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![LeBron James has played with or against these 10 father-son duos](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/6b5c5317f88021aa136e07c2dc80793d.jpg)
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![These are the most obnoxious fan bases in sports (and pop culture)](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/8c421c35f4fbc1bbc762ef5ba99606d1.jpg)
These are the most obnoxious fan bases in sports (and pop culture)
The easiest way to protect yourself from outside criticism is to critique others. Negativity begets negativity, and I don’t even know where this is going because I’m here to tell you about insufferable fan bases....
![Mikey Williams reaffirms Memphis’ status as college basketball’s Airbnb](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/4b458b833804e5feda9c2c6d27065e2e.jpg)
Mikey Williams reaffirms Memphis’ status as college basketball’s Airbnb
San Ysidro teammates Mikey Williams and JJ Taylor’s committing to play for Memphis next season would have been the biggest recruiting heist in college basketball two years ago. But for a variety of reasons, Penny Hardaway’s track record with one-and-done phenoms at Memphis has been worse than the no...
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Our Conference Mock Draft: ACC Edition
This new ACC is all about the show. We kept a couple of rivalries but our main goal is to entertain you. There are Hurricanes, Badgers, three different Tigers, and some of the most annoying people on the planet wearing their stupid scarlet. So lean back in your drop top, and turn on the 8 Ball & MJG...
![Not to worry Luka, it happens to the best of them](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/2c3a0aebfbcaba20a685ffcbba0e1e55.jpg)
Not to worry Luka, it happens to the best of them
Sure he had to hear his eulogy while he was still living after Andrew Wiggins read him his last rites in Game 3, but Luka Dončić has nothing to be ashamed of. The Dallas Mavericks star led the NBA postseason in scoring, but his singular output was futile against a Golden State Warriors team that pla...
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What are the Miami Heat?
Three teams have been pillars of culture in the modern NBA: The San Antonio Spurs, the Oklahoma City Thunder, and the Miami Heat. No matter the players, these three franchises have established systems where players come in to fill a role, commit to the vision, and buy in completely. Of the trio, onl...
![Fictional Hooper Bracket: Billy Hoyle is the king of the silver screen](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/d01cb629b5f52258829fe369b2235ade.jpg)
Fictional Hooper Bracket: Billy Hoyle is the king of the silver screen
When Billy Hoyle told Sidney Deane he’s hustled players a helluva lot better than him, I was skeptical. How many times can you show up to a pickup game and aww shucks your way into a wad of cash? Well after six rounds and thousands of votes, it seems the scheme is still humming along....
![Shaheen Holloway is the 2022 March Madness Champ](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/70f1d0e2a1abbb3388b8db36c2ea9bd0.jpg)
Shaheen Holloway is the 2022 March Madness Champ
If Duke, UNC, Kansas or Villanova are going to win another national title, we have to celebrate something besides another blueblood champion. Watching another blueblood Final Four is nauseating and almost seems antithetical to the glorified ideal of March Madness....
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Fictional Hooper Bracket: The Elite Eight
Welcome to the Elite Eight of the Fictional Hoopers Tournament. All the fat and sinew (Sandy Lyle and Steve Urkel) have been trimmed, and the characters left are all from powerhouse pictures. No one has been able to knock off either of White Men Can’t Jump’s main characters (celebrated last night at...
![Fictional Hooper Bracket: Venice Beach Regional - Round 2](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/5fe4ed47c5ab7ca911a90274380724f0.jpg)
Fictional Hooper Bracket: Venice Beach Regional - Round 2
The first round of the Venice Beach Regional went mostly according to the seedings, with an easily predicted upset (12-seed Buggs beating the 5-seed Pound in a Space Jam rematch), and one I didn’t see coming (13-seed Clarence Withers toppling 4-seed Quincy McCall). At the top of the bracket, Billy H...
![The people who wanted Juwan Howard and Penny Hardaway fired a few months ago… where’d they go?](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/7402445a3db02afe8dc80717b97e40fd.jpg)
The people who wanted Juwan Howard and Penny Hardaway fired a few months ago… where’d they go?
What started with a press conference and a “postgame scuffle” has turned into predictable praise. Because when you win, people conveniently forget that just a few weeks earlier they wanted you unemployed....
![After an all-time bad freshman campaign, where does Emoni Bates go from here?](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/0a276391ad01cca27440240cd8d58b90.jpg)
After an all-time bad freshman campaign, where does Emoni Bates go from here?
Jalen Duren and Chet Homgren’s matchup in the Round of 32 provided a preview of two future lottery picks in the upcoming NBA Draft. Holmgren and Duren didn’t exactly light it up, but they gave scouts a glimpse of two future franchise cornerstones....
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The Fictional Hooper Bracket: Venice Beach Region
It’s basketball time folks. Ignore Tom Brady trying to own the spotlight on Selection Sunday and decipher Progressive Insurance sales representative Baker Mayfield’s social media post later, and give the hardwood the attention it deserves. It’s almost spring, hit the CBS music, pull Ernie, Kenny, an...