Ballin’: Fifteen and Life
NBA January 25th. 2008, 10:44am
Milwaukee 104, Indiana 92: The Pacers started two guys who could easily be in the NBDL – Travis Diener and Kareem Rush. What did you think would happen? Redd dropped 37. Awvee Storey, who broke another basketball player’s face with a punch last year, played four seconds for the Bucks.
San Antonio 90, Miami 89: Fifteen-to-life, baby. On three more to until somebody references Skid Row in a headline. Who do you think consumed more alcohol last night, Pat Riley or us? We have a headache the size of Dana Jacobson’s ass, but it has to be Riley.
Golden State 121, New Jersey 119: Someone check the record books – when was the last time a team had 60 rebounds in regulation … and lost? Helluva game from Josh Boone in defeat – 21 points, 17 boards, four blocks. But Monta Ellis had 39, and Baron Davis had a 25-12-10 triple-double for the Warriors.
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January 25th, 2008 at 10:48 am
D-Wade is completely overrated (good player, but no superstar). Would Lebron or Kobe ever, I mean EVER, lose 15 games in a row? No freakin way.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:50 am
skid row was tite.
coop…agree. when he doesn’t get the calls, he’s no better than rashard lewis (again, still good, just not an elite player). plus, he looks like he’s played about 20 seasons straight. why is he even on the court? he’s your future and he plays like an animal, give the dude some time to heal.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:51 am
i see the apple doesnt fall far from the tree in the Rush family. Brandon will be playing in the NBDL soon enough
just to let some of you know who watch friday night lights, instead tune into Dwight howard traveling to Detroit to put down monsterous dunks on sheed and the boys tonight at 7
January 25th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Point guards with beards > Point guards without beards, with respect to Mr. Paul (if he grew one he would be better, believe me)
January 25th, 2008 at 10:52 am
TBL – Eighteen and Life is the Skid Row song. Get your hairband references correct.
2 more losses and you can bust out the “She’s only Seventeen” song by Winger.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:53 am
The Timberwolves had better nip this “winning multiple games in a row thing” in the bud if they want the #1 pick next year. The Heat are going to take it away from them.
Not that I’d really want McHale anywhere near a #1 pick. He would have taken Spencer Hawes lsat year if he’d had the opportunity. The 2008 draft would have a shocker with Spencer Tollackson going #1 to the Wolves.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:53 am
@irish
I will give you monsterous dunks in return for missed free throws.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:54 am
I will give you the “monsterous dunks” but Detroit will send your majik pakin
January 25th, 2008 at 10:54 am
@Dirty Sanchez – TBL just couldn’t wait for three more losses to bust out the Row. Can you blame him?
January 25th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Mags…what about Nash and Deron Williams? They don’t have beards. Gimme Nash, CP, Deron and Jose Calderon over any bearded PG.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:56 am
After the next loss it’ll be…
Gonna spread my wings – Sweet 16
/outs self
January 25th, 2008 at 10:56 am
lol, maggs my boy is in the dunk contest again this year. Maggs did you also hear how Rasheed and Dwight are good friends and Rasheed gives dwight pointers on the low post.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:56 am
oh, i know it’s 18 and life, hence the link to the video
but 15 is close enough
January 25th, 2008 at 10:57 am
TBL: You need to upgrade your account.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:57 am
@ Dave – Even if the wolves finish with the worst record, they will end up picking 3rd. Lottery does not like the wolves.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Oh what the hell!? It just said “no remote linking. You need to upgrade your account” on the Skid Row picture. My. Bad.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:01 am
ASU, I saw the same thing, then it went away, like magic.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:02 am
@ spencer096
Nash would look like a dirty homeless if he grew a beard, but his game would only improve. Maybe my theory only works in the college game. Every team needs a bearded PG in the tourney. Remeber that one dude from Cincy a few years back who looked just like DMX? I miss that guy.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:04 am
@irish
I saw that thing about Sheed, but see Sheed gives the refs pointers all game long and they don’t learn a thing, so why should Dwight be any different?
