The Future Vol.1

No, not Blake Griffin

2010+

For Those That Have 24h-less days

Odd Things

This year we have witnessed the first 4 on 0 fast break that i can remember by Houston Rockets vs ...i forgot who by now.

and now this odd sequence:

Two Words

Blake

Griffin

...

Know Thy History

Employee #8

WILL NOT BE MAKING HIS NBA COMEBACK...

And Then There Were None (Chinese Playas in the NBA)

how nice is life in the NBA with Steve Nash?

Q-Rich, Joe Johnson, Shawn Marion, Amare, Jared Dudley, Channing Frye, the list goes on...

The Mozgov Revenge

Big Baby (future big post coming, yes with pics unfortunately)

tweet from Big Baby Davis: “Just finished visiting the toilet! Lawd have mercy! Nobody goes in the bathroom for 30 to 45 mins! On my mama. Second load coming soon!”

Holly Day Roundabouts (Dime Style)

Team Canada beat The Mean Green (Old) Machine. All thanks to Andrea Evans`s double double of 29 points and 16 rebounds...Its great seeing players such as Amir Johnson (17p.11r. in 24min. tonight) and Taj Gibson become what the Buck Williamses and Charles Oakleyes of the good old days mean to the pure basketball fan....Nice to know that JaVale MacGee`s lessons from the Love School of Rebounding are finally paying off - 20p.16r. (8 offensive)...No John Wall, No Problem when you can just insert former all-star Agent Zero and he can drop you 19p.16a. Too bad they are the Wizards as they lost yet again...This reminds me of this quote by a great online poker player mutigers5591 "if BG [Blake Griffin] and eric gordon are so good why are the clippers doin so terrible?" ...Yes, its because they are The Clippers (any basketball fan should know this very sad story)...They still lost yesterday despite a beast of a game from Blake Griffin (44p.15r.7a. - more on his performance below) and Eric "OOOOH MEEEE OOOOH MYYYY!!!!" Gordon (25p.)...Ah can't wait have to share this:

the man simply dominates with his athletic ability!

Oh Boy!

I feel so so bad for the Raptors. Coming off a big upset win over the Magic at Orlando. Without their second and third leading scorers. On a back-to-back games. Today's game is at Miami vs the Cavali...ahem Heat. Get ready to watch the All-Star Game. Starting at point guard will be LeBron James, shooting guard Chris Bosh ("what do you call a power forward that gets you 7 rebounds and you call it - great game? time to rethink what he is, maybe a shooting guard" ~Sir Charles)...ahem i mean Wade.
Game predictions: Il Mago gets 27 points, Reggie Evans will score 4 points, nah thats too much, 2 points and get 13 rebounds. DeRozan and the Company going to have a private meeting with THIS guy. If you are not familiar with this internet celebrity - GOOGLE IS YOUR BRO/WIFE/BOSS/ETC

This Still Does Not Explain Sh*t

What is more disturbing and perplexing than another man defecating in your sneaker? Next to causing bodily harm, not a lot if you ask me. Last year we found out about Agent Zero's "prank" (really?) on Dray Dray Blatche when Gil unceremoniously laid a brown egg in Blatche's Nikes/Reeboks/Adidas during the latter's rookie season. Despite the infamous antics of Gil, and my appreciation of his game (r.i.p.) and quirky personality (r.i.p.), this act even left the inner frat boy in me scratching its head. Well fans, now one of life's great mysteries have been solved by the man himself. Clip courtesy of Truth About It, which also has more on the story on its site:



Aaaaahhh it all makes sense now. How could I have been so dense about the unwritten laws of pranking and re-pranking?? The next time one of my buddies/coworkers/team mates pulls a prank on me, I'm going straight for their kicks and unleashing my dinner from last night in its freshly processed form. Got it!

Personal Campaign: Pass it to # 7 son!

Like a true Italian, Il Mago stays crisp with the fashionable pink shirt.  Is that Weems creeping in the back?

