NBA
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Because We All Need Some Joy Today, Mark Cuban Shares Photos of Delante West's Progress After Entering Rehab
The last 24 hours have been emotionally draining for all of us, but thankfully Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has blessed us all with a little bit of good news to lift our spirits. Former NBA player Delonte West has been through hell and back since his days of knocking down three-pointers in the NBA.…
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Twitter Points Out the Hypocrisy of Black Athletes Being Told to 'Shut Up and Play' After Jay Cutler, Jack Nicklaus Publicly Endorse Trump
Shut up and dribble. For Black professional athletes, it’s an all too familiar refrain meant to dissuade grown-ass men and women from expressing their personal opinions on relevant issues that affect American society as a whole. Simply put, it’s a very white thing to say. It’s also a completely foreign concept to people like New…
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Raptors Guard Terence Davis Charged With Assault, Criminal Mischief After Allegedly Hitting Woman
Toronto Raptors guard Terence Davis was arrested and charged with third-degree assault and criminal mischief after allegedly striking a woman, according to ESPN and Yahoo Sports. The incident, which occurred on Tuesday night, took place in an apartment building in the East Side of Manhattan shortly before 10 p.m. According to a criminal complaint, the…
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Chris Paul Leads Thousands in March to Early Voting Site at North Carolina HBCU
NBA star Chris Paul led a march on Tuesday to an early voting site at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina. According to the Winston-Salem Journal, Paul led almost 2,500 to the polling location as part of the “March to the Polls Part 2” event. Winston-Salem is Paul’s hometown, and the Oklahoma City Thunder point…
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Atlanta Hawks Owners Will Invest $40 Million to Bolster Economic Empowerment Within the Black Community
Atlanta might have one of the highest concentrations of Black folks in the country, but it also ranks among the lowest in economic mobility within our communities. So in being the largest nonprofit center in the country that’s devoted to empowering Black entrepreneurs and small business owners, the Atlanta-based Herman J. Russell Center for Innovation…
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Anonymous NBA Agent Rips League for Allowing Black Lives Matter to 'Really Hurt the Business': 'Who Are You Helping?'
In the immediate aftermath of the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, America underwent a short-lived racial reckoning in which white people pretended to give a shit about the Black plight, and Black folks failed miserably to fully capitalize off of it. One of the best examples of this was…
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Kobe Bryant’s 2008 Finals Jersey Put on Display in the Smithsonian
In honor of the late Kobe Bryant, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture has displayed the jersey he wore during the 2008 NBA Finals. According to CBS News, the jersey was displayed as part of its “Sports: Leveling the Playing Field,” gallery. Bryant was a founding donor of the museum, with…
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Ty Lue Is the Man for the Job, but He's Got a Lot of Work to Do to Fix the Clippers
After one of the biggest implosions in NBA history, in which the Los Angeles Temecula Clippers (the franchise has since relocated to Temecula after the team was ran out of town by rioters bearing torches and pitchforks) somehow blew a 3-1 series lead in the Western Conference Semifinals with one of the most loaded rosters…
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Jared Dudley Details Life Inside the NBA Bubble, Admits the Lakers Laughed at the Clippers Just Like the Rest of Us
Los Angeles Lakers forward Jared Dudley will never make an All-Star game in his life, but if we’re picking an All-Star squad of the best personalities in the entire league, he’s absolutely a lottery pick. On the latest episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast, Dudley did what Dudley does: tap into his lengthy experience as…
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Mike Is Still the 'Greatest,' but LeBron Is the Best
The first NBA game I remember watching in full was in 1986 when Michael Jordan dropped 63 on the Boston Celtics in the playoffs. I’m certain I watched games before that one, either with my dad or on one of the BETA tape recordings he’d make of games that aired when he wasn’t home. But…