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![fuckyeanba:
Some afternoon links for this Friday before Memorial Day Weekend. A Friday with no basketball, even as the Clippers/Spurs and Lakers/Thunder played back-to-back at Staples last weekend. Well done Stern.
—Chris Bosh is still out indefiintely, according to Spoels
—Speaking of Bosh, Gregg Doyel at CBS thinks the Heat might be better off without him. Umm, no.
—Wade and LeBron post-game presser after ending the Pacers series. The one with the hot pants.
—Dwight’s claiming he had nothing to do with Stan Van Gundy getting the axe. Even if he didn’t, the perception is that he did, and perception is reality in the world today (just ask the commenter that called me a “passive misogynist,” but I digress)
—Henry Abbott on the “unthinking brilliance” of Tim Duncan. The piece includes a comparison to tennis champion Novak Djokovic and M. Galdwell’s best-selling Blink, if you’re into that sort of thing.
—Sam Amick on Jerry Sloan’s return to coaching (h/t Mr. Ziller). He’s interviewing for the Bobcats slot, which as ESS noted on Twitter, means he’s been living as an eremite for the last year. Seriously Jerry, go talk to Paul Silas before making any final decisions.
—NBA.com’s John Schuhmann on the history of game 7’s between the Sixers and Celtics for the Hang Time Blog.
—More Popovich and Duncan love via Trey Kerby.
—Ian Thomsen on the Celtics’ hopes that experience will trump youth in tomorrow’s game 7 at the Garden (the new Garden, not the old one. Sigh.)
—Adrian Wojnarowski on the Heat’s dominance rolling into the Eastern Conference Finals. Queue eyeroll.
—The always entertaining and adroit Beckley Mason at Hoopspeak on the Miami Heat’s “Occam’s Offense.” If you’re not familiar, Occam refers to Occam’s Razor, a bastardized form of Ockham’s Razor. It’s a philosophical pragamatism named after William of Ockham, a 13th and 14th century logician and Franciscan Friar that birthed, according to Wiki,
“a principle urging one to select among competing hypotheses that which makes the fewest assumptions and thereby offers the simplest explanation of the effect.”
Don’t worry, a lot of people get confused by it. Basically Beckley explicates the simplification of the Heat’s offense: Isolations for Wade and James and shooters to spread the court (Mason goes into much greater detail that simplification and writes a lot more fluidly than I’m doing here, so go check it out). This probably should have been it’s own post, but whatever.
—Shoals and a premature Conference Finals Preview for GQ (not Esquire)
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Some afternoon links for this Friday before Memorial Day Weekend. A Friday with no basketball, even as the Clippers/Spurs and Lakers/Thunder played back-to-back at Staples last weekend. Well done Stern.
—Chris Bosh is still out indefiintely, according to Spoels
—Speaking of Bosh, Gregg Doyel at CBS thinks the Heat might be better off without him. Umm, no.
—Wade and LeBron post-game presser after ending the Pacers series. The one with the hot pants.
—Dwight’s claiming he had nothing to do with Stan Van Gundy getting the axe. Even if he didn’t, the perception is that he did, and perception is reality in the world today (just ask the commenter that called me a “passive misogynist,” but I digress)
—Henry Abbott on the “unthinking brilliance” of Tim Duncan. The piece includes a comparison to tennis champion Novak Djokovic and M. Galdwell’s best-selling Blink, if you’re into that sort of thing.
—Sam Amick on Jerry Sloan’s return to coaching (h/t Mr. Ziller). He’s interviewing for the Bobcats slot, which as ESS noted on Twitter, means he’s been living as an eremite for the last year. Seriously Jerry, go talk to Paul Silas before making any final decisions.
—NBA.com’s John Schuhmann on the history of game 7’s between the Sixers and Celtics for the Hang Time Blog.
—More Popovich and Duncan love via Trey Kerby.
