I’m not trying to write this much about Macklemore, stories just keep happening. The guy is set to headline the Preakness with Pitbull this weekend and hung out onstage with the Oregon Duck LAST weekend. In two weekends he’ll be dating Kate Upton and winning a Most Beautiful Surfing Dog contest or whatever and we’ll never be rid of him.

Anyway, the reason we’re talking about him today is because he’s a loyal resident of Seattle, Washington, and as such, that makes him disdainful of the fine men and women of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Something about a pro basketball team being torn away moments before they became championship contenders, who can say for sure? So what happens when the NEW Sonics try to use the hit song of a guy who loves the OLD Sonics as their pre-game hype music?

TWITTER WARZ.

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After the Houston Rockets defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder 107-100 on Wednesday to cut the latter’s series lead to one game, the CSN Houston postgame show offered us possibly the best highlight from the first round of the NBA Playoffs. Well, at least the best highlight that doesn’t involve JR Smith dancing in front of a giddy Louis CK.

Co-hosts Chet Bongwater and Calvin Swissbeaver offered their viewers the scoop on something something blah blah blah – HOLY SH*T is that a baby? Yes, it is, and that baby is suddenly the star of an NBA Playoffs first round that has been defined by depressing injuries and benchwarmers picking fights with stars.

While we don’t know what happened next, I’ll assume that the baby’s mom showed up to take care of the situation, before calling Shawn Kemp and demanding that he handle his share of the parenting.

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A Rockets fan tried to share a little bro time with Chandler Parsons after Houston’s 105-103 victory against the Oklahoma City Thunder and got shut down. Chandler’s got ice water running in his veins. Next time I see him I’m gonna shoot the Top Gun high/low and see where it gets me. (via Beyond the Buzzer)

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I don’t know why Anna-Megan Raley blogs for CBS Houston under the name Claire Crawford, but after last week, I assume it’s because it allowed her to get away with writing incendiary click bait with headlines like, “Is This Girl ‘Too Chunky’ To Be An OKC Thunder Cheerleader?” Yeah, sh*t just got real.

First, let’s consider some actual talking points for the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round of the NBA Playoffs. For starters, there’s the question of how the team plans to return to the Finals with Russell Westbrook out for the playoffs after knee surgery. One step further, there’s the timing of Kevin Durant’s Sports Illustrated cover, on which he claims he’s ready to be the NBA’s No. 1, as he must now carry the Thunder on his back. And there are obviously many more angles one could run with, but Raley believed that a Thunder dancer’s muffin top was the Pulitzer magnet.

Raley drew the ire of her site’s readers and beyond when she asked the aforementioned question of Thunder dancer Kelsey Williams, who you can see in the banner image.

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With the first round of the NBA playoffs underway, Kevin Durant is on the cover of the latest issue of Sports Illustrated and he is upset about something. I can’t quite put my finger on what he’s getting at, but maybe you can decipher it from this very vague quote that accompanies his image:

“I’ve been second my whole life. I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I’ve been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I’m tired of being second…. I’m done with it.”

I’ll tell you the first thing that I noticed – this is a fella that loves to say, “I”. “I” this and “I” that. Last time I checked, an entire team finished second in last year’s NBA Finals, Kev. Otherwise, I like this cover a lot. I like the emotion and the intensity. I like the message.

So I was thinking we could make this a theme and give Kevin the cover every few weeks with a different message about something that’s bothering him. Call it therapy. In fact, I even made a few that he can use.

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I don’t know why this is so funny to me, but it is.

The Golden State Warriors were down by 2 at the end of the first quarter in Thursday’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. If you’re wondering, yes, this is one of the most unimportant statistical moments possible in the NBA. Warriors point guard Jarrett Jack knew that something had to be done and launched a 3/4 court shot to try and take the lead. When I say “launched” I’m not using it to mean “he took a shot from far away,” I mean that he literally f**king put a basketball into a space shuttle and launched it at goal.

See that little orange spot at the top of the image? That’s the basketball. Here’s the clip, which may be the worst attempt at a buzzer beater ever.

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