Archive for February, 2007
…if only I remember what it is…hmm…eh, it’s probably nothing. I’ll just go ahead and spend the entire weekend doing my long awaited 2000 piece jigsaw puzzle without worry that there’s something going on. Yup.
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GIGANTIC EDIT DUE TO F-ing AWESOMENESS:
Agent Steinz (I should really make a Dan Steinberg category tag huh?) once again proves why it’s The Bog Show and we’re all just watching. Let’s not forget, HUUUUUGEEE kudos/thank yous to the lovely lady Reese for repping it!
Onto the Thumbtacks Batman!:
- Didn’t want to start with some uglyness, but it’s pretty
much the craziest fucking thing I’ve heard this morning/last night: Tim Hardaway Doesn’t Care About Gay People. MJD over at FanHaus has a nice couple of followups as well. tinyEdit: NBX always brings the h-a-h-A-game with a lil’ remix (but there’s no Lauren…snif.. that’s like something without something else) tinyEDITx2 here’s the video-style (thanks Justin!):
- Couldn’t you just imagine Timmy in the movie Borat with the way he outwardly said those things?sigh.. Here’re things that helps restore my faith in humanity:
- StraightBANGin’ wrote a pretty nifty cross examination of Kobe and radio hip-hop culture
- FD chats up with several smarty bloggers about hoops/sports + relationships and has several lively
yet deep replies. But Shoals, you neglected to tell readers those were Evil Puppies!
- 43Drills.com is a fine site that’s looking for more people
to participate in discussions of.. well, drills. So go on over and start spilling your secret suicide drills! And how do I know it’s a good site? Because it’s muuuch better than 42drills.com, those guys were fucking morons
- blog world fav S-to-the-E-C-K-to-the-BACH gives us the downlo on the what what, the 411, the speeddial, the–okay I’ll stop–on: Valentine’s Day (well, yesterday..)
- Star Wars in 5 seconds
- Jason Gurney wants YOU to enlist!…. in a beta thingy, (yo, I promise it’s friggin’ awesome, so ‘hop’ on it! [side note: yes, that's a dig J, heh, my lawyers say I can win BIG!)]
And for all those Vegas bound peeps, THIS is what you’re missing, here in The MT-L:
from spcbrass because my camera sucks
Yeah, that’s right, snow, lots of it! Eat that.
This is going to be like the 4th straight post I’ve at least mentioned Memo Okur, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. In lieu of yesterday’s announcement of his All-Star joinage, and after thinking long and hard about this: I’m starting an MVP campaign for Okur… surely Boozer deserves more consideration, but eff-that, I’m not going by that logic. Check it—
And if you want to join this campaign of epic proportions, please show it off to the world by wearing it all over your bodies over at the new Hype Store: Gears of Clothing
Here are a few examples, but there are a ton of other colors to select from. Be sure to check back from time to time up on the new tab next to the Toons called “!Shirts!” to see new ish!
I’m also happy to spotlight a new shirt that a certain someone has been bugging kindly helping me out with a special request (kinda Need4Sheed-esque, but I totally didn’t intend for that to happen, love Natalie’s stuff though!):
Also, not very NBA related, but because this is pretty much me most of the time:
There are also two designs transferred from the old CafePress store that some of you may remember as well. Don’t worry, that ol’ CafePress baby of a store will be up forever, if anything, to commemorate one of the bigger events of this blog (yes yes, you’ve all seen it a lot by now… sorry! I’m working on making a shirt and getting it to Chaka Khan soon!)
So yeah, go check out the some of the new stock over at The GoC!
Breaking news (not that I’m doing anything breaking.. or news-ing..):
From the glorious Temples Of NBA.com:
LAS VEGAS, February 13, 2007 – Ray Allen of the Seattle SuperSonics and Mehmet Okur of the Utah Jazz have been named by NBA Commissioner David Stern as a replacements for injured West All-Stars Allen Iverson (ankle) of the Denver Nuggets and Steve Nash (shoulder) of the Phoenix Suns for the 2007 NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, February 18 in Las Vegas. Chris Paul of the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets will replace Nash in the Playstation Skills Challenge.
