| 1 | May 8, '25 | This Porzingis illness is bizarre. Cost him eight games in March ... with lingering effects in May? And no one can explain it? | 193× | 7.6M | 25k | 527 | 1.3k |
| 2 | Jan 26, '20 | An idea the NBA should consider: Team LeBron should wear No. 8. Team Giannis, No. 24. All of them. | 167× | 0 | 321k | 74k | 627 |
| 3 | May 21, '25 | $76 million per year The million dollar per game salary is coming | 81.5× | 3.2M | 30k | 833 | 635 |
| 4 | Jan 4, '23 | From @KDTrey5 pushing for someone else to take the shot (because it was better), to Jacque Vaughn going along with it to Kyrie making it — this was great. | 45.3× | 1.8M | 16k | 1.4k | 333 |
| 5 | Apr 18, '23 | You just can’t throw Draymond out for that. None of it happens if Sabonis doesn’t grab Green’s leg. Flagrant one, tech, whatever. But you can’t toss him from a game like this over | 40.3× | 1.6M | 5.7k | 769 | 46 |
| 6 | Sep 30, '25 | This is one of the most savage napalming of a sitting sports commissioner I’ve ever seen. Just a blistering critique. | 39.1× | 1.5M | 16k | 1.2k | 2.8k |
| 7 | Jan 31, '23 | That LeBron James is likely going to break the NBA's scoring record and crack the top-five in all-time assists (passing Mark Jackson and Steve Nash) in the same week is pretty comp | 34.6× | 1.4M | 16k | 2.4k | 99 |
| 8 | Jan 13, '24 | This has to be one of the more embarrassing moments in Chicago sports. Jerry Krause, whatever you think of how the Bulls dynasty ended, built a six-time champion. Worthy of this ho | 29.7× | 1.2M | 3.1k | 312 | 131 |
| 9 | Feb 4, '25 | The Warriors are indeed serious about reuniting with Kevin Durant, sources told SI. And with efforts to acquire Jimmy Butler stalled rival execs believe the Suns are strongly consi | 28.1× | 1.1M | 4.1k | 542 | 197 |
| 10 | Sep 5, '25 | Going on ESPN to do an interview with an outlet that has had two days to digest a complicated story instead of speaking to the reporter who spent seven months investigating it is i | 26.6× | 1.1M | 11k | 675 | 462 |
| 11 | Feb 24, '23 | The problem with the anti-Jokic crowd isn't that they favor another player. It's that they think everyone that favors Jokic is stupid. Jokic had 24-18-13 last night against two eli | 26.1× | 1M | 3.5k | 230 | 31 |
| 12 | Jan 8, '23 | This is just an inexcusably bad call | 24.9× | 984k | 3.7k | 206 | 25 |
| 13 | Aug 26, '23 | That none of the cap space teams offered Austin Reaves $100 million over four this summer is looking dumber by the day. Lakers getting Reaves back for $56 million an outrageous bar | 24.5× | 970k | 4.2k | 275 | 42 |
| 14 | Apr 19, '23 | The Draymond situation feels like it's being adjudicated twice. He was ejected -- that should have been enough. This feels excessive, punitive and personal | 23.5× | 930k | 3k | 404 | 28 |
| 15 | Sep 26, '24 | .@ZachLowe_NBA is one of the most talented and versatile NBA journalists out there. Huge loss for ESPN and a huge gain for whoever wins the war to hire him. | 21.8× | 860k | 8.4k | 334 | 75 |
| 16 | Jul 8, '24 | Cooper Flagg just moved tanking season up by about two months. | 19.5× | 771k | 8.3k | 573 | 78 |
| 17 | Jan 17, '25 | If I owned an NBA team I'd send Sam Presti a blank check, tell him to fill in the zeros and stay out of his way. What Oklahoma City has built -- and the draft capital it has to kee | 19.4× | 767k | 8.2k | 466 | 211 |
| 18 | Jul 5, '23 | Boston might not be done-- the Celtics have Malcolm Brogdon's contract and a handful of first round picks to deal -- but on paper they flipped Smart and Grant Williams for Porzingi | 18.9× | 746k | 2.6k | 240 | 41 |
| 19 | Feb 3, '23 | Kyrie reacting to the Nets being unwilling to meet his contractual demands by effectively blowing up its season is a hell of a way to sell his next team on giving him a long term c | 17.7× | 699k | 4.6k | 481 | 30 |
| 20 | May 28, '24 | As a DPOY voter, included in my research is asking coaches who is the defender they have to prepare for the most. Overwhelmingly, it's Rudy Gobert. The idea that this series someho | 17.7× | 699k | 5k | 474 | 167 |
