Posts by Grantland Staff
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Lightning Round: The Brooklyn Nets Fire Sale
On Tuesday, Marc Stein and Ohm Youngmisuk reported that the Brooklyn Nets had put three of their foundational players — Deron Williams, Brook Lopez, and “Iso” Joe “Jesus” Johnson — on the trading block. We could not resist pointing and laughing at the misery in BK.
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‘Peter Pan Live!’ Shootaround: One Very Long Night in Neverland
Whatever Christopher Walken’s motives for joining up with this motley pirate crew, you can’t fault him for doing it.
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NBA Shootaround: So This Is What Winning Feels Like
From tipoff to second tipoff to the very end, Sixers-Wolves was bad basketball art.
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30 for 30 Shorts: Robbed
Our latest film, from Emmy Award–winning director Eric Drath, brings us to the intersection of boxing injustice and urban chaos in the 1970s.
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Lightning Round: Notes on Our First Thousand Viewings of the ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Trailer
You may not be aware of this, but someone released the trailer for ‘Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens’ on Black Friday. It’s true, you can look it up. So we stayed in and watched it two or three or 1,000 times from the safety of our homes instead of braving the door-buster melees. Lightning round, go.
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NBA Shootaround: What Do We Know After One Month?
We’re one month into the NBA season. To make sense of it all, we’ve asked our Shootaround crew to talk about a few things that we think we know after 30 awesome days of basketball.
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Lightning Round: A Cappella ‘Cups’ Floweth Over in the First ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Trailer
The Grantland staff has some feelings about a certain a ca-sequel. Here they are.
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NBA Shootaround: Small Thing to a Giant
So much amazing is happening, and the Shootaround crew is back to help you keep track of it all. You’ll find takes on moments you might’ve missed from the previous night, along with ones you will remember forever.
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Grantland Flashback: 10 Years Later, the Malice at the Palace Revisited
In 2012, Grantland’s Jonathan Abrams delivered the definitive oral history of the notorious Pacers-Pistons game, and how it rocked the NBA for years to come. Revisit it now.
