Rocky Widner(Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)The NBA has turned into a soap opera, with unending trade requests, staged practice fights, burner accounts and and players leaving the locker room to pick up food in media dining. Perhaps that explains why, with the new campaign tipping off Tuesday night, the league already feels like it's in mid-season form, and not in a good way.
Certainly all the drama can lead to burn out. Which is why Oklahoma City Thunder center Steven Adams avoids all NBA-related news. To the point that the New Zealand big man entered training camp not knowing who was on his team.
“I don’t keep up with that s—, mate,” Adams told Sports Illustrated. “I’m f—— terrible. I just show up and whoever’s on the team, cool.”
Good to know Adams treats his profession like a run at the neighborhood playground.
Of course, we shouldn't be surprised, given Adams once said he didn't write his autobiography because he couldn't read.
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Miller's Time: Johnny Miller retiring after 3 decades as lead golf analyst for NBC Sports

Johnny Miller to retire from NBC/Golf Channel after one more event; Paul Azinger to be named replacement. “It’s been a great run,” Miller said. “I’ve done everything I can do announcing wise.”

We all love Gritty. The huggable Where the Wild Things Are reject has become the internet's de-facto bestie since bursting into the world last month, and now he is ready to give back. Instead of feeding all that affection to his ego, Gritty has chosen to spread it far and wide, beginning, of course, in his Crisco-poled hometown, where he (it?) has become the face of at least one very awesome wedding cake. You may now kiss giant, marmalade monster:
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The romantic fever dream of Landsdowne bakery Kia's Cakes & Café, this is unquestionably, unequivocally the most Philly thing to happen since Frank and Mac got drunk on rum ham at the Jersey Shore. The only way this could possibly get more Philly, is if the frosting were..

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If you're not already acquainted with Deontay Wilder, there's a few things you should know: He's 40-0 with 39 KOs. He's held the WBC Heavyweight belt since 2015. He's has the ferocity of young Tyson. He's nine inches taller than young Tyson. He's pound for pound the scariest fighter in the game and has gone on record saying he wants “a body” on his record. We tell you all of this because Deontay Wilder is a fighter—just like Crawford, Joshua, and Lomachenko—you should know, but also because on Friday, while on the set of ESPN Deportes's ‘Nacion, he tee'd up an innocent mascot with a haymaker…and allegedly shattered his jaw. In other news, water is wet and if you mess with a bull, you eventually get the horns:
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According to some reports, he didn't know there was an actual person inside the sombrero-sporting Marlboro pack, but given, oh I don't know, the life-like movement of t..