Here is cool video medley of the music from the movie. The more I think about the movie, the more I like it. I’m thinking about buying the soundtrack from itunes.
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I’m absurdly excited about the news that MJ will be the cover boy for NBA 2k11. Here is the accompanying article to the story http://kotaku.com/5553664/michael-jordan-is-nba-2k11s-cover-star . Also, I feel the video above is the only thing appropriate enough to watch in conjunction with such life altering news.
Most exciting man in the NBA, gotta love those crazy foreigners. Especially since unlike Derrick Rose & LeBron James, I don’t need a trampoline in order to do these moves in my back yard.
How about Goran Dragic huh? Also, what’s better: Dragic leaving Derek Fisher froze like a Tanooki Suit or Robin Lopez’s reaction after the play?
Flashmob of the Day: Public transport operator Arriva arranged a surprise birthday celebration for one of its Danish bus drivers.
When was the last time your employer organized a surprise birthday flashmob for you?
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(via brainworks)
I figured it out. I know what happened.
I over-reacted the other night. I blamed Bron’s performance on him quitting on the team because he wants to leave for NY. Now, I do happen to believe Bron quit inside his heart (just a bit) because he does want to go to NY, but that’s not entirely to blame for his performances, or the Cavs not winning the NBA title (which they were, by far, favored to do).
Here are the reasons*, in ascending order (from least responsible to most responsible):
*LeBron’s elbow did not make the cut. Nash and Kobe wouldn’t allow me to list it.
10.) LeBron wants to leave Cleveland for NY so he can literally make a billion dollars, and join Jordan, Ali and Babe Ruth in the top rung of sports legends. Can you blame him? No other athlete alive has a shot at making that money or joining that group. He quit caring 100% because he’s half-way out the door.
9.) LeBron James held this free agency over the heads of his teammates, his coach, his team and the city of Cleveland like a total prick. Listen, you can tell everyone on the planet you want to stay at Cav and the Knicks would STILL give you everything they have. What’s the harm in then at least saying, “I love Cleveland. I love this team. I want to be back here next year. We’ll see how it goes.” His teammates were scared because of it. Like they had been given a death sentence.
8.) This Cavs team doesn’t deserve it. If you cower because LeBron had a tough game, you don’t deserve to win a championship. Those guys hung LeBron out to dry. Nobody stepped up. Cowards. Chickens. They fed off LBJ’s brilliance all year, and when a team shut down LeBron, they were helpless. Basketball is a team game. They were afraid.
7.) Antawn Jamison. Wait a minute, you mean the guy that’s never been a part of a meaningful basketball team (in part, because he’s not a meaningful basketball player) wasn’t the missing piece of the puzzle? Jamison is not the #2 on a championship team, and neither is…
6.) Mo Williams. Mo Williams dies in the spotlight. He dies. This guy isn’t even close to being a #2. Williams isn’t HALF the player Byron Scott or Dennis Johnson was. Note to NBA GM’s: if Mo Williams is your prospective #2, grab your rod and reel, because you’ll set sail every May.
5.) Rajon Rondo. That boy put it on you every game, and you never adjusted. He ate you alive. The Cavs put this guy in the “best point guard” debate, and he isn’t exactly at steady jump shooter. Cleveland made him look like Oscar Robertson.
4.) The Celtic Defense. Those old dogs want another championship because they KNOW, this is it. I hate every last one of them, but I respect that.
3.) Mike Brown. Mike Brown is a miserable coach, and the worst thing about this Cavs v. Celtics series is that people are being lead to believe Doc Rivers isn’t a miserable coach too. Back to Brown - he walked that sideline, wiping his face, with no clue whatsoever. Clueless. He looked like a kid who never went to class, staring at the final exam.
2.) You hired the wrong guy.
Shaquille O’Neal was the WORST person you could have brought onto this squad. From the moment I heard about the trade, I was elated. I knew Cleveland would blow it. Why? Because LeBron James is Shaquille O’Neal.
Shaquille O’Neal was a force the likes of which the League had never seen. Shaq was so physically dominant, but moreso than that, he had game. His feet were so quick. He had touch. Shaq was going to revolutionize basketball.
