While looking at all the pictures of Spain welcoming home their gold medal winning World Championship team, we came to the realization we don’t really care about international basketball all that much.
We can’t imagine such a celebration taking place here in the US if our guys had won – does anyone even think such a thing would take place?
Beside the fact it would’ve felt like more of a relief if they’d brought home gold, the fact is thus – we care about the NBA, and not much else. Is it unpatriotic? Is it a Gen-X/Y thing?
To round it back to our initial point – who cares what it is? Anyway, one organization we tend to think is right along with us on this is the Memphis Grizzlies, who now have to deal with a Pau!-less existence for three months, thanks to his broken foot sustained in the WCOB.
Griz owner Michael Heisley gets diplomatic.
“I don’t know what you can do. It does no good to rant and rave about it,” Heisley said, adding that he still is disappointed. “It’s part of the breaks of the game. I’m sure Jerry and Mike are bitterly disappointed. Pau is extremely important to our team as he is to Spain. It’s just a terrible break.
“Injury is what everybody is concerned about with players signed to huge contracts and guys playing in international tournaments,” Heisley said. “Lebron James or Carmelo Anthony or Dwyane Wade could have gotten injured also. You have to take a hard look at it if you’re the owner because you’re taking all the risks.”
Allow us to translate that for you.
What he’s saying there is “Fuck! I’m really upset and distraught at this time!”
Granted, this is a man who owns a professional sports team, so how bad can his life be? If the worst thing he has to do all day is pout about his broken Spaniard, that ain’t all that bad.
Hell, he could be spending his time making movies with Alf and cereal boxes, right? (Just to clarify for the mal-intelligenced among you, that’s not actual footage from Who Shot Mamba?. We can use made-up words like that with you mal-intelligenced types, because you’ll just assume it’s real. Neat, huh?)
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wait, so is the word not real or the alf segment? … I made up fancy quotes for that segment’s fanciness!!! Why would the frosted flakes lie to us?!?! Exclamate!!!
Clang! Clang! Clang! LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Dwayne Wade, Joe Johnson and Chris Paul combined to shoot 5-of-20 from the 3-point line as the United States lost to Greece, the third consecutive international flameout for a stacked American roster. Of course, NBA players are at a disadvantage in international games: Traveling is not legal, for example. The larger key makes it harder to barrel down the lane out of control until you slam into someone and draw the foul. Differences in rules and styles cause coordinated offensive plays to be essential in international games, and most NBA stars refuse to do anything but go one-on-one; many haven’t run a back-pick since high school.
I couldn’t say it better myself..
actually…the only real reason I’m glad they lost is because they all adopted the EXPLOSIVELY NOT FUNNY habit of saluting as if they were soliders after an alley oop or thunderdunk. Kinda makes me wish they would have had to suffer through another Larry Brown summer.
The ball is smaller, too. I’m not saying the US has great shooter, but that’s a big reason why so many of their shots go long.
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