Posts by Grantland Staff

  • NBA Playoffs Shootaround: The Sixers Win the Homecoming Game

    So much amazing is happening, and the Shootaround crew is here 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. Hail the Conquering Hero Sometimes noise is better than words, so I won’t say too many. You […]

  • YouTube HOF: Aliens Among Us

    Starman Bill Simmons: I always thought Starman should have been a TV show. Here’s the pitch: An alien comes to earth, assumes the form of a widow’s husband, then uses his unlimited supply of miracle balls to save humans and animals while also learning lessons about life and making alien babies with the widow. This […]

  • NBA Playoffs Shootaround: Miami Throws Some ‘Bows

    So much amazing is happening, and the Shootaround crew is here 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. Scenes From the Miami Heat Locker Room, Post–Game 5 Dexter Pittman: “Hey LeBron, did you see what […]

  • NBA Playoffs Shootaround: Russell Westbrook Explains the Universe

    So much amazing is happening, and the Shootaround crew is here 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. Actually, Dennis Hopper, Russell Westbrook Can Land on a Fraction, Man There are basketball shots that DO […]

  • NBA Playoffs Shootaround: The Hunger James

    So much amazing is happening, and the Shootaround crew is here 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. Witness For 48 minutes, the best basketball player alive was just that, and with his team on […]

  • NBA Playoffs Shootaround: The Heat Are Coming Apart and the Spurs Are Unbreakable

    So much amazing is happening, and the Shootaround crew is here 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. Wade-ing in the Deep I would like to think that Dwyane Wade’s meltdown is some sort of […]

  • Rajon Rondo

    NBA Playoffs Shootaround: Rondo Rises, Durant (Sort of) Delivers, and the Mamba Melts

    So much amazing is happening, and the Shootaround crew is here 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. ‘Rondo Was Extremely Serious’ That was Doc Rivers’s assessment of his point guard’s demeanor going into Game […]

  • YouTube HOF: Classic Game Commercials

    [Note to readers: The videos are here, we promise. If you don’t see them, try a different browser.] Thunder Road Alex Pappademas: Because apparently in 1986, one year after Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Milton Bradley thought kids ages 10 and up were old enough to contemplate a brutal post-apocalyptic wasteland future in which vehicular homicide […]

  • LeBron James

    NBA Playoffs Shootaround: A Tale of Two Offenses in Miami and San Antonio

    So much amazing is happening, and the Shootaround crew is here 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. The NBA Playoffs: Where Inept Happens! And where are your Chris Bosh jokes now, America? Just one […]

  • NBA Playoffs Shootaround: The Sixers Get a Smash and Grab, the Thunder Take What They Want

    So much amazing is happening, and the Shootaround crew is here 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. From the Cradle: Evan Turner This late-game, game-deciding layup came right after Kevin Garnett tried to turn […]

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