Click to engorge to biggerishMaybe we’re more ADD than we thought, because we watched the whole Suns-Mavs game last night, and completely missed this incident where Mark Cuban went into the stands after some fans.
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and reserve center DJ Mbenga, who was inactive and in street clothes for Game 4, entered the stands late in the first quarter after Cassandra Johnson, wife of Mavs coach Avery Johnson, got into a dispute with two Suns fans.
A misdemeanor assault complaint was reportedly later filed by the fans against Johnson for allegedly shoving and swearing at them.
The only thing we know about DJ Mbenga is he’s the guy who cracked LeBron during the regular season and he also has a hit mix album that’s running through the underground club scene right now.
Nobody knows if Cuban is gonna get fined or what, but our best guess would be “fuck yes he will be”.
Thank god the PHXers won last night – can you imagine if the Mavs were facing an opportunity to advance to the Finals in Game 5 and Cuban wasn’t allowed in the arena? That event may have seen the honest formation of the real Ranger Corps, cause there’s no way Mark and his new belly are missing that celebration.
We love the dude, but just what has he been eating lately? He’s gotten bigger lately, yes? True or false – it’s an easy question – we’re now opening that for discussion on AOL IM. Join the other 11 people we’re now chatting with!
The further Stephon Marbury and Larry Brown get from each other, the more obvious it is they’re destined to be together.
Yesterday both men made statements regarding their respective futures in NYC, with Steph saying he wants to die a Knick, and Larry stating he feels like a dead man walking.
“If I ever was to be cremated, I’d want my ashes sprinkled on top of the Garden,” Marbury also told the newspaper. “Playing here has always been my dream. I want to be in New York more than any place.”
“I feel like a dead man walking,” Brown said yesterday. “As many questions as you have, I have. And I have no answers.”
This isn’t the first time things like this have come out of the New York basketball playing organization – remember when Franchise said the only thing worse than playing for the Knicks was when his mom died?
As much fun as this whole thing with Isiah taking over could be, we’d actually like it more now if ownership kept Larry on, when he clearly wants to go. This is a huge game of chicken, is what it is – let it play itself out.
Of course, as far as the Knicks are concerned, none of this is going on at all, so screw them.
btw we’re currently on five instant messages talking about Mike D’Antoni – the longest anyone has lasted keeping on topic is two sentences. Sign on to AOL and see if you can break the record!
We thought the whole funeral for the Suns was a little premature yesterday, and after their blowout win over the Mavs last night, it turns out we were right.
Some people are attributing the PHX win to Raja Bell’s surprise start, and those people are referring to Raja as “hardcore”, a “truck stop t-bone”, and a “warrior”, so don’t click that link.
Others are saying the Mavs came out a little flat, including Dirk Nowitzki, who managed only 11 points.
“I took some tough shots,” Nowitzki said. “I had some turnarounds that I usually make, one or two bouncers and up, which is my game, that I usually make. I just have to bounce back in Game 5.”
“I’m not going on that. I’m not crazy,” Suns coach Mike D’Antoni said of Nowitzki’s performance. “Dirk’s really good so he might have had an off night. Just like the other night, we didn’t have a crisis identity, we just played bad.”
We know he’s a math teacher and all, but isn’t the term “identity crisis”, and not the other way around? Wonder if that was a typo or…something else altogether? We’ll be thinking about it all day, and we recommend you do the exact same thing.
In fact, if you’d like to hop in IM with us, we can discuss it together. Bet you don’t think we’d literally sit on IM with you all day and talk soley about Mike D’Antoni and the term “identity crisis”, do you? You’re probably sitting there like, “oh c’mon…there’s only so much you can say about that.”
You’ll never know until you try, will you? Who’s game? Who? C’mon, who??? We’re “yaysports” on AOL-IM. We’ll post the transcript of anyone willing to try.
(Mavs in 6 still btw.)
Just like with that one guy who played for that one team in the 70s, just showing his face may turn things in the Suns’ favor.
Craig Sager just now reported in the pregame that Raja Bell was in the trainer’s room getting a facial having his calf worked on.
Now the rest of the TNT guys are talking about the game. We don’t know what they’re saying, though. If we listened, we could probably figure it out.
