Validation comes in many forms.
A lot of you laughed or thought we were joking way back when we were calling the New York Knicks to inquire about Larry Brown’s tan, but now it’s all coming out into the open.
We’ll skip over NJ’s blowout win in Miami last night to dig into the sliver of light shining on what many of you said was some crazy conspiracy theory.
”I was tan when I was the president,” Riley said. “I had a nice tan.” [snip]
Snip, snip, snip, snip, snip, snip, snip. We win, you lose. Next time we do something and you think it’s just another crazy joke or something, maybe you’ll think before you don’t do anything. Et tu, Brute? (That may or may not be spelled right – we don’t care. We laugh at the state of our own ignorance! It is humorous!)
On a less grave, less dead-fucking-serious note – same story last night. Shaq had lots of fouls, everyone wore white, Dan Le Batard justifies it somehow.
We’ve rewritten this post like four times (because we care) and there are really no words for what went down yesterday. We’re not going to trot out the “we just played Friday night and had to take two flights” or the “Lindsay Hunter is a 25% shooter on threes, and he dropped in four in the first half” excuses.
For those of you who were here when we had the slideshow up, congrats. If you missed it, go watch this thing that came from a Cleveland paper.
If you were here for the inquisitive ninja, we apologize. Not much else to say – hopefully it’s more competitive the rest of the way.
What about this, though? If you’d heard the Cavaliers had shot 50% from the floor, outrebounded the Pistons, and only had six turnovers in the first half, would you ever guess they would’ve been down by 22?
In honor of the forthcoming glorious epic Who Shot Mamba? and also how Arenas literally silenced us at the end of regulation, we charge into the world of silent film.
Perhaps it’s the only way to properly put forth how we had no idea what was going on last night in seconds number :14-:00 of overtime.
That’s about how it went, including the impossibility of not looking forward at this point. We have a few comfessions, which will be revealed in our second round preview.
And y’know, as much as we’ve gushed like a girl said about LeBron, we feel pretty sure you know what we’re thinking at this point.
How’s this instead – Gilbert is planning to be back at the gym today, and we have a serious fan-crush on the guy. It was a great series – a crazy series – with a fittingly crazy ending.
You could feel the tension in Detroit last night from all the way here in Los Angeles. Could the Pistons possibly succeed in their quest to send Milwaukee home?
It was close, but through determination and an all-business attitude, Detroit referred to the Bucks as sausage and earned itself a few days off to watch Cavs-Wizards, the winner of which will have the honor of being decimated next.
The only thing that can stop them now is their unpredicatable reaction to the devastating news that assistant Sidney Lowe is leaving to coach NC State, or this kid, who was dancing in the crowd in the fourth quarter.
If we didn’t think it’d land us in jail, we’d even say he was dancing provocatively. Whatever it was, it was disturbing as all hell.
Where are your parents, and do they make you be like this at home?
Heated Game 5 in PHX last night. First Raja Bell tried to remove Kobe’s head and got ejected. Later on, Kobe was frustrated with the new-look Lakers forgetting how they got up 3-1, which resulted in his ejection.
All we know is LA has to win this series. Now that we’ve been teased with Clippers-Lakers, anythiing less will be horribly anti-climactic. Suns-Clippers? Would anyone outside Arizona care? Somehow we get the feeling even the Clips would be disappointed if they don’t get Kobe and the rest of their roommates in the next round.
Hey, if you haven’t been following our adventures in double-posting everything we write at FoxSports’s Great American Sportswriter Contest, now’s a good time to start. We’re trying to start a movement to get everyone to categorize their posts under “Desire For Boobs” to get it to the become the top category.
5-Point Bucks has joined the fun in his own way, copying his own stuff, leaving himself 40 comments, and then picking fights with other bloggers at FoxSports.
The Clips are moving on to the second round after giving the Nuggets the boot last night, and contrary to what everyone knows is true, they claim they’re not thinking about the Lakers.
True or false or kinda true or whatever, let’s just take a moment and allow the Clips to bask in their glory.
Good, now that that’s finished, the Reggie Evans finally spoke out about his crotch-grabbing, which apparently is habitual.
“The tape speaks for itself without me saying it,” Evans said. “If I did something wrong, I would have been suspended. Let’s put it like that. [Chris Kaman] is entitled to say whatever he wants to say,” Evans said. “It’s America, freedom of speech.”
Clippers forward Elton Brand claimed it was a repeat incident by Evans. “Somebody said he did it in college,” Brand said. “They had tape.”
Whatever the case, you can be sure Reggie Evans will be fielding some interesting questions while exploring his free agency this summer. Questions like “What do you think you can bring to this team?” and “Are you thinking about my testicles right now?”
Great win by the Kings last night at the buzzer to bring the series to 2-1. Not much chance they win this thing, but at least the air got cleared a bit for Frenchie.
While some may say TNT excessively showed MJ’s reactions to everything last night in Chicago, we’d actually be into an Jordan-cam that did just that.
Yes, Michael, his kids, his wife, and Charles Oakley were there in his private United Center suite, and his influence should never, ever, be disregarded.
There’s a director’s cut of this somewhere with the critical scene in which Mamba struggles with his inner demons before finally turning himself over to his true, dark self.
For the record, PHX in seven. Kobe’s Mamba letting loose is the only thing that keeps this from being an easy sweep.
We’re gonna go collapse now.
NEXT: The stunning conclusion!
(Check out our appearance on The Basketball Jones podcast wherein we loosely compared LeBron James to a microwave.)
