basketball
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Lucky Lakers Fan Wins $100,000 for Hitting Half-Court Shot
Every basketball fan has fantasized about it at one time or another, but imagine what would happen if you were the lucky person who hit that half-court shot on your team’s home court to win a big, fat check for $100,000. Suni Strong of Lancaster, Calif., doesn’t have to wonder any longer after he completed…
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LeBron James and Steph Curry Are the Team Captains for NBA All-Star 2018 and They Get to Build Their Dream Teams
The votes have been counted and the results are in. On Thursday evening, the NBA revealed the team captains and the starting roster pools for both the Eastern and Western conferences for the 2018 All-Star Game, which will take place in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 18, at 8 p.m. EST. For the second year…
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LaVar Ball Is the Wrong Guy With the Right Ideas
A sizable part of LaVar Ball’s appeal for people he happens to appeal to is that he’s a walking, talking distillation of many of the half-baked but smart-sounding arguments about sports that often occur in barbershops, during happy hours, over barbecue pits, at spades tables and on the bleachers of midget-league football games. It’s in…
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Who’s the Greatest: Kobe No. 8 or Kobe No. 24?
In a ceremony Monday night, the Los Angeles Lakers will retire Kobe Bryant’s two jerseys—both No. 8 and No. 24—an honor that has never been received by any other player in the NBA, not even Michael Jordan. To coincide with that history-making event, Nike has brought back the Kobe and LeBron puppet campaign it first…
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LeBron James Debuts New ‘Equality’ Shoes, Shades Trump in Visit to Washington, DC
No, LeBron James didn’t bring mismatched shoes to play against the Washington Wizards on Sunday. When King James took to the court wearing one white shoe and one black shoe with the word “Equality” stitched on them in gold, he was making a political statement against Donald Trump and racism. That’s not conjecture by NBA…
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LaVar Ball Pulls LiAngelo Ball Out of UCLA Over Indefinite Suspension: Report
LaVar Ball is reportedly unhappy with the punishment his middle son, LiAngelo, is receiving at UCLA since returning to campus in the aftermath of the China shoplifting incident—so much so that he has removed the younger Ball from the school in order to explore other options. After confirming to ESPN that he had pulled his…
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Hoodie Melo Stunts on His Old Job With His New Job, and Thunder Smashes the Knicks on Opening Night
When you leave your old job and start a new one, you always to want a glow-up, and you always want to show your old job that you are doing just fine without their ass. So when your old job and co-workers show up at your new job to see how just fine you really…
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30 Reasons Why Your Favorite Team Won’t Win the NBA Finals This Year
The NBA—the best professional sports league in the history of history—is back Tuesday night, with 30 teams all vying to be the one that wins the last game of the season. Here’s why none of them will. 30. Chicago Bulls Because I triple-dog dare you to name five people on their team without Googling the…