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Meet Michele Roberts: 1st Woman To Head Pro Sports Union. Professional Bad-Ass
Look. I’d be lying if I said I heard of Michele Roberts, new head of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) union, before today. Maybe some of you wonks or Washingtonians might have, but I...
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Exactly How Racist Was Atlanta Hawks Owner Bruce Levenson’s Email?
It was quite a weekend in sports. Serena won again, the NFL proved (again) that we’re all hypocrites, and Steph Curry decided to go all Steph Curry against Mexico. He must be racist. For me, though,...
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Leaked: More Danny Ferry NBA Scouting Reports
The odd circumstances leading to Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson selling his interest in the team apparently stem from racially insensitive comments made by general manager Danny Ferry during a...
View ArticleWhy I Love NBA Basketball (…And Why You Don’t If You Don’t)
***Although originally posted a year ago, everything said here still rings true. So I’m saying it again (with some minor edits)*** As I type this, the remnants of a fried egg and bacon sandwich sits...
View ArticleNBPA Head Michele Roberts Is Not Fucking Around With Your Bitch Ass
When I first wrote about Michele Roberts, the D.C. lawyer named head of the National Basketball Players Association, I did not know much about her. But, you didn’t have to know much about her to assume...
View ArticleThe Cavs (Finally!) Traded Dion Waiters. I Am Ecstatic. Here’s Why.
1. At the moment, Dion Waiters is not a very good NBA basketball player. This is a fact most who follow the NBA agree on. He is average to below average in pretty much every advanced metric you can...
View ArticleKyrie Irving, Who Is Very Good At Playing Basketball, Drops Double Nickel On...
Kyrie Irving is very good at playing basketball. Here are the results from the last seven professional basketball games Kyrie Irving — who is very good at playing basketball — played, and how the point...
View ArticleOn Being A Diehard Sports Fan…And Marrying Someone Who Doesn’t Give A Shit...
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the NBA playoffs. This, the two month span between mid-April and mid-June, is my favorite time of the year. Not my favorite sports time. There are no qualifiers. No...
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Everything You Need To Know But Didn’t Think To Ask About The 2015 NBA Finals
Tonight, the Golden State Warriors will host the Cleveland Cavaliers for the first game of what should be a very entertaining finals. You have stars (Lebron, Curry, Kyrie, Klay), multiple compelling...
View ArticleThe Haters’ Guide To Successfully Hating The Golden State Warriors
The Golden State Warriors are the new NBA champions; a perfect end to a historic season where they won 67 games (the third most in NBA history) and won the affections of both casual and diehard fans...
View ArticleThe Second Dumbest Reason People Give For Hating NBA Basketball
At the moment, the New England Patriots, partially fueled by a gaggle of sociopathic self-righteousness after being “vindicated” by Deflategate, are undefeated and would seem to be the early favorites...
View ArticleAllen Iverson’s Greatest Contribution To Basketball Is An Unstoppable And...
There exists among many sports fans a reflexive need to assign a mysticism and morality to what happens on the field. If a team happens to win a game, it’s because they “wanted it more” than the other...
View ArticleA Case For Why Lebron James (And Not Stephen Curry) Is Still The NBA’s Best...
Yesterday, Panama shared a recent conversation he had with a person who said the following: 1. Stephen Curry is overrated 2. Stephen Curry is not that good In 2016, these statements constitute...
View ArticleStephen Curry Is Not An Underdog, So Please Stop Trying To Make Him One
Several hours from now the Golden State Warriors will play the Cleveland Cavaliers in a rematch of last year’s NBA Finals. The Cavs are much better equipped than they were last year, when a spate of...
View ArticleAllen Iverson Is Turning 41 This Week (41!) And More Reasons I’m Starting To...
While watching the Cleveland Cavaliers play the Golden State Warriors during the NBA Finals, it’s been hard for me to look at Tyronn Lue and take him seriously. Not because his team has been getting...
View Article10 Thoughts On The NBA Soap Opera, Starring Lebron, Steph, Ayesha, And Kyrie
1. Saying Lebron James is the best basketball player in the world feels like such a matter-of-fact and unnecessary assertion that saying it aloud makes me feel dumber. Like saying “Hey, that dog over...
View ArticleI Can’t Root For The Knicks Anymore If Derrick Rose Is On Our Team
I’ve experienced the sweet torture of being a New York Knickerbockers fan for almost my entire life. So much of my youth was defined by major Knicks heartbreaks. There was the 1995 Eastern Semifinals...
View Article30 Reasons Why Your Favorite Team Won’t Win An NBA Championship (…And 30 Ways...
The NBA regular season starts today, just a few months after the Golden State Warriors culminated their historic collapse by losing to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals. And, if you happened to...
View Article2017 Has Basically Been The Empire Strikes Back (With MAGA And Mayonnaise),...
Apparently unsatisfied with the 500-year-long winning streak White America is on, God decided to allow king-sized pack of Spearmint Chewing Gum with sentience Tom Brady and Darth Belichick (and their...
View ArticleFive Perfectly Logical And Understandable Reasons Why Kyrie Irving Would Want...
Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images Perhaps you might have heard that Kyrie Irving asked to be traded from the Cleveland Cavaliers. And that he apparently made this request as early as last year, soon after...
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