This is an easy fix. Have your number five big guy get in there, and when Allen drives into the paint, order him to crush him across the arms and body him as hard as he can, Laimbeer/Mahorn style. Take the Flagrant 1. If he keeps being an asshole, have your number four big guy do it.

Best nickname in sports is the Charlotte Hornets.

Dude has pretty much admitted to preferring to get high than be a world-class athlete. Shouldn’t be that surprising that his apparel choices are a little...off.

March 1st! Never thought I’d said the sentence “I can’t wait to get to Sacramento,” but yet, here we are.

I won’t be as snarky as everyone else has been. I have found that as I age and the pull of FOMO decreases and my ability to ignore peer pressure increases, pretty much everything in the world can be assessed like you with Twitter, which is: it’ll keep going on with you or not, and your life will be pretty much the…

You can buy a book. One book. And it explains how this shit is done. This book, actually. That book easily and conveniently explains how to cold-read people.

How is no one saying anything about your avatar name? Do I not spend enough time on Kotaku? That name sounds like something a studio exec would make up as the avatar of a stupid horror movie character in order to pander to teenagers.

Tim Duncan is a career 70% free throw shooter. (His worst was 60% in 2003-2004, and that was his worst by FAR.) He was never subjected to the type of intentional fouling the article is referring to.

Truth. Bad free throw shooters are just headcases. Free throw shooting is 99.9% mental. All those players that Draper listed in the article that have been targeted are crazy as hell.

I’m a 30 year old dude who has followed and played sports his whole life, and if it weren’t for my ex-college football playing roommate’s need to pound NFL Network and RedZone, I wouldn’t have cable either.

New Year’s Eve isn’t a federal holiday. Like this year, it was a Thursday. People have to work. Ain’t no way they’re stupid enough to schedule BOTH games to start before 5 PM west coast time.

I’m a guy, but my recently acquired and (I think) very attractive girlfriend (who I met on OKC) says the reason she solely dated online was so she could have a more thorough and controllable vetting process.

So your argument is that you would take Westbrook over Curry right now because someday Westbrook may be better than Curry because Westbrook is more athletic? And you think the NBA is actually adapting on how to stop Curry? Did the Warriors not just have, statistical and objectively, the greatest third of a season in…

+2 proper use of punctuation inside quotation marks

As someone who is in a monogamous relationship that more than occasionally delves into kink, let me tell you that in healthy and responsible D/s or BDSM relationships, the most alluring part about it is the consensual aspect. The idea that my partner not only allows me to be in control of and dominate her, but WANTS…

Lakers fan since I was nine and rocking my Nick Van Exel jersey to the 4th grade playground, never claimed to like Kobe as a person but was glad that an all-time great played for the team I cheered for....

I would agree as well. The thing that made Jordan stand head-and-shoulders above everyone wasn’t his physical ability. There always was and will always be hyper-athletic 6’6” shooting guards. The thing that made Jordan Jordan was his crazy, psychopathic competitiveness and drive.

I don’t understand why everyone is mad at opposing coaches for doing this. If I’m Blake, or CP3, or Doc, or Ballmer, I am FURIOUS at DeAndre Jordan, a professional basketball player, who can’t make at least 70% of his free throws.

“Valuable assets”? You mean three big men, one who is all offense, one who is all defense, and one who is all injuries? Especially now, in a league where skilled, well-rounded players are valued WAY more than players that can do one thing exceptionally well? (Looking at you, Melo.) All the while the valuable assets…

While I can’t say I disagree with your cynicism, I would make the counter argument that a team that wins, or at least has a chance at winning, makes infinitely more money for its owners, regardless of payroll, than a team that blatantly tells its fans to go fuck themselves.