But Shaq made rap albums. Shaq made genie movies. The Rockets folded up the Magic in 4 games to win the title, and Shaq didn’t seem to care. Even when Shaq was on top of the world, he argued with Kobe, he lazily played the regular season, and he ate food like a dinosaur. As great as Shaq is, he could have been the greatest center ever. But he’s not. And it’s because he doesn’t care. There’s nothing wrong with that. He just doesn’t want to be the greatest.
And you go ahead and bring this guy in to mentor LeBron, who has all the same trappings? Shaq is an absolute mirror for LeBron. The Cavs needed a Robert Horry. A PJ Brown. A Joe Dumars. They paid Shaq, and Shaq didn’t exactly point this team in the right direction.
1.) The Chalk Bullshit.
Listen to me, LeBron. Knock off all the bullshit. Stop throwing rosin in the air. Stop with the cute little 3pt. hand signals. Stop the dancing. Stop posing for fake photos, and stop rapping on the sidelines. Stop all the dumb shit.
Have you ever seen Bill Russell pull this garbage? What about Larry Bird? Joe Montana? Walter Payton? Kobe Bryant, by all accounts, is a phony jerk. But as a sports fan, you couldn’t ask for more. Kobe wants to win every game, as did Jordan, and you can’t appreciate that enough. LeBron james is a 25 year-old kid who, right now, doesn’t care enough to win it all. There’s nothing wrong with that. He just doens’t want it.
At 25, I slept on a pool raft for a bed. I get it. 25 year-olds are idiots.
For example, I went to watch the Cavs play the Nets at the Izod Center this year. I always get to games early so I can watch players warm up. If you’ve seen the Cavs, you know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t, it’s amazing.
LeBron James comes out, immediately runs to half court and starts heaving up half court shots. The entire team is under the basket cheering for him. Watching his shots. Afterwards, they put on a dunk contest in layup lines, bouncing the ball off the backboard, and off the deck, to slam home make-shift alley-oops.
His teammates were grabbing rebounds and dancing. DANCING. They were dancing over to the sidelines with the goddamn ball. When most teams start a free shooting, LeBron and his teammates started joking and playing around with each other. Then they danced some more.
When the game started, LeBron loafed, and picked his spots to perform. He made deep, incredibly difficult shots, and then preened. He flaunted himself like a goddamn peacock. In the second half, he started dunking basketballs and waving to Jay-Z on the sidelines. Do you understand? During gameplay, this guy is waving hello to a rapper who paid money to watch him play.
You can only blame your teammates, coaches, city, elbow, Celtic defense so much. It ain’t easy being a team’s #1. Nobody said it was. It’s on LeBron. They lost because of him, and he should own up to it.
Good news, though. If you want to win, LeBron, I have advice. You should stop rapping on the sidelines, and stop the fake photos. Listen to me and Joachim Noah. Stop the dancing, and stop with the cutesy 3pt. hand signals.
And please, for all that you should be - and you should be the greatest basketball player ever in the history of the sport - stop throwing up that goddamn chalk.
This perfectly illustrates my analysis of the game.
Kevin Arnovitz of True Hoop dissects The Bron Bron Disaster. A must-watch.
![The Man, The Legend
nbaoffseason:
brainworks:
Charles Oakley, former Chicago Bulls’ and New York Knicks’ power forward, enforcer and legendary tough guy, has signed up for, and begun to use, the micro-blogging service, twitter.
What world am I living in?
Charles Oakley, a man who heretofore, has lived a life separate from rules that restrict him in any way whatsoever, now abides by a character limit when writing down his thoughts and anecdotes.
I am without words.
And Charles Oakley isn’t just “tweeting” under 140 characters. He’s also enjoying “tweets” from the people he “follows,” and sending them out to those who follow him via the “retweet” button. Charles Oakley is “retweeting.”
I think I’m blind.
Here are a list of things Charles Oakley, the guy who now uses twitter, has done
-Got 35 rebounds in one game, including 16 offensive boards
-In the 2000 season, Oakley played in a pre-season exhibition game against the Sixers and Tyrone Hill. Before tipoff, Oakley found Hill and slapped him in the mouth. They started a fight and both were ejected.
-Before a regular season game, Tyrone Hill was leaving the floor after shootaround, and Oakley started throwing basketballs at him, one of which hit him in the face. Lets let Sixer point guard Eric Snow color the story: “Every time we play each other, Oakley says something about Hill. He’ll say ‘Where’s Hill at?’”
-Why did he he intimidate and rough up Hill? Two years prior, Tyrone Hill lost a dice game to Oakley, to the tune of $54,000. “A gentleman pays his debt within a week or two,” Oakley said. Because payment was deliquent, Oakley charged him double, saying, “Everything in life is double. If he didn’t pay me $108,000, he didn’t pay me.”
-In the 2001 NBA playoffs, Oakley constantly insulted teammate Vince Carter and even exchanged words with Carter’s mother. Rumor has it Oakley was displeased with Carter letting him, and other teammates, down during crunch time.
-Charles Oakley was dating a woman in Charlotte, NC. He called the woman’s house and LA Clipper Jeff McInnis was there. Oakley went hunting for Jeff that night, but couldn’t find him. So, the next time their two teams played, Oakley walked up to McInnis on the bench and punched him in the head before the game. Oakley blamed one of McInnis’ coaches at the time, Alvin Gentry, for telling reporters the story.
-Oakley had a rumored run-in with the producer of the 1989 NBA video “Awesome Endings.” No other details available, but I can’t imagine that one going well.
-Charles Oakley slapped Charles Barkley across the face during a player’s union meeting. “I heard what he was saying about me in Atlantic City and I didn’t like it. I’m fed up with him. I told him ‘You need to change your name. I’m the only Charles.’” Oakley finished by telling Barkley, “Every time I see you, I’m going to slap you.”
-In a basketball game after the slap, Oakley threw Barkley to the floor. Barkley got up swinging and the two were separated. Post-game, Clyde Drexler called Oak a “dirty player.” Oakley responded by saying, “He [Drexler] can blow me.”
-This is a quote from Oakley on Kenyon Martin, “You got to know when enough’s enough. You want to rob the bank, but you better not be complainin’ when you get caught. In my day, a guy who jumps that high with that many tatoos, he would’ve wound up sitting on the floor at least once. It’s just the kind of player (Martin) is. And the kind of guy I am.”
-This is Oakley workout.
-This is a video of Oakley talking with aplomb.
So, yeah. Charles Oakley has twitter. Now you should be appropriately blown away. Follow him, if you know what’s good for you. Disregard his twitter feed at your own peril.
Charles Oakley is a great American. @CharlesOakley34
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The Man, The Legend
Charles Oakley, former Chicago Bulls’ and New York Knicks’ power forward, enforcer and legendary tough guy, has signed up for, and begun to use, the micro-blogging service, twitter.
What world am I living in?
Charles Oakley, a man who heretofore, has lived a life separate from rules that restrict him in any way whatsoever, now abides by a character limit when writing down his thoughts and anecdotes.
I am without words.
And Charles Oakley isn’t just “tweeting” under 140 characters. He’s also enjoying “tweets” from the people he “follows,” and sending them out to those who follow him via the “retweet” button. Charles Oakley is “retweeting.”
I think I’m blind.
Here are a list of things Charles Oakley, the guy who now uses twitter, has done
-Got 35 rebounds in one game, including 16 offensive boards
-In the 2000 season, Oakley played in a pre-season exhibition game against the Sixers and Tyrone Hill. Before tipoff, Oakley found Hill and slapped him in the mouth. They started a fight and both were ejected.
-Before a regular season game, Tyrone Hill was leaving the floor after shootaround, and Oakley started throwing basketballs at him, one of which hit him in the face. Lets let Sixer point guard Eric Snow color the story: “Every time we play each other, Oakley says something about Hill. He’ll say ‘Where’s Hill at?’”
