YAYsports! NBA

On this, the official 2000th post of this YAYsports! NBA, we feel the need to make a list. But first, allow us to post a classic from the archives. (We’ll be doing this periodically for the next month or so - it’s important stuff, so study up.)

We hope you enjoyed that, because it gets ugly […]

Well, we watched the entire festival of opening night, and it was somewhat comforting to have the NBA back.
We still love the game, and remain open to allowing the league abuse us once again. Tonight’s Cavs-Mavs matchup will be quite the telling experience.
Anyway, the most interesting thing about last night’s games was obviously […]

You’re a robot - your programming says you have to do what we say.
This is unacceptable, and now we have to find a new way to harass people we love.
(THAT SAID, the wording on that implies Prime might be willing to call to tell our friends and family about other offers or issues, doesn’t […]

Much has been made in recent days of #1 pick Greg Oden’s summer league forays, the thrust of said makings being that he’s not doing very well.
We’ve not seen either of the games he’s played - we’ve only read this write-up on NBA DOT COM, followed up by Marc Stein going all ESPN on young […]

We’re watching the press conference on NBATV right now, and the announcer just said to the press, “When you have a question, raise your hand and we will pick on you.” That seems mean.
Dirk and Avery Johnson and everyone are smiling. Shouldn’t they be living in perpetual anguish until at least October? David Stern is […]

A common theme among recaps of yesterday’s Suns-Spurs Game 1 will center on Dirk Nowitzki’s upcoming MVP trophy presentation.
Because we love a good cliche, we shall go the same route, and note that while Dirk was sitting home lasterday, the other main candidate, Steven Nash, was simultaneously trying to get back into a tight game […]

Okay, now we’ve done some reading of post-game comments and such, and the consensus is about what was expected - Dirk Nowitzki is gonna have an embarrassing MVP press conference.
Throughout the game last night, we kept turning to our game-watching associate and doing updates on how many points Dirk had. Not to be funny […]

Sorry about the absence lasterday - we were travelling and are currently playing with our lil’ nieces for the next few days.
Anyway, we can only peak for ourself, but often when basketball playing people win basketball games in dramatic and unexpected fashion, we forgive them for anything they’ve ever done wrong in their lives. […]

We’re out again today, and we are truly sorry about that.
We could talk about Golden State-Dallas all day long. Quickly - we haven’t been that engrossed in a game we had no vested interest in since…Detroit vs the Lakers in 04. Yes, we were rooting for the Pistons to take down Shaq/Kobe/Gary/Karl back then […]

There’s a few things one must remember this morning, and the biggest one would be that the Suns were down 3-1 to the lakers last postseason, then came back to win the series.
Of course, they weren’t a bunch of headcases like the Mavs.
We feel a little bad going so deep into this knowing what […]