Gilbert Arenas’s NBA DOT COM blog is updated with new words to read.
More details on the whole Jason Kidd thing – his wife is “paranoid, jealous, and cruel”.
The new-look Grizzlies take down the new-look Lakers, with their new-look, fast-look, lost of points looking style.
Golden State fans love blogs and reading blogs.
SacTownRoyalty doesn’t know what to do after the loss to the Cavs.
Want iPhone…now…must have…or will die…not out until June…guess will die…too bad…had worthy life outlined in Microsoft Word…had converted to handsome looking PDF file…and everything…
Craig at The Association claims his back pains are not due to being a weak-ass, but to the infamous $14.99 Starbury shoes.
Just a routine link to the latest Basketball Jones podcast, cause we like those guys.
TrueHoop tracks down another “LeBron” and asks him if people expect him to be good at basketball. If they do, they are not smart. Just saying.
This has been floating around for a week or so – the Sam Cassell Alien Attack Game. (via Globetrotter)
Yeah, you may think that’s a Photoshop job, but that’s the game, yo.
Yeah, we’ll see how long we can keep up the EXPLOSIONS pace once again…
We do this only because we couldn’t stand another entire post about Gilbert – we don’t want to aid the overexposure and certain backlash to come.
That said, he’s chatting on ESPN DOT COM today, so be sure to flood the thing asking him “Hey Gil – Who Shot Mamba? Any idea?” like we did.
Also of Arenas-centric interest – you can Photoshop a poster for his campaign to be an All-Star starter and possibly win tix to meet him in Vegas at the game. (Thx to Gilbertology.)
We like Mike Kahn over at Fox, but his 10 Things We Learned in the NBA column feels so irrelevant in the age of the sports blog, when the “things we learned” everyone already talked about 6 days ago. Time to update the concept maybe?
Ummm…way to go, Ohio State. Do you like how we buried this in the middle?
Are there rumors of the Celtics buying out Coach Doc, whose real name is Glenn and hails from Florida?
Howie the Hype is selling NBA roadsign t-shirts.
In a nice bit of randomness, Mark Madsen thinks Charlie Ward should still be playing in the NBA.
Okay, so everyone is putting up their theories as to how to spruce up All-Star Weekend again – here’s another HORSE supporter, for example. (We don’t care for the HORSE thing, but whatever.)
Anyway, since last year’s All-Star 1-on-1 genius isn’t being installed yet, how about this? Leading vote-getters in East and West are named team captains, and then you throw out the whole concept of East v West altogether. Huh?
Here’s how it goes down: before the game, right there after intros, the two captains select their teams, just like back on the playground. How cool would that be to watch? You know the crowd would be into it, and we think it’d install some much-needed pride and competitiveness back into the game itself.
What think you? Is this All-Star geniusness for the second year in a row, or would it never work? We’re gonna write something up and do it up like we did the tourney last year – stay tuned.
This used to be an EXPLOSION. We’re not exactly sure what it is now. We just post ‘em when he sends them in. We imagine it’ll take him a few weeks to find his footing and figure out what the hell exactly he’s doing with it.
Stephen Jackson.
DC Sports BOG.
Robert Swift.
Mark Cuban.
Chris Bosh would totally do steroids, and probably will. Once it gets in his brain that it’ll help, he won’t be able to stop himself.
More Raja Bell rapping thatn anyone should be privy to.
We don’t remember where we read it this morning, but Darius Miles has been described as “noticably overweight”.
Jones on the NBA – UNNNNGHHHHH!!!
(We’re unsure as to why we did that.)
Shaq helped a bunch of cops raid a child-porn house, except it wasn’t the right house. It was the wrong house.
Free Howard Stern Sirius broadcast today and tomorrow, if you want to try the show out online.
Mark Cuban says screw Europaland – let’s build the fanbase right here in Americaland.
TJ Simers hates Kobe, and has taken to calling him The Tanker. To his face, even.
That preseason GM survey thing is out, and everyone thinks LeBron will get his first MVP. Smile!
Paul Pierce has a papercut or something.
Vince Carter may play some point guard this season – let’s hope it’s against the Heat, at a time when Toine is playing the point.
Hey Farlane – this NBA deal is a go next week – let’s see some magic happen, pal.
That bastard at Celticsblog looks at the ways in which Boston may be able to make a bigger blockbuster trade than the Bulls.
Doc Rivers has no set rotation yet, which is nothing new. Go Celts!
The Wizards have alternate jerseys – gold tops with black shorts. It makes no sense, but we kinda like ‘em.
Mighty MJD takes David Stern to task on his Orange Roundie decision. We don’t get it – Stern said they went back and did more tests based on complaints, and found the results to be satisfactory. If he’d refused to consider it, then he’d be a dick.
(For the record – we have one, we’ve used it, and it’s a really nice ball.)
Jason Richardson will practice! Jason Richardson will practice!!!
We know it’s old, but we totally missed new Cavalier saying he endorses Fun Dip the first time around. Brian Windhorst has a new Pollard profile this morning.
The new SLAM covers are out, and they have people on them.
The Association dives into fantasy basketball.
TrueHoop breaks down the Rasheed Wallace Rule.
What the hell is going on with Bonzi Wells?
Don’t forget all the blogging madness in team preview form over at the NBA Blog Previews site, run by that bastard at Celticsblog.
Let’s see…as we conclude these EXPLOSIONS, we’re thinking it might be time to retire or adapt it. Maybe it’s just that the season isn’t here yet, or that so many other sites now do daily links, or that we know the direction this site is headed, and it doesn’t involve extensive use of a keyboard anyway?
Whatever the case, it seems like this was a big waste of time and vastly uninteresting. Thoughts? Should we retire it (for the second time)? Cut it down to bare essentials? Give it a particular theme each day? Just do it as is?
If you’re like us, you’re always thinking about the years 2008 and 2015. One is the Beijing Olympics and the other is when Back to the Future II takes place.
As to the Olympics thingie, check out the Olympic Stadium, which is now the biggest and the world and set to be unveiled very soon. They call it the “bird’s nest” – no idea why, but it’s pretty amazing, and bird-like.
Ex-Cavalier Dujuan Wagner put up 18 points in his first colon-less game for Golden State, which was a win.
Look at them Celtics fans – all excited about their budding point guard controversey.
Avery Johnson gets a well-deserved extension, making him the Mavs coach for a bit longer than he’d be without the extension.
Inside SoCal tries to promote Jordan Farmar as Laker PG number one.
The Heat are a little nervous about their point guard depth, which goes Jason Williams, 1/8 of the being once known as Gary Payton, then nobody.
NBA BlogPreviews goes Piston today – Need4Sheed does it up second, preceded by DetroitBadBoys. Both predict mid-50s win totals.
Nick Collison emerges from injury-exile to score 20 for the Sonics and helping them lose to the Lakers.
SLAM reviews the latest episode of the Christies, which sounds awful.
(btw guys, we saw the latest Entertainment Weekly last night in 7/11, and we predict that you won’t predict the cover correctly this week. This is our way of saying, “please let us play this with you one week. It’s our favorite thing on the internet for some reason.)
PTI is five years old, which seems like about 5 years too little. We could swear we’ve been watching those two since we were kids.
Also from SLAM, the analysis of the Stephen Jackson police report. Steve is not a good person.
