NBA
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Georgetown Hires Patrick Ewing as Head Basketball Coach, and That Was the Right Thing to Do
It’s about time Patrick Ewing became a head basketball coach. According to several reports, Ewing will take over the head coaching responsibilities at Georgetown University, where he played in the ’80s. The position of coach was left vacant after John Thompson III, son of Ewing’s former coach John Thompson Jr., was fired. The nepotism of…
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Poor Thomas: Dad Uses Signs at NBA Games to Troll Son Over Grades
Anybody who grew up in a black household knows that grades reign supreme. You cannot come into your parents’ (or grandparents’, or auntie’s or whomever’s) house with no fool-ass grades. That is not how the program works. It seems that one kid, named Thomas, is being freshly indoctrinated into the culture, and his dad is…
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The Golden State Warriors’ Andre Iguodala Fined $10,000 for Making Remark About Working for ‘Master’
The National Basketball Association has fined the Golden State Warriors’ sixth man, Andre Iguodala, $10,000 for a racial remark he made after Friday night’s loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. ESPN reports that Iguodala was asked Friday night if he knew whether or not he would be sitting out Saturday’s game along with Steph Curry, Klay…
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2017 Has Basically Been The Empire Strikes Back (With MAGA And Mayonnaise), But Here's Some Shit To Look Forward To
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 bottomless supply of impressive and indistinguishable “first picks in a Stormfront fantasy football league”-ass wide receivers) to pull a Super Bowl victory out of their asses,…
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Ex-NBA Coach George Karl Pens Bitter Tell-All Book Blasting Former Players
George Karl was once an NBA coach. He wasn’t a good NBA coach, even with top talent like Carmelo Anthony, so Karl was fired from every NBA coaching job he ever had. Now the sorry ex-NBA coach is releasing a tell-all book about his days of coaching players who were better served under better coaches.…
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Craig Sager, Veteran Sports Reporter and King of the Fancy Suits, Dead at 65
Craig Sager, the veteran sports broadcaster known for his colorful, flashy suits and quick-witted sideline banter at NBA basketball games, died Thursday at the age of 65. Sager, who spent four decades as a reporter for Turner Broadcasting, died after a long and public battle with cancer that, as Shaun Powell notes for NBA.com, transformed…
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What Happened to Steve Francis?
The story of Steve Francis is becoming more bizarre by the minute. The latest is this: Francis, the onetime basketball standout and No. 2 NBA draft pick, was arrested in Houston on a DWI. He was accused of driving 85 mph in a 65 mph zone. When police pulled Francis over, authorities said that he smelled…
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Russell Westbrook Delivers Impassioned Okla. Hall of Fame Speech
On Thursday, Russell Westbrook gave an impassioned speech after being inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. Westbrook was introduced by Hall of Famer Michael Jordan, who praised Westbrook’s loyalty to the Oklahoma City Thunder. “He could’ve easily come to Charlotte,” Jordan, owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, joked, ESPN reports. “But he decided to stay…