Suns: “We offer a fair, equitable, and welcoming work environment, and anyone who disagrees is fired”

Post-Warriors KD has been cursed with some of the worst luck imaginable

In an interview with Forbes about his winery, CJ McCollum discussed the value of immigrants. ICE has since been deployed to the Washington Wizards practice facility and has detained Alex Sarr, Bilal Coulibaly, mascot G-Wiz, and tear gassed anyone drinking wine nearby

Steve Ballmer’s next excuse will be that he thought he was investing in AI, for which Kawhi Leonard would more plausibly be a token spokesbot

On March 17th the Charlotte Hornets will host Sports Betting Night, where you can bring your children to get addicted to gambling! Help build the next generation of suckers to feed the Bet365 machine! *Halftime entertainment to include prop bets on baby races and “Yay for Parlays” musical show

“As one source put it, when told about all the corporate sponsors in Toronto who would be happy to have Leonard as a pitchman, his camp said, ‘We don’t want to do anything.’” Kawhi not really helping counter the narrative that nobody wants to work anymore

More offseason hijinks from Luka

Not even wearing a backpack can stop Luka magic

Don’t just read the headlines about how the Clippers circumvented the salary cap to pay Kawhi Leonard… Pablo Torre lays out the case like Sherlock Holmes, it’s riveting stuff youtu.be/1OwzYk6OCFM

And then the gods gave the people a sign, and it was a goat in the sky -Book of Hoopers, 23:45

Luka vs Joker tipping off in Eurobasket 2025 Watchable here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=dWix...

NBC’s coverage of the NBA is off to an outstanding start with this NBA Jam promo

8 out of 10 Christmas Day games will feature teams from the West The Eastern Conference is going to be a hot mess next season

De’Aaron Fox was always going to get the max but there’s still a bit of sticker shock once the ink dries Fortunately most of the Spurs talent are on rookie deals so salary cap entanglements are a problem for Future Spurs

Gilbert Arenas is the type of guy who would make t-shirts that read “ARENAS INTERNATIONAL GUN SMUGGLING CLUB”

The pod where Zach Lowe and Nekias Duncan talked about Cam Thomas was full of nuance, but Thomas fell for the bait He did make positive strides last year—14th in offensive EPM and 5th in iso efficiency before getting hurt—but it’s hard to shake that chucker/ball hog tag once you’ve earned it

Maybe the real championship was the fans we made along the way

Sam Presti wasn’t making the Harden mistake a second time Thunder have locked up their big 3 long enough to go dynasty hunting

Norm Powell is a great pickup for the Heat. 22ppg on 61.5%TS is no small feat in the NBA But he’ll be a 33 year old free agent next summer so the Clippers probably had cold feet about paying him

Hopefully this leads to the end of players waiting for the buzzer to sound before halfheartedly shooting just to protect their FG%

DeAndre Ayton chose the Lakers because he’s going to get so many lobs from Luka it’ll fool someone into giving him another fat contract

The Grizzlies offseason is never properly complete unless someone suffers an injury

Yet another perplexing chapter in “What exactly are the Sacramento Kings doing”

Bucks front office: “Should we run this by Giannis?” “Nah he won’t care”

The first genuine shocker of the offseason Amazing get for the Bucks (perfect BroLo replacement) and massive loss for the Pacers

Chris Haynes reporting that Devin Booker is in talks for a 2 year $150 million extension $75 million a year is apparently the price for having to drag around the corpse of Bradley Beal

Cam Johnson is going to look like prime Klay Thompson playing off of Nikola Jokic in Denver

It’s rare to see an unequivocal W for the Hornets but this is one of them Hornets fans already working on appropriate nicknames for the Knueppel Ball Sexton lineup

Fumbling a $42 million bag to make prop bets is basically an economic Darwin Award

Minnesotans can look forward to at least five more years of declaring “Naz Reid” in any situation

The worst part of the Mavs winning the lottery is Nico Harrison acting like getting Cooper Flagg was part of “the vision” The man tried to drive the franchise off a cliff and somehow landed on a gigantic bouncy castle

You have to love that his first response is sleep

The Raptors have the 8th worst record in the NBA this decade, the 13th biggest payroll next season (per Spotrac), and the 9th worst title odds Masai Ujiri deserves a lot of credit for transforming the organization but it seems like the goodwill from the championship eventually ran out

Collin Murray-Boyles didn’t bother hiding his feelings about being picked by the Raptors Hopefully he’ll come to appreciate that Toronto is a great city with an amazing fanbase

Nice moment from Tre Johnson on realizing his dream with his father by his side: “It’s like we’re both getting drafted right now”

The Flying Knueppels proved tonight that basketball is far more lucrative than life as circus acrobats

Booing the commissioner at the draft is one of the NBA’s greatest traditions

Celtics now swapping out Porzingis (75th in defensive EPM) for Georges Niang (500th) If they keep Derrick White he’s going to have to guard basically everybody

Not sure how many free agents will be itching to go the Wizards but $100 million in cap space will absorb a lot of bad contracts from teams pressured by the aprons

Just like Steve Nash inspired an entire generation of Canadian ballers, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander repping Canada so hard is going to inspire another wave of Canadian kids to follow their hoop dreams

Jrue Holiday ranked 40th in defensive EPM last season Anfernee Simons ranked 459th On offense Simons is the more dynamic player and ranked about 100 spots higher (85th vs 183rd) Polar opposites but Simons is 9 years younger and the Celtics save a bunch of money

It’s often held that a rebuilding team has to fire its rebuild coach and hire a “playoff coach” in order to get to the next level Mark Daigneault is proof that one coach can take you from the bottom to the top

Pretty crazy that Shai and Jdub shot 15 for 47 (under 33%) and the Thunder still won by double digits Powerhouse defensive performance, congrats to the Thunder on their first title

TJ McConnell taking over yet again Certified Indiana folk hero

Andrew Nembhard with the gutsy deep three to put the Pacers up by one at halftime

Sad ending to an incredible season But Pacers showing plenty of toughness in his absence

Oh my god please no

Hali knocking down deep threes early for the Pacers

OKC having already painted the championship buses before game 7 seems like extremely bad juju if you believe in that sort of thing

At least KD landed in the right spot: a defensive contender that just needs a scorer (and KD is one of the best ever) to get over the hump Fans of middling teams like the Heat and Raptors are breathing a sigh of relief that they didn’t spend assets to make a push for a low playoff seed