Dime Magazine

Does the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks vs. San Antonio Spurs have you in the mood for all the basketball you can get? You’re in luck: NBA The Run, a 3v3 arcade-style video game inspired by early 2000s streetball, is out today, June 9. NBA The Run brings the game to the streets with current NBA stars and fictional streetball legends competing in fast-paced online multiplayer Knockout Tournaments on 11 courts spanning the globe, including Venice Beach and Harlem’s Rucker Park.

On Friday, December 5, NBA Nightcap will debut its new segment, “Amazon Music Presents: In The Paint,” with its first-ever musical guests, Clipse. The segment will be filmed “in the paint,” literally, on the LED half court that the studio team uses for in-depth, three-dimensional analysis.

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As the NBA season enters its final month, there are a number of teams that have fully shifted their focus to the upcoming NBA Draft. The Jazz, Blazers, Wizards, Hornets, Nets, and Raptors were all expected to be in the mix for top lottery odds this season, while the Pelicans and Sixers have crashed the party as well after rather disastrous seasons.

Rookies in the NBA always have to be on the lookout for a prank, especially when it comes to their car, but typically the concern for a young player is that they’ll leave their keys in their locker and come back to the parking lot to find it’s been filled with popcorn.

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Stephen A. Smith is no stranger to having people mad at him about things he says on ESPN’s airwaves (or his podcast, or Fox News), but typically the backlash he faces is on social media. On Thursday night in Los Angeles, it was much more direct and face-to-face when LeBron James came over to Smith after the Lakers comeback win in overtime over the Knicks and confronted ESPN’s biggest personality.

For years, Charles Barkley has enjoyed taking jabs at TNT’s NBA broadcast counterparts at ESPN. In recent years, his frustration has focused on ESPN’s insistence on talking constantly about the Lakers and Warriors, even when they’ve been on the periphery of the playoff discussion, rather than focusing most of the conversation on the teams at the very top of the league.

The Los Angeles Lakers have been the hottest team in the NBA since the trade deadline, winning nine of their 10 games since acquiring Luka Doncic from Dallas in a stunning middle of the night move. That run has vaulted the Lakers from the Play-In race to second in the Western Conference, as they’ve taken advantage of a stretch where a lot of teams in the West have been sputtering.

Shaquille O’Neal has been notoriously hard on active NBA players during his time as an analyst with TNT. Big men in particular have had to reach an incredibly high bar to impress him, with a very select few earning his respect as the self-appointed “Supreme Leader” of the Big Man Alliance. However, for all the criticism Shaq has levied, he is willing to dole out some extremely high praise when he feels it’s been warranted.