The Cavaliers fifth straight win. Udonis Haslem giving the Heat their sixth straight victoire on a last second shot.
A mysteriously late-to-shootaround Kwame Brown…who had a birthday (and a cake?) of his own, which didn’t help the Lakers avoid complete destruction at the hands of the Mavs.
These are all things that are worthy of attention this morning, but there’s something else at play – something that’s the end to a journey we’ve all been on since last summer, when crazy-man NYK owner Jim Dolan made his “do it or die” declaration about coach/GM Isiah Thomas.
Yes, friends…it’s happening. Reports say Isiah Thomas is getting an extention from the Knicks, who currently sit alone in the eighth spot of the Eastern Conference. The Playoffs would certainly signal the required “improvement”.
Will they hang on to that spot? That’s one question. The Nets and Magic are right behind them, and New Jersey is about due to have one of their late-season 10-game win streaks, but New York is also only 1/2 game behind IND (losers of 9 straight) for the seven seed.
The other piece of wonderment is whether Zeke’s extention comes with or without the “no trading” handcuffs he’s been wearing that have made his season so very stable. We’re obviously hoping not, and knowing Dolan’s smart business sense, this thing probably nixes that little hinderment, especially with all the marquee names possibly available this summer.
Our call? 8 years, $140M. It’s just crazy enough to not work at all.
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this whole Kwame Brown (and a cake?) “humor” has lost it’s luster.
Nice to see Varejao(hn) try to run the score up on the Pacers by bombing a 3 to get everyone in the crowd free chimichangas if they score over 100… Now the Pacers are mad, and when the Pacers are mad, they go into the stands to fight.
Wow, Isiah is getting an extension.
two teams from the atlantic making the playoffs (which seems inevitable) will make my head asplode.
and i LIKE the knicks…
Steve is still God.
Dear The Cavalier,
It looks like your page is garnering a lot of attention from celebrities lately. I’ve seen Eva Longoria, Teri Hatcher, Manu Ginobli, Tony Parker, etc all commenting here..
It must make you feel good knowing that your site gets so much attention among us “stars”.
If you want, I’ll send you an autographed photo of myself and Gheorghe Muresan that was taken on the set of “My Giant”, where as you know, I was trying to be his stunt double but that never worked out…
Billy Crystal is an ass…
Anywho, I will let you get back to bragging about the Cavs.
- Big O
First, Boney, you’re 100% wrong, the Kwame v. cake thing hasn’t realized its full potential. Secondly, you can’t play the role of the scold when James already did that, yesterday, after the game.
stop jinxing the Nets.
No, FiOS. Just because it’s funny that a basketball player intentionally smashed cake! into another man’s chest doesn’t mean we need to continually joke upon it as if it’s some sort of running dialogue… It would be different if it was Ronny Turiaf because then you can do the whole OLE! thing with pictures of smashed cake… Kwame is pathetic enough as it is, we don’t need to rub cake! in his face.
I didn’t really “scold”. I just said it’s awfully bad when Varejao(hn) bombs away a 3 in an attempt to get chimichangas for the home crowd. Varejao(hn) will be able to afford a lot of chimichangas after he signs his max deal this offseason with the Knicks/Nets. I see a future for Varejao(hn) that follows predecessors like Yinka Dare and Jim McIlvaine in NJN.
sorry Becky for bringing up Jim McIlvaine, Yinka Dare, Aaron Williams (can this brotha get any whiter?), and other Les Boulez cast-offs that have run to the Meadowlands for greener pastures. Honestly? If the NJN want to be popular again? They should bring back those tie-dyed looking away uniforms from when Reggie Theus was MONEY with his jeri-curl and tube socks
Boney what you’re missing is that the humor isn’t in Kwame Brown, it’s in the birthday cake.
Humor is in the eye of the beholder I gues.
I for one think entirely too little has been made out of cake-gate.
Agreed!
the cake thing needs to be explored more deeply. in fact, if i don’t start seeing more cake-related quips at Yaysports, i’m going to take my business, and my precious, precious IP address, somewhere else…perhaps AOL Fanhouse! now those people take the cake! (rimshot?)
I dislike the cake! idea. While I think anytime you see some random guy get a cake! smashed on him is funny, I think carrying it out over 2 weeks is a littler tedious…
but then again, I also enjoy boring basketball and would rather see Pistons v. Spurs in the Finals..
Of course it’s fair game to bring up cake-throwing on Kwame’s own birthday!
Italics don’t lie!
I’m still captivated by the idea of Kwame fleeing the scene, I picture him giggling like a child
I picture the cake-smashee crying, kneeling over the ruins of his cake. Fists clenched around crumbs. The villian Kwame scurrying off giggling is a sweet counterpoint.
Someone needs to get on this and win a Grammy.
I’ve always pictured Kwame as more determined that this was something that needed to be done, for reasons even he doesn’t fully understand yet. He’s even somewhat sorry he did it, but hopeful that the task will give him the clarity he’s so long searched for, as the prophesy foretold.
maybe he was just molested by a cake as a child.
In Kwame’s world, flour, sugar, eggs and water is a recipe for disaster
Nets arent going to go on a patented win streak, that was gone since the season started. Try next season though.
I really hope the mavs win it all this year. Shaq has probably earned the right to be lazy by now, but there’s something very wrong with the heat so blatantly mailing it in the first 2/3rds of the season. There really should be some sort of reward for going 37-2? over their last 39 for the mavs and even the decent work by the suns.
