’Keal Harry with the 32nd and final pick of the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft, the New England Patriots hadn’t used a first-round selection on a wide receiver since 1996. Given the team’s sterling track record of player evaluation, then, it should come as no surprise that one prominent NFL analyst […]

The Green Bay Packers have released running back Lavon Coleman, the team announced on Monday. #Packers release RB Lavon Coleman https://t.co/fpc6TBHsgX — Green Bay Packers (@packers) May 6, 2019 Coleman, a rookie in 2018, spent the final two weeks of last season on the 53-man roster. He appeared in one game, against the New York […]

The New Orleans Saints are apparently still looking for help on the offensive line. According to Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle, former New England Patriots tackle Ulrick John will work out for the Saints on May 10th. Saints to work out former Patriots tackle Ulrick John, according to a league source, on May 10 […]

Less than two weeks after realizing his NFL dream, Daniel Jones has already received more flak than most top-10 picks do their entire rookie seasons. Perhaps in an effort to stem widespread criticism of the New York Giants’ rookie quarterback, NFL Network analyst Brian Baldinger dove into his film from college, finding out what many […]

After blowing out the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 1, the Toronto Raptors seemed well on their way to a berth in the Conference Finals. Less than a week later, though, Nick Nurse’s team suddenly finds itself in a 2-1 hole, one made deeper than it seems given the injury status of one of its best […]

The ease with which the Golden State Warriors dispatched of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2018 NBA Finals made it easy to forget that they almost didn’t have the chance to repeat as champions in the first place. Steve Kerr clearly remembers those circumstances, though. Golden State was down 3-2 to the Houston Rockets in […]

The Houston Rockets were outscored by the Golden State Warriors by nine points in the first quarter of both Games 1 and 2 of the Western Conference Semifinals. James Harden and company eventually made up most of that deficit in both contests, but nevertheless failed to completely overcome their poor starts en route to a […]

The Houston Rockets need to win Game 3 if they have any chance of climbing out of an 0-2 hole to beat the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference Semifinals. Needless to say, pulling off that difficult feat would have been something close to impossible if James Harden was hindered by the eye injury […]

Ben Simmons hasn’t exactly had much success defending Kawhi Leonard in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. The Toronto Raptors superstar is averaging 37.7 points per game on 60.9 percent field goal shooting against the Philadelphia 76ers so far, getting pretty much wherever he wants with the ball in his hands and feasting from mid-range. When offensive […]

Brett Brown has been to the NBA mountain top before. Before becoming the Philadelphia 76ers head coach, he was on staff with the San Antonio Spurs for four of the team’s five championships during the Tim Duncan era. As a result, he’s better equipped than anyone with the Sixers to know what it takes to […]

When Robert Covington was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves earlier this season, T.J. McConnell became the lone holdover still on the roster from the Philadelphia 76ers’ worst team in franchise history. The Sixers went 10-72 in 2015-16, fully embracing The Process for a second consecutive season in hopes of a long-term payoff that’s finally on […]

The Golden State Warriors, up 2-0 on the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference Semifinals, have every reason to be confident as the series shifts to Toyota Center. Entering Saturday’s Game 3, though, Andre Iguodala and company know Houston will be pulling out all the stops to avoid falling behind an insurmountable three games to […]

Jamal Murray had it going against the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night. When his team needed a big shot most, though, a wardrobe malfunction cost the Denver Nuggets star the chance to take it. With just over one minutes and 20 seconds remaining in the first overtime of Game 3, Murray lost his shoe […]

A whopping 39 personal fouls were called in the second half of the Milwaukee Bucks’ Game 3 victory over the Boston Celtics on Friday night. All six of Jaylen Brown’s fouls came after intermission, Giannis Antetokounmpo attempted 14 free throws, and 21 of those 39 total whistles were blown on the Celtics. The officiating crew […]

After opening the Eastern Conference Semifinals with a blowout win over the league’s best team – in the regular season, at least – on the roard, it finally seemed safe to say with certainty that the Boston Celtics had righted their wayward ship. But two straight losses later, the Celtics’ back is suddenly up against […]

Damian Lillard’s buzzer-beating, game-winning, series-clinching 37-footer over the outstretched arms of Paul George on Aprul 24th is even more impressive given the Portland Trail Blazers’ recent playoff history. In 2017, the Blazers were embarrassed by the eventual-champion Golden State Warriors in a first-round sweep with an average margin of victory of 18 points. A year […]

The New York Giants didn’t pick Daniel Jones sixth overall in the 2019 NFL Draft to be the team’s day-one starter. Eli Manning, for better or worse, is still the Giants’ quarterback of the present, and as his father tells it, will provide Jones with the type of guidance in 2019 necessary to take advantage […]

If you saw Brett Favre and Peyton Manning driving around in a green old-school convertible in eastern Wisconsin on Saturday, it’s not because the Green Bay Packers are looking for an experienced backup to Aaron Rodgers. Favre was back in his old stomping grounds to film a guest appearance on Manning’s new ESPN series, Peyton’s […]

Everyone is excited about the Cleveland Browns, and rightfully so. Browns cornerback Greedy Williams, though, will need to keep his enthusiasm in better check going forward lest he again draw the ire of his first NFL head coach. After Cleveland took him with 46th overall pick of the 2019 NFL Draft, Williams made headlines by […]

Daniel Jones’ connection to Eli and Peyton Manning has already proven an incredible asset. If the three quarterbacks didn’t play under current Duke coach David Cutcliffe in college, there’s certainly a chance Jones wouldn’t have been selected by the New York Giants in the 2019 NFL Draft. Of course, that very notion is one of […]

At this rate, Baker Mayfield might be a Cleveland Browns legend whether or not he makes good on the incredible promise he showed as a rookie. On Thursday’s episode of The Herd, Colin Cowherd addressed his somewhat rocky relationship with the Browns’ franchise signal-caller. Rather than offer an honest, contrite olive branch of sorts, though, the […]

Brandin Cooks isn’t the first player that comes to mind for the Los Angeles Rams. After all, Aaron Donald is a two-time reigning Defensive Player of the Year, and probably the best player in the NFL. Donald doesn’t even play on the side of the ball that’s propelled his team to what seems like perennial […]

Patrick Mahomes defied even optimistic expectations for his season as a starter in 2018, throwing for 5,097 yards, 50 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions while competing 66 percent of his passes, ridiculous numbers only previously reached by Peyton Manning in his historic 2013 campaign. The Kansas City Chiefs superstar won MVP as a result of his […]

Daniel Jones has received more flak than any other player selected in the 2019 NFL Draft. To overcome criticism gleaned from the New York Giants taking him at No. 6 overall in the biggest media market in the world, the former Duke quarterback would do well to embrace “Mamba Mentality,” the mindset championed by Los […]