Are the Hawks just ultra-confident that they’ll win any Game Seven in their own gym? Because with a chance to eliminate D-Wade and the Heat last night, ATL came out, as Mark Jackson put it, like they had some kind of cushion. True, the Hawks were essentially missing two starters (Al Horford out; Marvin Williams played five minutes), and generally they were not a good road team this year. But execution and effort are two different things … Read More »
If you’re watching game 6 of the Hawks/Heat game, you’re watching a brewing situation. The Hawks are down 25 with 8 minutes left and all the stars are on the court and it’s getting ugly. Josh Smith is picking fights, Wade just pinned Flip Murray and had a crazy cram down the lane, and to say it’s chippy between the two teams is the understatement of the year. Why the coaches have their star players in the game I have no idea. 50/50 chance Josh Smith does something to get himself suspended and there is an equally good chance that Wade (who is already banged up) gets crumpled by a hard frustration foul. Anyone else watching this and wondering what the two coaching staffs are thinking?
After a wacked-out diatribe with Craig Sager in which he said that Brandon Roy is better than Kobe or LeBron, Ron Artest returned from Planet Crazy to help the Rockets sink the Blazers at home yesterday. And in doing so, he spent some time in the stands. “I was like, I’m going to sit down and enjoy this,” said Artest. “He’s not throwing [the beer] at me.
If you didn’t know already, Matty D and I are huge Syracuse fans. We were heartbroken when we learned that Eric Devendorf, Jonny Flynn, and Paul Harris (possibly) all declared for the draft. Apparently Andy Rautins is a bit upset too…..
David West can’t openly say that Peja Stojakovic is over the hill, that Rasual Butler doesn’t play with heart, and that Julian Wright stinks. However, his call for New Orleans’ front office to go out and get some talent to lighten the burden on Chris Paul‘s shoulders is just another way of saying those other things.
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If you’re planning on taking a hammer to your little brother’s piggy bank to help finance a trip to the Finals this year, put the tool down. Thanks to the good folks at adidas, all you need to do to win two tickets to Game 3 of the Finals is enter the “Rep Your Brotherhood” contest, submitting your best photo wearing NBA team gear with a 100-word writeup on why you love hoops right HERE. And you actually don’t have to dress like this guy to score the tickets.
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Coach K must have hated having to make something like this. First of all, it’s not really true. All the talk about “playing fast,” “having the freedom to just play,” and “having a little bit of an advantage going into the pro’s” feels like it’s being read off a script. Even if a PR agency told everyone at Duke basketball what recruits want to hear, it’s almost laughable given that the Blue Devils’ reputation is the exact opposite of what they say in this clip.
Renardo Sidney is the type player that you want to see succeed. If he makes the most out of his physical tools, the possibilities are endless. But sometimes it feels like he’s doing his absolute best to climb up the ranks in the “Knucklehead of the Year” running. After coming off like an arrogant, indifferent underachiever in a New York Times magazine feature, Sidney made a pretty big production out of his commitment to USC. And now, just two months after that announcement, he’s signed a letter of intent to play for Mississippi State.
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