why i love jr smith
Posted on | February 3, 2010 | Comments
Well, there are a myriad of reasons why I love him, but here’s one from last weekend’s Nuggets/Spurs game:
Half-time interviewer: Why the slow start?*
JR: Well, this is an early game and I missed my nap today.
My mom: Did he just say he missed his NAP?
Me: God I love him.
*paraphrased conversation
locker room camaraderie
Posted on | February 3, 2010 | Comments
Whenever my team struggles, I almost always suspect it has more to do with the between the ears stuff than anything else. Mainly because with a team full of present and future all-stars, there’s no way the problem is talent, so it has to be something else. This season, I keep hearing: 1) They’re old! 2) They’re injured 3) Did I mention they’re old? 4) Like geriatric “I have no teeth and need a new hip” old? Well, while those things are true to a degree, I don’t hear anyone saying anything about Kobe (who is also over 30 and also injured, but playing great) so I tend to think those are excuses. So again, when my team under-performs, I immediately start worrying about their psychological makeup (a by-product of being the daughter of a sports psychologist possibly). So, when I heard these comments from Rondo via the morning radio honks earlier today, I said, “A-ha!”
“In the locker room, you can feel it. You don’t feel like it’s the same continuity and camaraderie in the locker room as it was the first year. The first year, it was a crazy spirit in the locker room. But now it doesn’t feel the same. It’s not the same right now. We’ve got to find a way to get that back somehow, some way.” [Boston Herald: Rondo hints at other problems for Celtics]
So the ubuntu has fallen off the rose, huh? Does not surprise me. I actually think it left town the day KG got hurt last season and just hasn’t come back. Hopefully Rondo airing the dirty laundry will help kick start some kind of positive locker room karma joujou. Or it will split the team further apart. Either way, I think he did the right thing speaking up. Somebody had to kick this team in the ass.
Related articles:
- Boston.com/Mazz – Celtics need something to believe in
- ESPN – Rajon Rondo hints at locker room issues for the Boston Celtics
have you seen this man?
Posted on | February 1, 2010 | Comments
Last seen: On the jumbotron at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.
Responds to: “Gino”, winning score at the two minute mark, Bee Gees.
Reward: If found by the playoffs, I will grant the finder one crisp benjamin dollar bill. $
public enemy #2
Posted on | January 20, 2010 | Comments
After much thought and discussion with a higher power, I have chosen my candidate to be the 2nd inductee into the nbamusings.com enemy of the blog hall of shame. That person is… *drumroll*
Dirk “pointy German elbows” Nowitzki
His sins? Swinging those pointy-ass German elbows at my boys!
- Gave Scal a concussion last year
- Elbowed my favorite player (K-Perk) in the face, causing him to have to show up to the next game with a damn band-aid on his face. Band-aids are so last year! (R.I.P. D-Wade band-aid trend)
He seems like a nice enough guy. Hell, he even likes American treasure, David Hasslehoff. But, I warned him multiple times (exhibit a, exhibit b, exhibit c) to no avail.
The pièce de résistance on his elbowing resume? Carl Landry’s TEETH EMBEDDED IN HIS ARM! Ewww…
Anyway Dirk, you have left me no choice…
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You elbowed my boys. Prepare to die.
*giant pointy elbow swings down from the heavens and decapitates Dirk*
this video makes my life worth living
Posted on | January 19, 2010 | Comments
Worth viewing for the hair gel reenactment alone. It will change your life. Pinky swear.
ps. There may be a Josh McRoberts cameo… and it may be fan-fucking-tastic.
kaboom, the apocolypse
Posted on | January 11, 2010 | Comments
I had a horrible nightmare over the weekend, where the following events occurred:
- Two ravens named Ray flew in my window, found my Cheerios and promptly peed all over them.
- Pete Carroll lost his mind and quit USC to fly to Washington and cavort with some seahawks.
- Duke got stung by a giant bumblebee. [Or yellow jacket. What-ev.]
- Some young, athletic hawks of the Atlanta variety hovered over a field of beautiful shamrocks and took a big crap.
- A big buffoon named Shrek, I mean Rex, once dead on arrival, was resuscitated and advanced further into the playoffs than my beloved once dominant hoodie sweatshirt.
Oh and right before I woke up screaming, I could have sworn I also dreamt that Charles Barkley was starring in some really cringily racist episodes of MacGyver.
So in conclusion, birds and bees ruined my weekend.
Blah! 
wtf
Posted on | January 5, 2010 | Comments
I think it’s safe to say that Gilbert Arenas is an odd duck.
A really odd duck.
public enemy #1
Posted on | January 4, 2010 | Comments
I’m going to start keeping track of all the athletes who become an enemy of this blog. The inaugural nbamusings.com enemy of the blog is…
*drumroll*
Bernard “Patriots Kryptonite” Pollard
Hey Bernie. Can I call you Bernie? Fuck you, I’m calling you Bernie. I know you have a cute little fan club and everything and in some douchebag circles you’re some kind of folk hero for taking out Tom Brady. That’s all fine and dandy. I didn’t say a peep about it at the time, even if I did quietly pray every night for an entire season that you’d get hit by a Mack truck. But seriously now — and I am serious as a heart attack — stop being my team’s kryptonite. Yeah yeah, you have to play the game… help your team win… Yada yada yada. Shut it.
I’m watching you.
*points fingers at eyes and back in Pollard’s direction*
not as bad as the david tyree catch, but still
Posted on | December 28, 2009 | Comments
I’m working from home today. On days that I work from home, I commonly watch ESPN2. Yes, both airings of First Take. Normally, it’s just Skip & whoever bantering about LeBrick James and/or Ocho Stinko — you know, enjoyable. But on days following one of my team’s losses, it’s brutal. Today… it was this:
They kept cutting to SportsCenter, who kept showing it over and over and over and over and… Sigh. I figure if I post it here and watch it again and again, maybe it will lose some of it’s power.
Be gone, clanky free throws and game winning bearded basket makers. Be gone!!
funny, not funny – xmas day edition
Posted on | December 27, 2009 | Comments
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