Question: Can Greg Oden Go Back to School? September 13, 2007
Posted by TheHype in Injuries, Portland Trailblazers , 1 comment so far |
Okay, sorry for the lack of immediacy updatory with the huge news of Greg Oden out for the year. Was working hard yo (and I did have something about this over at the FanHouse asking the age old question of Age Limit ethics)! Will have something slighty (only slighty) better about the topic tomorrow.
But for now, as the title suggests … why doesn’t Greg just go back to Ohio State and take some courses? Yeah yeah, the semester has already started blah blah blah, HE’S GREG ODEN. It’s not like the NCAA hasn’t bent (bended?) the rules for student athletes befo’.
Think about it, while rehabbing, he can study, not be totally up in his mind… he’ll have stuff to think about other than his knee. Who’s with me?
Amare’s Video Game Is Going to Be SO Real!
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Thanks to AZ Sports Hub’s Matt for bringing to my attention Amare Stoudamire’s motion capture testing for a new NBA video game.
See, I have the final result of what those motion caps will look like in the actual game. And let me tell ya…… it doesn’t look like what STAT would have in mind. I mean, the Playstation people seriously have some balls to pull this one over Young Beast!
PS: “Young Beast?” that’s my new nickname for Amare. Spread it around the world, it’ll catch on, I swear.
Linking So Stephon and Isiah Doesn’t Have To
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Uh … yeah … since this is a hoops blog first and foremost, neglecting to ink something down for the whole Isiah Thomas suit trial thing that’s been going on is a huge embarrassment to the standards of the Unrelatedness. If, of course, we had any standards to begin with.
It’s hard to spin it any more than what everyone is talking about on the things being said so far. I’d make some more jokes on it, but really, bitch please. It’s already too funny … it’s like if I were to tell Charlie Chaplin, “hey man, I think some dick jokes would help sell your movies”. Nah, so I’ll just sit back, and read on the outrageous comments that keep going out of the Knicks organization like a verbal piñata. Does that make me a bad blogger?
Yes.
Yes it does.
ON TO THE LINKS MAN!
– Some Shaq humour will always cure the offseason woes
– Ranking WNBA players and their hotness, I sure hope one criteria in judgment is “the ability to make a give and go pass”
– I want my future to be a music video like this.
What Would You Paint On Your RV? September 12, 2007
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Ah Shaq. Shaq, Shaq, Shaquity-Shaq.
While it’s not a surprise an NBAer decided to use Italian (film) gangstas as their iconic representation that is to be a manifestation in the form of an RV, it is rather funny Shaq in a tux. I mean, cooooome on, a suit? Really? That’s stretching it pal.
So I ponder what type of murals other NBA players would paste all over their traveling mobiles. I came up with thusly:
– Tracy McGrady: mural of Admiral Ackbar
– Chris Paul: mural of Burt (yar yar … old, recycled joke — not even mine really, I totally stole it, HEY! I’m Carlos Mencia!)
– Scottie Pippen: mural of Sarah Jessica Parker
– Jerome James, Antoine Walker: mural of muffins and cupcakes
– Ray Allen: mural of Jesus
– Tony Parker: mural of a baguette
– me: mural of ponies
Jim O’Brien Is A Promotional Machine September 11, 2007
Posted by TheHype in Indiana Pacers , 1 comment so far |
It’s interesting how the marketing department works at any organization. I say this without any reliable experience in the marketing field. But consider the Indiana Pacers’ new ads with its new coach as the anchor of the whole thing:
Jim O’Brien is great and all, yet somehow using the head coach as your selling point just well, kind of undersells the whole thing. And also, the slogan could’ve been better. Here is what the Unrelatedness found on the cutting room floor of the ad dept that should’ve gone into production:
And so forth and so forth.
Karnivale For Your Tummies September 10, 2007
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Have a wonderful time digesting the best NBA blog talk around in the latest Carnival of the NBA over at Passion and Pride!
Even though I haven’t submitted anything in a while (since you know the drill, I’m a lazy lazy bum bum), it’s good read to keep tabs on what everyone else is chatting up.
Could you also reserve a plate of salad for me while you’re over there?