| 21 | Oct 28, '24 | Doc Rivers on the Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden | 15.2× | 601k | 2k | 290 | 250 |
| 22 | May 14, '23 | Mat Ishbia pushed his front office to go all-in for Kevin Durant and just canned a coach several teams will likely fight for in the coming days. Ishbia is a far, far better owner t | 13.3× | 524k | 2.5k | 160 | 17 |
| 23 | May 9, '24 | Smart organizations hire good coaches and stand by them. Michael Malone, nine years in Denver. Mark Daigneault, four years in OKC. Same for Chris Finch in Minnesota. Jason Kidd thr | 13× | 516k | 2.5k | 234 | 44 |
| 24 | Apr 21, '24 | We gotta stop getting caught up in losses in boxing. Ryan was never finished after the loss to Tank. Devin isn’t somehow a lesser fighter now. Fighters win. Fighters lose. When you | 12.5× | 493k | 4.2k | 551 | 103 |
| 25 | Jan 5, '25 | There won’t be an NFL game today better than Celtics-Thunder. | 10.6× | 419k | 3.9k | 343 | 33 |
| 26 | Jun 12, '24 | The Celtics are +166 in the 654 minutes Jayson Tatum has played this postseason. They are +0 in the 118 without him. | 10.2× | 402k | 5.7k | 729 | 428 |
| 27 | Feb 3, '25 | So much reporting about Dallas's concerns about Doncic's weight. It's almost like the five straight All-NBA First Team's and the 12-5 record in last season's conference playoffs di | 9.8× | 386k | 7.1k | 550 | 131 |
| 28 | May 26, '24 | I can’t get over this pass. Degree of difficulty, accuracy, and just the (bleep) to make this play at this point in the game. That was some superstar stuff. | 8.6× | 340k | 8.7k | 1k | 270 |
| 29 | Mar 15, '25 | I'm all for the NBA cracking down on tanking but Oklahoma City sitting everyone for a home game against Portland with a three-in-four stretch coming up against Denver (twice) and B | 8.6× | 338k | 5.9k | 239 | 98 |
| 30 | May 23, '24 | JB Bickerstaff rights the ship after the John Beilein disaster, gets the team to the second round, takes a game off Boston before the entire team goes on the injured list … and get | 8.4× | 330k | 3.6k | 481 | 51 |
| 31 | Sep 5, '20 | Mike D’Antoni, asked about his teams lack of size: “All our guys can touch the rim.” | 7.7× | 0 | 19k | 1.1k | 46 |
| 32 | Oct 29, '23 | Jokic is 28, an NBA champion, the overwhelming favorite to win his third MVP with a game that should age extremely well. Starting to think that the only thing that could keep Jokic | 7.4× | 293k | 2k | 71 | 32 |
| 33 | Feb 2, '25 | Would Mark Cuban have traded Luka? | 6.7× | 263k | 2.6k | 131 | 41 |
| 34 | Feb 8, '22 | Sabonis is good. But moving Haliburton, a second-year, 21-year old guard who hands out seven-plus assists and shoots 40% from three ... I don't know. | 6.6× | 0 | 17k | 911 | 39 |
| 35 | Oct 11, '20 | Danny Green says his fiance has received death threats in the aftermath of Green's missed three in the closing seconds of Game 5. Get a grip, Lakers fans. | 6.1× | 0 | 11k | 1.4k | 36 |
| 36 | Jul 21, '20 | The NBA’s bubble court is pretty sweet. | 6.1× | 0 | 12k | 2k | 60 |
| 37 | May 26, '24 | If I'm Boston, I'm not playing Porzingis on Monday. The Finals start June 6th -- they get a win in Game 4 and it's another week-plus of rest. | 5.8× | 228k | 2.3k | 125 | 31 |
| 38 | Jan 7, '21 | Celtics players have walked off the floor in Miami. | 5.8× | 0 | 12k | 1.3k | 21 |
| 39 | Jul 2, '18 | A very different statement from Cavs owner Dan Gilbert. | 5.7× | 0 | 9.9k | 2.8k | 30 |
| 40 | Apr 1, '25 | I know it gets said a lot but small market Oklahoma City being a title favorite while having the draft capital and young talent to blow any offer for any available star out of the | 5.1× | 200k | 3.4k | 260 | 81 |
| 41 | Apr 21, '20 | A decade from now, I hope Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski do a televised special where they explain exactly what happened in New England these last two years. | 4.6× | 0 | 10k | 1.3k | 33 |
