FIBA Mascot’s Many Emotions August 15, 2007
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First off, sorry to have to approve comments all over again for those leaving a comment, a lil’ delay but I gotcha.
Now onto important matters. As the FIBA Americas tourney in Vegas is coming up next week, I decided it would be wise to check out their shiny site.
But then I got distracted by Jay Jay (perhaps as in: Va-Jay-Jay), the official mascot. I’m not quite sure as to why I’m so distracted by Jay Jay, but something about him (possibly her?) is off. Can’t quite put my finger on it, but I’ll try.
He She It is BLUE with YELLOW hair, I mean, how fucking crazy is that?! And and, he’s wearing at least 5 rings while balling, that’s just stupid, gawd! I can go on and on, but since there’s no official bio, we don’t have the full story. Good thing I’m here. Here’s the Unrelatedness’ version Jay Jay’s many looks
You can see here Jay Jay is kid accessible, wit his inviting embrace and wacky shoes. Awww.
Hmm… Okay JJ is a little off the rockers here. Dressing up a basketball and sniffin’ fries instead of eating it. I think he’s high.
Fathers, don’t let your daughters date Jay Jay. First he pretends to be a gentlemen, but when things don’t go smooth for JJ (can’t get the girl to put out), he goes nunchuck psycho on yous.
On Slogans and Signs August 14, 2007
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Thanks to the savant geniuses over at the NBA for coming up with a theme that can rock even Shakespeare, I have created the following to accompany field of slogans and motivational phrases (ah, great time waster): (more…)
Oh Boy, Dr. Melfi Isn’t Gonna Like This August 13, 2007
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 Or maybe she will, I have no idea.
Truthfully, I only watched the season finale of The Sopranos (sorry, Murder She Wrote is a bitch to finish). Check it, Tony S will transform himself into a legend in the basketball world: Sonny Vaccaro
Emphasis mine!!! Lord Baron and Gandolfini… woah, I wanna be in that same room. Gandolfini’s Next Gig Easy as ABCD [E!!!!!! News] |
Did You Know: The Pacers Are Still in the NBA?
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Well, as John Hodgman would say: Did you? Personally, for the past several months I really re-he-he-lly did not realize the Pacers are still in this thing (btw, that’s the second Scrubs references today, I’ll stop, I swear). How bad it is? They’re slowly turning into the 2006 Bobcats in terms of my peripheral acknowledgment of their existance. That’s bad.
They had the mother of big trades last season with the Warriors that resulted in (*looking up the trade on the cyberwebz… ahh fuck it*) a LOT of players exchanging hands. What happen is as follows: Warriors = awesome :: Pacers = not as awesome.
Of course, now they are rebuilding, but Jermaine O’Neal isn’t quite on that page. So the team and fans obviously want quick and fast respectability, where the sight of any player that visits the city is a potential blockbuster. Alas, c’est une mirage. No, for I, and I know things, I will probably not know or feel anything about the Pacers for a long time, such is the hand they are dealt (unless or course, I keep up with the excellent Indy Cornrows… but other than that, no dice)
Why Do NBA Player Visit Indy? [Indy Cornrows]
Pic– Jermaine O’Neal: Braids or No Braids? [Miss Gossip]
I Bet Ray Allen Took Lessons From Him
Posted by TheHype in Videos , 2 comments |
Be forewarned, what you see below is a disturbing video of titanic proportions. It’s footage of an apparent 3 year old kid making 18 baskets in a row in what appears to be a garage. The rural horror, I know.
For the Love of Christ, Use Firefox: State of the Unrelatedness Address
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My fellow Unrelatednessians, I come before you blah blah blah nostalgic story—get out of my office!
Anyway, as you probably guessed, there is a slight change here at TheHypeGuy.com (what tipped you off?). But really, besides me totally ripping off being currently inspired by Gawker/Deadspin’s layout design (and PLEASE use Firefox, Internet Explorer is an abortion to figure out), everything is still the same: expect some more Toons in the coming weeks (hey! I still know how to draw! I think…), more NBA dissemination and basically more or less exactly what is still going on here back at the old country.
