I must break you EXPLOSIONS 12.05.05

They talked about it, they wrote it, they gave it the green light, but never in our wildest dreams did we think they’d actually film Rocky VI, aka Rocky Balboa. We’ll see this like 7 times in the theater, regardless of quality.

We actually cried during Rocky V. During the final fight, when Rocky’s down on the pavement, about to go under, he looks up at the streetlights and hears Mickey’s voice say, “Get up you son of a bitch! ‘Cause Mickey loves you!” Then the theme kicks in and he beats Tommy Gunn to a pulp. Then he goes to the museum with his kid and says “aw, I like pretty much everybody.” That’s how we like to live, y’know?

We also like the part where Rocky’s like “My ring’s outside.” We’re pretty much choked up for the last 20 minutes of the movie, and also right now. Yes, we like Rocky V. The only part that sucks is when his kid goes “Kick his ass! He stole my room!” They should edit that out.

The Spurs have patched up that dynasty threatening Barry-Popovich feud. Had it continued, the Spurs may have only managed 63 wins or so.

Stephon Marbury is one of the best players in the league…on paper. Nice stats aside, the Knicks lose at home to the Celtics.

The 20th Carnival of the NBA is up at Attack of the Supersonics. Does anyone have a link to the 1st Carnival? We’d like to see that.

Eric Snow pays for fathers to bring their sons to every Cavaliers home game.

HoopsAddict has that Kemp video everyone is talking about right there on their site for you.

Portland loses to Utah without the services of their leader, Darius Miles. Yes, that Darius Miles. Yes, leader. No, we’re not being sarcastic.

Elton Brand’s Nike campaign is pretty clever, and doesn’t involve ninjas, snakes, or motorcycles. Seriously, what the f–k is that all about?

KG stinks it up, but the TWolves still beat the Kings in Sacramento.

Everybody in the NBA is cutting bodyfat and finding themselves lighter and quicker. What a revelation – thank god for modern science and training techniques.

We’ll be participating in something called a BlogJam tomorrow, which is some sort of online roundtable discussion between four bloggers. There’s stuff that will aumse you, and then there’s us trying to have an intellectual discussion about the U.N., which up until this morning we though stood for “Unreal Nabisco”. We will surely post a link once it’s up.