Owning Il Mago on a fantasy bball team can be an exercise in being hopeful. Why? Because you see the potential, small improvements, occasional (but too few in between) big game; but you also see the lack of rebounding, the greater lack of improvement in that area, no real significant change in passing, blocking and general defensive ability, and, more importantly, the snail-pace Bargnani is taking in fulfilling his artificially pre-ordained superstar destiny by virtue of being a no. 1 overall pick.

Still, this is not a post about the love/hate affair I have with the 7-foot paesan. I am over the moon seeing Bargs being a lot more aggressive offensively this year, since this is probably all he will ever excel at as far as his NBA career goes, and because of this it leads me to passive-aggressive fits of cursing in three different languages - none of them being Italian though - when his team mates (read: Jack, Jarrett, and Weems, Sonny) do not feed him the ball more often and decide to go on a wild quest to the hoop themselves. Bargs NEEDS the ball to show everyone that he can be a legit star in this league. Maybe I just don't like Jack or Weems, both of whom have a delusions of grandeur in thinking that any of them are scoring options, even on this lowly Raptors team. I can live with Kleiza, Barbosa, and DeRozan getting theirs (I do believe that these three and Bargs actually take the most shots on the team still), although I would prefer Barbosa taking way less shots too. But my patience with non-Andrea players ends when # 1 and 24 forget that the only thing they remotely have in common with other scoring greats is the numbers on their backs.

I need to find stats to back up my ranting to make it less of a rant and more of an argument. Stay tuned folks

Old School

I Shooe Shooe Shooes U

For some who grew up falling in love with this game during the late 90s and early 00s, its very strange to see only 3 players wearing AND1 shoes. That company hit NBA by storm and popularity within basketball communities. And now all they have to show for are the league's current leading scorer, Marquis Daniels and Steve "Yey Im in the NBA" Blake.

The lone warriors, pun intended as you will see, are

Ron Artest wearing Ball'n.

Joakim Noah with the french rooster shoes.

Martel Webster trying to channel Tupac.

And repping the not so New Balance is some character from the Flintstones.

Also can someone please tell me what is "Atna" and how do we eat it? with tabasco or just plain soya sauce. And how did they get Kevin Garnet to come out with his first ever shoes in his 24th season in the league...

All Star Game x 82 = Heat

Exhibit #7, Victim - The New Jersey Brooklyns











AND THIS BOOMSHAKALAKA BEAUTY!!!

So So Gay

We all have personally seen many different and crazy ending to games.
Be it the Derek Fisher's "0.4" that changed the rules for the amount of time under which a player is allowed to "catch and shoot", that also had a sick "not-so-game-winner" by Tim Duncan, not to forget Kobe's shot right before that one!




Then there was Tracy McGrady's "13 in 35"



AND NOW THERE IS THIS AS WELL:


"The Grizzlies had the game almost certainly won in the final second of regulation, but Rudy Gay inexplicably missed a chance to end it with a missed free throw.
Up 99-97 with .4 of a second left, Gay could have banged his final free throw off the rim, leaving the Suns without enough time to rebound and throw up a length-of-court shot.
Gay swished the free throw. Afterward, Gay said he tried to miss, yet he tossed up the shot with perfect arc.
So the Suns called timeout and got the ball in the frontcourt. They designed a play where Hill threw a lob for Richardson, who leaped and tipped the ball in just before the buzzer.
That sent the game to overtime." 

Jason Richardson credits "the basketball gods."

That's as good a way as any to explain the final 1.1 seconds of regulation in Phoenix's 123-118 double-overtime victory over Memphis on Friday night.

Richardson scored five of his 38 points in that tiny span and, thanks to a made free throw that Rudy Gay intended to miss, the Suns forced overtime and stole what seemed a certain Memphis victory.

"I haven't done that in my lifetime," Richardson said. "That was just a crazy turnaround. They thought they had a win. I guess the basketball gods were on our side."

