Baller Shots

Aww! Ricky is so adorbz.

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:11:47 -0500

Aww! Ricky is so adorbz.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 00:02:42 -0500

"Steve, leave me alone."

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:40:00 -0500

“Steve, leave me alone.”

- HAHAHA MARV ALBERT SO COLD TO STEVE KERR

As much as I enjoy ESPN’s NBA team with Magic, Simmons,...

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:16:35 -0500

As much as I enjoy ESPN’s NBA team with Magic, Simmons, Jalen, and Wilbon, you’re simply never going to get ragging as good as the guys dish it on Charles after seeing this video.

Favorite line: Shaq calling young Charles a “Jarret Jack looking motha-” on live television.

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Sun, 12 May 2013 22:13:09 -0500

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Fri, 10 May 2013 22:26:51 -0500

"Deng didn’t feel comfortable, so his agent arranged for an outside opinion. And suddenly that..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:37:06 -0500

“Deng didn’t feel comfortable, so his agent arranged for an outside opinion. And suddenly that day-to-day injury the Bulls couldn’t believe would keep Deng out of action turned into a stress fracture serious enough to require months of rest to heal. Deng didn’t play again that season. He was eventually cleared for basketball activities in July. The Bulls said Deng wasn’t really injured, and told him to play. A different doctor — the correct doctor, in this case — told Deng he was really injured, and that he shouldn’t run, jump or cut on his leg for four months.”

- Derrick Rose and the Bulls’ history of letting players break themselves - SBNation.com

A very good read, quick but to the point. This kind of stuff has been going on pre-Thibs, and as much of a murderer via minutes he is, this is really a problem that goes all the way to the top.

Jerry Reinsdorf is the owner of a basketball team in the third-largest market, yet has managed to convince those within the organization, and certain members of the media, that Chicago is really a small-market team, living hand-to-mouth in the blue collar stockyards of the city. He’s managed to operate his checkbook to reflect that as well.

It’s why Tom Thibodeau is almost too perfect of a coach. He’s able to turn guys like Marquis Teague and Nazr Mohammed into real contributors during pivotal playoff games. He’s management’s ringmaster, whipping the lion until he jumps through the fiery hoop, and convincing the trapeze artists to flip and fly without a net to catch them. If you die (or ask for more money) you’re replaced by a cheaper, seemingly less-talented version of you, who will promptly play just as well, if not better, and is more dedicated than you, because they need it more.

I’m sure Tom Thibodeau would rather have Omer Asik instead of Nazr, but the twin heads of PaxGar, the guardians of the checkbook, gambled that Asik wasn’t worth the money, and lost. Nazr has been very good in the very limited minutes he’s received. Marco Belinelli has been essentially an upgrade from the 3-ball x-factor Kyle Korver.

But there’s an alternate universe out there. One where Jerry Reinsdorf has no problem paying to actually have a 15-man roster of good players, players who are paid their fair share. Good players who Thibs can make great, instead of mediocre players Thibs can work into creating moments of magic, band-aids that somehow keep the cracks in the dam from breaking overnight. Sure, players will get injured, but we won’t have to play Jimmy Butler 48 minutes to compensate for that. We won’t have to ask Nate Robinson to do his best Derrick Rose impression. In that universe, the Bulls might not have a championship, but the fans can trust the suits sitting in the nice skyboxes in the Madhouse on Madison to always do the right thing, and to always take care of their players.

Much like Derrick Rose and Luol Deng, I don’t know if I can trust them in this universe.

Meet Filomena Tobias, the Heat fan who gave Joakim Noah the finger

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:11:36 -0500

Meet Filomena Tobias, the Heat fan who gave Joakim Noah the finger:

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winstonwolfe:

She’s now twice as famous, and this time it doesn’t involve murder accusations

Oh, she sounds like an absolute ray of sunshine.

Well, I guess she’s no “studio gangster”…

What do you get when you combine the usual insane stories from Florida with a woman who marries for money? You get this lady. Check it:

Tobias is the widow of hedge fund manager and CNBC contributor Seth Tobias. Mr. Tobias, her fourth husband, was found dead in the swimming pool of his Jupiter, Florida mansion in 2007. Stop here if you want “mere decadence,” and do not want to hit the throttle and soar into “purely Floridian insanity,” because that is where it is headed.

In just one moment from their rocky marriage, Mrs. Tobias bought a Porsche on a credit card. (And then had to return it at the insistence of her husband.)

Mrs. Tobias once allegedly tested her husband for cocaine use like this: “Just after sitting down, Phyllis jumped from her seat and placed her lips over Tobias’s nose and began sucking. She was searching for cocaine residue.”

Mrs. Tobias was accused by an internet psychic of killing her husband.

Was accused by that same internet psychic specifically of doing that by luring him into the pool by promising him “a sexual liaison with a gay porn star–exotic dancer who went by the name Tiger because of the tiger stripes he had tattooed on his body.”

All of this was pursued in court by Tobias’ family, who was cut out of his will by Florida law in favor of Mrs. Tobias. (Under Florida law, a murder inconveniently voids certain parts of a will if it can be shown that the chief beneficiary had an active role in becoming that beneficiary sooner than nature intended.) She was cleared by the court, and is now filthy rich enough to have excellent seats for Miami Heat games.

According to her daughter, upon seeing her mother: “I have to stay she still looks really hot.”

nbaoffseason: Noah is no longer fond of Miami as a vacation...

Thu, 09 May 2013 08:15:32 -0500

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Noah is no longer fond of Miami as a vacation spot…

Leather-faced fair-weather fans. Miami fans should be embarrassed of having these yacht club members represent them.

