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Welp, that's it for today, folks. Enjoy the Skills Competition, which, like the Home Run Derby in baseball, is far more enjoyable than the All-Star Game itself.
Brooks posits that the Big Easy should play host to the NBA All-Star Game every year. I have a hard time arguing with his reasoning, especially with the amount of a humanitarian angle the league has been trying to play up with its coverage.
The Big Easy needs the business, the NBA needs a nice PR play, and the city has a favorable demographic and facility for the game. Perfect fit.What's the point of playing the damn thing in Portland or Minneapolis or Denver when most of the city doesn't care? That wouldn't be the case in New Orleans.
No All-Star Game in Memphis? I won't hear it!
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well, i take exception to the portland comment. there are no other "big 4" professional sports in the town. the denizens love the blazers and basketball. i can't argue with the point that New Orleans would make a good host city every year.
Is someone win the dunk contest and then gets traded to the T-Wolves, do they win anything at all?
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That monkey just got signed to a 10-day contract by the Clippers
*wins, not win
Dammit, I barely have time to comment anymore and when I do I screw it up. FAIL.
Vegas.
@The Fan's Attic: Plus Portland has never hosted an All-Star game, even though we were supposed to after the Rose Garden was built.
An ape would totally make the skills competition much more TV-ready.
Maybe some huge gorillas that you'd have to get past, some chimps hanging from the hoop blocking shots, an orangutan selling popcorn in the stands...
Gerald Green < J.R. Rider.
That is in career accomplishments, they seem to be locked in a dead heat in level of indifference about their basketball careers.
@Greek McPapadopoulos: To clarify, I didn't mean that anything was set in stone--just more of an "understanding" was implied.
That monkey just got signed to a 10-day contract by the Clippers
And Isiah Thomas is trying desperately to think of a way to trade for him.
@TheStarterWife: or put the Phoenix Suns gorilla on the trampoline to try and block the dunker. Make it a contact sport.
The camera man looks like he's sporting a compound bow. Now that would make the competition ions more interesting- who can make the best dunk without getting shot with an arrow.
@TheStarterWife: ... a capuchin to stand next to Jeff Van Gundy to make him look taller...
@TheStarterWife: Why not just say what you mean and call them out as the nappy headed hos they are?
@kataroo_kangaroo: For everyone knows, the dunk contest is... the most dangerous game. (suspenseful violin music)
@God Save Dat Phan: Good, but needs more sharking.
No Brent Barry, no dice.
@BruschisBrewsky: harold miner < fred jones < gerald green < kenny walker < dee brown < jr rider
I don't understand how the Kelvin Sampson fiasco is such a big deal. I'm sure that many other college coaches have done the same thing as him. If this was a big deal IU would have fired him already, like how quick they were at the trigger with Bob Knight in 2000.
And shouldn't IU be held at fault too for hiring him when they knew about his previous violations at OU? Wow college sports are so corrupt.
/end rant
//dick joke
More terrible: That my father just saw that picture and asked "What happened to Patrick Ewing?", or that it made me spit out my water and laugh?
And shouldn't IU be held at fault too for hiring him when they knew about his previous violations at OU? Wow college sports are so corrupt.
If I remember correctly, that's basically what they were saying this morning on Gameday, that the fact that it's a big deal now is mostly CYA by Indiana. They're worried that the NCAA is going to step in and claim that there's no administrative control.
Also, I want some green kicks. Badly.
@VTBen: 29 years of intimidating/harassing/choking players... yeah they were really quick with that firing.
@Chloroform Monster: I'm not going to call a chimp names, they tend to be wildly stronger than humans despite being smaller.
Didn't a chimp (who is a great ape like gorillas and humans) almost kill a NASCAR driver?
@Nationalcoholic: Point taken. I always thought they were looking for any excuse though by the time Knight got fired.
@44 in a Row: Doesn't sound like there is much administrative control right now. But since the President of the NCAA is a former IU president I doubt the school will get too much punishment.
@Greek McPapadopoulos: Probably because Paul Allen didn't use government money to build it. David Stern doesn't like the precedent that you can actually build an arena without having it financed 100% by the public and handed over to an NBA team as a gift (of course, Allen instead tried to steal it from the private investors who had actually paid for it, but that didn't work out according to his plan--whole other story).
@Nationalcoholic: Was that wrong?
/Costanzaed
Well, at least I've got more gin.
I wish the Dunk Contest would start right now.
/staying home sick all night
First the Dunk Contest, then the Drunk Contest. Tonight's gonna be good again.
@TattooedMess(iah): The best thing about the Drunk Contest? Everybody's a winner!
@Brazil Thrill: Except Chris Andersen.
Everybody's a winner!
Until the morning.
@44 in a Row: Which is what B-12, Captain Crunch, and orange Gatorade is for.
It's amazing how awesome and exciting the dunk contest used to be.
Kinda like the NBA...
@VTBen: Oh God no, Brand would like nothing more then to nail IU's ass to the wall. Going to the NCAA was jumping before he was pushed out. And he should, the athletic director there is 180 pounds of slime in a suit, he knew damn well that Kelvin had every intention to continue breaking the rules after caught. That's why they threw the assistant coach under the bus this fall, they already knew they needed a fall guy.
@Brazil Thrill: Exactly. Less so though are the people who lose to my neighbor and I at beer pong (or beirut if you're so inclined) last night. 8 games in a row, only losing by 1 cup because it was a lingerie party? Pretty good.
Orange Gatorade doesn't help you find your pants.
/staying home sick all night
Alcohol is the cure for that.
8 games in a row, only losing by 1 cup because it was a lingerie party?
I have no idea what one thing has to do with the other, but I certainly appreciate the little details.
Alcohol is the cure for that.
That's true. It's a scientific fact that alcohol kills germs.
@Signal to Noise: No can do. Firstly, even casual contact in basketball results in a foul, your idea would involve the playing of defense (outlawed in the NBA) and then there is the matter of the "Jordan rules".
How about Sir Charles and Dick Bavetta sumo wrestle instead.
@twoeightnine: Why must you Osi in our party like that?
@44 in a Row: that would assume one was looking.
@kataroo_kangaroo:
By B-12 you mean Winstrol, right?
Can't stay right now though, girl is still over and we are watching a movie/cuddling.
@racistmascot_inc: get the fuck out of here and cuddle, douchebag!
@kataroo_kangaroo: Wouldn't The Cuddling Douchebag be a great serial killer name?
Or emo band name?
Because I'm stuck outside of DC waiting for my friends to get back from the airport and decide if they're going to be lame or not.
If I'm going be Osi'ed by them, I'm going to Osi the NBA because it deserves it more than me.
@Tuffy: I think Birdman flew high on a lot more than alcohol.
@44 in a Row: That's what copious amounts of water are for.
@Hank Scorpio: I feel like it should be a bad divebar/tavern where you hear shitty emo bands with wanna be hipster scene kids who judge you for not having sleeves.
@Hank Scorpio:
or way to refer to my ex boyfriend(s)?
oh, and once again, fuck you, Vince, for being what you once were, compared to what you now are.