| 42 | Jun 14, '19 | Masai Ujiri fired the coach of the year, rolled the dice on a rookie NBA head coach, traded away a franchise stalwart for an injured star on an expiring deal, and won a championshi | 4.5× | 0 | 8.9k | 1.8k | 34 |
| 43 | Aug 27, '20 | Players spoke passionately about voting and police reform, per sources. There's a sense from some that if owners don't come up with something that makes them believe staying will h | 4.2× | 0 | 6.7k | 1.8k | 45 |
| 44 | Feb 24, '20 | Michael Jordan, in tears, says Kobe is making him become another crying meme for three of four years. | 4.0× | 0 | 9.3k | 1k | 85 |
| 45 | May 20, '24 | The Rudy Gobert critics need to take an L tonight. He was everywhere in Game 7 and made clutch free throws down the stretch. | 3.8× | 150k | 2.6k | 235 | 17 |
| 46 | Mar 3, '21 | Gregg Popovich on Texas lifting its mask mandate: "Getting rid of masks seems ignorant to me. It's like we have to have instant gratification. We have to act like the pandemic is o | 3.6× | 0 | 8k | 900 | 28 |
| 47 | Oct 21, '21 | Daryl Morey, in a Philadelphia radio interview, confirming what's been widely believed: He will not be pressured into trading Ben Simmons. "People should buckle in," Morey said. "T | 3.5× | 0 | 6.2k | 816 | 50 |
| 48 | Jan 4, '25 | Not having Knicks-Thunder or Celtics-Thunder on national TV (sorry, NBATV) is just a big bleep you to OKC. This Knicks-Thunder game is electric, btw. | 3.4× | 134k | 2.5k | 152 | 24 |
| 49 | Jan 26, '20 | The NBA is still discussing how to handle its slate of games today, per sources. | 3.4× | 0 | 6.2k | 878 | 26 |
| 50 | Sep 3, '20 | That was about $35,000 in flop fines in one sequence. | 3.3× | 0 | 7.5k | 977 | 15 |
| 51 | Jul 24, '20 | Steven Adams, in Oklahoma City's warmup lines, stops to boo the Celtics as they take the floor. | 3.1× | 0 | 7.6k | 537 | 18 |
| 52 | Mar 27, '20 | All Utah Jazz players and personnel -- including Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell -- have been cleared by the Utah Department of Health, per team. DOH has determined that no Jazz p | 2.9× | 0 | 5.8k | 1k | 7 |
| 53 | Sep 22, '22 | Ime Udoka has considered the possibility of resigning, sources told @SInow. Internally, coaches and staff members are bracing for the likelihood that Udoka will be suspended for on | 2.9× | 0 | 3.9k | 820 | 85 |
| 54 | Jul 22, '24 | LeBron James, five months shy of his 40th birthday, is singularly responsible for the U.S. not entering the Olympics on a two-game losing streak. Ridiculous. | 2.9× | 113k | 4k | 474 | 45 |
| 55 | Mar 26, '25 | I'm a huge fan of 60's and 70's basketball. Cousy/Russell era, Wilt, Jerry West, etc. But if you think Giannis wouldn't average monster numbers back then you're out of your mind. D | 2.7× | 108k | 2.3k | 219 | 42 |
| 56 | Oct 7, '19 | Column: In a single tweet, Daryl Morey highlighted the NBA's relationship with an oppressive government and shined a light on a reality: The NBA is fine with personnel engaging on | 2.5× | 0 | 3.9k | 1.3k | 71 |
| 57 | Jun 15, '19 | Lakers get Davis without having to surrender Kyle Kuzma, important as they fill out the roster for next year. Pelicans get a haul, but this is a big day for Rob Pelinka. Lakers get | 2.3× | 0 | 4.5k | 968 | 4 |
| 58 | Nov 23, '19 | Football-like collision, with Walker's head down and going full speed into Semi's chest. | 2.3× | 0 | 4.9k | 592 | 37 |
| 59 | Jul 1, '19 | Knicks are taking a public beating, but I've talked to several rival execs tonight who think the Knicks did the right thing. Kyrie wanted to be a Net. No one has any idea how Duran | 2.3× | 0 | 3.5k | 965 | 17 |
| 60 | Feb 1, '20 | On the Lakers first offensive possession, they run the triangle offense, the Phil Jackson system Kobe Bryant thrived in for years. | 2.1× | 0 | 5.3k | 389 | 25 |
| 61 | Jun 4, '16 | Incredible story from @MuhammadAli's daughter. At the end, Ali's organs failed--but his heart continued to beat. | 2.1× | 0 | 2.4k | 1.8k | 0 |
| 62 | Oct 23, '22 | Fire Frank Vogel. | 2.1× | 0 | 5k | 322 | 15 |
