Catching up with L’EXPLOSIONS
Published by The Cavalier September 30th, 2006 in EXPLOSIONS, Tony Parker, France, Raja Bell
We’re pretty upset at the moment.
This is one of our absolute favorite periods of the year: the NBA preseason.
You’ve media day pics begging to be manipulated (the Spurs, 76ers and PHX have already gone at it), predictions, previews, games, and of course, mass delusion from fans.
We’re caught up in heavy Who Shot Mamba? biz for almost the whole month, so we’re not as on top of things as we’d like to be. That said, we’re gonna try to be as blog-productive as possible, even at the expense of sleep.
Let’s get a quick rundown of the last couple days to at least get things back to current.
Phil Jackson is going to have a little hip surgery, but should be back by Halloween, which doubles as the first day of the season.
Donning Craig Sager’s Suit - another new blog. It has potential - we’ll see if they can keep it up after starting with a vid of Craig doing shots. (via Deadspin)
Led by CelticsBlog, this new blog will carry a steady stream of team previews by a wide array of NBA bloggers, including us. We’ll be covering the - wait for it - Cavaliers.
Forum Blue and Gold takes a look at the Pacific Division.
Lots of talk around the net about Stein’s Power Rankings, which put the Cavs at #7, behind both Chicago and Detroit…
Okay, we’ll talk about that later. Plenty of time for that.
The Spurs are doing camp in el France, where they’ll wear those special America racing stripes in exhibitions against teams de l’europa.
Larry Brown’s Knicks contract hearing with David Stern went down, although the results are unknown as of yet.
If the an article titled “Chris Mihm and more” doesn’t make you click, nothing will.
Cavaliers open camp with their media day on Monday, and Tom Reed says the ciy’s sports fans need some LeBron badly at the moment.
Don Nelson says he won’t make Baron Davis think too much when he plays. That’s just what he needs!
The Magic are getting a new arena, although it’ll be too late for this season’s Dwight Howard Fictional Title Team.
Gilbert Arenas has left his agent, and his new one is not us.
I agree, the pre-season is a great time of year. Everyone thinks they have a shot at the title. Everyone has a clean slate. But don’t they remember we’ve seen them play before?
Why did Phil Jackson wait until now to get surgery? I think he decided he couldn’t go through a whole season of Chris Mihm and Kwame Brown, so this is a way to get a few months off.
Don’t you mean French racing stripes. You’re falling off Cav.
Cavs behind Pistons and you’re confused by that?
Not confused or even surprised. I just think it’s so very very wrong.
Pistons will be better than the Cavs, if and only if Rasheed Wallace plays like he’s capable of playing for the entire season. That is a BIG if…and yes, I just took the lsat, thus the logic set up.
Wait… there’s a seperate SAT for ladies?
LSAT=Law School, son!
No shit?
Cav,
I just realized that you put the france flag along the side of Tony’s Spurs Jersey…You’re all about the details aren’t you?
I’d love to be able to say I did that, but they’re actually wearing those over there.
Obviously a suggestion from Le Parker…