God dammit. Now I’m going to have to get my hopes...

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:04:02 -0500

God dammit. Now I’m going to have to get my hopes up.

Welp, here we go. LIVE BY THE NATE, DIE BY THE NATE

nbaoffseason: No wonder Brooklyn lost. They started Drake at...

Sat, 04 May 2013 22:55:15 -0500

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No wonder Brooklyn lost. They started Drake at point guard.

STARTED AT THE BOTTOM

NOW WE MEDIOCRE

Karl Malone to homophobic ESPN reporter: You won’t ‘kick over and die’ if you touch a gay player | The Raw Story

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:30:28 -0500

Karl Malone to homophobic ESPN reporter: You won’t ‘kick over and die’ if you touch a gay player | The Raw Story:

“You know what? If you’re living your life and you’re happy with your life and you’re not hurting anybody, I say, God bless you. It’s time for us now to say, ‘You know what? That is his business.’ I support him.”

"That, to me, gets to the heart of why people are being so pushy about this cause. If you’re a..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:07:26 -0500

“That, to me, gets to the heart of why people are being so pushy about this cause. If you’re a gay teenager and you come out to your parents and they tell you, “Son, you have an affliction—we’re going to pray for your sins and hope you find the right path,” you’re gonna go jump off a fucking building. This is why the cause has been imbued with such urgency.”

- Drew Magary at GQ

I guess this is why I’m still so mad at people like Chris Broussard, Mark Jackson, and really any other person who tries to deflect saying that they hate gays by hiding behind their “beliefs” and “opinions”. When there are people who are still being treated with hate because of how they were born, whether it be their sex, gender, color, sexuality, or mental condition, I consider it of major importance to eliminate that hate.

So when I get a reply from people essentially calling me intolerant for wanting to beat Broussard’s skull in with the common hammer, or when I read this tweet from some guy named Lecrae that’s been retweeted over 5000 times, I get a little gobsmacked.

I’m not a religious person. I don’t care for it, but I don’t have any problem with people practicing it or having certain faiths. A lot of people’s lives have been bettered by their faith. What I do have a problem with is when people justify their hate by pointing to their religion. These people say that BECAUSE of their religion, they HAVE to believe that gays are living in sin. God told them so.

And yet, Jason Collins is a Christian. He prays to the same God as Broussard and as Mark Jackson. He doesn’t believe he’s going to hell, and more importantly, he doesn’t believe he’s living in sin. He knows that he was born a gay man, and, perhaps, he also believes it’s because God wanted him to be gay. I don’t know if that’s true, but I know that’s not an uncommon thought, and it highlights the truth behind the remarks of Collins’ fellow Christians.

Jason Collins was born gay, but Chris Broussard chose hate, and nobody should have to tolerate that. Not Jason, not the 300,000 homeless LGBT youth who’s parents have kicked them out, and not the thousands of gay kids who practice self-harm and kill themselves every year due to bullying, fear, and self-hatred.

I am intolerant of this hate because I am intolerant of seeing young men and women die because of it. I am intolerant of this hate because it casts a shadow on the kinder Christians of this world and the true teachings of Jesus Christ. I am intolerant of this hate because, as with all hatred, it rarely does any good. That goes for my hate of Chris and Mark for their words. I’m going to work on that, but I sincerely hope they give me a reason to stop hating them as well.

"As a Christian man, I have beliefs of what’s right and what’s wrong. That being said, I..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:13:08 -0500

“As a Christian man, I have beliefs of what’s right and what’s wrong. That being said, I know Jason Collins, I know his family and I’m certainly praying for them at this time.”

- Mark Jackson

Maybe you should pray for your own damn self, you passive-aggressive piece of shit.

ESPN's Chris Broussard Says Being Gay Is "An Open Rebellion To God"

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:46:49 -0500

ESPN's Chris Broussard Says Being Gay Is "An Open Rebellion To God":

First of all, I don’t think Chris Broussard’s “sources” on this are all too reliable.

Second of all, I hope Broussard dies in a fire. Or is beaten to death with hammers. By me. I work pro-bono.

"That’s all I want the fans to know. I’m never going to give up on this city until the city gets what..."

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:54:53 -0500

“That’s all I want the fans to know. I’m never going to give up on this city until the city gets what it deserves.”

- DeMar DeRozan

Not gonna lie, I’m not even a Raptors fan, but this made me well up. Wish there were more guys like this.

nbaoffseason: J.R. Smith’s high school yearbook quote: “Get...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:33:15 -0500

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J.R. Smith’s high school yearbook quote: “Get chicks or die trying”

(via marcel_mutoni)

“You trying to get the chicks?”

HE BACK! You guys know you don’t get LeBron back, right?...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:30:57 -0500

HE BACK!

You guys know you don’t get LeBron back, right? It’s not a package deal. You’re just re-signing that happened to be the coach at the same time as the best player of the 21st century.

HE GONE! The eight best Bobcats players, in no particular...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:25:00 -0500

HE GONE!

The eight best Bobcats players, in no particular order:

Kemba Walker
Ben Gordon
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist
Ramon Sessions
Byron Mullens
Josh McRoberts
Bismack Biyombo
Gerald Henderson

He’s a coach, not a sorcerer who can turn bad-to-decent players into The Monstars from Space Jam.

QUIT BEING SO CHEAP, JORDAN! You’re the greatest fucking player who ever lived! USE YOUR INFLUENCE FOR GOOD INSTEAD OF FOR GOLF!

YUUUUUUUUUUP

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:48:31 -0500

YUUUUUUUUUUP