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Lakers star Luka Dončić donated the entire amount requested on a GoFundMe drive to restore a vandalized mural in downtown Los Angeles that was created as a tribute to the team’s late Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna “Gigi” Bryant. The mural located on Main Street near West 14th Street was created by artist Louie “Sloe” Motion shortly after Kobe, Gigi and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash in January 2020. Video recorded Tuesday morning showed graffiti spray-painted over most of the mural, which had shown the Hall of Fame basketball star kissing his smiling...

‘Kids Don’t Need To Be Drinking These’ – Kawhi Leonard Takes a Dig at Popular Drink Brand April 25, 2025 | 7:51 PM EDT The Los Angeles Clippers took care of business with a 117-84 win in Intuit Dome’s first-ever playoff game. Kawhi Leonard posted a double-double, notching 21 points, 11 rebounds, and six assists in the Clippers 34-point rout over the Denver Nuggets. During Kawhi’s postgame press conference, he seemed to take a subtle jab at an iconic sports drink. Kawhi Leonard Takes a Shot at Gatorade, an NBA Sponsor Gatorade has made a name for itself in the...

Dallas Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban is facing calls from his own former employees to flee the Texas city following recent controversy. The NBA organization recently descended into a meltdown when the team traded away its biggest star, Luka Doncic, to the Los Angeles Lakers. And despite selling his majority stake in the Mavericks in 2023, Cuban, who has been outspoken critic of Donald Trump's agenda in Washington DC, has found himself in the firing line. Last week, a former Mavericks event manager, Gavin Mulloy, took aim at the billionaire on Facebook, claiming that he 'should be run out of...

Nobody was home at the time of the incident Friday night, and Doncic filed a police report.. Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks is the latest professional athlete whose home has been burglarized. The star guard's business manager told multiple media outlets Saturday there was a break-in at Doncic's home. Lara Beth Seager said nobody was home at the time of the incident Friday night, and Doncic filed a police report. Jewelry valued at about $30,000 was stolen... Doncic, 25, who is from Slovenia, is the sixth known pro athlete in the U.S. whose home was burglarized since October. Star...

The ball is in your court, NBA? Are all racial slurs unacceptable? Or is this a one way street?

by Greg Reynolds A black NBA player reportedly made a shocking racial remark to a white NBA player after a heated confrontation during a game on Friday night while the players were wearing jerseys that had special social justice phrases printed on the back. “LA Clippers forward Montrezl Harrell and Dallas Mavericks Slovenian star Luka Doncic got into a scuffle last night that ended with Harrell calling Doncic a ‘bitchh ass white boy,'” Outkick columnist Gary Sheffield Jr. wrote. “The solution here is simple, even if many won’t like it: the NBA has to suspend Montrezl Harrell and send...

The older we all get and the older Dirk Nowitzki gets, the harder it sometimes is to remember how truly great he was. There will always be a group of basketball nuts that will remember the specific greatness of Dirk, but we’re slowly creeping into the territory where a lot of fans, younger specifically, don’t really know much of Dirk except that 1. he used to be really good and 2. he’s mostly the older goofy former All-Star that seems really nice and likes to clown on his oldness. It’s only nature. “What have you done for me lately” is...