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The Eastern Conference standings right now look less like a table and more like a classic Mexican standoff: everyone is standing there with guns drawn, waiting to see who flinches first. Boston and Indiana have fallen out of the picture due to injuries, Cleveland and New York look shaky, and sitting...
There’s a topic that sports usually grimaces at and pretends doesn’t exist. And yet it’s right there. In the locker room, in Stories, in DMs, in conversations about money. It’s OnlyFans. People argue about it as if it were about the morality of humanity, but in practice it’s simpler and harshe...
In the opening game of the Turkish Basketball Super League Finals, Fenerbahçe Beko confidently defeated Beşiktaş Fibabanka 94 : 76 on their home court at Ülker Spor ve Etkinlik Salonu, taking a 1–0 lead in the best-of-seven series. According to the regulations, the championship title will go to th...
In a league where championship windows can open and slam shut in a single offseason, true rivalries are rare. But the NBA Cup semifinal in Las Vegas suddenly reminded everyone: a classic doesn't always begin with a seven-game playoff series — sometimes one game is enough, when youth boldly steals a...
There are two kinds of emotions that come with game-winning shots. The first is pure math: a good situation, the right shot, the game is closed out. The second is when an entire story gets packed into a single motion: expectations, disappointment, other people’s decisions, and your own personal...
Sometimes you look at the standings and think: “Alright, slumps happen.” And sometimes you look at a team — and it’s not a slump. It’s a move-out: boxes, bubble wrap, and a sign that says “closed for reconstruction.” I put together the first weakness ranking of the season — not “the worst,” but th...
The start of the season for the Oklahoma City Thunder has been almost flawless. The reigning NBA champion is showing a level of form at the very beginning of the campaign that befits a contender not only for the trophy, but also for a special place in history. On the night of November 16, the Thunde...
For nearly two decades LeBron James wrote his career as both writer-director and leading man: the environment was tuned to him, partners were selected, coaching staffs were rebuilt, and game concepts were revised. Today, with the horizon of the end drawing closer, a paradox has appeared for the firs...
Deadline Sensation: The Trade That Changed Everything At the very end of the season, the front offices of the Phoenix Suns and Houston Rockets set off a fireworks display on the trade market. Thirty-six-year-old sharpshooting forward Kevin Durant, a two-time NBA champion and one of the most skille...
Four-time NBA champion Shaquille O'Neal has, to the surprise of the basketball world, agreed to a boxing match. His opponent is Charles "Charlie Mack" Alston, an influential figure on the Philadelphia music scene and former bodyguard to Will Smith. The 53-year-old former center, who ended his profes...