—Ian Thomsen on the Celtics’ hopes that experience will trump youth in tomorrow’s game 7 at the Garden (the new Garden, not the old one. Sigh.)
—Adrian Wojnarowski on the Heat’s dominance rolling into the Eastern Conference Finals. Queue eyeroll.
—The always entertaining and adroit Beckley Mason at Hoopspeak on the Miami Heat’s “Occam’s Offense.” If you’re not familiar, Occam refers to Occam’s Razor, a bastardized form of Ockham’s Razor. It’s a philosophical pragamatism named after William of Ockham, a 13th and 14th century logician and Franciscan Friar that birthed, according to Wiki,
“a principle urging one to select among competing hypotheses that which makes the fewest assumptions and thereby offers the simplest explanation of the effect.”
Don’t worry, a lot of people get confused by it. Basically Beckley explicates the simplification of the Heat’s offense: Isolations for Wade and James and shooters to spread the court (Mason goes into much greater detail that simplification and writes a lot more fluidly than I’m doing here, so go check it out). This probably should have been it’s own post, but whatever.
—Shoals and a premature Conference Finals Preview for GQ (not Esquire)
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Some afternoon links for this Friday before Memorial Day Weekend. A Friday with no basketball, even as the Clippers/Spurs and Lakers/Thunder played back-to-back at Staples last weekend. Well done Stern.
—Chris Bosh is still out indefiintely, according to Spoels
—Speaking of Bosh, Gregg Doyel at CBS thinks the Heat might be better off without him. Umm, no.
—Wade and LeBron post-game presser after ending the Pacers series. The one with the hot pants.
—Dwight’s claiming he had nothing to do with Stan Van Gundy getting the axe. Even if he didn’t, the perception is that he did, and perception is reality in the world today (just ask the commenter that called me a “passive misogynist,” but I digress)
—Henry Abbott on the “unthinking brilliance” of Tim Duncan. The piece includes a comparison to tennis champion Novak Djokovic and M. Galdwell’s best-selling Blink, if you’re into that sort of thing.
—Sam Amick on Jerry Sloan’s return to coaching (h/t Mr. Ziller). He’s interviewing for the Bobcats slot, which as ESS noted on Twitter, means he’s been living as an eremite for the last year. Seriously Jerry, go talk to Paul Silas before making any final decisions.
—NBA.com’s John Schuhmann on the history of game 7’s between the Sixers and Celtics for the Hang Time Blog.
—More Popovich and Duncan love via Trey Kerby.
—Ian Thomsen on the Celtics’ hopes that experience will trump youth in tomorrow’s game 7 at the Garden (the new Garden, not the old one. Sigh.)
—Adrian Wojnarowski on the Heat’s dominance rolling into the Eastern Conference Finals. Queue eyeroll.
—The always entertaining and adroit Beckley Mason at Hoopspeak on the Miami Heat’s “Occam’s Offense.” If you’re not familiar, Occam refers to Occam’s Razor, a bastardized form of Ockham’s Razor. It’s a philosophical pragamatism named after William of Ockham, a 13th and 14th century logician and Franciscan Friar that birthed, according to Wiki,
“a principle urging one to select among competing hypotheses that which makes the fewest assumptions and thereby offers the simplest explanation of the effect.”
Don’t worry, a lot of people get confused by it. Basically Beckley explicates the simplification of the Heat’s offense: Isolations for Wade and James and shooters to spread the court (Mason goes into much greater detail that simplification and writes a lot more fluidly than I’m doing here, so go check it out). This probably should have been it’s own post, but whatever.
—Shoals and a premature Conference Finals Preview for GQ (not Esquire)
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The Top 10 dunks of the 2011-2012 NBA season as selected by NBA.com.
What do you think readers? Are there any they missed?
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NBA Playoffs: Wounded Bulls Fall In Philly, Knicks Avoid Sweep
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gq:
Which OKC Thunder Players Would Die In a Zombie Apocalypse?
