“I want to play and I want to go and win a championship, but I also want to play. I want to get back out there on the court. I miss the game. I was away from the game for damn near a whole season. I got the opportunity to step back and grow as a person, and I deserve another shot,” Anthony said on ESPN’s First Take in August.
After just 10 games played with the Houston Rockets last season, the team shut him down as they realized fairly quickly that it wasn’t working out with him on the team.
The Rockets unsuccessfully attempted to trade him, eventually handing him to the Bulls as a salary dump. The Bulls would then waive him and Anthony had gone unsigned until today’s news.
Talk about throwing your money straight in the trash.
The 2019-2020 Golden State Warriors are nothing like we last saw them when they were fully healthy, as Kevin Durant has bolted in free agency, Andre Iguodala has been traded, Klay Thompson and Steph Curry are both down with injuries for the next few months.
The team is currently 2-10 and likely won’t come close to qualifying for the postseason.
That didn’t stop one bettor from pulling out $1K and betting on the Warriors to win it all this season.
The bet would pay him $1 million.
.@SuperBookUSA just took a $1K bet on the Warriors to win the title at 1000-1 odds
Such sad news to hit the basketball community when it was announced that former North Carolina State and NBA player Anthony Grundy tragically lost his life on Thursday.
According to USA Today, Grundy died due to “multiple sharp force injuries to the body.” Grundy was said to be involved in a domestic dispute, and when police showed up at Grundy’s mother’s home, they found him on the street bleeding.
Louisville Metro Police spokeswoman Alicia Smiley stated that investigators think Grundy was involved “in some type of altercation” at nearby apartments but were “uncertain specifically how he sustained that injury.”
Archie Miller, a former teammate of Grundy reacted to the news on Twitter, writing, “So Tough to hear the news of the passing of one my Best Men. Thoughts and Prayers go out to everyone impacted. Take it way back with a couple of these. Absolute Warrior, one the most fearless I have ever been around.”
So Tough to hear the news of the passing of one my Best Men. Thoughts and Prayers go out to everyone impacted. Take it way back with a couple of these. Absolute Warrior, one the most fearless I have ever been around. #RIPAG#GRUNDYpic.twitter.com/t5V0aCriYJ
Grundy played for N.C. State from 1998 to 2002, earning All-ACC First Team and All-ACC Defensive Team honors during his senior season. Grundy was a member of the Atlanta Hawks in 2006 and played just 12 games, spending much of his professional career playing overseas.
No arrests have been announced in connection with Grundy’s death.
It seems like it’s been awhile since Draymond Green last caught heat for hitting another player between the legs, so he made sure to get the conversation going once again during his latest incident.
During the 105-100 loss to the Boston Celtics on Friday night, the Golden State Warriors forward was trying to stop Celtics’ Daniel Theis drive to the basket with some stellar defense.
Theis likely regretted that play as his junk ended up being hit by Draymond’s knee as he stayed down on the court in pain.
Kobe Bryant is a proud father, and he shows that off by being a very active dad in his kid’s life as he continues to transition from his life in the National Basketball Association.
The former Lakers legend posted a new video this week showing his 13-year old daughter Gigi playing basketball, and she pulled off a move we’ve seen her dad do hundreds of times during his career.
GiGi received the in-bounds pass, dribbled up the court as she took it to the baseline and shot a fadeaway over multiple defenders.
Teanna Trump, the 24-year-old porn star that went viral after claiming she had sex with a ‘really famous’ Indiana Pacers player at age 16, is back in sports news once again.
Trump took to Twitter on Sunday and tagged the Oklahoma City Thunder in a post and stated that a certain player on the team needs to pay what is owed to her. You can only assume that is possibly for some sexual favor, and that she’s tried numerous times before to get to this unknown player before taking it to social media.
“Your player needs to PAY ME what he owes me. @okcthunder”
Your player needs to PAY ME what he owes me. @okcthunder
Porn star Teanna Trump sent social media into a frenzy when she took to Twitter and claimed an unnamed OKC player owes her money and she wants him to pay up.
“Your player needs to PAY ME what he owes me. @okcthunder,” in a tweet she has since deleted.
Many folks started to go through the roster and none of them really made sense, except for Paul George, who played on the team for two years before he got traded to the Clippers.
George was also connected to Trump awhile back when she stated she had sex with a ‘really famous’ Indiana Pacers player at age 16. Paul George was on that team at the time.
Social media started to assume she had no clue he was gone off the team, which is why she ultimately deleted the tweet. It’s not out of the realm to think it’s not George, since he was dating Doc Rivers’ daughter at one time, cheated on her with a stripper, got the stripper pregnant, and then got into a relationship with her.
Danny Green did something on Sunday night that many NBA fans just aren’t used to as he skied high for a put-back dunk in Sunday’s win over the Atlanta Hawks.
That dunk was so crazy and athletic that the league thought something might be going on, so they sent a random test his way.
The Los Angeles Lakers veteran took to Twitter to announce he had been drug tested.
We have yet another Twitter map that is showcasing that the NFL remains the dominate sport over the NBA in terms of popularity across the United States.
Betonline.ag used geotagged Twitter data that they gathered over the past month, which included mentions and hastags for both leagues, and used that information to create a map of team popularity across the United States.
The NFL dominates in pretty much every state except, Utah, Arizona, Hawaii, Oklahoma, and New York.
There are several NFL franchises where their popularity extends outside of the state that they in. Those teams include the Seattle Seahawks, Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys, Kansas City Chiefs, New Orleans Saints, and New England Patriots.
The best thing the NFL did was relax on the players and let them be creative and entertain fans with the different types of celebrations they come up with every week.
Such was the case during the Jets-Redskins matchup when New York Jets tight end Ryan Griffin scored a touchdown and then celebrated by bringing out a classic sticky hands move that will be recognized by Madden players who remember seeing in the early 2000’s.
Fresh off his big announcement of hosting a Super Bowl party in February, the retired former New England Patriots took his dancing skills, or lack thereof, to the Los Angeles Lakers and had himself a good time with the Lakers girls during halftime of the game against the Thunder.
Most NBA fans know Charles Barkley as the former NBA great turned analyst on Inside The NBA. He, Ernie, Kenny Smith, and Shaq provide us with laughter every single week on TNT.
A large majority of seasoned NBA fans also know Chuck to be a terrible human being throughout his life as he has joked about hitting women, joked about beating his wife, actually spitting on an 8-year-old during a game, as well as other things that can be found with a simple search on google.
Well, that old Chuck reared its ugly head again when he came acorss a female reporter at some type of get together and joked about hitting her.
She did not appreciate it.
Just FYI Charles Barkley told me tonight “I don’t hit women but if I did I would hit you,” and then when I objected to that he told me I “couldn’t take a joke.”
There are almost no times I will beak an OTR “agreement” but this is not OK. And it was all because he came in talking about how he loves Deval Patrick and once someone from Pete‘s campaign came around he said he loved Pete and I reminded him he previously said he was a Deval fan
She then began to retweet some of Barkley’s dirty deeds from years past:
Barkley once told a room full of people at a NABJ panel in 2017 in New Orleans that Black women shouldn’t report sexual harassment/assault until they’re in power positions at the work place. https://t.co/nHDjF36SJ1
The first serious conversations about domestic abuse in sports were sparked in 1990 by Barkley's comment about beating his wife. A year later, he spat on an eight-year-old girl during a game. A year after that, Nike featured him in the famous "not a role model" ad. https://t.co/xJSbFNKZiepic.twitter.com/Ahfq6JxL3T
I hate being part of a story so here’s a reminder that this is so much bigger than me: nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the US. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence https://t.co/eqgn0McbYthttps://t.co/nll7a0rv2o
It’s not about me or my feelings — tho I’m grateful for the many friends who have reached out. But it’s about refusing to allow this culture to perpetuate because of silence on these issues. It’s easier and less awkward to be silent, but that helps NO ONE but the perpetrator.
I encourage you to consider how you’d respond if a friend said something similar to what Barkley said tonight. And then challenge yourself to ask the same of yourself if a stranger (or “celebrity”) said that. I hope the answers are the same. Everyone should be held accountable.
On Tuesday night, Charles Barkley started to receive a wave of backlash after an Axios reporter posted on Twitter that the NBA Hall of Famer told her, “I don’t hit women but if I did I would hit you.”
Alexi McCammond said Barkley made that comment after she asked for clarification over which Democratic presidential candidate he supports ahead of the 2020 race.
Just FYI Charles Barkley told me tonight “I don’t hit women but if I did I would hit you,” and then when I objected to that he told me I “couldn’t take a joke.”
I hate being part of a story so here’s a reminder that this is so much bigger than me: nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the US. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence https://t.co/eqgn0McbYthttps://t.co/nll7a0rv2o
Alexi responded to that apology and that’s when other Twitter users began calling her out for past racist-like tweets she has to delete.
The comments Charles Barkley made to me are not acceptable. Threats of violence are not a joke, & no person deserves to be hit or threatened like that. Silence only allows the culture of misogyny to fester. And those kinds of comments don't merit off-the-record protections. https://t.co/cll93GdZwh
People like you (cunts) are #HumanGarbage. Your narcissism & attention seeking transcends your “morality,” clouds the ability for people actually going through traumatic abuse from speaking up, and diminishes whatever credibility you have both as a human and a “journalist”. pic.twitter.com/WtpjdfY9lz
Along with being one of the best rappers to ever grace a microphone, Snoop Dogg has long been known as an expert weed smoker. If there were Madden ratings given out for weed smokers, he would be a ’99’ every single year.
Former NBA player Matt Barnes had a very interesting story to tell about Snoop Dogg that involved weed, but it first started with his own head coach at the time.
Barnes told Arash Markazi of the Los Angeles Times that ex-Warriors head coach Don Nelson wanted to celebrate after the ‘We Believe’ Warriors ended up beating the first-seed Dallas Mavericks in the playoffs, so he brought them all to a party that had numerous famous people just casually smoking weed.
“We got up to [Don Nelson’s] penthouse in Lake Merritt and he tells us, ‘Woody’s in the back rolling doobies fellas, go back there. It was Woody [Harrelson] rolling doobies and our coach is telling us to go back there and smoke with him.
Nelly had the whole roof and we go up and there’s Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Owen Wilson, and Snoop. We ended up going out to a club in San Francisco and lived it up after that and then we went back to Snoop’s hotel and blew it down.
There was so much smoke in the room, they came knocking on the door and we were thinking, ‘Oh, damn, here we go.’ They came in, unscrewed the window, opened them up so the smoke went out, asked us if we needed anything and they left the room.
I’d never seen anything like that before. Only Snoop. The legendary Snoop.”
Matt Barnes told me he’s thinking of doing a documentary on the “We Believe” Golden State Warriors. The opening scene would be from the party after they upset the top seeded Dallas Mavericks in the first round. pic.twitter.com/vWoFLp9hRb
A scary scene unfolded in Denver tonight during the Celtics-Nuggets game as Boston’s star point guard Kemba Walker was stretchered off the court with what appeared to be a neck injury.
Walker appeared to be reaching for a lose ball when he stumbled forward and went head first into a teammate’s body. He immediately dropped to the floor and was attended to by medics for several minutes before being stretchered off.
This is not what anyone wants to see happen on the court, no matter what team you’re cheering for. Walker received a standing ovation as he left the building.
We’ll have more updates as we get them. In the meantime, we’ll be praying for him.
It was an ugly scene in Denver as Kemba Walker has to be stretchered off the Pepsi Center court after sustaining a neck injury. And it nearly turned even worse for the Celtics guard when one of the medics ushering him out took a spill and came awfully close to tipping the stretcher.
Kemba was already in rough shape. Falling from the stretcher onto the hardcourt is not something that anyone would have wanted to see happen at that point. But it almost did happened.
Rajon Rondo has always been a fiery player. That fire of his got him to an early shower on Friday night against the OKC Thunder.
With about ten minutes late in the 4th quarter, the NBA veteran could be seen hitting Thunder guard Dennis Schroder in the groin and receiving a technical foul.
He kept arguing with a ref to the point that you could see him call him a “fucking pussy.”
That’s when he got ejected.
Rajon Rondo gets ejected for this and clearly says to the ref "f*cking p*ssy" and receives a tech on top of that.#Lakerspic.twitter.com/BT6JbYzCE7