Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Free Darko on The '06/'07 Dubs

The dudes of FreeDarko were on a PodCast recently and explained their passion for the "We Believe" 06/07 Warriors. It's a few minutes in after the first segment:

The Sound of Young America


Looks like the embedded audio player above doesn't work. Here's the page where you can listen to this analysis:

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Friday, March 13, 2009

Kobe vs. Artest- War of The Wordsmiths

This verbal spat of former rapper/current NBA'er Kobe Bryant and Ron Artest was something to behold. Thankfully, the Lakers crew shoots some sweet HD video (too bad the announcers are such incredible homers) and we can see the drama unfold:



Just today Czar Stern released the audio of the trash talk. Enjoy:


Kobe And Artest: The 'Lost' Trash Talk from The Basketball Jones on Vimeo.

Johnny Burkhalter: LEGEND

This is one of my favorite YouTube videos/Cheaters episodes of all time. Until it gets taken down from YouTube yet again, please find time to enjoy the Legend of Johnny Burkhalter:



By the way, what kinds of brrrs and wines would you like to drink at our Nextians Basketball Game next month?

Syracuse vs. UConn; Epic Game

In case you only read about this game on your Blackberry/iPhone, here's the 11 minute SportsCenter recap of the battle:

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Thursday, March 12, 2009

What's Worse: Congressional Earmarks or Sports Agents?


In case you didn't catch it on the Yahoo! Sports homepage yesterday, here's a great article about Sports Agents centered around Kevin Love (splash!) and former Duke Star/NBA Player/Motorcycle Enthusiast Jay Williams:

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Word on the street is that public distrust of what's going on here will get Congress involved in this super skeevy process. Also, word on the side street (aka TrueHoop) explains how current NBA players have terrible times getting their agents to work for them. It seems like agents blow their entire wads signing a guy (read: make skrilla) and have little left to market and help out their current clients. Now that sounds like a sound business model.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Ariza The Bastard

By now you have all seen the Ariza take down of Rudy Fernandez, subsequent ruckus where Odumb draws a suspension, and the neck brace-stretcher moment where Fernandez gets carted off the court. But here's an interesting slideshow version of this that really tugs at the emotions. I'm crying as I write this:

Rudy Fernandez and the foul










Why Can't SportsCenter Do This?

Well, the answer is because SportsCenter is lame. So you have to leave it up to creative out of the box thinkers like MaxaMillion711 of YouTube to change the status quo. Here's the dramatic highlights of Monday's epic game. Awesome stuff: