The Memphis Grizzlies are bringing back guard Luke Kennard with a one-year, $11 million deal, ESPN reported on Wednesday. Kennard, 28, averaged 11.0 points, 3.5 assists and 2.9 rebounds and shot 45.0 percent from 3-point distance in 39 games (22 starts) with Memphis in 2023-24. A career 43.9 percent shooter from beyond the arc, Kennard paced the NBA in 3-point percentage in back-to-back seasons in 2021-22 (44.9) and 2022-23 (49.4). Kennard has career averages of 10.0 points, 2.8 boards and 2.1 assists in 395 games (110 starts) with the Detroit Pistons (2017-20), Los Angeles Clippers (2020-23) and Grizzlies. The Pistons drafted the Duke product with the 12th overall pick in 2017. Memphis acquired Kennard as part of a three-team trade in February 2023. –Field Level Media …
In a series of weird graphics, designer Taylor Holland takes vectors of various sports fields and rotates all the individual elements around and around and around. The results are kind of mesmerizing, although not without the occasional unfortunate swastika. Here's baseball: You can check out soccer, football, basketball (international court), tennis, and swimming over on his site. [ Taylorholland.com, h/t Joe MacLeod] …
This man tattooed "76ers 2015 NBA Champs" on his ass. Chances are, it is something he will come to regret. Maybe, giving him the benefit of the doubt, he was looking ahead to the 2015 season and was expressing some optimism in the Philadelphia youth movement and Nerlens Noel and Joel Embiid. Maybe they make Philly a surprise team out of the East that season and our guy called it with an ass tattoo. Unfortunately, you can buy San Antonio Spurs 2014 NBA Champions gear right now, so things are not looking promising for the man with a "76ers 2015 NBA Champs" ass tattoo. h/t Matt [ Instagram] …
If you post a disembodied photo of your left hand featuring a newly-acquired engagement ring as a way of alerting the world to your newly-acquired engagement, you kind of suck. I mean, you’re probably fine, as people go. And so when you decide to make the genuinely exciting commitment to, best-case scenario, be there for the worst moments of someone else’s future, your friends and family will want to know; they will even want somewhere to express their enthusiasm, and you would not be wrong to give them such an outlet. They will not demand proof, however, that you found someone who wants to watch you die—but, like, in a good way—in the form of a photo that does not include said person. The ring does not make you engaged. Again: Rings are fine (personally, I’m a fan) but they a…
Angry Mormons! Everyone hide! This went down at BYU's football stadium immediately after the Cougars' 20-13 loss to Utah on Saturday. It was a game that was marked by a handful of dubious calls that went against BYU, hence all of the garbage throwing. Please notice that the presumably Mormon crowd was kind enough to throw mostly paper products rather than the beers and batteries that get tossed around at football stadiums every weekend. It's all really kind of adorable. …
Dwight Howard—the same 32-year-old that has spent the last several seasons brewing beef as he scoots from team to team, that Dwight Howard—made a little history tonight. With a 32-point, 30-rebound game in the Hornets’ win over the Nets, he put together the first 30-point, 30-rebound performance that the NBA has seen in eight years, and only the second one since 1982. In front of a sparsely populated crowd, thanks to New York’s snowstorm today, Charlotte came back from a 23-point deficit to win by a score of 111-105. Just 123 more 30-30 nights until Howard will catch up to Wilt Chamberlain there. …
data-mm-id=”_zgp6rc0kk”>I've been staring at a blank screen for hours and can't find the words to write about Kobe Bryant.My assignment is to write a column on Bryant's life and legacy after he died in a helicopter crash on Sunday at 41 years old. It's simply not going to happen. I mean, how do you do that? How do you put into words what Bryant meant to so many people? How do you sum up the achievements of a global icon who conquered multiple fields with a focus and tenacity we've rarely seen? It can't be done. Someone like that can't have their life wrapped up nicely with words on a page. I suppose I could sit here and just reel off all of Bryant's monumental basketball achievements. Tell you how he went from high school phenom to MVP and five-t…
data-mm-id=”_xlgmaxdad”>The 2020 NBA Playoffs are approaching and it's become clear who the legitimate contenders are who will will most certainly come up short in the postseason. Only one team can win the title, but how many teams have a legitimate shot? Below are three real championship contenders and four pretenders who are going to learn that it just isn't their year.NBA CONTENDERSLos Angeles LakersThe last eight seasons that LeBron James was healthy, he took his team to the NBA Finals. His team won three of those titles. He usually has a second superstar with him and that role is played by Anthony Davis who has a whopping 13 games worth of playoff experience. Luckily guys like Danny Green and… Dwight Howard… fill out the roster. At 35-years old, LeBron is still near …
data-mm-id=”_wx73v633z”>The 2020 NFL Draft has come and gone with surprisingly little error. As the dust settles, everyone thinks their team landed the steal of the draft (except Packers fans, probably). The logical next step for those of us who participate is evaluating the fantasy value of the players selected last week to see if there's a late-round steal to be had. Here are three rookies who could be in line for very productive first seasons and could win you bragging rights. Cam Akers / Don Juan Moore/Getty ImagesCam Akers, RB, Los Angeles Rams The Rams needed a new workhorse in the backfield after releasing Todd Gurley outright earlier in the offseason, and they very well may have found it in Akers. The Florida State product was a monster last season, racking up 18 touchdown…
data-mm-id=”_ou7wszdju”>It's funny how fast people forget about greatness. One year after being a first-team All-NBA selection, two years after winning his third NBA title, four years after winning his second straight NBA MVP award, and people are already acting like Steph Curry is a relic of the past. Kenny Smith was the latest to fall victim to this trendy trend, saying on TNT last night that he doesn't think Curry can shoot as well from deep as Dame Lillard. Curry laughed it off on social media, but I'm genuinely ready to die on the Steph-Curry-is-a-better-deep-shooter-than-Dame-Lillard hill. Quite frankly, I feel I have the high ground. Kenny Smith says he doesn’t think Steph Curry could shoot as deep as Damian Lillard pic.twitter.com/xHa7JL0sdZ— NBA Central (@Th…