Cleveland Tourism Video

In case anyone was going to Cleveland to Witness an Cavs game this playoff season:

Congrats to Lebron

In honor of LBJ's MVP please enjoy the video of Cleveland Area rapper A-Gully and his "Witnessmobile". A-Gully put his $500 birthday check from his grandparents to good use and showed his Lebron James fandom by pimping out an '87 Cutless with chrome 23's. This video really makes you want to pack up and move to Cleveland (hopefully there will be more on the city of Cleveland in a later post).

While Lebron is most definitely "Now", it is our job to predict Next. Matt is the only Nextian out of 13 who correctly guessed all 8 series'. Congrats bro (literally). In other more entertaining news:
*Nikki increased her lead over her husband even though they were both in love with D-Wade and his band of underachieving idiots
*Straino is having some trouble
*Fed is now mysteriously back in the running

The standings after 1 round are:

34 Points: Matt
32 Points: Cam
27 Points: Toomie
26 Points: Fed
25 Points: Nate, Nikki
24 Points: Todd, Ryan, Scott Snider
21 Points: BK
20 Points: Bilbo
19 Points: Straino

Love is in The Air

Phew! Round 1 is officially over with the Hawks stomping the crap out of the Heat. This is a good result, being that I picked the Hawks to advance in the renowned Nextian Playoff Bracket Challenge of Predicting Next. So I will be checking NBA.com daily to see when they release the 7 well played games of Hawks/Heat series on DVD. I'll let you know when it's available.

Round 1 taught us about the power of Love. When Yao takes little Aaron Brooks under his enormous wing the curse of T-Mac is finally erased. When you're getting killed in a closeout game it's a good idea to kiss your opponent on the head as to say "good luck in the next round, Hedo". Denver officially loves their hometown boy Chauncey. Cuban has convinced himself to love old man Kidd and used the power of love to beat the old men Spurs (wait, do you possibly need an old man to beat a team of old men?). The Lakers and Cavs taught us nothing about Love, in case you hoping for comments about the 1-8 match ups.

And as we take a 63 second break to ponder all that was Round 1, we are not given much time to prepare for the Round 2 kickoff between The Mavs and Nuggets. As a Nextian this kind of sucks. We are bred to predict what is Next so trying to figure out the narrative of Round 2 during a few shitty commercials is challenging. But as the Leader of the Nextians, I will make an attempt: I am hoping and praying for a round full of vicious Anger. Yeah, let's get it on, we've got to get it on, no choice but to get it on.

Nextians Bracket: Updated Standings 5/1/09

With the first round winding down to a close, the separation between participants who had a good beat on what was going on in the NBA playoffs and those who relied on SI articles about the Spurs from 4 months ago (BK) are really becoming evident. A few quick notes-
* Nikki, Bilbo's wife, is beating him
* Tommy's plan of betting on Vegas odds isn't really working out
* Getting the games right on your correct series pick makes a huge difference
* Only one person aced the 4-2 Magic series win (BK) and only one person aced the Rockets 4-2 win (Cam)

Without further ado....

25 Points: Matt
23 Points: Cam
21 Points: Nate, Nikki
20 Points: Scott S.
18 Points: Toomie, BK
17 Points: Ryan, Fed
16 Points: Bilbo, Todd
15 Points: Straino, Pablo

Thoughts Sent to Timmay in Chicago

Here is the transcript from my thoughts emailed to Timmay, who is a raving Bulls fan and owns a condo on the South Side of Chicago, after the epic Game 6 Bulls win in triple OT over the Celtics. Gangster:

I love the series for many reasons. First of all, the Bulls have manned up beyond belief. And I love all the mistakes they're able to get away with: DelNegro not fouling when down by 3 with the Celts not having any time outs left, the DRose crunch time turnovers, giving up large leads more than once in more than one win. So it's not like the Bulls are just playing great and that's it. They're totally mistake prone but almost don't give an eff if they fuck up. Their collective swagger propels them to make ridiculously retarded goof ups yet they have the gall to not let it affect their confidence one bit. I haven't really seen that before.

Two things that I hope: I hope that Game 7 tomorrow is really well played. I also hope that whoever wins can at least give the Magic a fight and hopefully win. It would really suck to have the series downgraded in history because of a 4-1 loss to those faggy Magic.

Boycott Popeye's

It's hard to feed your family when Popeye's runs out of free chicken.

Bracket Update: Overrated Hornets

I don't think this is Melo's fiance LaLa, the mother of his son Kiyan. An MTV VJ skank perhaps?

You know the Hornets were overrated by everyone when not one NBA "Expert" Nextian Bracket participant chose the Nug-Show to win 4-1. You would think that with a 2 seed playing a 7 seed that a 5 game victory by the 2 seed was a possibility, right? Well, the closest anyone got was a Nugget victory in 6 games. Chalk this mindbender up to a victory stew of Chancey actually knowing how to play in playoff games, further justification that AI wasn't a good fit for the Nuggets, Melo finally manning up, The Birdman flying, K-Mart's extreme defense, and the Hornets not playing like a team/giving up on their coach (Sportsguy). Here are the new standings:

18: Toomie
17: Matt
16: Scott S.
14: Cam
13: Nate, Bilbo, Fed, Nikki , Ryan, Todd, BK
11: Pablo, Straino