The Basketball Jones

SPOILER ALERT — NBA players use a lot of towels. (via Hooped Up)

“We should have been booing ourselves.” —

This clip is basically Sasquatch footage but I want to believe. I want to believe that Steve Novak — 6-foot-10, five times as many 3-point attempts as twos — can dunk. I want to believe that big, white blur throwing one down on the far end of the court is really him. And I so, so badly want to believe MSG Networks’s Alan Hahn’s tweet about the Knicks’ practice:

From the people who brought you Hedo Turkoglu’s pizza and

Glen Davis has gotten T’d up once in each of the Magic’s last four games, which is something I was unaware of because there is no way I’m going to watch a tea...

On Tuesday’s live episode of “The Fix,” The Jones discuss Andrew Bogut’s return, the recent Rudy Gay trade rumors, Roy Hibbert’s non-existent touch, the questionable officiating at the end of the Pacers-Nuggets game, Isaiah Thomas’ game-winner, and Marc Gasol’s all-around good night. All that, plus a horrible nickname, James Harden’s defense, Chris Bosh’s Hall of Fame probability, “Working Class Man,” and what other non-b...

I can’t fully explain why this exists the way it does, but I definitely have a basketboner, so I guess it worked. Gonna go take a cold shower real quick, back to blogging in a bit. (via 48 Minutes of Hell)

Ballin: He didn’t have the best line of the night and his team didn’t win, but Aaron Gray scored 22 points and grabbed 10 rebou...

Normally, Greg Anthony’s constant “Ball so hard”-ing drives me crazy, but it works pretty well here. Because, holy milk, Andray Blatche took one heck of a shot to the face from Kyle O’Quinn, right in the nose bone. Ouchie. (via CJ Fogler)

Now that the Lakers have won two whole games in a row, things should probably settle d...