The PlayStation Skills Challenge will be televised live nationally as part of the NBA All-Star Saturday Night, which will also feature the Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout, Sprite Rising Stars Slam Dunk and Haier Shooting Stars. TNT and ESPN Radio’s national coverage will begin at 8 p.m. EST from the Thomas & Mack Center. The NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, Feb. 18, will air live on TNT, ESPN Radio and in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.
Hah, that’s the entire press release, don’t even click on the link! Oh and ya ya, congrats to Jesus Shuttleworth as well. Just like I drew it up (‘pun’ shamelessly intended)! I should anoint more Official Unrelatedness Player of The Year I’m so good (you hear that Iggy? step up cous!) So it’s all good Seth, we can watch again, and the West will win! EDIT: OOtahjazzblog.net beat me by a mile… and a continent (*cries in bed*)
To mark this is freaking awesome occasion, I have something fun coming, check back tomolo! It’s way better than all that Amaechi/Anna Nicole Smith/Obama silly “news” going on!
PS: The newest, hottest, flyest mixtape to date: TrueHoop – from Henry Abbott feat. ESPN yaaaa it’s a banger!
Quickie: The East All-Stars WILL WIN THE ALL STAR GAME!
I’m only basing this on the fact that there are a slew of players on the West that’s basically faking rehabing injuries:
- Steve Nash
- Iverson
- possibly Melo
- Yao (well, that’s legit)
- Boozer
- DJ MBenga
So there, I win.
Next Topic:
So that Sun Ming Ming kid… he’s kinda tall right? BOG has it covered since he arrived at DC and Steinz even has a short clip of him in action here
But check it, he was on Jimmy Kimmel Live a couple months ago! And his English is pretty good I’d say, dunno why he needed a translator, lookie see:
Man, I wished that Wanda Sykes added even more spice to the interview. Oh and hell ya that translator is hot, I don’t care if it’s just cause I’m azn. And Jimmy is horrible at ball.
Next video, because if you’re a regular of this blog you know I loves me my toons, so this is totally me:
Hot off the AP comes the newest in Stephen Jackson’s Epic – Why Carrying A Gun Is Pretty Much The Funnest Thing To Do In Indiana.
In that report Jackson says that he fired off shots to calm people down. Hell ya, if I’m in a room full of crying babies, the first thing I’d think of is to shoot 3 warning shots in the air to let those fools know who’s the boss – na’mean?
Anyways, here’s why he went a-bang-bang:
Jackson, who now plays for the Golden State Warriors, testified that when he was walking from the club to his car, a man approached him shouting, “Go ahead and dump, dump!”
“Where I’m from, ‘dump’ means pull out your gun and shoot,” he said.
He fired a couple of shots in the air to break up the brawl that ensued, he said.
“It was like an all-out brawl,” he said. “I started seeing more and more faces I didn’t know.”
“Faces you didn’t know?” Oh, now you’re adding “short-term amnesia” to the defense huh?? Technicalities my ass. And really, are you implying that some guy dared you to pull out your gun and you went ahead and did so because you need to keep it real?
But wait, there’s more. The person that ran a car into Jackson declined to show up in court and instead had a lawyer speak on his behalf:
“Mr. Willford [dude that drove into Jax --TheHype], in fear of his life, in fear of his cousin’s life, does what the average reasonable person would have done,” Mendez [lawyer for said dude --TheHype] said.
I dunno about that man. According to your story, if someone shot a few rounds into the air in front of me while I was still in the car, I’d hightail the fuck outta here—not committing premature manslaughter. But that’s just silly ol’ me, thinking that CAR > Person.. the again.. it’s Stephen Jackson.. he’s pretty much indestructable (*not scientifically proven…yet)
The funniest thing though (bet you didn’t think something would top that) is: the AP writer is yet another T-Murph!
Random Tidbit…
Psst, I added a lil’ new box thingy on the sidebar that’s under “Top Posts” as a Link Highlight of The Day called Tic Tacs, check out the first link – Carnival of the NBA
*this is probably fake… it’s what I imagine ‘Dre is up to these days..
