Why Is This an NBA Blog? Because There Are No Fours
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Thanks to the NBA-friendly folks over at Undrcrwn, you can now download a computer desktop honoring the 2009 Playoffs fallen teams. Thus far, we’re talking about the Pistons, Spurs, Hornets and Jazz, but check back maybe as soon as tonight for an updated version, which he plans to keep up on all the way through the Finals.
Let’s all hope Chicago isn’t the next logo we see. (via Dime)
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In news sure to generate up to 36 hours of self-congratulatory boners in the Sports Guy’s Mansion, TNT has added a HORSE competition to this year’s All-Star Weekend. The players are as yet undetermined, but we do know that it can’t fail entirely since Kenny the Jet, CWebb and Ernie Johnson will all be involved.
JE Skeets over at Ball Don’t Lie explains it best:
The game will use a traditional format in which three NBA players will establish the playing order. Once a shot is made, the next player in the predetermined order will attempt the same shot. If that player misses, he is assign — look, if you don’t know how to play H-O-R-S-E, I doubt you’re reading this blog. All you really need to know is that there is no dunking allowed and ballers have just 24 seconds to create/mimic shots.
Pretty much.
HORSE is pretty cool, but they shoulda gone with NPHRIDINGAUNICORN.
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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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Pretty much all you need to know. Also, it reminded me of this and, subsequently, this — both of which are pretty sweet. (video via Ball Don’t Lie)
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After some regrettable early season mockery of Chris for his continual fake laughter, I have to say that my boy Webber has been just killing the NBA TV show for the past month. Now he’s bringing his glory to TNT’s Inside the NBA studio and throwing shoes at the Chuckster. (via Ball Don’t Lie)
Add this to his GINOOOOBLI-like Rondooooooooooo calls (below), his refusal to look at the camera and just the general back-and-forth he has with Gary Payton, and it’s safe to say that we should all be thankful to have more C-Webb in our lives. In fact, all of NBA TV has been great this year with Eric Snow and Steve Smith both also coming on strong. Even Ahmad was unusually not horrible the other night when they interviewed Shaq, the show’s best guest since Danny Granger, who, in response to GP’s question of whether he should call Marquis Daniels “Robin” since Danny is the Pacers’ Batman, said “You can call him whatever you want. I call him Lil’ Wayne.”
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Given that Reggie is my favorite player, I’m genuinely conflicted about his post-NBA analyst work. Sometimes, he’s rather insightful and does a good job of providing recently-left-the-League insight without overly involving himself. But he also makes some odd remarks at times and has a brand of humor/concept of social interaction that can occasionally be somewhat grating — something especially evident when he’s alongside Kenny, Chuck and EJ in Atlanta and coming off like that college kid you were friends with but never really wanted to tell about a party. He’s sort of like the McLovin of Inside the NBA.
There may be no better microcosm to depict this duality than TNT’s new “Reggie’s Mailbag” feature.
Here, he answers a question about the Rockets with some great stats on the number of games played by Yao, TMac and Tru Warier over the past few years and generally makes a few good points. But some element of the whole thing that I can’t quite put my finger on also makes the segment fairly awkward. Or maybe its just his clunky cue-card reading skill and me being overly critical. Who knows?
Regardless, the real point here is that hearing the games played stats for Houston’s big three laid out is interesting and it’s worth two minutes of your time to hear what Reggie has to say about the squad — a team he has predicted will win the West. And the secondary point is that I’ll probably be linking to these things regularly unless they start being horrible.
But for some reason, NBA.com still won’t let you embed videos, so you’ll have to click this link.
And if you wanna ask dude a question, send it to: reggiesmailbag@turner.com.
After further deliberation, Reggie's post-NBA career is going fantastic.
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