| 63 | Jul 1, '18 | With Jokic and Barton on board, the Denver Nuggets will turn their attention to one more free agent: LeBron James. The Nuggets have been in contact with James's agent and will aggr | 2.1× | 0 | 2.3k | 791 | 15 |
| 64 | Dec 5, '24 | NEW: Why did Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) walk away from ESPN? A grueling schedule, a health scare and a deep love for his alma mater. Inside the most stunning media story of the | ⚡ 2.0× | 5M | 3k | 468 | 743 |
| 65 | Jul 10, '22 | Damian Lillard: “Something that’s missing in our league, the passion, the pride, not just for the name on the back but the name on the front.” | 2.0× | 0 | 4.2k | 367 | 30 |
| 66 | Mar 14, '21 | Arguable the best round in boxing history | 1.9× | 0 | 3.9k | 590 | 80 |
| 67 | Sep 1, '22 | LeBron James exits Cleveland in 2018 and in four years Koby Altman -- through the draft and some shrewd trades -- has assembled a young, versatile title contender for years to come | 1.9× | 0 | 4.3k | 450 | 10 |
| 68 | Jan 24, '21 | Tom Brady, 43, has three touchdown passes in a conference championship game and LeBron James, 36, leads the defending champs and is a frontrunner for MVP. This era has a pair of in | 1.8× | 0 | 4.1k | 383 | 14 |
| 69 | Jul 1, '18 | The most astonishing part about Paul George staying in OKC is that he didn't even meet with the Lakers. Speaks to how strong the bond was with Thunder, Westbrook. | 1.7× | 0 | 2.8k | 873 | 3 |
| 70 | Aug 19, '20 | A reminder: This sherrif’s deputy filed a lawsuit against Masai Ujiri. What a joke. | 1.7× | 0 | 3k | 837 | 30 |
| 71 | May 16, '18 | James walks slowly to the locker room after taking that shot to the jaw. An aside: Grown men who run down steps to tell an injured player he sucks--like I just saw--are among the b | 1.7× | 0 | 3.2k | 660 | 1 |
| 72 | Aug 25, '20 | Personal observation: Players are visibly shattered the last 48 hours. Many believed coming down to Orlando, using the platform would inspire change. See what happened in Wisconsin | 1.6× | 0 | 2.5k | 487 | 23 |
| 73 | May 6, '22 | That @JoelEmbiid is even trying to play through a torn thumb ligament and a broken orbital bone -- in addition to being just a week removed from a concussion -- is pretty remarkabl | 1.6× | 0 | 3.6k | 313 | 13 |
| 74 | Jan 8, '22 | At this point, Boston should take a flyer on @IsaiahThomas. Passion isn’t there. Energy isn’t there. Mental toughness, by the coaching staff’s own admission, isn’t there. Why not t | 1.5× | 0 | 3.3k | 269 | 2 |
| 75 | Feb 2, '19 | What IT did in the 2016 playoffs was one of the most inspiring things I’ve ever seen. But the idea that the Celtics should have passed on the Irving deal because of it is ludicrous | 1.5× | 0 | 2.7k | 521 | 6 |
| 76 | Nov 8, '18 | There’s nowhere you can go, your kids can go, your friends and family can go that isn’t at risk of getting shot up. Not a political statement. Just a fact. Our leaders need to do s | 1.5× | 0 | 2.8k | 553 | 3 |
| 77 | May 5, '22 | Miami re-signing Victor Oladipo, allowing him to rehab all season and then deploying him in a sixth man role in the playoffs could turn out to be one of the biggest offseason moves | 1.4× | 0 | 3.3k | 306 | 16 |
| 78 | Nov 1, '19 | UFC boss Dana White has been vocal about Canelo-Kovalev not going up directly against Diaz-Masvidal on Saturday. DAZN apparently agrees with him. I'm told that Canelo-Kovalev won't | 1.4× | 0 | 2.3k | 540 | 4 |
| 79 | Mar 11, '21 | You know who could use LaMarcus Aldridge? The Portland Trail Blazers. | 1.4× | 0 | 3.3k | 220 | 5 |
| 80 | Oct 3, '20 | Preventing spread keeps getting framed as this unanswerable question. The NBA, NHL have shown the U.S. how to do it: Mandate masks, rapid testing, social distancing, no large gathe | 1.4× | 0 | 2.6k | 588 | 9 |
| 81 | Oct 19, '21 | Texting with a league exec who is monitoring the Simmons situation: "When sh-- goes south, this is how he reacts? Who wants a guy like that?" | 1.4× | 0 | 2.5k | 342 | 11 |
