Is it me or does Shaq look like the big bully at the playground? He's just swatting guys like flies. T-Mac, Alston, whoever gets in his way.
He musta been hungry. After not eating for a couple of hours, I get the same way.
Oh yea, Matt Barnes, you're a punk. I bet Rafer Alston could kick your ass.
See, this is what happens what any West Coast team does something of significance....We are forced to watch the replay on the web cause its 1:45 in the freakin morning...
Hell of a shot by Brandon Roy
H/t: Withleather
Will Chauncey get his damn physical done already so we can move on and see "The Answer" in Detroit. Because we're struggling as a team right now.
Oh wait, the Pistons are 4-0 and just beat the Raptors on the road.
Nevermind.
If you were like me and thought Chauncey slowed down this offense and was the weakest defender on the floor, than the last two games only reasserted that belief.
So long Chauncey, WOI wishes you well in Denver. Hopefully, nobody starts calling you Big Shot out there because you haven't hit one since 2004.
Ah, look at that. Poppovich and Shaq are playing nice again. So nice to see this kind of light-heartedness in a league where too many times things are so serious. This really speaks to the comraderie of the NBA....
Wait....
Sorry, that was my other personality "Gay Isaac" who enjoys stupid sh** like that. I, on the other hand, think it was a waste of a foul.
Dumbasses.
H/t: WOI Reader Tim
His friends complained. His family disowned him. His teammates wouldn't guard him.
And finally, after years of not taking a shower and cutting his hair, Adam Morrison of the Charlotte Bobcats has finally yielded to the sanitary demands of the public.
Coincidentally, the Charlotte Humane Society has agreed to accept Morrison's hair for their "Give a wig to Cancerous Dogs" charity.
Well done Adam. An athlete and a lover of animals...
Let's take a look back and see how bad it had really gotten
H/t: WOI Reader Lydia
That was the headline I saw this morning. I thought it was a joke but apparently Greg Oden can't walk from here to there without breaking a foot...
A Trail Blazers spokesman said Oden suffered a mid-foot sprain. X-rays were inconclusive. He will return to Portland for an MRI on Wednesday.
First of all, that's a freakin great name for somebody's fantasy basketball team. That is, I guess, for the 100 or so people who play.
Secondly, and feel free to correct me here but aren't mopeds for 14 year olds. When I was a kid, the only people I knew who rode mopeds were guys who flunked out of junior high and were using it to deal drugs.
I know Monta looks like a little kid but I'm guessing because of the NBA rules he's probably of age.
Thirdly, and I'm sure this has been said before, Monta, you're an idiot.
That is all.
p.s. that's not his moped...if you thought it was, you're an idiot too
a) Is he surprised that the Pistons would hire such a busty dance girl?
b) Is he surprised because that championship season was five years ago?
or
c) Is he wondering why his wife Piper and his good friend Antonio McDyess are sitting next to each other at the game?
"The only thing I call cowardly is when you're up by 10 and do it," O'Neal told Phoenix radio station KTAR. "That's a coward move and [Spurs coach Gregg Popovich] knows that and I'll make them pay for it."
You know yesterday, I told myself, Isaac, stop being a fat ass. There's no reason for you to keep eating when you're not hungry. There's no reason for you to eat breakfast, a mid-morning snack, lunch, a 2nd lunch, and two dinners.
And after saying that, I promptly met up some friends at B-Dubs and devoured twenty wings in about five minutes.
And I was still hungry and could've eaten twenty more
What does this have to do with Shaq seeking revenge?
Well, if Shaq stopped being a fat-ass like myself and actually practiced free throws instead of making that third trip to the buffet, maybe, just maybe this little outrage would carry some significance.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to make a trip to Ponderosa for lunch....
Supposedly Luke Walton has a stalker. I know, of all the people to stalk right?
Anyways, click on the image to find out which one of these 6 people is Walton's stalker.
Wow, pretty strong statement from Michael Curry to choose Amir Johnson over Kwame Brown, Jason Maxiell and Antonio McDyess....
Calling him a "welcome addition," coach Michael Curry made official Saturday what he's long been hinting at -- Amir Johnson, as of now, is the Pistons' starting power forward.
