If you’ve ever seen any of Melo’s music videos, you know he’s nothing if not an on-screen natural. That’s why it’s so disappointing to find that he’s turning down movie roles because of his hair.
…when seasoned director Penny Marshall approached Melo with a movie offer he turned her down. In the new Esquire Magazine, Marshall had hopes of casting Anthony in a movie she is set to produce. One major requirement being that Carmelo cut his cornrows. When the requirement was passed on to Carmelo at a meeting with his advisors he responded by saying “Penny, you out yo’ damn mind!”
What could he possibly have been cast as? Penny Marshall doesn’t really make the crap low-budget movies most athletes end up in. Was he going to play a real estate agent? A banker? How about a buddy cop pic with Russell Crowe? What about the a-hole bully vying for the affections of the girl that someone like Ryan Reynolds likes? One of Steve Martin’s kids in Cheaper By the Dozen 3? We actually tried to do all of these but our copy of Photoshop literally jumped out of out computer and ran away. You’ll have to settle for a bald Melo. [ed. note: yeah, nice work.]
Thanks to the oversized afro over at Big Ben Wallace for the link.
We’ve been excited about this since it was announced last month, and finally, it’s NBA Week on Wheel of Fortune. Here’s the full schedule:
Monday, October 31
Richard Jefferson — New Jersey Nets
Luke Walton — L.A. Lakers
Bill Walton (Hall of Fame) — Portland Trail Blazers
Tuesday, November 1
Emeka Okafor — Charlotte Bobcats
Ben Gordon — Chicago Bulls
Richard “Rip” Hamilton — Detroit Pistons
Wednesday, November 2
Ray Allen — Seattle Sonics
Becky Hammon — New York Liberty
Mike Bibby — Sacramento Kings
Thursday, November 3
Baron Davis — Golden State Warriors
Carmelo Anthony — Denver Nuggets
Kenny Smith — Houston Rockets (legend)
Friday, November 4
Robert Horry — San Antonio Spurs
Bobby Simmons — Milwaukee Bucks
Amare Stoudemire — Phoenix Suns
MNF is making sure we’re not seeing tonight’s edition here in our city. Wednesday’s Mike Bibby appearance should be good, although the obvious highlight is Thursday. Kenny will try too hard to be funny, Baron will let his beard spin the Wheel, and of course our love for all things Melo is well documented.
Predicted record: 32-50
That story about spotting a lying liar is NOT about us. We swear. We’re very truthful liars, so it couldn’t be.
(Thanks, as always, to the girls over at Lipstick Alley.)
We always love NBA Media Day, as it gives us the opportunity to see how badly we can mangle professional photographers’ work.
Melo and the horse reunite to speak with the press.
Emeka Okafor suffers for Charlotte’s lack of set security.
Steve Francis…something.
Kirk Snyder is full.
We didn’t do anything to this one, but we do think Kwame Brown should get that looked at. Anyone who knows what’s going on there, please let us know.
The Sporting News is a magazine. In that magazine, there is an NBA section. In charge of that NBA section is one Sean Deveney, who Saturday in his mailbag answered your questions, but not before spending four paragraphs talking about hot dogs.
This all transpired after Sean agreed to answer a bunch of questions for us, and you better believe, had we known there was hot dog talk to be had, we would’ve instigated it. After all, this is the “lambda” version of the YAYsports! Network. We already showed you the “beta” version once, and we suppose now is an appropriate time to show you the “alpha” version.
Regardless, after the jump, Sean passes on all sorts of cool info, and confirms some things about a certain music video star/small forward for us.
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Yes, we have a strange obsession with Carmelo Anthony, and were thrilled to find that ESPN’s Page3 has up a brand new interview with America’s Sweethearts, Melo and MTV’s LaLa Vasquez. It’s pretty good stuff, including this extensive description of how they met:
How did you meet and where?
LaLa: He was stalking me for a while. That’s how we met. He kept asking everybody about me, right?
Melo: No.
The rest is fairly pedestrian (what isn’t after that?), although there is mention of that horse. Melo answers a lot of things with “I don’t know,” leaving us, as always, wanting to know more. We went on a search for additional LaLa-Melo stories, and came across the Starbanter message board, which covers gossipy goodness on everyone from Orlando Bloom to Lincoln Park. As of this posting, here’s a tally of the numbers of posts for chosen sections:
George Clooney: 194
Justin Timberlake: 152
Paris Hilton: 93
Britney Spears: 279
Tom Cruise: 57
Carmelo Anthony: 2777
And you thought we were the only ones, didn’t you?
Being that there’s 
