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Listen to The 8th Seed: Playoff Edition

by Jared Wade on April 20, 2010 at 11:40 am · 1 comment

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Head over to Red’s Army to listen to this month’s episode.

We discuss how every Playoff series looks after one game and pontificate about Kevin Garnett, both in terms of the most recent incident that got him suspended for a game and, more generally, about whether or not he’s just kind of a dick. (Kelly Dwyer had a State of Union of KG-piece yesterday called “Why We Don’t Like Kevin Garnett Anymore,” which, while interesting and representative of the overall issue, delves way too far into armchair psychoanalysis for my liking.)

We also yell at each other about Amar’e/the Suns franchise, profess our love for Mavs/Spurs and make fun of Adam Morrison.

Ya know, the usual.

Here’s the line-up of this month’s participants:

Michael De Leon of Project Spurs
Jeff Garcia of Project Spurs
Zach Harper of Talk Hoops, Cowbell Kingdom and Hardwood Paroxysm
John Karalis of Red’s Army
Glenn Moore of The Dugout Sports Show
Matt Moore of Hardwood Paroxysm, NBA Fanhouse and NBC’s ProBasketballTalk
Rey Moralde of The No-Look Pass
Jared Wade of here, Eight Points Nine Seconds and Hardwood Paroxysm

Pretty handsome crew. Particularly the last one.

Kevin Garnett Insane

I don’t think I actually speak all that much on the nonbasketball KG stuff in the podcast — mostly because I lack the motivation to care. But, for the record, I think most of the KG backlash is nonsense. He’s most likely a bit of a dick when he plays basketball, sure, but so were MJ, Larry Legend, Reggie and dozens upon dozens of other Hall of Famers. That doesn’t mean you have to like the guy, no, but I’m not exactly sure when we as fans started wanting to watch sports played only by clean-cut, model gentlemen.

Shouldn’t we spend our time praising genuine role models like Dikembe Mutombo and Dave Bing and save our scorn for legitimate malefactors like Jayson Williams and Donald Sterling? We really need to debate this incessantly? I guess it’s interesting perhaps. He is one of the best 25 players of all time and we do have cool YouTube clips of all his theatrics/transgression. But, really, I don’t have the time nor the inclination to come to any actual decisions about whether or not another grown man yelling and acting a little weird while playing a sport is a negative thing. /soapbox

(Funny photo though, right? It comes us from to the fantastic Doc Funk. The one where he looks at his watch is even better.)

Known Associates: 2010 NBA Playoffs, Adam Morrison, Amare, Celtics, KG, Mavs, Spurs, Suns, The 8th Seed

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The Top 50 NBA Commercials of All Time

by Jared Wade on April 12, 2010 at 1:28 am · 8 comments

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In the Spring of 2007, I was just a young pup in this NBA blogging world. Since then, I have accumulated literally dozens of readers and made untold tens of dollars writing about the NBA, but back then the only people reading this blog were me and Drop Dead Fred. (He didn’t even like it … I just spammed his Gmail account with links to my posts.)

Then, on April 4, 2007, I did a post called “The Top 50 NBA Commercials of All Time” that got linked to from Henry Abbott’s new ESPN version of TrueHoop and a cavalcade of other NBA blogs that probably don’t even exist anymore and, like, 40,000 people showed up. Since my previous high in any day was somewhere south of 4 unique users, it was pretty cool.

Unfortunately, within the year I switched hosting companies and perhaps-due-to-nonpayment (who remembers really?), I lost pretty much all my old content in the transfer. It seemed like a bummer at the time, but honestly the commercial thing and like three other posts were probably the only not completely terrible things I ever did. Still, losing stuff sucks.

HOWEVER, through the miracle of the a tech-smart friend of mine, I was recently able to recover some stuff. And so, mostly because I want to put it back in my archives, I’m re-posting it as it was originally posted verbatim in April, 2007. (Thus, forgive the omission of any spots from the last three years that warrant inclusion.)

Additionally, this may as well be the formal launch of “The NBA Commercial Project,” which will be an attempt to gather links to video for every NBA commercial ever made. We’ll start with just these 50 and build on that. And that’s where I’ll need your help. Head over there and drop links to videos in the comments.

Just do it (wocka, wocka, wocka).

Check the full, original Top 50 after the jump.

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Known Associates: 7-UP, Adam Morrison, Adidas, Air Jordans, Air Pennys, Ali G, Bill Russell, Bill Walton, Brandi Chastain, Cherokee Parks, Chuckster, Damon Stoudamire, Darius Miles, Diesel, Dip Set, Dirk, Drop Dead Fred, ESPN The Magazine, Ewing, Flash, Fun Police, Gheorge, Grant Hill, Groundhog Day, Hibachi, Jadakiss, Jeter, JKidd, Johnny Kilroy, Kareem, KG, Larry Legend, LeBron, Lil Penny, Mamba, Mars Blackmon, McDonald's, MJ, Mos Def, My Giant, Nike, Nique, Penny, Pepsi, Powerade, Q, Reebok, Spike Lee, Sportscenter, Starbury, Steve Nash, The Answer, The Glove, The NBA Commercial Project, Tim Hardaway, TMac, TNT, Tom Gugliotta, Trackmasters, Vlade, WHIT EBOY, Wilt, Yao, Zeke, Zo

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The Highlight of Adam Morrison’s NBA Career

by Jared Wade on January 4, 2010 at 1:53 pm · 0 comments

I’ve neglected to post so many great NBA videos over the past month that it almost feels weird to drop such a gem. But sure enough, here we have Adam Morrison stealing a free-throw high five from the Dallas Mavericks.

I honestly am not sure if he was actually trying to be slick and funny for if he’s just such a weirdo headcase at this point that he’s not exactly sure how the free throw protocol goes anymore. (video via Ball Don’t Lie and Oh Me Oh My, The Jello’s Jigglin’)

Either was, as far as free throw handshaking shenanigans goe, this one is indeed great but is definitely still only a distant second to Andrew Bogut’s classic self-high fives (second video).

That was epic. Nice work, Andy Bogues.