The truth of the matter is that last night after DET-MIA, we were clicking around and came upon something called Karate Dog on ABC Family. Get this:
When LAPD computer expert Peter Fowler (Simon Rex) investigates the killing of an old man (Pat Morita) in Chinatown, he finds the only witness is his dog, Cho Cho (voice of Chevy Chase). But Fowler soon discovers Cho Cho is the only dog in the world who can speak to humans… not only that, Cho Cho is an expert in martial arts. When they join forces to track down the mastermind behind the death of Cho Cho’s master, it leads these unusual partners into uncovering a dangerous conspiracy which puts both of their lives in danger.
A quick once-over of that will surely inspire an “Awww that’s cute for the kids,” right?
You know who plays the mastermind? Academy Award Winner Jon Voight. The climax is Voight kung-fu fighting a talking dog, while Simon Rex is like “C’mon Cho Cho! You can do it! You’re my best friend!”
That’s really all there was to say. Don’t forget to go donate to Who Shot Mamba? – after last night we’re pretty sure we can get Jon Voight involved somehow. It’s almost June, people – time be short.
By the way, we missed this part of the film pictured above, but apparently part of Karate Dog’s repertoire involves kicking people in the junk and setting people’s asses on fire.
One of those headlines we wrote – the other was actually up on ESPN.com this weekend. We take equal amounts of joy from each.
Not taking joy from anything are the PHX Suns, who find themselves down 2-1 to the Mavericks, with Game 4 tonight in Phoenix.
“We’re kind of in the doldrums, which is impossible to be that way in the Western Conference finals,” Suns co-captain Steve Nash said. “We’ve got to get our spirit picked up. We’ve got to be a lot more enthusiastic and have a lot more belief in ourselves.”
We’re not sure what the doom-and-gloom is all about – someone is gonna be down 2-1 after three games. Dallas papers are writing columns like the Suns are already dead.
Sure, Nash’s peoples have been taken out of their running game a little, but that’s kinda what the playoffs can be about – one team asserts themselves and gets a win, then you adjust and see if you can do it the next game. It’s not like they’re down 2-1 or 3-0 and going to play on the road.
Tell you what, PHX fans – we wrote a little pick-me-up poem for back when the Cavs were down 2-0 to Detroit and we were a little down. You’re welcome to use it – just print out a screenshot of this post, cut out what’s below, and keep reciting it all day until you feel better:
THE HAPPY POEM
Go LeBron go,
I know that you know,
That the Cavs are the best,
And that is the best.
The Cavs are the best.
Oh, yeah.
Oh gheah.
Oh, they’re the best.
And I know that you know they’re the best.
Go LeBron!
Go LeBron!
Drink Power Aid!
Now, if that doesn’t work, maybe you should start taking some pills that make you feel less depressed.
Click to enrangerThere’s going to be a lot of talk in the next two days about a need for the Pistons to “get back to basics” and such, after their Game 4 loss to the Heat.
More interesting than that will be the talk about how to reboot the franchise after their Game 5 loss that sends them home for the year.
New coach? Old coach? New players? Star player? Nobody’s quite sure what’s going on in Detroit, but there’s one certainty amid the chaos of this unraveling season.
While even Chauncey Billups is giving the Heat credit, our old friend Rasheed Wallace is blaming this all on the refs.
“You know, it’s some b.s.,” Wallace said. “I don’t see how you double the foul line. Know what I’m saying? He (Dwyane Wade) had 19 free throws. We had 23, 24 (22, actually). … The powers that be turned into some b.s.”
While we understand the man’s need to not take blame for anything, we also watched the game. That would be the one where Dwyane Wade was shooting 44,510% from the field, Shaq drove the length of the court for a layup, and even Antoine Walker was driving to the hole.
Now, you may think we’re taking special glee in watching this Piston team fall apart after what they did to our Cavaliers. That’s not the case at all – our glee is no more or less special than your own.
The fact is, the Pistons losing (tomorrow night) is a great thing for the NBA. Coupled with the Spurs’ ouster last week, we’ve got that many more true contenders next season, and the Pistons will be one of them, have no doubt.
All they need to do is hop in a flux-capaciting Delorean, not select Darko go back to the Cleveland series, and not allow their egos to eat them alive.
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Two quickies here – one, Dwyane Wade probably has the most dynamic arial “poses” since Michael Jordan.
