Basketball

Most NBA teams spent Thursday night in Brooklyn trying to add firepower to their roster. Here’s a recap of the players and teams that made headlines at the 2017 NBA Draft.

There is a new star stealing the show at Madison Square Garden.

Do you keep score in your pickup games using 1- and 2-point shots rather than 2- and 3-point shots? Because you shouldn't. Why, you ask? Because of math.

One young fan strongly disagrees with the Knicks' choice in the NBA draft.

Sometimes a playoff game can be so pressure filled, you need to calm your emotions by eating.

Here's a badly kept secret about me: I love Shaquille O'Neal. Always have. I taste-tested every flavor of Soda Shaq, for crying out loud. Ask me to tell you about my never-written script for Caddy-Shaq someday.

Dark Horse comics editor Jim Gibbons and writer/artist Ethan Young clearly fee…

The Yeezus Tour is currently on its Australian leg, so during some down time Kanye & Co. hit up a local gym in Perth to play some pickup ball. And while it's hard to tell from a few photos whether Kanye can actually hoop or not, it looks like he went between-the-legs crossover on some o…

The best player on the USA Basketball roster is stepping away from the team weeks before the FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain. Kevin Durant has withdrawn from Team USA, citing mental and physical fatigue. From USA Basketball:
USA Basketball National Team Managing Director Jerry Colangelo today anno…

The artist formerly known as Ron Artest is an altogether different kinda cat. We know this. If you're not already following Metta — er, Panda — on Twitter, you're doing Twitter wrong. The man literally quits Twitter every few hours, then tweets incessantly for the next five day…

There's something inherently dope about dunking over a cop car. It's not only a great feat of athleticism, but also some kind of symbolic intersection of community building and "fuck the police" vibes.
So this weekend, when Staten Island hooper Brian Hogan-Gary shut down the “Under the Ligh…