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My man Sekou Smith (@sekousmith01) reached out recently to invite me onto his NBA.com Hang Time podcast. We recorded Monday (I think) so I’m linking a little late (was away for work), but most of our 20-minute talk centers on topics with enough shelf life to make it worth a listen even a few days after the fact.

We talk NBA nicknames, NBA hip hop lyrics and try to decide what NBA player most reminds us of the late, great Guru of Gang Starr — which leads to a heavy debate on Dirk’s legacy. (BTW, I should have murdered Vince Thomas, co-host of Hang Time, for saying CL Smooth is better lyrically than Guru, but I let it go. My all-time comparison for Guru would without question be Scottie Pippen: another always-reliable Hall of Famer to run alongside the best that ever did it.)

I jump in at the 11-minute mark and serve as an opening band of sorts for Mike Fratello, so you’ve also got that look forward to. I’m sure The Czar is just as honored as I am to be included in this Episode 6 description: “The Czar, Mike Fratello and blogger Jared Wade join Sekou and Vince to break down the playoffs so far.”

Maybe someday Fratello will not only get the chance to have his name near mine in a sentence, but actually get to join me for real on my Talking About Practice podcast. Hey, he can dream.

Head on over to listen to Episode 6 of the NBA.com’s Hang Time Podcast.

And be sure to subscribe on iTunes.

NBA Hang Time Podcast

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Dirk Nowitzki Mavericks Beat Spurs

(Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

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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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All the News Fit to Six: March 30, 2010

by Jared Wade on March 30, 2010 at 12:47 pm · 0 comments

Dallas Mavericks Dirk Kidd Terry

(Photo by Danny Bollinger/NBAE via Getty Images)

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