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Blake Griffin went up ... way up against the Jazz on Tuesday night for one of the best dunks of the year, and the finish was Chappelle’s Show throwback we never knew we needed. It might look normal enough, or as normal as any thunderous yamming dunk can be — but it was Blake’s rim hang at the end that makes this one special. Maybe it was intentional, perhaps it was by accident, but it looked an awful lot like the 2004 Chappelle’s Show sketch “Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories - Prince - Uncensored.” Maybe it’s all a coincidence and Griffin never intended to almost-perfectly recreate a 13-year-old sketch — but the moment’s likeness is uncanny. It’s the emotionless backwards hang on the rim Continue to Article

October 25, 2017 8:45:am EST

The Los Angeles Lakers continue to dominate the wider conversation in the National Basketball Association, often for things that have only tangentially to do with shooting hoops. For instance: The Washington Wizards visit Staples Center on Wednesday, and the build-up has focused around a tweet sent out by Wizards center Marcin Gortat. “Man..... pleaseeeeee!!! @JohnWall will torture him [Lonzo Ball] for 48min,” Gortat wrote in reply to a message from LaVar, Lonzo’s father, that said: "They [the Wizards] better beware cause Lonzo ain't losing again. Not in the same week!” The brio and bravado doesn’t come from Lonzo, of course. "I don't pay no mind to it," he said in quotes reported by ESPN on Continue to Article

October 25, 2017 5:34:am EST

Phoenix Suns rookie forward Josh Jackson and Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles were both fined Tuesday by the NBA, which has imposed five fines in the new season's first week. Jackson was fined $35,000 for directing inappropriate language toward a fan with 6:10 remaining in a 130-88 loss at the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday. "I actually wasn't making a gun (gesture)," Jackson told the Arizona Republic. Continue to Article

October 24, 2017 7:04:pm EST

Suns rookie Josh Jackson gestures to a fan at Staples Center. (Screencap via @TheScore) In case you missed it — and you’d be forgiven for that, what with all the other incredibly chaotic stuff enveloping the Phoenix Suns right now — rookie swingman Josh Continue to Article

October 23, 2017 8:40:pm EST

Suns guard Eric Bledsoe watches as the Blazers hand his team a historically awful season-opening loss. There’s tanking, and then there’s whatever the Phoenix Suns are doing three games into the season. After three straight losses to start the season — two in embarrassing fashion — and 18 months after giving Earl Watson a three-year deal, the Suns fired their head coach, making his tenure the shortest to start a campaign in NBA history. Continue to Article

October 23, 2017 10:00:am EST