For some reason a thought came in today out of nowhere (I know, weird): “hey, why the hell isn’t Andre Iguodala becoming a premier player already??” I’m not sure why I think he should be a premier player, but something inside (probably the kidney) is saying to me that this third year kid should and can have a Shawn Marion-esque career. But I really haven’t heard anything about Andre in a while—well, the major factor is that Philly isn’t exactly a bastion for media enthusiasm nowadays, with the losing and whatnot.
I just hope he can develop into an All-Star someday, I just want to root for him. And the comparison with Marion isn’t that bad right? Their numbers sorta match up, and they’re both very athletic beyond measure. So if Iggy can lessen his guard aspect and just focus on being a frontman receiver and get more boards I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say he can do some Matrix-y damage…
Oh that is.. until the Sixers recognize how to play to this strength and not simply go straight to AnythingGoesVille. But that is going to be… never, at least not this season *sigh*
Have fun with the Mentos! (oh btw I just remembered he’s on my fantasy team hah! shows how much I pay attention to my league…)
I’m inclined to say “yes”, yes he does he does hold a grudge. A huuuge one; one that probably close friends would be ticked enough to remind Mark from time to time, “dude, Let.It.Go. already. GOD! Every, Single, Time. It’s either “Wade” or “Google/YouTube” Christ!”
This is of course in regards to Mr. (not Ice) Cube’s latest BLOG!Maverick! entry that refers to a passing remark by D-Wade that may or may not be out of context from the Miami Herald:
”At the end of the day,” Wade said, “you’re remembered for what you did at the end. . . I think that’s the reason — Dirk says they gave us the championship last year, but he’s the reason they lost the championship, because he wasn’t the leader that he’s supposed to be in the closing moments. That’s because of great defense by us, but also he wasn’t assertive enough as a leader’s supposed to be.”
That really doesn’t say much man, especially given the context of the blurb in the original article (which, isn’t much to begin with). I take it someone posed a question in the form of: “So Dwyane, what do you think when some people say that the Heat didn’t win the Finals, but that Dirk and the Mavs gave it up?” [obviously that's just me speculating..] And perhaps that’s where some misinterpretation set it.
So I really had to just laugh a bit when Marky went off like he did:
Dwayne I don’t blame you for not looking at tapes of the finals. You obviously didn’t. You would have seen your unbelievable skills and some other unbelievable elements that if I could discuss honestly here I would get fined for.
You are right, endings are remembered. And the ending of 3 of the games of the Finals will be remembered alongside Game 6 of the King vs Lakers Conf Finals a few years ago.
I guess you have earned the right to criticize Dirk with an obvious display of your own leadership skills.
I’m just glad he had the sense in holding back several OMGZ, u PHukin n33bs!!one1one
I appreciate Cuban, well, because he can be a down right genius most of the time. But dude, really, Let.It.Go. your team is doing amazing while their team isn’t—you see that road? Yeah, that one, it’s higher, take it please.
In Other News:
Hurrah! Carmelo Anthony got un-snubbed, and so did Josh Howard! T’is a mix of emotions for me.. as I somehow still would like the other Memo to join the club…
Happy Weekend errrvrybody!
Ah, I haven’t busted out TT in a second, so for those that dunno what this is: It’s mainly just a link-dump. That’s it. Yawnerz.. And hey, it could be anything, doesn’t even have to do with NBA (which… well, is pretty much on par with every other post around here…)
So here she blows (think of the ‘bullet’ as a thumbtack, yeah, imagination!):
- So, John Amaechi… hmm… what to say about this… *thinking*thinking*.. I know! What up with his name being spelled “ae”? That’s plain weird. Alright alright, seriously though: When I first saw the rumblings at Sports On My Mind’s post at the beginning of the week, I really didn’t think much of it. That’s probably the best way I can vocalize my thought on this as a hoops fan—I really didn’t feel it merited much thought actually, maybe it’s just the liberal world I grew up in. So I still haven’t felt the true “importance” of this, that is, if it isn’t media-manufactured importance.. Anyways SLAM’s own Ryan Jones (used to be EIC of the joint) wrote a great personal anecdote of Amaechi when they were both young and probably had more hair, probably
- Just wanted to spread the GOOD word that The Basketball Jones is emulating Wilt Chamberlain this coming Monday in
banging mad hot chickshitting the century mark on their P-Casts, uber coolz!
