In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like the Sacramento Kings, who showed up two-and-a-half quarters late (like the fans at a Miami Heat game) and still managed to pull out a win. The Kings trailed the Bulls by 35 points with 8:50 left in the third quarter last night, but eventually won the game by four. It was the biggest comeback in an NBA game in 13 years and was lovingly cradled toward victory by former Memphis Tiger Tyreke Evans, who had 23 points, eight rebounds and also won the Rookie of the Year award between periods. Previous Memphis Tiger-turned-Rookie of the Year Derrick Rose? Never heard of him. Oddly enough, I think the state of the Bulls is not summed up by the home fans booing them off the court following this putrid fourth quart…
Kyrie Irving, a splendid basketball player with a habit of speaking like his entire vocabulary of multisyllabic words is operated by a lotto machine, went on Geno Auriemma’s podcast and told the coach that his eagerness to join the Boston Celtics came down, in part, to “intellectual human being” Brad Stevens: “Brad fits perfectly in terms of that because he has an intellectual mind and is an intellectual human being,” the Celtics guard told Auriemma. “It was something I was unbelievably craving in terms of what I wanted for my career.” No doubt Irving was “unbelievably craving” access to Stevens’s big honkin’ brain because former coach Tyronn Lue lacked the intellectual capacity to understand what the fuck “ if you’re very much woke, there is no such thing as…