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From The Ringer: Are these the last days of Marv Albert’s career?
The great media reporter Bryan Curtis wrote a column on Marv Albert last night, that highlights both the greatness and creepiness of the...
May 24, 20191 min read


Kawhi: the introvert’s champ
For the person who last year looked at the best organization in American sports and said goodbye to all that, this is quite the...
May 24, 20192 min read


Magic just can’t help himself
Magic Johnson went on First Take this morning, for some reason, and used his time to hurl a huge middle finger toward Rob Pelinka: “So...
May 20, 20191 min read


Five things from last night's Toronto-Milwaukee game
1. Giannis grabbed 24 rebounds and dished seven assists... ...but had a playoff-low 12 points, fighting foul trouble all night before...
May 20, 20191 min read


Draymond Green, noted sociopath, is rebranding himself
No one is enjoying Kevin Durant’s elongated absence from the Golden State Warriors more than Draymond Green, the team’s enigmatic...
May 20, 20192 min read


Mr. Marjanovic goes to Los Angeles
For some reason that is much less important than the fact that it is a confirmed truth, Boban makes an appearance in “John Wick: Chapter...
May 17, 20191 min read


CJ’s trying, Jennifer
On August 15, 2018, one Jennifer Williams tweeted at CJ McCollum, imploring the Blazer guard to “Win a playoff game then talk.” A few...
May 17, 20191 min read


In appreciation of the OG Warriors
The Kevin Durant Warriors have an air of droning inevitably. Like the freight train that rumbles by at 2 a.m., that team is going to get...
May 17, 20192 min read


Last night changed the NBA. We’re just not sure how yet.
The hottest of hot takes would be to anoint Zion Williamson either a loser or a winner after last night’s NBA Draft Lottery. In reality,...
May 15, 20194 min read


Processing The Process, two days later
Hey Philly, I hope you cried with Embiid, and found a friend to hug you the way Marc Gasol hugged your 7-foot-3 weeping willow. We...
May 14, 20191 min read


Let the mid-major victory lap begin
Both of these conference finals matchups are going to be billed as a triumph for the small college basketball program. And for good...
May 14, 20191 min read


New York’s 14 percent prayer
After averaging a limbotic 29.2 wins over the last five years, this season, finally, the Knicks bottomed out and finished with the worst...
May 14, 20191 min read


This Rockets-Warriors series is what we needed
If you’re one of those people who thinks the NBA got significantly worse the day Kevin Durant paid a ghost-writing Syracuse grad to pen...
May 8, 20192 min read


The Celtics have a first-world problem
Celtics fans have always been a positive bunch. Blame it on Bob Ryan, who revolutionized basketball writing while at the Globe, and also...
May 8, 20192 min read


D-Lo walks into an airport...
The AriZona beverage brand is timeless. Years pass. Seasons change. The 3-point revolution takes over the NBA. And still, be it 2002 or...
May 3, 20191 min read


Let's remember some great old commercials
Sports generally deal in the business of packaged nostalgia. The teams or players you fell in love with early on are the ones you’ll...
May 1, 20193 min read


So, what was that all about?
Let’s just get this out there: The way Nuggets-Spurs Game 7 ended on Saturday night was amateur hour at the Comedy Studio. The Nuggets...
Apr 28, 20191 min read


James Harden ran out of tricks in Game 1
So much of James Harden’s game is predicated on fooling the referees into giving him calls. In Game 1 against the Warriors on Sunday...
Apr 28, 20191 min read


That time Al Horford sonned Giannis
Earlier this season, we wrote the universe might collapse when Giannis learns how to shoot 3-pointers consistently. By yesterday’s...
Apr 28, 20192 min read


Hondo can finally take an exhale
John Havlicek, one of the great players of the 1960s and ‘70s, who Bill Russell once called the greatest all-around player he had ever...
Apr 25, 20191 min read
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