I love the stiff arm he gives to the security guards, "Not now gents, I'm about to become Internet famous." Read more

Back to the original point: in 2014 dollars, Buss stole Pickfair for $15,222,992.11. Pickfair, for heaven's sake! That's less than Michael Jordan's place on the North Shore of Chicago. The epilogue: Buss sold Pickfair to Pia Zadora & her creepy zillionaire husband in 1988 - and they razed it in 1990. Read more

Not sure if it's in the book, but long about this time there was a televised locker room interview on KNBC around Christmas. The Lakers had won, so everybody was in a good mood. I can't remember if this was before or after Worthy's arrest for ordering up two call girls in Houston, but I tell myself after. Anyway, the… Read more

One obvious downside of relying on route efficiency in a vacuum is that on some balls that aren't sharply hit the most efficient route (direct path) isn't the optimal route. If you have time to do so you'd rather catch the ball coming forward, both to set up a throw and it's simply better mechanics. Read more

In re the above, we emailed Charlie, "Go on ..." His reply: "Much sexytime. Much, much sexytime. Far's I'm gonna go." Read more

On October 12, columnist Dave Kindred wrote in The Sporting News that if Johnson planned to return to active NBA competition, he should "tell the whole truth about how he acquired the AIDS virus," intimating that Johnson could have become infected during unprotected gay sex, an accusation Johnson has repeatedly… Read more

The good life was a perquisite of his new station. At first, liberated L.A. amazed him. "I mean, you had women with no panties. Women with women," he recalls. However, he soon lost whatever inhibitions he had brought with him, or (more likely) he simply parked them with Earvin and let Magic be Magic. The Lakers became… Read more

Readers deserve an explanation. This is the cereal discussion we had before Marchman went rogue.

I took this picture during a women's basketball game on Pac-12 Network last month. Tanja Kostic played for Oregon State from 1993-1996. The game referenced in the caption happened February 1, 1996.

Deadspin readers see this story, find it mildly amusing, and move on with their lives. Read more

I knew Glenn Burke when he played with the Dodgers. I was a sports reporter/ photographer for a S.F. gay newspaper. During the off season,Glenn was to play in a Charity Basketball game between gay athletes and S.F. Firemen. At a practice I came around to photograph the gay players. Glenn asked me not to photographed… Read more

More NBA Shitlist, please. This should be preserved for posterity in the Library of Congress. All culturally significant. Read more

Honestly, anything that puts a fine point on how ridiculously fraudulent the entire "Olympic movement" has become is fine by me. They aren't a blip in the system, they're a by-product of an obtuse corrupt and just plain weird system. Read more

That’s a bit of a role reversal. Usually it's a dick running his Ford into a fire hydrant. Either way you’re probably looking at a bumper with a little crack in it. Read more

Don McPherson was my high school quarterback. I was a freshman and he was a senior. Due to taking honors biology, I was in the same gym class with the juniors and seniors. Read more