Sports 4 Dorks

There had been whispers about this for a while, but the NBA officially announced yesterday that the Phoenix Suns and Denver Nuggets will play an outdoor preseason game come this October.
It was initially believed that this would be the NBA’s first outdoor game ever, until someone remembered that Phoenix played the Milwaukee Bucks outdoors in […]

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Remember back in January when LeBron James was getting heckled by Chris Bosh’s girlfriend and cousin, so he dropped 24 in the fourth to single-handedly beat the Raptors? Yeah, they’re cool now. Well, at least LeBron and Bosh’s boo are.
As for that cousin? LeBron won’t look her in the eye. Says he doesn’t trust […]

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Los
Angeles 122, Atlanta 93
The Lakers didn’t come through with the most dominant first
half of basketball I’ve ever seen, but tonight’s initial 24 minutes showcased
just about the biggest gulf I’ve been witness to between a team getting
everything really, really right, or really, really wrong.
Now, I know that after my
take on Sunday’s All-Star Game, and what you’ll […]

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You know, "When I come back like Van Horn, wearin’ the 4-4" has a nice little ring to it …
Thanks to The Blowtorch for making my dreams become reality.

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Well, that makes two straight All-Star weekends in which Barkley’s done some backpedaling!
(via Basketbawful)

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• Hallelujah! That pesky Jason Kidd-to-Dallas deal is finally legit. The tweaked trade specifics are: Kidd, forward Malik Allen and guard Antoine Wright to Dallas for point guard Devin Harris, center DeSagana Diop and swingman Maurice Ager, plus retired forward Keith Van Horn and Trenton Hassell. New Jersey also gets two first-round draft picks and […]

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The line between Tracy Morgan, the actor-slash-comedian who tours
the country performing stand-up, and Tracy Jordan, the crazy man-slash-eccentric sketch
performer who works quite well as a character on NBC’s 30 Rock, was blurred long ago.  

And don’t think Morgan isn’t
having fun with it. Bored with an early-morning promotional appearance
on WGN last summer, Morgan goes into full […]

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Funny stuff, but the West All-Stars really blew — pun attended — an opportunity to take this one to the next level.
After Nash blew his nose with Craig Sager’s pocket square, Iverson or somebody else on the West bench should’ve jumped up and blew their nose with Sager’s tie. And then Boozer should’ve followed […]

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A look around the league and the web that covers it. It’s also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren’t always listed in order of importance. That’s for you, dear reader, to figure out.
C: Sactown Royalty. By far the best breakdown of the Bibby-Hawks trade on the Internets.PF: Sports Biz. […]

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Understand heading into this post that I’m not passing
judgment. I’m not calling either of these two rather nasty displays passable,
acceptable and anything less that disturbing. I just feel it necessary to share
something that surprised the hell out of me upon discovering it the other day,
and I’d like to hear your thoughts.
While ambling through some alternately […]

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