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The NBA and its players are looking to come to an agreement about starting the next season on Dec. 22. The new NBA season has been shortened to just 72 games due to the deadly Coronavirus. Typically the season would run from Halloween and end in June and this time …

On Tuesday, Oklahoma City Thunder star Chris Paul did his part for the upcoming presidential election by leading a march of 2,500 people to a North Carolina voting poll. According to ABC News, Paul and the massive group of voters marched to the early voting site located at the historically …

An anonymous NBA agent says the league’s support of the Black Lives Matter movement “really hurt the business.” Imagine living in a world where people value money over the lives of Black people. Whoops, we are living in that world. According to Complex Media, The Athletic conducted an anonymous survey, …

Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell has become one of many NBA players who is committed to social issues amid the COVID-19 pandemic and racial injustices. While the NBA was on hold due to the coronavirus, players like Mitchell, Blazers’ CJ McCollum, and the Sixers’ Tobias Harris turned their attention to …

Tyronn Lue is an NBA head coach again for the Los Angeles Clippers. According to ESPN’S Adrian Wojnarowski, Lue is in the process of signing a 5-year contract with the Clippers. The veteran coach spent last season on the bench assisting Doc Rivers in LA. Rivers was fired from the …

Over the past week, Mark Cuban has been receiving praise for taking the time to help former NBA player Delonte West. West had been going viral on social media ever since a photo of him surfaced holding up signs and asking for money. Delonte had been going through hard times …

Former NBA star Shaquille O’Neil doesn’t want to be known as a hypocrite. Now that he’s involved in voting campaigns, he also wanted to do his part. At the age of 48, O’Neil just voted for the first time. On Wednesday, during his Podcast, “The Big Podcast With Shaq,” he …

Donald Trump said that LeBron James is a “nasty” person who is ruining the NBA. Chile, this man just says anything. Trump claims that James, a three-time NBA champion, is a “hater” who is messing up professional basketball. His words come from an appearance he made on “The Rush Limbaugh …

ESPN is teaming up with the NBA and the Undefeated for the #ChampionBlackBusinesses initiative that will focus on spotlighting Black-owned bars, restaurants, barbershops, retailers, and other businesses in the hometowns of the Western and Eastern Conference champs. With the LA Lakers and the Miami Heat gearing up to face off …

Written By @Cabbagepatchgrl New photos are circulating the internet again of former basketball player, Delonte West. A viral photo that a fan posted showed West out in Dallas, begging for money on the street. We all have seen the many documented photos and videos of the former baller struggling, and …

They always say, “watch what you post online,” because you never know who will see it, and those same posts could have serious and lasting consequences. Just ask former NBA player Ty Lawson, who has been banned from the Chinese Basketball Association over his own inappropriate posts. Over the weekend, …

A group of protesters blocked two NBA busses from entering the Disney World bubble on Saturday as they chanted “Black Lives Matter” and “LeBron, can you help us?” The group was protesting the death of Salaythis Melvin, a Black man who was fatally shot in the back by an Orange …

Saturday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization to allow the public use of a saliva-based test for COVID-19, funded by the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association, and developed at Yale University. The test, better known as SalivaDirect, was designed for widespread public screening. The …

As players gather in Florida to pick up where they left off for the 2019-2020 basketball seasons, the WNBA began to make headlines after a video of a dingy laundry room in the WNBA bubble surfaced online. Earlier this week, Kayla Johnson of ESPN took to social media to share …

The NBA Commissioner’s plan to resume the season in Orlando may be postponed due to the coronavirus’s recent spike among NBA staff and players. “Certainly if we had a lot of cases, we are going to stop. You cannot run from this virus,” Silver said. According to TMZ, DeAndre Jordan …

Racial bias runs subtly rampant in the sports world, as pointed out by two separate studies that took a look at the way sports announcers talk about players. It’s in the way a darker skin player is referred to by announcers as compared to how a lighter skin or even …

When the NBA returns in July, it will surely look different, and now it might sound different, too. There are ongoing talks between the league and the National Basketball Players Association to use sounds from the NBA 2K video game to replace the sounds of the live crowd during broadcasts. …

Lately, there has been much discussion about whether or not to resume the 2019-20 NBA season once the COVID-19 is contained. But, the latest news from the NBA is that a potential vote would occur to crown an NBA Champion without resuming the NBA season. According to Bleacher Report, Marc …

As the National Basketball Association continues to evaluate if the current season will resume or be canceled due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, LeBron James admits he won’t find closure if it doesn’t. On a conference call on Wednesday, James discussed the likely outcome given the current state of everything …

To slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, businesses throughout the world have closed down shop and sent their employees home to work indefinitely. Now, a new series from producers of NBC’s hit series The Office is in the works, inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Deadline, Ben Silverman, …