| 82 | Jan 26, '18 | Russell Westbrook thinking he was the last pick in the All-Star draft and responding by dropping 46 on the Wizards is the most Russell Westbrook thing ever. | 1.3× | 0 | 2.3k | 686 | 1 |
| 83 | Nov 2, '21 | Lillard on the chants from the Philadelphia crowd, “the City of Brotherly Love … they showed me love.” | 1.3× | 0 | 2.6k | 254 | 22 |
| 84 | Nov 7, '18 | That Election Day isn't a national holiday is insane. We're a democracy: Don't we want to make it easier for everyone to vote? I'll trade you Columbus Day for Election Day, and we' | 1.3× | 0 | 2.3k | 591 | 0 |
| 85 | Sep 7, '19 | NFL remains the ratings king but this Antonio Brown stuff is like a 6 or a 7 on the NBA drama meter. I'm not even sure this is crazier than what Jimmy Butler did to get out of Minn | 1.3× | 0 | 2.2k | 344 | 7 |
| 86 | Jun 7, '21 | Logan Paul is 26, and used YouTube to become a social media star with the following that got the biggest boxing star of this generation in the ring with him. He's right: He already | 1.2× | 0 | 2.7k | 271 | 27 |
| 87 | Jul 22, '19 | Spurs release on Duncan: | 1.2× | 0 | 2.6k | 365 | 6 |
| 88 | Feb 23, '20 | Wilder can exercise a rematch clause ... but I'd like to see Fury-Joshua first. The biggest fight in British boxing history for the undisputed heavyweight championship. | 1.2× | 0 | 2.4k | 409 | 6 |
| 89 | Aug 16, '18 | The continued success of Hard Knocks makes me puzzled why the NBA doesn’t approach an HBO or Showtime about it. The 0-16 Browns prove any team could work. Do one on Orlando or Phoe | 1.1× | 0 | 2.2k | 344 | 2 |
| 90 | Feb 27, '22 | Loma, Usyk, Klitschko, all in Ukraine, fighting for Ukraine. Amazing. | 1.1× | 0 | 2.6k | 290 | 15 |
| 91 | Jun 10, '19 | Nick Nurse recalls telling the team after Game 2 that they would get one back in Oakland. Kawhi Leonard, Nurse said, replied “(Expletive) that, let’s get two.” | 1.1× | 0 | 2k | 448 | 26 |
| 92 | Nov 19, '20 | Gordon Hayward has to have a long term offer out there. Because that's an enormous amount of money to walk away from. | 1.1× | 0 | 2.4k | 194 | 3 |
| 93 | Oct 28, '22 | Lot of scrambling among NBA executives trying to figure out why the Spurs waived Primo. "He's a talent," one exec texted. "Everyone is trying to find out what the hell happened." | 1.1× | 0 | 2.4k | 255 | 25 |
| 94 | Jul 25, '22 | Jaylen Brown has every right to be irritated by more trade chatter. He's an All-Star, a two-way player who just helped (and at times pushed) a team to the Finals. And he's getting | 1.1× | 0 | 2.1k | 270 | 9 |
| 95 | Feb 24, '22 | Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko tells ITV he intends to take up arms in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. "It's already a bloody war," says Klitschko. "I don't have another choice." | 1.1× | 0 | 2.1k | 344 | 22 |
| 96 | Aug 17, '20 | Quin Snyder, after Jordan Clarkson picks up a tech, says to one ref, "He got fouled twice on the three. He got fouled -- I haven't heard him say shit to a ref all year." ... anothe | 1.0× | 0 | 2.2k | 266 | 10 |
| 97 | May 16, '21 | I’m here for all of this. @JalenRose and @realchriswebber did too much for the game together for whatever came between them to last any longer. Great moment. | 1.0× | 0 | 2.2k | 276 | 34 |
| 98 | Sep 24, '20 | Why plus/minus is one of the dumbest NBA statistics: Duncan Robinson, who missed all five of his shots, was plus-3. Tyler Herro, who scored 37 points on 14-21 shooting, was a minus | 1.0× | 0 | 2.1k | 241 | 18 |
| 99 | Feb 27, '19 | Evan Turner (@thekidet) says that when the ten Blazers were stuck on the elevator in Boston yesterday, he told them he had two granola bars—one for him, one for the other nine to s | 1.0× | 0 | 2.2k | 283 | 4 |
| 100 | Apr 26, '22 | Danny Ainge drafted Robert Williams, Grant Williams and Payton Pritchard, not to mention executing the trade that got Tatum and Brown. Stevens reacquired Horford, got White and The | 0.8× | 0 | 2k | 146 | 4 |
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