First round bye in the playoffs?
Extra Cake?
How about if the lower seed has to spot the higher seed 1 point for however many more wins the higher seed had in the regular season? Based on current records, pistons vs. heat would start pistons 6, heat 0. Or even better, pistons 0, heat -6. (mavs vs. heat would start mavs 0, heat -19)
Suddenly that early season regimen of donuts and malaise donut look so good.
Hey Cav, would you mind linking to “www.lowerseedhastospotthehigherseed1pointforhowevermanymorewinsthehigherseedhadintheregularseason.com” when you come out with kwamevscake.com?
Mr. Greg Ostertag – I like your haircut.
Go Donuts!
Some columnist said the higher seeds should get extra home games for the first round – like the 1 seed gets 6 games and one road, 2 seed gets 5 & 2, etc. I think that could work.
HE GOT AN EXTENSION!? WHAT IN THE WORLD HAPPENED? AND WHY AM I TYPING ALL CAPS?
Please continue jinxing the Nets. As you did the Pacers.
I think the idea of an unbalanced schedule for the playoffs is unfair to the lower seeded teams. Do you REALLY think that the 8th seed teams tried any less than the 1 seed? Why reward the 1 seed just because they won more regular season games?
I’d say the NYK have tried about as hard as any other team in the league to make the playoffs, and if they get in as an 8 and have to play 6 road games and only get 1 home game, that’s a severe dis-advantage. If you thought the Celtics tried to tank it before, just wait until they try to change that rule… It will never pass in a league-wide vote anyway…
I can understand the thought process if all the teams just half-assed it throughout the reg. season… but unfortunately while it may look like they do (CLE), it doesn’t mean they actually do (ORL and NYK).
The Festiva is high on crack if he thinks it’s fair to “spot” teams points… it sucks that your team mails it in, but honestly, it sucks even worse when they don’t and they’re still mediocre enough to make the playoffs as an 8 or 7.
Participation awards to all the teams. Sponsored by: Boney.
I mean they all tried hard, right Rasheed?
It must suck to have a team half-ass it and still beat you, full strength, at home with a severe free-throw advantage
“Do you REALLY think that the 8th seed teams tried any less than the 1 seed?”
Miami Heat translates to “effort” in most languages.
I’m not saying that CLE is mailing it in, I’m just reiterating what The Cavalier himself has said for whole season except for the last 2 weeks. FiOS, you’re still fixated on one win, when 2 other matchups on CLE homecourt resulted in relatively embarassing losses by CLE. I’ve actually never said CLE is mailing it in, I’ve only made comments referring to The Cavalier’s and/or ‘Bron’s. I’m not overly worried about 1 loss at home by 4, when clearly DET matches up somewhat decent with CLE…I mean, I won’t say that game was nearly perfect by CLE the other night, but it was damn close. The FT disparity is hardly a legitimate “excuse”. As if ‘Bron isn’t the benefactor of “gimme” calls everytime he bull rushes the lane and does his “and 1″ sign…
The Heat are a bad example because now they’re a 6, and will soon be a 4, 3, or 2. I was talking specifically about NYK or ORL… The NYK would love to be in the playoffs, as evidenced by Steve Francis’ (too bad he’s not a CLE) stepping up on the scorer’s table and pounding his chest after his 3 over WAS caused them to be tied for 8th in the league… I don’t care about participation awards, but the league has been doing similar things in the playoffs for the entire life of the league, why dramatically change the format of the playoffs just because NYK actually wants to be there as an 8 and MIA was “tanking” it… why penalize a team because they can’t be higher ranked? If you want to do that, then make the playoffs the best 16 teams in the league, regardless of conference…
I’d hardly call a team “full strength” when it’s their PF’s 1st game back from an ankle injury… it took a nearly perfect game (it would have been perfect if Donyell and Ira Newble were bombing 3s and making them) to beat DET.
but then again, that’s the same “full strength” team that your team took to 7 games last year with Rip and Sheed both hurt, but playing.. my bad… I guess it takes a sore toe to not be full strength when last time I checked jumping up and landing on someone’s foot and almost completely rolling your ankle over isn’t that bad…
FIGHT FIHGT FIGTH!
Either way, I agree with Boney. Teams already get an advantage of being the higher seed by getting that extra home game. Give everybody a fair chance.
How about just linking the 2 conferences together and making one uni-lateral NBA Super Conference? you know… then DET can be a 5th seed and CLE can be a 7th seed and then CLE can play either WAS or TOR in the 1st round and then play the winner of PHX v. LAC in the 2nd round… then DET can play LAL, and if they beat them, then play the SA vs. (I think but my math may be wrong) MIA series…
If this type of playoff system was in place, no former EAST teams would make it to the ultimate “Finals” to determine the world champ…
Maybe the higher seeds could be rewarded with cake.
I would just like to point out that I was in the Renaldo Balkman bandwagon before it was hip. Thank you.
Also: cake.
Also: there’s an off chance of not just one, not two but THREE Atlantic teams making the playoffs. Which would make the Titanic as good a division as Southwest – FACT.
Boney do you really think 46% FG, 15% 3PT, and 54% FT is a nearly perfect game?
Boney do you really think 46% FG, 15% 3PT, and 54% FT is a nearly perfect game?
Where is Tony Parker? I guess the TRUE second all-star of the Spurs is the only one currently here…
We Argentinians don’t give a damn about fg%. OLE!
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