And of course, during the habitual droughts here, as always, I might have been hanging out at the FanHouse or Ballhype (updated links/RSS feeds available on the shiny left sidebar for your convenience, but go ahead and CTRL+refresh for me, thanks)
Reason for the changeover has something to do with 3 hookers, a clock and the 1995 cinematic classic Under Siege 2: Dark Territory starring Steven Segal and a very young Katherine Heigl who may or may not have been “knocked up” at the time.
Oh and still working on getting all posts carried back over here within the week…please pray with me UPDATE: heeey, would you look at that… it worked, everything is back! Except youtubes, that’s gonna be a bioootch.
WotS: Lame Embarrassing Injuries in the NBA
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KB24.8/Mamba.html was on Kimmel the other week and he revealed how vacuuming injured his back. Word on the Streetz asks other all time horrific pussified injuries…
 Philip Lee Inventor “Hands down, Karl Malone breaking an ankle while hunting for little Mexican girls. Whoops!”  Serena Jacobs Sword Wielder “Hmm, I think Dr. J had acute nausea one time when his hair was cut unevenly by his barber thus throwing his balance off — I believe that dark time was known as “The Afro-Up.”  The Flash Trainer “Vince Carter. What?” |
Things You Might Be Interested While Building the Death Star
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– Woah, Celtics blogger beef! Man they go for the jugular
– Yao drinks, and you can’t stop him muthaf******kers!!!
– Looooong interview with Scoop Jackson, but cool stuff
– When free agency was a um, lukewarm as it was during the tail end of summer, a Mo Williams from the Bucks apparently was a hot commodity
– Sticking with the world famous Milwaukee team, Charlie V needs one of these ?
– Nerds shall rule the Earth, and I bought front row tickets (via the almighty BoingBoing)
Calm Down My Heroes, I Shall Fix This…
(THEHYPGUY.com moving pains)
August 11, 2007
Posted by TheHype in Site Bidness , 2 comments |
Hype here, heeey… what’s new? Had that new sub at Quiznos yet? Hmm, I bet you tried to ask that girl out didn’t you? Yeaah you did, you dawg!
Me? Oh you know… finding a server host, figuring out domain redirecting shit, and painfully trying to make my beautiful, beautiful THEHYPEGUY.com posts from yesteryear imported over here. You know, the usual.
BEAR (rawr) WITH ME FOLKS! I am enlisting the Defender of Sports Blogs; Jason Gurney to help me out with all my little questions (like “woah, the fuck is .index file?” etc)
Until then, there’s always the o.g. blog where you can read whilst holding back tears that I’m leaving wordpress.com …
Prince Really Did Make It (Purple) Rain! August 10, 2007
Posted by TheHype in Culture/Fashion/Style, Unrelatedness, Videos , 13 comments |
With many thanks to the notorious J.C.N. that oversees FanHouse along with Mottram, there’s an MTV interview with Prince, and he reveals what we’ve all wanted to know for the past 4 years … he is actually a balla 4 realz:
Sway: I wanted to tell you this story first: I was watching the Dave Chappelle show, and Eddie Murphy’s brother Charlie Murphy does this thing on it called “True Life Hollywood Stories,” and he told this story that he was hanging out with you at your house, and you guys were listening to music, and then you came up with the idea to all go play basketball. He said they didn’t have any clothes, so you got them shorts and T-shirts, but he said that your crew showed up to the basketball court with the same wardrobe [as you wear onstage]. High heels, suited and booted. Is that true?
Prince: That part’s not true. But the whupping’s true.
Sway: The whupping’s true. So you’ve got basketball skills?
Prince: A little bit.
Sway: Yeah? What you got? A crossover dribble? Or a jump shot?
Prince: We didn’t call it crossover back then.
Sway: What’d you call it?
Prince: Just speed.
Thank god for that piece so I can run this geniusness clip again…
(via: The Poor Man Institute)