January 25th, 2008 at 11:04 am
who Steve logan maggs,i played b-ball with him in high school
January 25th, 2008 at 11:06 am
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January 25th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Mags…even tho i said otherwise before i agree, for the most part. it should be an NBA PG’s duty to grow an awesome beard. look at what b-diddy did last year during the playoffs? you think without the beard they beat dallas? don’t think so.
i can sympathize with some of those guys tho, maybe they just can’t do it. im 23 and can’t grow a full beard, but given the opportunity, i’d grow a tight one. fucking genetics.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Haha this talk about beards reminds me of the Family Guy a few weeks ago where Peter grew a moustache.
Also, the Shawshank joke on that episode where the Monopoly Man goes to jail and succumbs to the sisters was great.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:16 am
The Heat are the worst team in the NBA. Sure, Lebron and Kobe haven’t had strong supporting casts, but they were never this bad. I mean this team is awful. Plus D-wade is still coming back from injury. He hasn’t played great, but this team is such a train wreck. One slow start off of multiple injuries doesn’t make a player overrated. During his healthy years, he was the best player in the NBA, no doubt in my mind. How quickly everyone forgets. He isn’t the same player now. I hope he returns to form.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:18 am
All point guards should have a beard – just like Tony Parker
January 25th, 2008 at 11:18 am
@irish
YES! Logan, dude, I liked that kid. I almost bought some UC shorts because of him, then I remembered Kenyon Martin went there.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Please, NBA, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, cancel the rest of the Heat’s national television appearances and replace them with the Hornets.
These nightly Heat games are now officially out of hand.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:20 am
jgp…im beginning to enjoy them kinda. its great watching pat reily suffer.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:22 am
@ Maggs
Logan was a short, stocky PG, who to my knowledge, never grew a beard. Maybe you are thinking of Jihad Muhammed?
January 25th, 2008 at 11:27 am
@ tk
Nope, it was totally Logan.
@ Spencer096
My buddy and I are growing out pretty magical beards right now and I plan on cutting mine into just a stache when it thickens up. The stache is the new chic move. Nodoby is doing it and it looks rediculous, but it is a solid play to look different. My girlfriend doesn’t mind because she knows no women will approach me due to my similar appearence to a 70’s porn actor.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:27 am
steve logan and i graduated the same year, same high school
him and sam clancy were beasts that year, clancy went to USC and didnt amount to much though as did logan
January 25th, 2008 at 11:28 am
tk…are you making that name up? wasnt that the name of a terrorist in Team America?
January 25th, 2008 at 11:30 am
spencer – No. Totally a real, turnover-prone PG.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:31 am
http://gobearcats.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/muhammad_jihad00.html
January 25th, 2008 at 11:38 am
tk…that’s a pretty crazy name.
Mags…do the stache, it’s totally worth it.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:39 am
@Sean Jean
At no point in time was D-Wade ever the best player in the NBA. I like DWade, he plays hard, plays through injuries, seems like a good guy, and genuinely cares about winning. But that one title came in a year when the east was brutally bad and the finals were the worst officiated sporting event in history. He is a very good player, but he can’t singlehandedly take over a game like Kobe/Bron can.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Agree to disagree coop. I think the year before when he got hurt in the Eastern Conference finals, had he been healthy, they knock off Detroit and play San Antonio in the finals that year. I thought he was, if not the, the best of 3 players in the league those two years. He shot a great percentage, filled the stat sheet, made great decisions with the ball, and was just a great all around player. He played solid d, everything. Sure, those finals were very one sided in the way they were officiated, but that shouldn’t diminish how great he played. He was truly unstoppable in both of those entire playoff stretches. Lebron has played a good game here and there in the playoffs. Same for Kobe. Wade consistently was great. He came up time and time again in huge pressure situations. I think two years ago most would agree with me too. It’s just that now all has been forgotten because of how they look now and because Lebron scored 40+ in a big playoff game against Detroit last year (then was a complete no show against the Spurs btw).
Excuses are excuses. Plenty of titles have been officiated questionably (just ask the Kings about the Lakers 3 straight), but you either win the title or you don’t. The NBA is the poster child of bad officiating. Good officiating is more newsworthy than bad.
Doesn’t matter either way, I just think it’s another example of how the ever evolving mass media machine just devours everything in it’s path and shits it out at an ever increasing rate.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:55 am
All good points and I mostly agree. He has always been in or near the top 5 guys in the league, no doubt. I’m just not sure he was ever #1.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
As long as we agree on one thing: Shaq is hilariously useless.