Sorry Seattle, Not Really; NBA Playoffs Highlight Selfish Owners

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Jamie Reidy comments on the awkward relationship between Oklahoma City Thunder fans and the Seattle fans whose hearts the Thunder just ripped out.

The Errant Heel: Episode Five

The Errant Heel

In Episode Five, Brian and Tom do their best to recap what was truly a strange and depressing week in sports. They also continue to compulsively make Game of Thrones references.

The Mavericks Didn’t Just Beat the Heat

Mavs

Let’s lay off LeBron and just celebrate the Mavs. They just won some pretty damn entertaining basketball games.

T2TB Week: What Just Happened?

basketballs

Basketball will be awesome when it wants to be. Hopefully our Talking Balls showed that.

T2TB Week: Smush and Kwame?

Kobe Bryant

Why did Kobe keep passing that ball?

T2TB Week: Walt Clyde

Walt Frazier

It’s a crime that the NBA hasn’t filmed Walt Frazier musing and effusing with a Talking Ball.

T2TB Week: Nasty Infinities

Roberty Horry

“How could my beloved Sheed put his considerable talent and all his energy into that wrong move that would cause so much disappointment and pain and regret?”

Rooting for Dallas and Loving the Heat

Miami Heat

You can be happy the Heat exist, but you don’t have to root for them to win.

T2TB Week: The ‘94 Knicks

Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon

“Nobody wanted to win more than John Starks. You’re right. It’s not fair.”

T2TB Week: The Logo

Jerry West

Jerry West’s buzzer beater in 1970 didn’t win anything. But no one cares.

T2TB Week: 2 for 18

John Starks

John Starks went two for 18 from the field in Game Seven of the 1994 Finals. He abused that ball.

T2TB Week: Zeke’s Ankle

Isiah Thomas

“The fact that he was still scoring, keeping them in the game? That was something else. Epic, I guess you’d say.”

T2TB Week: Shades of Willis Reed

Willis Reed

Willis Reed looms large in the memory of every New York sports fan.

T2TB Week: Lee’s Layup

Courtney Lee

Why didn’t Courtney Lee’s layup fall in Game Two of the 2009 Finals?

T2TB Week: Everything Is Possible

Kevin Garnett

“I’d want to know the many curses of Kevin Garnett, the relief of Paul Pierce, and the dignified joy of Ray Allen.”

T2TB Week: Chuck, This Is Goodbye

Charles Barkley Michael Jordan

Charles Barkley realized Michael Jordan was better. The ball did, too.