NBA schedule and results: Bradley Beal, Paul Pierce carry Washington over Houston

This might as well be another sport the Clippers are playing. Blake and DeAndre are just having fun out there.

You wouldn’t like Boogie when he’s angry.

Okay, watch this, then let’s talk about what happened:

(via The Brooklyn Game)

Look closely, and you’ll see that the rim at the Rockets-Wizards game is crooked. This is odd because the Rockets only had one possession and nobody tried to dunk during it. The game was stopped after just 48 seconds.

Referee Monty McCutchen had an idea: make the tall guy fix it.

Chris Paul who? There are times when the Bulls’ center displays the handles and court vision of a point guard.

I’m an advocate of swatting, but you gotta be careful when you’re at the backboard:

He’s lucky that didn’t bounce off his face into the basket!

Good morning. The Cavaliers suffered a loss that would have fans tearing their hair out if the rest of the basketball world wasn’t busy doing that on their behalf. Cleveland led the Pistons by 15 early, but lost by 23. Detroit hit a lot of shots Detroit doesn’t hit, and you wonder how much was noise and how much was Cleveland’s No. 22-ranked defense shining through.

Kevin Love had 20, and the Cavs were missing Kyrie Irving and, of course, Anderson Varejao. But LeBron James needed 21 shooting possessions to get 17 points, which is very un-LeBron, which is good description of how he’s been off and on this season. As you’ll see in one of the links below, LeBron is still more than capable of exploding. He’s just doing it far less frequently it seems. It’s worrisome. If you’re a fan of the game and you don’t actively root for one of the four teams in the East who gain the most from Cleveland’s mediocrity, you want to see the Cavaliers at or near their peak potential. We were excited for Irving-LeBron-Love for a reason. That hasn’t been unleashed at all.