- Because of the world cannot go on without this: live version of Dick In A Box
- Just a drive by linkage to the ever awesome Agent Steinz and his Bog, namely the post about a very wicked tat from Roger Mason — I think there’s voodoo going on, because I’m starting to read the rest of WaPo.com as well…
- Thanks to FanCasa for the tip: we can now play Big Brother mwhahaha! and see every player’s shot being charted on NBA.com—I’m sure one can waste hours by just playing with this, which is why I hauled ass after 2mins (that, and I get distracted by shiny obje—hey! what’s that!)
- Finally, I’m very saddened to bring you news that DJ Mbenga is out for the year…. so I’m busting out that tribute doodle on the right I made a couple months ago…*snif* Here’s to… better .. times *snif*, friend!
Michael Scott: Today is a very special day at
Dunder Mifflin.
As part of the our global expansion in getting more customers, we have teamed up with an NBA star player for a promotion!
One special player will come in to our humble offices and see how things go down at a paper company. Hopefully this player will learn “something”—[awkward pause] not that I’m saying they don’t know anything.. they know basketball for instance….I mean I mean I mean, I’m sure they already know many things… umm, what I’m saying is hopefully we learn from each other.
Dwight Schrute: Good save Michael.
Michael: Not helping Dwight.
Dwight: So Michael wants to invite an “NBA” player in to see what we do. You know what? I’m not buying it. I think he’s trying to replace me.
But no worries, whoever it is, I will Take.Him.Down. Like taking a candy from a baby—cruelty free.
These NBA guys, they already can dunk, I’m not going to let them get my job as well.
Michael: Ahh, the MAN of the hour.
Oscar (speaking to Yao): …so yeah, we’re just going to show you how we do things around here…
Michael: Come on Oscar, he’s not “INTO” you, haha!
Oscar: No.. I was just telling him..
Michael (very condencendingly): HELLLLOOOO MISSSSSSTERRR MIIIIINGGG, HOOOOW, AAAAREE YOUUU?
Yao Ming (smiles): I’m fine, thank you.
Michael: ooookAAY!
Jim Halpert: Michael and Yao Ming. Really.
I did not see this day coming. At all.
I will totally use this to mess with Dwight.
On second thought.. I better warn head offices…
Yao: I thought this was a huge mistake coming here.
But I think I’m starting to like the people.
Especially the receptionist.
What’s her name? Pam? Yeah, I think we “clicked” heh
Pam: He said what? Oh my god. That’s…wow.. I mean, I think I like him. But I dunno if I “like” like him.
Do I still have feelings for Jim?
…I’m not sure.. Yao seems like nice guy too, so who knows?
Michael: I think we learned a lot today. We learned that no matter how tall or short you are, you can still get along. Like the great Confucius would say: “he that shows others how to act properly, then he shall be proper in return”
Dwight: He never said that. I would know, because I read all his books—translated, thank you Google.
Michael: Shutup Dwight
This looks to be up a while ago, so I dunno if you’ve already seen it (probably have, looking at the vid’s stats) but since I’m killing time (re: not paying attention in class) I thought I’d post it here as well (5 mins-ish):
Couple things:
- It’s so complicated my puny brain just got fried from attempting to believe I now grasp what it takes to break down the Tri-O
- Tex Winters is awesome.
- I wonder who the hell that “Annie” is? ooh, my bad..
- John Salley doesn’t really add much, very disappointed
The rest of it: Parts 2, 3, 4, 5 And Phil Jax is surprisingly (at least to me) lively and active when he does some of the demostrations. I always thought that hip of his has already made him into a fossil—who knew? Oh yeah, of course there’s a requisite shot of Jeanie Buss in part 5.
Bonus: SCREAMIN’ A SMITH IS QUITE FRANKLY ON A SOAP!!!
(Slap On The Butt: The Big Lead via Deadspin)
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