His Cartoon Will Be Thismuch Better Than Space Jam August 31, 2007
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Wow, I can’t believe I did that (click on the pic for biggerer) just about a year ago (original post here) … time flies like mofo huh.
Anyways, the full story and an “updated” doodle is at the FanHouse for all to see. Gil and my silly little world collide. I hope he hires me for this. Even if it’s to sweep the floor. Please Mr. Zero, please!!
Full disclosure: I broke like, at least two lead pencils coming up with that ish over at the ‘Haus… so be kind yo.
I Heart New Site Redesign August 30, 2007
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No silly wabbit, not my site redesign…god, not again (at least not for the next 5-8 months and 11 days). But it is good friend Sonia’s I Heart KG moving on up to the hott new spot TWolvesBlogDOTCOM where they are looking to takeover the Wolves community with a sick roster of writers and a special members sections where anyone can write up, cotdamn!
Keep up with SG’s updates on her relocation at Daily News section. WOOOOOOO! (<— my wolves howl…)
Team USA v. Team Carlos Arroyo Notes Chickenscratches
August 29, 2007
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• Right off the bat, Bill Walton says that tonight is the first night Team USA wears the blue uniforms instead of the whites. Man, I love Big Red’s crazy ol’ prose as much the next dude, but c’mon, short term memory loss much?
• Separated at birth Puerto Rico’s head coach and Carl
• Holy crap, Peter John Ramos freakin blocked Dwight Howard clean — and then stares him down! Nothing good will come of this
• Yes yes yes, Kobe Bryant, best player in the NBA yes yes. So that doesn’t make him just the best “secret” weapon on Team USA; it makes him the Ultimate X Factor. It’s like building a robot and you just happen to have spare Adamantium lying around. Just not fair.
• Bill Walton’s worst nightmare: Amare Stoudamire takes and makes a three. I don’t know how I feel about this — on one hand, I love it when Chris Bosh does it, but on the other STAT should keep dunking on people’s faces, that’s like worth way more than 3pts … more like 3.1 pts
• Whenever Jason Kidd isn’t on the floor, Team USA’s defense just isn’t as clamped down. A couple times Puerto Rico’s guards were able to drive pass, splitting the pick and roll
• Hilariously awkward moment: Melo grabs an offensive rebound and dunks hard, doing the usual kicking of the legs, it’s all very cool … that is, until landing and he falls on his ass … just one of those “damn he’s cool… what the… ahahahhaa”
• and I don’t mean to sully Carmelo’s game, dude’s just doesn’t miss and knows exactly how and when to score. It’s so fun to see him get shot after shot
• Alert the press! First half Tyson Chandler sighting!
• PJ Ramos is too funny: he pins his man on the block, very open … looks around without seeing the ball, and then he gets the feed right on the money and he looks totally suprised to get it like, “shit! this works!”
• Okay, even in the NBA LeBron is a fucking tank… here, at the FIBAs, LeBron is like Godzilla and Voltron had a lovechild during one of their special dates to the tune of Making Love Out of Nothing At All by Air Supply
• Eh, everyone and Zeus knew that Team Carlos Arroyo couldn’t recapture that 2004 Athens spark and beat the US, so I’ll just end this with a note saying how unbelievably awesome that we get to watch Kobe Bryant & LeBron James & Carmelo Anthony AND Jason Kidd AND Dwight Howard all running together.
I mean, c’mon, this is like a dream even though they are rolling over everyone, it’s just too cool to pass off the “nah, no more Dream Team talk until they win” shit. This is happening and I’m glad I got to watch it for a week straight
• PS: I want a poster of this
Plan: Getting Gilbert Arenas to Hook You Up With NBA Tickets August 28, 2007
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At the beginning of the month, Gil schnagged a joke from a comedian and retold it through his entertaining NBA blog. At the time, I said it really wasn’t a big deal over at the FanHouse, with Arenas not really a comedian. He even talked about it after some discussion saying “so what?” But afterwards, I swung the ball back out, repositioned myself and thought: “actually, that’s kinda uncool, since Ian Edwards (the comedian) is making a living off that joke—and it doesn’t get recognized if it’s ripped without at least some mention of him” y’know?
I was starting to think my tee-shirt hero is mischievous, the bad kind, the evil sneaky Gargamel kind!
But thank goodness the Black President assures us he’s a stand up guy, from his latest BLOG POST:
Shark Comedians Unite
Me and Ian Edwards texted. We chopped it up. He said when I come to L.A. I have to get him some front row tickets and then he’ll give me some tickets for his comedy show. I told him, “Sound good. That’s all I watch is comedy.” And he wrote back, “Yeah, I can see that.” So we’re cool. I have to give him a shout out.
