Category: Sport

When the names of the hardest players to guard in the NBA come up, it’s usually James Harden who gets mentioned because of his ability to initiate contact or drain a stepback three. Kevin Durant came up pre-injury. Sometimes Giannis Antetokounmpo gets mentioned, as does LeBron James. Patrick Beverley was asked that on The J.J, […]

The Brooklyn Nets needed help on the wing after Michael Beasley tested positive for the coronavirus and left the bubble. Enter Justin Anderson. The Nets announced Saturday they had officially signed Anderson, who reportedly is already going through the quarantine process in Orlando. Anderson was signed as a substitute player just for the restart and […]

The first exhibition games of the NBA restart will go a little more quickly than usual. The NBA is tweaking the rules for those initial matchups, going with 10-minute quarters instead of the usual 12 minutes. The change is for several reasons — among them, not wanting to overly tax players’ bodies after they went […]

John Lewis, one of the leaders of the civil rights movement in America and a long-time congressman, died Friday at the age of 80. That has hit some in the NBA hard. “I’ll tell you a quick story,” Clippers coach Doc Rivers said Saturday in a Zoom conference with reporters. “I was young, I was […]

Philadelphia’s Matisse Thybulle is the star of the NBA restart. At least on YouTube. Philadelphia’s defensive-focused rookie has given the world a glimpse of life inside the bubble with a Vlog that is simply the best content coming out of Orlando — with all due respect to Ben Simmons and his inability to throw a […]

When Damian Lillard finishes his daily hoop duties for the Portland Trailblazers, he will spend most of his downtime inside the NBA bubble working on his other passion: music. The All-Star point guard turned part of his suite into a mini recording studio at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex, where his team will make […]

Coffee snobs will go to insane lengths to make sure they get the cup they like. (Trust me, my wife is one, and she has coffee imported from a favorite roaster on another coast so her french press is filled with exactly the right brew every morning.) Insane lengths like bringing an espresso machine to […]