The Basketball Section

December 9th, 1977 saw one of the most brutal punches in the history of non-punch-centric sports. In a match-up between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Houston Rockets, a battle for a rebound between the Lakers' Kermit Washington and Rockets' Kevin Kunnert escalated into a full-on fight at half-court. As Washington's teammate, the legendary Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, attempted to break up the fight (something both Abdul-Jabbar and Kunnert attest to) by holding Kunnert back, Washington landed a punch on Kunnert. There are details of the fight that have multiple, conflicting accounts, but what happened next is not up for dispute. Rockets' star forward Rudy Tomjanovich ran toward the fight in an attempt to break it up. Washington, not knowing Tomjanovich's intentions, delivered a vicious punch directly to Tomjanovich. The results were devastating. Tomjanovich suffered a facial fracture so severe it detached from his skull, a cerebral concussion, and a broken jaw & nose, a...

UPDATE: Scratch that. He actually does In wake of the recent scandals involving Major League Baseball players and offensive tweets from their pasts, the basketball world was shocked to discover that Zach Collins of the Portland Trail Blazers did not have any racists posts on his Twitter account from before he was a professional basketball player. As first discovered by Twitter user Xavier Pousey, better known by his Twitter handle @KingCollison4, the former Gonzaga player's Twitter account contained a surprising lack of offensive tweets from his high school days. "He was really just wishing all his friends happy birthday, it wasn't what I was expecting at all," said Pousey when reached for comments by the Basketball Section. "He tweeted about School of Rock not being on Netflix once...that's all I've got." Pousey, a Panda Express employee by day and a Nick Collison fan account administrator by night, initially looked into Collins' Twitter ...

One of the most shocking moves of the offseason has to the news that just broke yesterday. Anthony Bennett has been signed...by an NBA team. Shocking, I know. So yes, the Phoenix Suns have signed Anthony Bennett to a non-guaranteed deal. Bennett's career has been incredibly poor so far, bouncing around four teams over four years and averaging 4.4 points and 3.1 rebounds per game. So this leaves the question; why would a team sign a player who is possibly the worst player to ever be drafted with the first pick? What benefit does he bring to a team? Well, here's why I think they signed him... ... ... ... I got nothing.