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.

Cavs Playoff Commercial

Let's give a shout out to our first first round playoff winner- The Cavaliers from the beautiful city of Cleveland:



Anything with Delonte West being himself is something that I need to watch over and over again. What an interesting individual.

Ron Artest of The Rockets

Here's Ron Artest in a radio interview a few days ago after The Rockets' game 1 win over the Balzers. I advise listening to this but if you can't, here are the awesome bullet points:

• Ron's feet hang off of hotel beds
• A lot of people, including RonRon, like breakfast at midnight
• The 48 year old Dikembe is playing like an All Star (he got hurt last night and retired an hour later after the game)
• Ron and Kevin Mart --of the Kings-- are good buddies
• If The Rockets make it to the 2nd Round, RonRon will get the entire team to rock the mo-hawk
• Aaron Brooks is the smallest person in the NBA according to Arest
• Kevin Garnett has a lot of mind control over his team
• RonRon doesn't take it day by day, or even minute by minute. He takes life possession by possession
• Artest watches Blues Clues before going to bed
• Ron just gets off the line, dead air, for about 30 seconds to eat his vitamins
• RonRon's vitamins are actually of the Flinstone Chewable category
• Artest wears velvet barbed wire pattern Versace boxers
• According to Ron Artest, you've got to respect your opponent otherwise Golden State beats Dallas
• Von Wafer will be an All-Star one day.........if he wants to (WTF?)
• The vitamins that Artest eats before bedtime are actually that of the Flintstone Chewable category. He doesn't eat the lady vitamin, or the man. He only eats the car.
• Artest has tried to get Shane Battier to read him a story before bed but Battier won't do it

Now THAT was awesome. Artest = pure entertainment.

Erica Dampier Speaks

Shaq once referred to Dampier as a woman nicknaming him "Erica". But after Erica Dampier's comments about how he will treat Tony Parker on Thursday, he is either the toughest talking chick in the WNBA or he has retained the right to his birth name of Eric.

"Every time he drives the lane, we have to put him on his back," Dampier said, according to The Dallas Morning News. "The first foul has to tell him he's in for a long night. My first foul Thursday night is going to put him on his back," Dampier said. "I guarantee it."

Here are Skip and Jemele debating if Damp's statements were a good idea on today's Cold Pizza, I mean, 1st and Ten: