Getty Image It’s March, which means it’s an appropriate time to think about some college basketball legends before this year’s tournament gets underway in earnest on Thursday. Over the past decade, few college basketball players have been as electrifying as Jimmer Fredette was at BYU, as he launched deep threes and lit up scoreboards for […]
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Getty Image Joel Embiid and the Boston Celtics don’t exactly get along very well. Embiid got into a kerfuffle with Terry Rozier during the playoffs last year, and when the two teams met in Philadelphia on Wednesday, fireworks flew once again. Early in the third quarter, Embiid sent Smart to the floor with an elbow […]
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Getty Image The Boston Celtics have been an up-and-down squad all season, which is why they currently reside in the fifth spot in the East despite being preseason favorites in the conference. Even so, Boston has owned the Sixers for the last two years, beating them in the second round last year and entered Wednesday […]
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Getty Image This is John Calipari‘s time of year. Not only is college basketball’s most high-profile coach prepping his Kentucky Wildcats for the NCAA Tournament as they square off against No. 15 Abilene Christian on Thursday; it’s also the time of year that Coach Cal faces annual questions about his future and whether he might […]
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Getty Image James Harden is an extremely crafty basketball player. He’s excellent at getting checked 1-on-1, then digging deep into his bag of tricks to make an opposing defender look foolish. The latest example of this came on Tuesday night against the Atlanta Hawks, when Harden put Hawks wing Kent Bazemore in the spin cycle. […]
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Getty Image The Lakers season has not gone according to plan, as LeBron James’ first season in L.A. will end when the regular season does, snapping his streak of 13 consecutive playoff appearances. There’s plenty of blame to go around in Los Angeles, from ownership to the front office to the coaching staff to the […]
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Getty Image The Brooklyn Nets are fighting for a playoff berth in the Eastern Conference, which means every game is important until they clinch a top-8 spot. On Wednesday in Sacramento, it appeared one opportunity would surely slip by to get a win as they trailed by 25 entering the fourth quarter against the Kings. […]
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Getty Image The LA Clippers are one of the better stories of the NBA season, pushing toward the playoffs with a fun, balanced squad. In fact, the Clippers have (somehow) improved after trading arguably their best player, Tobias Harris, to the Philadelphia 76ers and head coach Doc Rivers is rightfully receiving all kinds of attention […]
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Getty Image Egg Boy became a viral sensation over the weekend after video hit the internet of Australian teenager Will Connolly smashing an egg on the back of the head of senator Fraser Anning, who blamed the massacre of Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand on Islam as a religion. If you haven’t seen it by […]
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Getty Image Indiana might have been the most fascinating team on the 2019 NCAA Tournament bubble. The Hoosiers had a laundry list of great wins — including a pair of victories over Big Ten Tournament champion Michigan State — but sat at an underwhelming 17-15. Ultimately, the committee left Archie Miller’s squad out, and instead, […]
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Getty Image Jim Boylen’s first season as head coach of the Chicago Bulls has been, well, let’s just say interesting. After taking over for Fred Hoiberg after the ex-Iowa State coach was fired, Boylen clashed with his players over what they felt was too aggressive an approach to practices, which initially were hours long and […]
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Getty Image Isaiah Thomas returned to the place that, briefly, made him an All-Star on Monday night when the Nuggets visited Boston and beat the Celtics. Thomas has fallen out of the Nuggets rotation as he continues to try and find his rhythm after returning from his hip injury earlier in 2019, but Mike Malone […]
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Getty Image More than a year has passed since Cleveland Cavaliers swingman J.R. Smith was suspended for throwing a bowl of soup at an assistant coach. Even with a decent amount of time between the incident and now, the shock factor of that sentence hasn’t really worn off but the assistant in question was Damon […]
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Getty Image Dirk Nowitzki may retire at the end of this season, or he may choose to come back for the 2019-20 campaign depending on how he feels come this year’s end. Whatever the case, many around the league are making sure to try and appreciate his greatness in what could be his final season. […]
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Getty Image Things didn’t end in perfect fashion for Isaiah Thomas in Boston and, in many ways, that is unfortunate. However, the former All-Star guard returned to the TD Garden on Monday evening as a member of the Denver Nuggets and, after a long and winding road, Thomas (finally) received his tribute video from the […]
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Getty Image Isaiah Thomas has had a rough last two years. He dealt with the tragic death of his sister in the 2017 playoffs and was shockingly traded to the Cavs as the centerpiece of the Kyrie Irving trade, noting he felt betrayed by the Celtics and Danny Ainge for moving him. Thomas missed the […]
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Getty Image Kevin Durant and Draymond Green have not had the smoothest of seasons together with the Golden State Warriors. The two-time defending NBA champions are still in line to defend their title once more, but the getting there hasn’t been easy for a Warriors team that’s endured chatter about the team’s workings on a […]
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Getty Image For as much love as Klay Thompson gets for his abilities on the defensive side of the ball, you might be surprised to learn that the slightly less-famous member of The Splash Brothers has never made an All-Defensive Team during his first seven years in the NBA. Despite the Warriors regularly ranking in […]
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Getty Image When the Chicago Bulls elected to part ways with Fred Hoiberg in December, many believed it wouldn’t take long for the 46-year-old to return to the bench in some capacity. Hoiberg reportedly wanted to stay in the NBA mix but, given his previous success as the head coach at Iowa State, plenty of […]
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Getty Image As is NBA law, the Brooklyn Nets played in another tight game that was decided at the buzzer on Sunday night, this time a 119-116 loss to the Clippers in Los Angeles. For much of the fourth quarter, a Clippers win seemed all but assured, but a furious late Nets rally, including a […]
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