Toronto Raptors point guard Fred VanVleet went scorched earth on NBA official Ben Taylor after a loss to the Clippers on Wednesday night. A fine is imminent after his comments.
While NBA players often criticize officiating, it is rather uncommon for a player to single out one specific referee, especially by name. VanVleet did not hold back and is prepared for the financial repercussions.
I don’t mind, I’ll take a fine, I don’t really care.
Bill Self won’t be coaching Kansas against West Virginia today.
The Jayhawks announced that the legendary college basketball coach “will miss today’s Big 12 tournament game as he recovers from an illness … Self is doing well and receiving great care at the University of Kansas Health System.”
Assistant Norm Roberts will be the team’s leader against West Virginia.
Kansas head coach Bill Self will miss today’s game vs. West Virginia with an illness pic.twitter.
Let’s rank hats!
The 2023 World Baseball Classic is underway, and we got our first chance to see the international hats adorning the talented domes of the best baseball players in the world. Normally we’d just show you the hats, riff on them for a little, and let you get on with your day. Instead we thought we’d change it up a little.
Hi, I’m James Dator. I’m the resident “old” for this ranking. I’m 38-years-old and appreciate good clothes — but never really buy them.
Kansas announced that head coach Bill Self will miss Thursday’s conference tournament basketball game against West Virginia due to Illness.
Cam Smith may have won last year’s Players championship, but he wasn’t the star of the week at TPC Sawgrass, that title belonged to Gold Man.
Unfortunately, the animated character will not return to TPC Sawgrass this week. Gold Man is dead, according to James Colgan of GOLF.
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NBC debuted the Gold Man last year to celebrate 40 years of The Players at the Stadium Course and it certainly got fans talking.
Craig Carton can’t figure out why two generational talents in Aaron Rodgers and Lamar Jackson, are now up for grabs and no teams seems to be chomping at the bit to acquire them. Besides the New York Jets’ interest in the Green Bay Packers’ quarterback, Craig says it crickets, and he asks James Jones to lay out why he thinks the interest is so small for Jackson and Rodgers.
Kevin Durant slipped during warmups ahead of his home debut for the Suns. The Suns fear he may miss the rest of the regular season with an ankle sprain.
Minutes before Kevin Durant was set to play his first home game for the Phoenix Suns, the superstar forward slipped and fell in warmups and suffered an ankle injury. Durant was ruled out for the game that night against the Oklahoma City Thunder, and is now set to have an MRI to determine just how long this injury will keep him out.
Durant left the arena in a walking boot after the Suns beat the Thunder, 132-101.
Craig Carton and the crew address Daniel Jones’ comments about his fresh contract with the New York Giants, and decide where that leaves Saquon Barkley, who is clearly unhappy with getting stuck with a franchise tag.
The former UFC, WEC champ challenges for third career world title when he will face Usman Nurmagomedov at Bellator 292.
Benson Henderson has competed at the highest level of MMA for more than 14 years, but he’s got a few things left to do before he calls it a career.
In 2009, “Smooth” claimed an interim belt for the now defunct WEC, then became undisputed champion three months later. In ’12, he defeated future UFC Hall of Famer Frankie Edgar to claim the lightweight title there as well.
The Raptors guard just gave us the best postgame press conference of the year.
1. Raptors guard Fred VanVleet knows the fine is coming, but he doesn’t care. So we need to thank him for throwing caution to the wind and giving us a memorable postgame press conference Wednesday after Toronto lost to the Clippers, 108–100.
VanVleet was hit for a technical foul by referee Ben Taylor during the game, and the Clippers had 31 free throw attempts to just 14 for the Raptors, so VanVleet wanted to talk about it. And, boy, did he.