Steve Nash scored 13 of his 25 points in the overtimes to send Memphis to its third loss in a row.

Memphis seemed safely ahead when O.J. Mayo's two free throws made it 98-94 with 3.7 seconds left in the fourth quarter.

But Richardson banked in a 3-pointer to make it 98-97 with 1.1 to go, then Nash fouled Gay on an inbound pass. The referees put 0.4 seconds on the clock.

Gay missed the first free throw and clearly intended to miss the other so time would run out. But it went in and, after a timeout, the ball moved to Phoenix's frontcourt and Grant Hill lofted a perfect lob to Richardson at the rim. The shot went in to tie it at 99.

"Grant threw a great pass," Richardson said. "He's known for great passes. He threw one to Christian Laettner to win the game [for Duke against Kentucky 18 years ago], so he threw a great pass up there and I almost missed the layup, the dunk or whatever you want to call it, but I'm glad it rolled in."

without video it is very hard to explain how funny and stupid Rudy Gay looked right after that 1.1 seconds to go in regulation!  too many ironic moments.  even M.Conley got in on the "irony' of the outcome...

K.Rambis not at fault in The Village of 10k Lakes

"And you wonder why kevin love can't get minutes 

He's retarted"              ~ mattyo






Love is just following in the footsteps of all Big White Men:





not sure which white man is dumber in the above video, Kris Humphries or Adam "Two Time NBA Champion" Morrison?

Friday Mass Ugliness

So many games today, yet most of them are between teams that would barely beat the 1996-1997 Grizzlies!
Guess they ready to good job when making their schedule for the season.  What days what will be watched and what will not.  Nothing to see here people.  Go out and and enjoy your evening and night!

Only thing worth watching is the match up of the best PGs in the league this year in the Celtics vs Bulls game.

this turned out to be a GREAT GAME!
but one has to wonder how many playoff type games can the Celtics win this year in the regular season?

The Truth is Out There (just not on Youtube)

"I swear.  It wasn't me who took the fun out of the league! Now, any reporter who asks any questions about the new tech rules will immediately be issued a technical and fined for speaking against the Almighty Ruler of Basketball."

Much to the chagrin of players (see Odom, Lamar), fans (see us), and commentators (see Heinsohn, Tom below), the NBA (cough, Stern, cough) has recently implemented a new tech rule that makes technicals all but automatic if a player even looks in the "wrong" direction.  Last week, in a PRESEASON game no less, KG was called for two wacky T's which led to Heinsohn's ringing endorsement of the rule.

Also, isn't it interesting that when you click on the video in the post, instead of getting the actual clip you get a nice little message stating that "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Comcast SportsNet New England."

Nowhere to find this video anymore.  The conspiracy clean up?

Hey, did someone say POWER?

Oh wait, that was just David Stern sneezing.

This shows yet again the power of the NBA Dictat...umm, I mean, Commissioner to apply a "stupid" (Heinsohn's word, not ours) rule for calling technical fouls and removing videos from youtube (did you know that for few years it was impossible to find The Malice At The Palace clips ANYWHERE?!  But just in case you forgot, click here for 5 minutes of NBA mayhem and some Ron Ron) 

Hello NBA Illuminati!

Is that Stern's third eye?

Thank us Later

One morning, when Hibachi Sabas woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his hardwood bed into an orange ball.  He lay on his tacky-surfaced back, of which he could no longer differentiate from his front or side, and if he lifted his head, now connected to his body without a neck, a little he could see his orange belly, slightly inflated and divided by black "ribs" into even sections.  The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment.  His legs, pitifully nonexistent, and seemingly ingrown, compared with the size of the rest of him, caused him to roll about helplessly as he looked.


"What's happened to me?" he thought.  It wasn't a dream.




(To be continued with our deepest and most sincere apologies to Kafka.  Until then, enjoy our modest, unadulterated blog about this great game of basketball.)