Between the flat tops, the 125 point outings, the Knicks having 50 wins, and J.R. Smith’s insistance that he call his penis “the pipe”, it’s like the 80′s. Or the 90′s. Or sometime when that was normal. Oh, and Carmelo tied Durant for the NBA’s top scorer on his home turf. More inside.

Happy and sad times in basketball. Also: Tim Pernetti has been fired, but you’ll hear more about that from us later on.

Kevin Durant is stat-obsessed. Like, to a ridiculous degree. Is he selfish? Do the Thunder have reason to worry about their title chances?

Didn’t watch sports on TV last night? On some level, we get it: resting up for college basketball all day today, eh?

It’s championship week in college basketball, which means various teams you’ve ignored for the past few months will be playing exciting basketball games and possibly accidentally sneaking into the biggest dance of all dances. Oh and the NBA’s still going on, too.

If Russell Westbrook had gotten the foul call he was clearly looking for on this halfcourt heave during his team’s 105-93 loss to the Spurs last night, we’d be celebrating his mad genius right now. Well, actually, maybe not quite – we might still be wondering exactly what possessed him to shoot from 40-odd feet with 2:29 left in the third quarter and 18 seconds left on the shot clock instead of, you know, run an offensive possession in order to get a shot closer than 40-odd feet. But we wouldn’t be able to argue with the results, at least. Instead… [CJ Fogler]

In the first minute of last night’s Oklahoma City Thunder-New York Knicks game, Russell Westbrook stripped Raymond Felton and went the other way for an easy two points. Or at least what should have been an easy two points, and instead turned into an airballed finger roll.