Category: NBA
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What Really Happened to John Brisker?
Is John really dead? This is the question the Seattle Times asked a few years back. A talented, yet volatile two-time ABA All-Star during his playing days. Former teammates, the FBI, and fans alike are all still wondering, what really happened to John Brisker, basketball’s original badass who disappeared without a trace in 1978. Straight…
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The Story of How Ruben Patterson Became A Registered Sex Offender
A second-round draft pick who overcame enormous personal and professional odds, Ruben Patterson had a promising NBA career in front of him until he joined the Seattle SuperSonics and an incident changed everything. This is the story of how Ruben Patterson became a registered sex offender. Trouble Was a Constant If you play high school…
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Scott Skiles Frightened Draft Prospects And Small Animals
Scott Skiles was an intense player. He set the record for most points in a single season at Michigan State while snorting coke and smoking weed between games. This furiosity continued during his coaching career, frightening top draft prospects like LaMarcus Aldridge and small animals. He Was an Instigator Long before Scott became coach Skiles,…
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The Time the Liquor Warriors Beat the Heat By 35
This is a story about a team on the come up, another on the decline, and a night out in South Beach Florida. It’s the time a hungover “We Believe” Liquor Warriors squad beat the Miami Heat by 35 in their own gym. Tragic Bronson Alert Not many remember Shaq’s last season in Miami and…
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When Card Games Go Wrong: Jerry Stackhouse And Christian Laettner Edition
Whether in a casino, on the block, or in an NBA locker room, card games have instigated more fights than a Karen in a department store. The Jerry Stackhouse and Christian Laettner edition of “When Card Games Go Wrong” features a plane ride, a gambling debt, and a black eye. Stack is Tougher Than A…
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Chris Morris: Chicks Dig Listening to Picasso
How would you go about impressing a fine-looking female that caught your eye in a crowded bar? Perhaps you would try to make her laugh, tell her an interesting story, offer to buy her a drink? If you’re New Jersey Nets forward Chris Morris, none of the above. Instead, you attempt to woo her with…
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The Worst Pre-Game Speech in NBA History
Pre-game pep talks are about as common in sports as politicians and celebrities visiting Epstein’s island. But what about when a motivational talk doesn’t only fail to achieve the intended outcome of firing the team up, it leaves them completely deflated? This is the story of the worst pre-game speech in NBA history. It Looked…
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Red Auerbach Was A Savage
Deflated footballs, sign-stealing in baseball, the city of Boston has a long and sordid history of sports scandals. But long before Bill Belichick and J.T. Watkins, there was Red Auerbach, who did anything and everything to gain a leg up on the competition. All the Bullshit Red Did This is how legendary Lakers two-guard Michael…
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Gilbert Arenas’ Groin Hygiene Adventure
Gilbert Arenas is an interesting guy. From having Western-style gun standoffs with teammates in the locker room to running 60 red lights inside a four-month timespan in 2013, and aspiring to be the black Mr. Beast. No one will ever accuse No Chill Gil of being dull. But the most interesting thing of all about…
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Qyntel Woods’ Driver’s License Was a Trading Card!?
The early 2000s Jail Blazers era in Portland was rife with a record-setting amount of technical fouls on the court, countless arrests off the court, and a lack of valid ID. 2002, 21st overall pick Qyntel Woods embodied this as much as any other player on that roster. Swingman Cited Before being charged with first-degree…
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Luke Ridnour Was once Traded Four Times in Six Days
The whole thing was rather “funny” said Luke Ridnour about never visiting a single one of the four teams he was traded to in a span of six days during the summer of 2015. If you’re a professional athlete, being traded and having to find a new place to live and strip club to frequent…
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Jayson Williams Was The GOAT…if hoops were 9 feet tall
Jayson Williams is most remembered for shooting and killing his limo driver. But before all that drama, he was a top NBA prospect who the Sixers thought would be the next Charles Barkley. Fat, out of shape, and injured Immediately upon being drafted 21st overall in the 1990 NBA Draft, Williams was traded by the…