Posts by Chris Ryan

November 8, 2013
NBA Regular-Season Championship Belt Game Alert: Warriors vs. Spurs

It’s Klay Day, fools. The belt currently belongs to Golden State, and tonight the Warriors face off against people-person Gregg Popovich and the Spurs. TITLE FIGHT NIGHT. This is basically an excuse to get you G’d up for tonight’s already awesome game, show you a picture of Klay Thompson adorned with a fake championship belt, […]
November 7, 2013
DERRICK COLEMAN WEARING A GEORGETOWN JACKET THROWBACK PHOTO ALERT

Throwback Thursday Me In A Georgetown Starter Jacket pic.twitter.com/OJyUF5jBPP — Derrick Coleman (@44TheLegend) November 7, 2013 JIM BOEHEIM WEPT. (h/t Mike Meech)
November 6, 2013
NBA Regular-Season Championship Belt Game Alert: Warriors vs. Timberwolves

Last week, we introduced the NBA Regular-Season Championship Belt — a season-long King of the Hill competition to make seemingly inconsequential matchups very friggin’ consequential. The idea came from this awesome thread on the /r/NBA board over on Reddit. Miami came into the regular season holding the belt, but lost it to the Sixers in […]
November 6, 2013
Paul George Is a Problem

Last season, in late March, I awarded John Wall something called M.V.P.N.N.K.L. It’s the MVP for people not named Kevin or LeBron. The only NBA players disqualified from winning the award are LeBron James and Kevin Durant (and Kevin Garnett, and Kevin Martin … sorry, Kevin Martin). The point is, while Durant and LeBron are […]
November 5, 2013
Two Reasons Why Cleveland Really Screwed Up Not Taking Victor Oladipo

That’s one.
November 5, 2013
Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Wu-Tang Clan, The Counselor, and Homeland

Wu-Tang again? Again and again! On this week’s podcast, Andy and I dug in the crates to appreciate one of the great, formative albums of our lifetime. Yes, mf’ers, it’s torture. Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) turns 20 on November 9, and to celebrate, we talked about the lasting impact, our favorite members […]
November 1, 2013
Introducing the NBA Regular-Season Championship Belt

You see that flag, billowing in the darkness up there? That’s the flag of champions. This isn’t some crazy, premature, homerific Philly sports rant, people. We don’t engage in that kind of propaganda. This is science. The Philadelphia 76ers are the champs. The Regular-Season NBA Champs.
October 30, 2013
Watch Drake Talk Really, Really Earnestly About the Raptors

This dude looks like he’s a talking head in Ken Burns’s The Civil War documentary. Bonus points for the shots of Masai Ujiri explaining why “Glass Table Girls” is still his favorite Weeknd song. Seriously though, this is so Drake. When he commits to something, he really commits. No one has ever taken the totally […]
October 30, 2013
Even the Spurs’ Salsa Endorsements Are Beautiful and Efficient

Here’s an ad for a San Antonio supermarket chain featuring your favorite Spurs — Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, Tim Duncan, Kawhi Leonard, and Red Mamba Matt Bonner. Gregg Popovich either (a) wrote and directed this clip and probably has a post-NBA life of making a Louie-style sitcom waiting for him in his golden years, (b) […]
October 29, 2013
The X-Files: DeAndre Jordan

In the lead-up to the 2013-14 NBA season, Grantland will examine key players — X factors — for contending teams. You know how sometimes you go to a bar and once you get your bearings, you see that there is clearly someone there who has their charm dial tuned to the exact right frequency of the […]

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