I got an email from a random female reader with the following message....
"Did you know the Shock were in the WNBA Finals? How come you don't post about them"
Well, to answer your question....
No, I did not know and I would automatically become the worst and least trafficked blog if I did.
However, it got me thinking...
Bill Laimbeer is on his way to winning his 3rd WNBA title in 6 years. (No, I didn't know that information offhand, I looked it up on Wikipedia)
How the hell does a guy with that much success not even sniff a job at a higher level?
Granted, Bill Laimbeer is easily one of the biggest aholes in sports history. Both on and off the court.
In fact, being a native Detroiter, I saw Laimbeer when I was twelve years old at the gas station. I ran up to him asking for his autograph and was told....
"Don't bother me, Get out of my face kid"
Not a "hey, I'm not signing autographs" or anything. Just straight up mean.
Anyways, I'm guessing thats one of the reasons Laimbeer is often passed over for interviews when jobs come up.
And thats a damn shame.
Owners should be concerned with two things. Making money and winning games and usually the two go hand in hand.
How is Bill Laimbeer any less qualified that some of the retread coaches the NBA employs. With all due respect to Michael Curry, current Pistons head coach, can you tell me without a shadow of a doubt that he is a better coach than Bill Laimbeer?
Certainly not.
What about Lawrence Frank, Randy Wittman, or Reggie Theus.
Those are just names I came up with off the top of my head.
As a player, Laimbeer used everything he had to win. He wasn't the most athletic of people and rarely would you ever see him jump high enough to dunk even though he was 6'10".
But he was solid fundamentally. He was a great free throw shooter, he boxed out when he rebounded, he set solid picks.
And that was enough to make him a 4 time all-star and 2 time NBA champion.
And yet, thats not enough to get interviews in the NBA.
Yea, I'd rather have that retread coach on his 5th NBA team just picking up a contract too.
Sounds like a good business decision to me.
Apparently, Rip's changed his name to Jebediah and is becoming a devout Amish....
Or Mennonite...
Actually, I always get confused between the two. Which one uses electricity and which one allows their kids when they turn 18 to go out and drink and have sex with everybody they see...
I mean, cause if I were going to convert, I'd probably want to be the latter....
Now that Baron Davis is out of the closet with Jenny Craig, the company decided to reveal all their NBA customers
Now that Gilbert's on the mend for the better part of the next couple of months, he has more time for some of his favorite activities...
7. Gilbert now has time to learn how to "safely" shave his pubes...
(pic courtesy of Truth About It}
“When I was new in the NBA the team veterans convinced me to shave, you know, down there, because they said the hair stinks. I used my girlfriend’s razor, which was rusty and gave me keloids. The doctor prescribed medicine to dab on, but I just poured it all over. Three days later I woke up screaming. The skin was burnt off my scrotum, down to my crack, everything — just raw flesh. I still had to run and play, so I used a numbing spray for a month until it healed. Now I use clippers.”
6. He has plenty of time to practice his Trampoline Dunks...(wait, maybe not such a good idea on the bad knee)
"Gilbert," I said, approximately, "people say you're cheating at Halo 3."
"I'm cheating?" he said. "How am I cheating?"
"Gilbert," I asked, approximately," are you creating dummy games with two fake friends and using the wins to rack up experience points?"
"Yeah," he said, laughing. "Yeah."
Hey, if I was about to go into the Basketball Hall of Fame, I'd take some pot shots at the NBA too.
Some excerpts....
On refs
Well, I look for certain things, which are mainly fouls ... and, unfortunately, the referees are not what they should be -- although they're getting better. So I watch the referees. I watch who they are. There are certain referees -- when they come to our game -- you know you're gonna lose. And that should never be.
Well, the worst loss was out in L.A. (in 1988) when I was in the room with David Stern getting ready to accept the trophy, and they call a foul on Bill Laimbeer against Kareem. Bill pulled down a clean rebound, and Hugh Evans calls a foul. You know that he was set up, and you know ... I don't say he had a bet on the game, but that was ... that was unconscionable! And that cost us a championship, which we should have had. Which we had.
