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You Can Buy Wilt’s Mansion

by Jared Wade on October 12, 2009 at 8:56 pm

I’m posting this story about Wilt Chamberlain’s former home in Bel-Air once again being for sale for two main reasons. (via @NBAFanHouse)

1. I generally try to steer clear of mocking the random titillating* stories that crop up from time to time throughout the NBA because that crap is really none of our business. But Wilt was so overwhelming forthright and boastful about his forays with the females that I feel it’s fair game to excerpt the paragraph below. Plus, ya know, he’s dead.

2. LATimes.com honestly ran the below photo of Wilt’s house with the following caption that still has not been changed yet, although I presume it will be shortly:

The former home of Wilt Chamberlain, a six-bedroom house in Bel Air that was built in 1971, has six bedrooms. (Sotheby’s / October 12)

Had the ad wizards at the Times thrown in an “ironically” after “1971,” I would have have bet money that Brian Spaeth had recently added “copy editorer” to his resume.

But getting back to the sexy aspect of this whole thing for a minute, here is some other interesting bedroom-centric information contained in the story.

Many of what Chamberlain once called his home’s “kinky details” are gone, among them a mirrored ceiling in the master bedroom that retracted to reveal open sky and a Cleopatra-inspired sunken bathtub that sat at the foot of the bed. A downstairs “playroom,” where Chamberlain had a wall-to-wall water bed floor, is just another room, sans water bed. And the moat swimming pool, though still accessible through an opening in the living room floor, has been divided into three smaller bodies, a lap pool built into the middle.

For those of you scoring at home, that means:

Rings
Bill Russell: 11
Stilt Face: 2

Water Bed Floors
Bill Russell: 0
Stilt Face: 1

Moats
Bill Russell: 0
Stilt Face: 1

Who’s the real winner? Check and mate.

Wilt Chamberlain Mansion

* I Googled the word “tittillating” looking for its Dictionary.com entry because I couldn’t figure out how many Ts and Ls it had, and my search returned these basically safe-for-work “image results for tittillating.” If you look really closely, I believe that is scantilly clothed Margaret Cho on the far right … further proving my theory that Google is seriously, seriously slipping.

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The Big eQuotatious

by Jared Wade on August 28, 2009 at 1:44 pm

Shaq has many self-given nicknames. Normally, that’s not allowed. But since he’s Shaq, it is allowed.

My two personal favorites are probably Wilt Chamberneezy (which was self-assigned because he’s much like Wilt Chamberlain only neezy-er) and The Big Deporter (which was self-assigned because, as Bawketbawful states, both Arvydas Sabonis and Rik Smits “were outspoken about returning to their native countries after getting eliminated” by the Lakers in the 2000 Playoffs). But another one that’s pretty good is The Big Quotatious (which was self-assigned because, as it says in his Twitter bio, Diesel is “VERY QUOTATIOUS, I PERFORM RANDOM ACTS OF SHAQNESS”).

Now, after his recent Scrabble performance on the Jimmy Kimmel Show (his second great public Scrabble-playing display, it should be noted), we can probably add The Big eQuotatious to Shaq’s ever-expanding list of AKAs. (video from Ball Don’t Lie via NESW Sports)

In other Hall-of-Fame-center-on-late-night-TV news, a re-run of Bill Russell’s appearance on The Daily Show aired last night. I hadn’t seen it before, so it was new to me. And since Bill Russell might be the greatest human being alive (I mean, now that Billy Mays “Hayes” is dead), it was very enjoyable. You should watch it.

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Reggie’s Mailbag: Vol. IV

by Jared Wade on December 11, 2008 at 7:12 pm

One silver lining of my mini-sabbatical is that now, in Vol. IV of the always highly anticipated Reggie’s Mailbag, you get not one, but TWO video responses from Mr. Knick Killer himself.

The first one is actually a pretty good question: “Who would win one-on-one: The greatest defender or the best offensive player ever to play the game?”

Reg breaks it down as Bill Russell vs. Roger Murdock aka Lew Alcindor aka Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and he goes with…drumroll please…fellow UCLA grad Kareem. Overlooking the fact that he neglects MJ, it’s hard to dispute his logic.

Question du jour numero dos (I’m a trilinguist) brings us back to contemporaryland to find out who has the NBA’s best bench. Reg gives some token lip service to the Cavs and Cs, but obviously settles on the Lakers, who clearly have the world’s best second unit due to the overwhelming velocity of terror that is my boy Switchblade.

And never forget, you too can ask Uncle Reggie questions such as “Who’s the Asian chick?” by sending them to: reggiesmailbag@turner.com

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Take Us into the Season, Champ

by Jared Wade on October 28, 2008 at 1:03 am

I have to follow up the Malik Sealy post with a link to this fantastic piece by Brandon Hoffman at Ballerblogger on The Big Ticket.

If you can honestly watch the Bill Russell/KG interview he includes (if you want to call it that…it’s basically just one, long Bill Russell chill moment) and then watch this commercial below and still not get excited for tonight’s season opener then you just don’t like basketball.

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