Devin Harris Gets Hustled

Devin Harris was in London last week playing for the New Jersey Nets against the Miami Heat. He took some time out to play one on one with some local kids (or so he thought) in the park.

Little did he know that the scrawny chav he was playing was none other than Stuart Tanner, UK street ball legend, Suffice to say, he got hustled hard!

Effing priceless:

Being unpatriotic is not a criminal offence

Why is it that the media always complain about sports stars acting guarded, then when they let their true feelings known they go ballistic. "frequent use of the n-word", wow, imagine that. 

It's just one persons opinion, they don't have to agree. Get over it. 

The above paragraph is related to Josh Howard commenting about his disliking of the national anthem (see video below). Further to this, his teams owner Mark Cuban received many ignorant and wildly racist emails regarding the video. Cuban posted them on his blog along with the full email address' of the dumb ass senders. Can't think of any other team owner that would do that. Nicely done sir. 

When Worlds Collide

Hood legends Robbie Fowler and Baron Davis meet at last! Along with Juan Pablo Angel, Thierry Henry, Saloman Kalou, Steve McManaman, Jason Kidd, Raja Bell and Leandro Barbosa they showed support and came out for their boy Steve Nash' charity football (soccer!) match in New York this week. Speaking from someone who enjoyed killing every other school in basketball after suffering endless defeats on the football pitch it's obvious that the skills are equally non-transferable in the pro's. Although Baron Davis did manage a header with his LA Dodgers fitted on, LOL. 

Go to SlamOnline for a full review of the match. When are they gonna return the favor and take Robbie and Macca to the courts?

Maybe he should of written it down?

For a guy that alleges to never write a rhyme down maybe he could of used a pen and pad to have an answer ready for the question everyone was wondering. What do you actually do at the Nets? Answer .... "Ummmm, eeeerrr, I'm an investor". Oh dear, he even cracked a smile when asked. Horribly caught out. Thats alright we all know the answer - "nothing, im just the poster (step) child of the organization"

NBA - Jay z hopes it will rain at the draft pick this year.

Jay z is gonna be present in this years NBA draft pick representing for the Nets. Here you can see him holding up his share percentage of the franchise only he forgot the . in between the 0 and the 9.

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Role Reversal For Kobe

Four teams left in the playoffs, two of which no-one wants to see in the finals. Spurs-Pistons would be a ratings/entertainment disaster. Of the two matchups left one holds far greater interest than the other. The whole world will be cheering on the once, most hated on man in the league. Now lets see if Kobe and his yellow and purple army can take out the whinging, cheating, dirty, boring but annoyingly good San Antonio Spurs. 

Kobe Top 10 plays of the season 

Playoffs (where stats dont mean shit happens)

His team is bad, but in a league based on indvidual performance there is no one player, double or triple team that can stop him. Providing at least one other player can get hot each game, they got this round at least. I expect Boston to prevail however, and take the Pistons, this year KG will not be denied, will overwhelming hunger for a title, again not figured in the stats. Beyond the Pistons consecutive conf. finals appearances is a team whos arrogance and previous success will be their downfall yet again. Boston look good for the finals, again various analysts will point to the bench and inexperience of Rondo. Well guess what, they performed all year and will continue to do so. Out in the west, the Lakers are looking good for the finals, Gasol is one of the best players in his position and will continue to be underestimated due to the fact of his nationality. Another point not picked up in the stat line. 

Rasheed Wallace & Juan Epstein

No, not together. 

Rasheed Wallace is easily one of the best players in the NBA. Forget stats, to me they don't mean shit. Last years most valuable player went missing in the playoffs and his team got booted out in the first round. So where was his value there. You must admire a player like Wallace who, for all his talent doesn't jump at the chance to become a face for anyone else and isn't afraid to say what's on his mind whilst under the media scrutiny of pro sports. Refusing to deal with the bullshit and leaving that for the plethora of others who will happily fall in line and take any corporate cheque available. 

Heres an interesting article and interview with the man himself via ESPN (here)

Episode 14 of the Juan Epstein podcast is now available. If you've not heard it before, its Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg breaking down topics such as: fast food, larry david, bpms, porn, government conspiracy theories, bape and working for "the man" to name a few. Not a vintage ep this week, but you can always check the archives for your entertainment. 

Podcast (here)

Archives (here)

Summary of The Wire - NBA style

If you like the NBA and The Wire, courtesy of Slam online, this article is just for you. If you don't. Then, well I guess you shit out!

article (here)

This is how you warm up to bang in 50 points at the garden

Oh, and this would be how you end the first half of a game (below)

Community Care: NBA vs The Premier League

NBA hammers The Premier League

The All-Star game came and went. Just as impressive as the weekends entertainment was the work the NBA put in away from the court through NBA Cares. The benefits of which, will last well beyond the weekends memories. Spearheaded by league commissioner David Stern , 2500 people (including many current and ex-players) assembled to help build and rebuild playgrounds, schools and homes in New Orleans. This is just part of the leagues commitment to donating $100 million to charity, providing a million hours of hands on service to the community and creating 250 places where kids and families can live, learn or play. The Premier League on the other hand has their "Creating Chances" initiative where by each club will send out a player to spend a maximum of 4 hours with the winning community program or charity that wanted a "chance" delivered by The Premier League. Football clubs are responsible for their own charity work and although The Premier League does have other projects, these are tied in with other organisations and the government. Maybe they are doing their bit, I certainly didn't find any evidence of it. I feel a league that is looking at a turnover of £1.7 billion this year certainly could be doing a lot more.

(picture above features left to right, All-Star Dwight Howard, NBA commissioner David Stern and All-Star Tim Duncan. Could you imagine Rooney, Ronaldo and Premier League chief exec Richard Scudamore getting stuck into some diy to help others, yeah, thats what I thought)
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