Aha. Well, that’s it. That’s the plan: think of an awesome “bit” and hopefully the East Coast Assassin picks up on this, rip it off and then we make nice and be friends. Here’s my joke:
NBA COURTSIDE SEAT TICKETS PLEASE MR. ARENAS!
The After 7 Linking Special August 27, 2007
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 – You’d think Mark Cuban wouldn’t have time to post on more than one blog, but You. Are. Wrong. – Newly blogrolled Plissken at the Buzzer keeps on truckin with fine analyses of Team USA’s ventures. And there’s sweet a Marlo Stanfield comparison … but it’s definitely not about Samuel Dalembert, non monsieur! – Friends of NBA Basketball and other Unrelatedness (or FONBABAOU for short) Hoops Addict revs up their p-cast engine with talkies from Natalie from Need4Sheed and Jason from Ballhype! – Jeff Wong (also from Hoops Addict DOT COM) totally is in tune with some NBAer Names & Fun – Exterminate! Exterminate! EXTERMINATE!!!! (via BoingBoing) – Good looking form The Basketball Jones for the old Dream Team pics – I’m so happy Greg Oden is the anti-Lebron, in terms of coming in first year to the league and being all uptight about his image. Because things like this circulating just makes me want to hang out with him, ask him to introduce me to his “friends”, get their number… the usual |
Clifford Robinson Likes Fashion; Ditto Tyronne Biggums
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I never thought big Cliff would be doing fashion with the likes of La La. But hey, when you’ve got style, you’ve got style. The video below is nothing spectacular, but I just wanted to highlight this part:
C’mon, dude even knows it to be true.
WotS: Mark Cuban is Going to Waltz INTO YOUR LIVING ROOM
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Mark Cuban, the wildchild Mavericks owner is, yes, you guessed it, going to be on Dancing with the Stars this fall on ABC. Word on the Streetz likes you know just exactly what this means…
 Donald Wright Vet “I’ll tell you what this means: Cuban will tape every single episode and send it to the league offices — YOUR MOVE DAVID STERN.”  Maureen Owens Chef “Let’s see, first Drew Lachey, then Joey Fatone, and now Mark Cuban. Yeah, seems natural.”  Antonio Banderas Legendary film person “Cuban Cuban Cuban, how many times do I have to remind you? You can’t have my moves, it’s over. Go home and cry in your multi-billion bed, mwahahahhaha.” |
Bill Walton Calling A Chess Match
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Fizzed around with original photo Chess Game by croson72
How wonderful it is to be at the presence of two great competitors. Ralph Delaritto and Dan Lambert.
You see, it isn’t that they are simply playing the timeless game of chess, but that they are experiencing it. Modern chess’ origins was founded in 15-16th century Europe that exemplified the royals … not unlike the great John Wooden’s UCLA’s championship banners — which I had the greatest of honors to be a part of.
The grace of Ralph and Dan today is like a the tribal dance between warriors just as they are about to slit each other’s throats.
Ah, the journey these two men have traveled. A mere 18 minutes ago, Dan was on the ropes, having lost 3 of his pawns in succession — but all hope was not lost. He was able to turn the tables around and in one full sweep, fool Ralph and took down his foes’ Queen, THROW IT DOWN (on the table) BIG DAN, THROW IT DOWN.
The great Kasparov once said to me: “Bill, honor is within one’s own mind” so true, so true.
I also met the original Deep Blue, however, in his declining state of affairs, he could no longer speak the beautiful beeps and bops of years past.
Here’s another factoid of this great sport: the grandmasters would teach their pupils how to envision a win before it even happens — just like Steven John Nash of the Phoenix Suns, always preparing, always in motion. Ah, the deep concentrations, it takes me back to the days of the great Celtic teams when the greats, Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish, Bill Russell would instill in all of us the same mentality, ah yes, those were the days.
As we engage upon Ralph and Dan here for the final moves towards glory, I have to ask: what makes a champion? The physical strength? The mental agility? Or is it just sheer want. Whatever it is, we are in the presence of excellence, my friends.
NBA Toons: In Praise of Kobe’s Defense August 24, 2007
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Riiiiiiight…
For something 195% less retarded, please check out da hotness that is Blowtorch’s uber pixelated Rookie Caricatures, if for no other reason than to get the above sour taste out of your moufs…
A Photo Album We Can All Enjoy August 23, 2007
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That’s how I saw things, for real. Hey speaking of the Kobester, Liston is at it again with another tee-hee-larious post… oh and this other one made me spit milk out of my ass it was so good, go go check it out yo.
