Did you know that Beyoncé is a hardcore South Carolina Gamecocks fan? Apparently, she watched and supported the Dawn Staley-coached team all the way through the NCAA Women’s basketball tournament with her family and enjoyed them so much, she sent Staley a bouquet of flowers to commemmorate the team’s historic, undefeated season and championship win. […]
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The New Orleans Pelicans came incredibly close to the 7-seed in the Western Conference on Tuesday night, losing 110-106 at home to the Lakers. The Pelicans erased a double-digit deficit and clawed their way back into a tie game in the fourth quarter thanks to a tremendous performance from Zion Williamson. The at times maligned […]
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After moving through the early years of legalized sports betting relatively unscathed from controversy, the NBA had its first big betting scandal arrive late in March courtesy of Jontay Porter. Some questionable prop betting activity on Porter in two games in which he removed himself with an injury or illness raised red flags and launched […]
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Zion Williamson was immense in the New Orleans Pelicans’ Play-In Tournament loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night. While the Lakers were able to pick up a 110-106 win in New Orleans, Williamson had one of the best games of his career, as the former No. 1 overall pick went for 40 points […]
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In recent days, a new meme has started to surface, and it turns out that Lil Yachty is at the root of it. As Know Your Meme notes, Yachty performed at the Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash concert in 2021, and a clip of his energetic walk out to the stage has racked up over 4.5 […]
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Last season, the Sacramento Kings could not defend their home court in Game 7 of the first round of the playoffs, as the Golden State Warriors walked into Golden 1 Center and picked up a win. Fast forward to Tuesday night and the Kings got their revenge in the 9-10 game of the Play-In Tournament, […]
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The NBA postseason officially got underway on Tuesday as the Western Conference Play-In began with the Lakers pulling out a 110-106 win over the Pelicans despite a 40-point game from Zion Williamson (who got injured late in the fourth quarter). With that result, the Lakers locked up the 7-seed and a rematch of last year’s […]
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The Los Angeles Lakers are heading to the playoffs. On Tuesday night, L.A. went to New Orleans to play a Pelicans team that they frequently blew out this season, and while they were able to come out on top 110-106, things were far more tense than usual thanks to one of the best performances of […]
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The New York Knicks will enter the NBA Playoffs as the 2-seed in the Eastern Conference, thanks to a truly incredible season by Jalen Brunson that will likely get him on many voter’s top-5 for the league’s MVP. Despite injuries to Julius Randle and OG Anunoby, the former being out for the year with shoulder […]
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The NBA, in its never-ending effort to get teams to take the regular season more seriously, instituted the Play-In Tournament back in 2020-21. The idea is simple: Give more teams an opportunity to make the playoffs, and even if they’re a sacrificial lamb to a 1-seed, they’re going to go for it. And outside of […]
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Bobby Portis is in his fourth season with the Milwaukee Bucks, where he quickly became a fan favorite as the spark plug off the bench during their championship run in 2021. This year, Portis played all 82 games for the Bucks, averaging 13.8 points and 7.4 rebounds per game while hitting 40.7 percent of his […]
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The 2024 WNBA Draft has come to an end. On Monday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 36 basketball players learned that they’re entering the league next year — the Indiana Fever kicked things off with one of the most obvious picks of all time, while the festivities came to a conclusion when the […]
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On Monday evening, Kevin Durant was included on a reported list of 11 players projected to lead USA Basketball in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. That inclusion was anything but a surprise for one of the best players of all-time, but Durant is also coming off a strong season with the Phoenix Suns. He […]
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Caitlin Clark is headed to Indianapolis. In a widely-expected move, the Indiana Fever used the top overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft to select Clark, the superstar guard from the University of Iowa who is making the jump to the W after being named the national player of the year in back-to-back seasons. Clark […]
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While the 2024 postseason technically begins for the NBA on Tuesday, the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris have been a discussion point across the basketball world for quite some time. That was perhaps heightened when the United States struggled at times in the 2022 FIBA World Cup, ultimately winning the bronze medal with a less-than-inspiring […]