WotS: Why Teams Change The Floors
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As YAY! informs us, the Rox has broughten a new floor. Word on the Streetz wonders … why?
 Cat Cat “Meow.”  James Young Tree expert “Because the old wood needs to be freed!! FREE WOOD!”  Buffy Vampire Slayer “Giles said it opens up the portal to Hell if we don’t change it. And that would be bad, since I have cooking lessons.” |
If You Aren’t High, Maybe You Will Be After Watching This September 7, 2007
Posted by TheHype in Videos , 5 comments |
Because anything video that has the title: “Cheech & Chong” surely means the green was involved right?
I’d like to know if Skeets and Tas made a cameo in this craziness…
Allen Houston Is Ninety to Ninety-Five Percent September 6, 2007
Posted by TheHype in Old School , 1 comment so far |
Ah, left the Unrelatedness sanctuary for a day yesterday… it feels… queasy. Played some night rec-league hoops from 8pm to 11pm — yess I can still stick that jab left, dribble right pull up J on the corner son! But my team kept on losing… so I cried a lot afterwards, dunno what that means though.
OK. Enough about me.
Allen “We Have a Problem” Houston is getting some digital ink from ES-Pee-And that his return is imminent because he’s sure sure he wants to return to the NBA. Well, that’s fine to me, I don’t really have a problem that… until…
[Allen’s agent] Strickland said that Houston is not returning for money. Houston’s last contract was for $100 million. Strickland said that the chance to mentor younger players would play a big part in Houston’s decision-making.
I’m so not buying that. It seems to be Allen Houston is now a zombie out to create another NBA contract problem, YOU JUST CAN’T STOP HIM! And besides, what is he going to mentor the kids with? “Yes, be one-dimensional as long as you can… hit a one-time memorable game winner… but after that, take as much from your team’s payroll as possible thus crippling them for decades to come… HIGH FIVE!”
See, Houston’s jump shot is/was hotter than an Iraqi firefight, but I really can’t stand to see what he represents and comes back into the lig once more.
Bob Ryan asks: Is this something you might be interested in?
– Bloggers uniting to form a virtual roundtable and talk it out [The Half Court Heave]
– Sweet ass T-Shirt designs of rookies! As soon as I sell off all the Columbian cocaine, I’ll totally buy one [the Blowtorch]
Suggestion: USA Needs Crowd Songs September 4, 2007
Posted by TheHype in International Ball , 5 comments |
While watching a bit of the Italy vs. Slovenia match last night (well, only the closing quarter… which was very exciting, down the wire type ish!) of the EuroBasket Championships, I realize just how into it the crowds are over there. They bullborn every minute of every play like someone’s going to rape them — fantastique!
They also have crowd songs which makes the whole thing seems so much more fun. I wouldn’t be surprised if a riot broke out, but that adds to the crazy coolness of it all. I wish the USA would adopt something like this.
Seriously, what does the NBA have? “DE-FENCE! DE-FENCE!” Okaaaaay… that and those stupid thundersticks and I guess… cowbells (YOU GOTTA HAVE MORE COWBELL!) So you see, there’s a huge lack in imagination and audience participation besides just screaming obscenities at Vince Carter’s manhood.
What’s worse is whenever Team USA plays, you know, the age old… “U-S-A! U-S-A!” from the crowd. Yaaaaaaawn. Geez, yes yes, you are dominant, but how 80s is that chant? It’s not so much that it sounds arrogant (it does) but it’s so unbelievably mundane and inconsequential. You wouldn’t do that in unison if the team was losing right? Cause it would sound stupid. Whereas Euro teams do their crazy songs all. game. long. just to hype up their brethren through the collective siren of their nation’s folk music. You’re made to be a part of a larger community — Karl Marx would’ve chanted.
Maybe the problem is that USA is “the melting pot” and you don’t really have one unifying song note. I wouldn’t see a crowd sing Party Like a Rockstar together… nor do I expect them to render a tribute to Toby Keith. There are just so many damn different styles in the big American country.
I guess Canada suffers from this as well, but eh, we suck, so eff that.
Man, North America is so boring.
Try to explain the West...
