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The most depressing part about this story from my perspective is that I’m posting it while watching the end of the 2006 WCF game between the Spurs and Mavericks where Dirk dropped that dunk plus the harm to propel Dallas to the victory. During the game, the Mavs blew a huge lead and looked poised to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory throughout the 4th quarter, only to mount a ferocious effort and out-will the at-the-time World Champs. (NBA TV was showing the game this afternoon to hype us up for the Spurs/Mavs game tonight.)
Since that’s clearly irrelevent to you, however, the actual story is that Mav owner and Both Teams Played Hard spokesman Mark Cuban was none too happy about his players’ effort of late, particularly in Monday’s loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Since I never once changed the channel away from the Flash vs. LeBron Gala of Unrelenting Brilliance that was occurring on another channel that night, I have no idea whether Cubes’ displeasure is entirely warranted. But based upon the fact that Nenad Krstic had 26 points on 10/14 shooting, I doubt I would be all smiles and butterfly kisses either.
Cuban’s thoughts: (via Slam)
“If each player can’t take the personal initiative to make every game important and play like it, I don’t see them being here next season. The ball won’t always bounce the way we want it to, but every player can control their level of effort. If it’s not important enough to them to lay it out every game the rest of the season, they won’t be back.”
“I don’t care what their contract is. I would rather turn over the roster 100 percent than subject fans to another game like last night. This team has the talent to win in the playoffs. But that’s only going to happen if all 15 guys know and execute their assignments and play every possession like it’s important.”
Even though Cuban was undoubtedly the lever man behind the horrible, horrible Jason Kidd-for-Devin Harris deal that set back this franchise about five years (and I still like JKidd), you gotta feel for this team. They made a great run to the Finals in a year when Dirk had one of the better non-LeBron/Kobe individual seasons in recent memory and immediately fell into a tailspin from which they’ve been completely unable to recover.
In fact, watching Dallas play is so “meh” that I haven’t even bothered to spend all that much time monitoring my man Brandon Bass. If anyone has any thoughts on Senor Brolic’s play of late, leave em in the comments.
But in cheerier news, this photo:
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Since nothing but needless All-Star bickering is going on today and I have to post something to avoid the flaming dogshit on the porch treatment again (cut it out, mom), here’s a few videos from Inside the NBA last night.
The first features a remixed clip of Shaq who apparently was carried onto the court by the Suns’ scrub players last night. The TNT interns apparently thought it would be funny to put Chuckster’s head in front of Shaq and wait for Kenny to make “He’s fat” jokes. Unsuprisingly, it was a little funnier than it should have been. More importantly, we have Webber busting out his Tony Parker impression repeatedly, which is easily my favorite culturally insensitive but widely-embraced-regardless development of this NBA season
And here’s CWebb, Glove and Kenny throwing out some old school/new school NBA duos with somewhat similar games and deciding who is better. Predictably, the old-timers get unwarranted props. I mean, Tom Chambers was sorta sick wit it and all, but you’re really taking him over Dirk, GP? Although just as inexplicably, he takes Nate Robinson over Muggsy, who could flat out play D.
Someone mentioned the other day how it was weird that The Glove tends to be so dismissive of defense in his analysis when that is the exact thing that made him a Top 10 point guard of all time and a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
But since Gary Payton also tends to be fucking awesome constantly, it’s not really gonna sway my opinion. It’s sorta, how you say, like antlers on a hot chick. Whatever.
And just because some of you theoretically come here to find out information about what is actually going on in the NBA, here’s their takes on the Spurs this season. Boring.
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“Hey, loser. How’s not playing Laser Tag? Cause playing Laser Tag is AWESOME.” (from Mavs Moneyball via Untitled Dallas Mavericks Project)
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(Un)official Both Teams Played Hard spokesman Mark Cuban is now branching out beyond simple branding endeavors for this here website and is trying to bestow his ad wizard wisdom to players throughout the League.
And what was the main piece of advice offered by this known fashionista?
To become a successful brand you have to do any number of thousands of different things to reach a level that leads to marketing and off court/field success.
On the flipside, all it takes is one mistake to bring it all crashing down. I have noticed a trend that is creeping through the NBA that truly disturbs me. It disturbs me because its the equivalent of burning 100 dollar bills. That is how debilitating to any hopes a player may have of making money through endorsements.
In the spirit of partnership as an NBA owner, I am asking the commissioner to extend the dress code to exclude the…
The Dreaded FroHawk
Friends don’t let friends wear the FroHawk. If you are a soon to be pro athlete and are considering hiring an agent. Just do the “FroHa Search”. If they have any clients with Fro Hawks, pick a different agent
The opinions expressed in this post are those of their author, Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Both Teams Played Hard.
And in fact, you’re sort of dead to me for even suggesting such lunacy. Much like leprechaun lawyers, cotton candy trampolines and pinatas full of Salma Hayek, frohawks are what dreams are made of.
If you're scoring at home, frohawks are out, but airbrushed tees tucked into your jeans, cowboy hats and friendship bracelets are a-okay.
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