Random question, yes. But here’s the explanation: GQ’s NBA guest blogger for the season, power forward Nick Collison, just did a playoff mailbag, soliciting questions from his Twitter followers, and this question was far and away the best. Because Nick is a good and honest fellow, he tackled the question head on. Here’s his answer below. Click here for the rest of his mailbag.
@IamAinsleyHayes Which teammates would survive a zombie apocalypse, and which ones wouldn’t?
I think most of us would. We are used to running and pushing through fatigue. We are used to being in stressful situations together, and we have each others’ backs. Sadly, however, I think we would lose a couple guys. Take, for instance, Reggie Jackson, our rookie, who cannot seem to stay awake for any extended period of time and passes out on all flights within five minutes, as he did here with Serge Ibaka and Cole Aldrich.
I fear Reggie would doze off somewhere and the zombies would get to him. I think Kendrick Perkins would be OK at first, but eventually he would look at a zombie and not like the way the zombie was looking at him. If you know Perk the way I know Perk, you know he wouldn’t be able to resist getting face to face with the zombie and letting him know he doesn’t play. He could fight off a few of the zombies, but eventually there would be too many, and I’m worried he wouldn’t make it. Meanwhile, James Harden would definitely survive, because a zombie is not going to want to get any of that beard in his throat while trying to eat his brain.
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Phi Slamma Jammin’
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Adam Morrison | Michael Cera
“Dirty stache’”
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Dear Carmelo Anthony,
I know you use that smirk to deflect your own insecurities about your skills, or lack-thereof, on the basketball court. I know this because I went to high school.
It’s been a trying season for you, Carmelo. With your perpetually pulled groin, endless stream of aphorisms to the media about defense and offensive cohesion to deflect attention away from your stubborn isolation plays during the D’Antoni reign, and stunning refusal to frown when you mess up, its been hard to argue in your favor to other Knicks and Syracuse fans that ask me what’s up with you.
So why do I keep coming back, and defending you to strangers and friends alike?
Your jumper is a thing of perfection, and I’ve seen you go toe to toe with ‘Bron and beat him, straight up. You were the best player on that 2008 Olympic team before everyone looked for Kobe to be Kobe against Spain.
You brought me my only fully joyous moment as a hometown fan when you led Syracuse to an NCAA title in college (I grew up in Rochester, but still).
I thought your dramatic turn in the bootleg Baltimore classic Snitches Get Stitches possessed a level of nuance normally only found in a production like The Artist(iste).
Your marriage to La La Vasquez seems like a natural fit, since you can both blaze in the limo on the way to some BET awards show. Also, rocking sunglasses to cover blurry eyes is OK at a BET awards show (the only other place it’s OK is at LES bar, Donnybrook, on a Friday night when you’re trying to “score chicks mang”)
I have taken all the crap that’s out there about you Carmelo, and I don’t care.
What I do care about is that YOU CARE!
In 40 minutes of action last night, you looked like the Melo of popular lore, but in the end, you reverted back to that which I despise.
You were 17/31 last night and dropped 39 points on the Pacers, but—and there’s always a but with you—you missed two 25-footers with under a minute to play and the Knicks lost.
Danny Granger, ostensibly the small forward you’d be match-up against, had 27 points on almost half as many shots. Paul George also had 18. But neither of those guys really matter in terms of your own performance.
If you had ended with 45 points, and converted those 2 3-pointers inside of a minute, then you’d be the hero and probably put on your placid countenance to affirm your nonchalance in the face of your own greatness. Instead, you missed those 2 3’s and laughed or smirked or giggled your way into the dark place of my heart normally reserved for Derrick Coleman and Billy Owens.
Stop with the smirk man. We all know its a mask, and an unflattering one at that.
When does Jeremy get back?
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Delonte West | Bubbles (The Wire)
“Yeah, he slept with LBJ’s mom”