-Why did he he intimidate and rough up Hill? Two years prior, Tyrone Hill lost a dice game to Oakley, to the tune of $54,000. “A gentleman pays his debt within a week or two,” Oakley said. Because payment was deliquent, Oakley charged him double, saying, “Everything in life is double. If he didn’t pay me $108,000, he didn’t pay me.”
-In the 2001 NBA playoffs, Oakley constantly insulted teammate Vince Carter and even exchanged words with Carter’s mother. Rumor has it Oakley was displeased with Carter letting him, and other teammates, down during crunch time.
-Charles Oakley was dating a woman in Charlotte, NC. He called the woman’s house and LA Clipper Jeff McInnis was there. Oakley went hunting for Jeff that night, but couldn’t find him. So, the next time their two teams played, Oakley walked up to McInnis on the bench and punched him in the head before the game. Oakley blamed one of McInnis’ coaches at the time, Alvin Gentry, for telling reporters the story.
-Oakley had a rumored run-in with the producer of the 1989 NBA video “Awesome Endings.” No other details available, but I can’t imagine that one going well.
-Charles Oakley slapped Charles Barkley across the face during a player’s union meeting. “I heard what he was saying about me in Atlantic City and I didn’t like it. I’m fed up with him. I told him ‘You need to change your name. I’m the only Charles.’” Oakley finished by telling Barkley, “Every time I see you, I’m going to slap you.”
-In a basketball game after the slap, Oakley threw Barkley to the floor. Barkley got up swinging and the two were separated. Post-game, Clyde Drexler called Oak a “dirty player.” Oakley responded by saying, “He [Drexler] can blow me.”
-This is a quote from Oakley on Kenyon Martin, “You got to know when enough’s enough. You want to rob the bank, but you better not be complainin’ when you get caught. In my day, a guy who jumps that high with that many tatoos, he would’ve wound up sitting on the floor at least once. It’s just the kind of player (Martin) is. And the kind of guy I am.”
-This is Oakley workout.
-This is a video of Oakley talking with aplomb.
So, yeah. Charles Oakley has twitter. Now you should be appropriately blown away. Follow him, if you know what’s good for you. Disregard his twitter feed at your own peril.
Charles Oakley is a great American. @CharlesOakley34
(Photo: Tim DeFrisco/Getty Images)
Tea with Tyson: the finer things in life
Love him or hate him, the next round of the playoffs will greatly miss Joakim Noah. Sure, Noah went off in a few games and did work, but we’re going to miss Joakim Noah as the guy ripping on Cleveland in post game press conferences. I mean, would you rather see and hear Noah rip on Boston or would you rather see and hear Dwight Howard’s bad impressions of Stan Van Gundy again? It’s a dream, perhaps the grandest dream ever, but can you imagine what Noah would’ve said about Milwaukee? Bango would’ve beaten the shit out of random people in Noah jerseys and it would’ve been fun and interesting. Instead, the next round will be filled with stories about LeBron’s bum elbow and Dwight Howard’s impressions.
Joakim, we will remember you.
Photo by David Liam Kyle/NBAE via Getty Images
Stop Saying "Mama, There Goes That Man" Mark Jackson! Petition
God I’ve been saying this for over a year at this point!
Spread it around to all of your friends and neighbors.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
It was game three of the first round playoff series for the Bulls. It was a fact that the the UC was a riot. Never have I surrounded myself with the energy of 25,000 fans with nothing more than wishing James’s knees would explode. This game was not won by the Bulls alone, but by Chicago and the Bulls. This city destroyed Cleveland on April 22, 2010. Although we are down 3-1 in the series (and will lose game 5), this game culminates my love for the city and the game.
(the audio is from the game)
I was at this game tonight! It was fucking MAGNIFICENT. Also, I was on the jumbotron, and possibly on TV. Great night, Oh and Cleveland sucks.
Luol Deng channeling his 2007-skills tonight. Pete Maravich would be proud.
(via @Jose3030)
Charles Barkley using the shake weight.
You guys can thank me later. Oh, and Aaron, could you atleast use the reblog button this time?
