With Chauncey Billups sidelined for the season and no clear options at shooting guard on the roster, the Los Angeles Clippers are in the market for a new player. They need a scoring punch, th..   [ read more ]

On Wednesday night, Will Ferrell told anyone that would listen that Carlos Boozer still lives with his mother, and that Emeka Okafor "minored in love" at the University of Connecticut. He was allowed to scream this into an arena's public address microphone, because the New Orleans Hornets let Ferrell announce the starting lineups in read more ]

On Thursday night, Milwaukee Bucks guard Brandon Jennings was informed that he was not chosen amongst the seven All-Star reserves for the Eastern Conference squad, in spite of the fact that his improving offense and pressurized defense would have made his inclusion a deserved honor. Later, on Thursday night, Jennings found himself in the throes of a bit of a firestorm, simply by saying the same thing about his impending free agency that every basketball player has always said, in the history ..   [ read more ]

The biggest thing to take away from Thursday's thrilling (ugly, yes, but thrilling) Lakers win in overtime over the Boston Celtics was the realization that this rivalry is really in its death throes. With both rosters chock full of stars that came of age during the late 1990s, the gritty (but, darnit, thrilling) back and forth was a clear indication that the teams that met during the 2008 and 2010 Finals were playing out the string. Even if, and we mean this, they catch a few good matchups an..   [ read more ]

No. No. No. Nooooo. NO. No. NOOOOO. No, and no. And we're upset about this enough to "ratchet up the intensity" here at Ball Don't Lie and take Kevin out of consideration for the first-team All-NBA selection he has clearly earned so far in 2011-12. The NBA All-Star Game decides who gets home-court advantage in the Finals? The only group that could possibly be in favor of that are sports writers who often have to figure out if they have to pack for Miami or Chicago, or Boston and Orlando, in t..   [ read more ]

Tuesday is Valentine's Day, a time when lovebirds young and old get extra romantic to prove their devotion and single people eat entire tubs of ice cream because sometimes it's alright to self-medicate with saturated fat. For the former group, it's important to get in the mood for love, which in America means giving gifts with passionate, sincere notes. Make a misstep in that epistle, and you're likely to disappoint your love.

Luckily, the Memphis Grizzlies are here to h..   [ read more ]

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On the surface, Super Bowl XLVI looks like a close game, but eminently winnable (and ostensibly won) by the New York Giants over the New England Patriots. In the Week 9 game between these two teams, the Giants beat the Patriots, 24-20, despite the absence of their pri..   [ read more ]

The "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline is the most famous example of premature jocularity in media history, but on Saturday, the New York Giants inadvertently came a little too close to that mistake for a while on their official homepage:

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