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The WNBA is an unforgiving place for rookies. It’s arguably the most competitive professional sports league when it comes to securing a roster spot, with just 12 players making it onto each of the 12 teams. Adding to the difficulty of locking down one of those 144 spots is the fact that the rookies enter […]
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One of the great in-arena marketing ideas of the last few decades is the “Brickin’ for Chicken” concept, in which fans of a team get a free Chick-Fil-A sandwich — or, in some markets, a different free food item from a fast food chain — if an opposing player misses both free throws on a […]
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After the East took center stage in the 1 p.m. ET slate, it was the West’s turn to finish out the 2023-24 NBA regular season in the 3:30 p.m. ET window. Much like the East, there were very few competitive games as the teams at the bottom of the standings were in “1-2-3 Cancun” mode, […]
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The 2023-24 NBA regular season came to a close on Sunday afternoon, with every team in the East (sans Detroit) playing at 1 p.m. ET. While the Boston Celtics had long locked up the No. 1 seed in the conference and the Bulls and Hawks have been destined for the 9-10 Play-In game since January, […]
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The NBA’s regular season will come to a conclusion on Sunday, as all 30 teams are in action, with teams in the East playing at 1 p.m. ET and teams in the West playing at 3:30 p.m. ET. While we know the 10 teams in each conference that will continue on into the postseason, there […]
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Caitlin Clark is heading to the pros on Monday, as it’s widely assumed that the now-former University of Iowa standout will be the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 NBA Draft. But before she does that, she had a quick pitstop to make on the set of Saturday Night Live, as Clark has a […]
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The Lakers beat the Grizzlies 123-120 on Saturday night in a game that was a tight battle throughout but saw L.A. eke out a win to keep their hopes alive of the 8-seed in the West (and thus two cracks at a Play-In win to make the playoffs). However, rather than being a 48 minute […]
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It’s been quite a while since someone other than the United States won the Olympic gold medal in women’s basketball. After coming in third place during the 1992 Olympics, the team has won every year since, with each of the last seven golds coming back to the United States. Next up for the Americans is […]
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The probability has never been higher that the person reading this sentence also watched the Women’s Final Four. An average of 18.9 million people were glued to the Dawn Staley-led South Carolina Gamecocks completing a 38-0 season by beating Iowa in the national championship and ending Caitlin Clark’s mythological college career. Did a decades-long appetite […]
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The New Orleans Pelicans have a gigantic game on Thursday night against the Sacramento Kings, and midway through the second quarter, Zion Williamson had to make his way into the locker room after breaking a fall with his hands and tweaking his wrist. Fortunately for the Pelicans, Williamson was ok, and was able to return […]
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From the moment word broke that John Calipari would be leaving the Kentucky Wildcats for the Arkansas Razorbacks, basketball observers have kept a close eye on the coaching search in Lexington. Kentucky reportedly pursued both Baylor’s Scott Drew and UConn’s Dan Hurley (fresh off two straight national titles), only to be rebuffed in both instances. […]
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Lil Dicky joined Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce for this week’s episode of New Heights, and the episode was packed with Lil Dicky’s signature self-deprecating charm. Around the 40-minute mark, Jason asked Lil Dicky whether he’d had a “welcome to the industry” moment. “Another story I’ve never told that just came into my head that’s […]
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The Boston Celtics made a few major trades this past offseason, one of which involved acquiring Jrue Holiday from the Portland Trail Blazers in the aftermath of the Blazers sending Damian Lillard to Milwaukee. It was quite the coup for Boston, because while Holiday is a perfect fit in their backcourt due to his ability […]
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The Boston Celtics locked up the top seed in the Eastern Conference with nearly a month to play in the season. They currently hold a 14-game lead on second with three games to play, and will be the heavy favorites to reach their second NBA Finals in three years. Even with their regular season dominance, […]
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The NBA has quickly gone into a full embrace with the gambling world now that sports betting has been legalized in most of the United States, but while the business side is happy to partner with sportsbooks, the same rules exist for players when it comes to betting. Any gambling on the NBA is completely […]
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In his 21-year career, LeBron James has been part of some iconic moments in NBA history, but no one individual play stands out more than his chase down block of Andre Iguodala in the 2016 NBA Finals. That plus the Kyrie Irving three pointer that followed it are the indelible moments from the Cavs stunning […]
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