NBA All-Star Saturday Life
This article is pretty much sheer point tallies, is it is just too much to write about everything. Check L.O.N. for the full Saturday night recap, and there's some non-b-ball stuff at the bottom of this.
D-League Life:
Randy Livingston -- always loved him... +3
Ian Mahimni -- +1
Ian Eagle -- +1 for announcing the game well
Kaniel Dickens +1 for EMPHATIC tip-dunk in NBDL game
Rod Benson -1 for horrible blow dunk
All-Star Practice Life:
Craig Sager with the black-and-white suite -- -3
LeBron +3 for trying (and tying) Guinness Book Of World Records most halfcourt in a minute... Kidd +5 for one-handed under-handed
Chris Paul +3 for caring so much about the community, +1 for re-setting halfcourt Guinness record, with 4
Greatest Dunk Show Life:
Magic -- +3 "He's not gonna do it...", describing Dr. J
Magic -- +5 talking about Nique and MJ
LeBron -- +1 for Nique trying to "tear the air down"
MJ beating 'Nique -- +5
Kenny -- saying "you're fired", +1
Shaq talking about Finley's "art wheel" -- +1
Vince! -- +10 for the memories bringing tears to my eyes
Shaq's reaction to Vince -- +5
Dik's reaction -- +1
Shooting Stars Life:
Marc Broussard -- +3 -- "Must be New Orleans" got me dancing.
Fratello and Reggie +1 each for taking shooting stars so serious
Timmy Duncan -- +1, +3 win
David Robinson -- +3 for appearing, +1 for NAILING halfcourt, +3 win
Becky Hammon -- +1, +3 for win
Skills Challenge Life:
T.J. Kidd -- get the hell outta here. -2, D-Wade skirting rules with the quick shot -- +1. Another -1 for T.J. -- get the hell out.
LeBron -1 for the ridiculous coat
Amare +1 for the dookie gold necklace
3-Point Life:
Rip -- -2 -- for the fire sleeve
Jason Kapono -- +3 for the show and the win
Slam Dunk Life:
Jamario 1st attempt -- +3 -- oop to himself with looooong reach
Rudy Gay 1st attempt -- +1 -- just ok
Dwight Howard 1st attempt -- +6 -- head behind the board!!!
Gerald Green -- +10
Rashad McCants -- +1 for helping out
Rudy Gay 2nd -- +2
Kyle Lowry -- +1 for the pass
GG -- 2nd -- +5
Rashad funny on ladder -- +3
Dwight Howard -- +8
GG -- 3rd -- +4
Rashad -- +1 for the pass
Dwight -- +7 throwing off board to himself
Gerald Green -- +3 takes shoes off autographs and dunks w/o shoes on
Dwight -- +5
Dwight -- +2 for the win
Terrell Owens in the crowd +1
Dr. J with the classiness -- +5
Magic as a judge -- +5
Kenny with usual great announcing of dunks -- +5
Charles -- +1 during dunk
Dkiembe +1, Jerome Williams +1
Inside the NBA Life:
Cake -- All 4 +1
Halfcourt shot exchange -- Magic and EJ: +1, Kenny and Charles: +3
Devean George exchange: Ernie and Charles +2
Elevator Ernie exchange: +1 each
Kenny and Charles joking about playing to complete trade: +2
David Aldridge: +3 for dropping the trade knowledge
Kenny and Charles playing with crawl fish/cooking: +3
Kenny -- J-Bay joke +1
Delphine Thomas -- +3 -- Jamario Moon's grand ma
Ernie under pressure pictures -- +1
C & K appear prior to 3 point -- +1 each
C -- +4, K -- +2, first round of 3-point
C&K +2 2nd round
Random Coverage Life:
Rip and 'Sheed painting letters at a school: +1
Jordan +3 for the Pool tourney appearance
Jamario Moon telling life story -- +3
Biz Markie -- +1 for DJing Kenny's party
Amare's baby +3 for cuteness
+5 to the cgi-ed new orleans TNT women things
This is a great quote from Gilbert Arenas. I think it's a little old, but +2:
It was Arenas who mused that an Olympic gold medal was more valuable than an N.B.A. title because he could always sign 10 one-year deals “and hop on every team that I think can win a championship that year.”
“And in 10 years, I might pull out three of them,” he said.
All-Star weekend... just another excuse to remember this:
Mariah +5.
Random Other Stuff Life:
Two Jacks In The Hole came up with the following game, due to that fact that when you hear Barack Obama and The Rock talk without seeing them, you can't tell them apart: Can You Smell What Barack Is Coolling? Barack Obama or The Rock? +3 to each Jack.
Paris Hilton +5 for an awesome birthday party. I too like to perform, and +5 more for last year, when she dumped her drink on me!
A.I. +2 and 'Sheed's +4 clips in the following video:
D-League Life:
Randy Livingston -- always loved him... +3
Ian Mahimni -- +1
Ian Eagle -- +1 for announcing the game well
Kaniel Dickens +1 for EMPHATIC tip-dunk in NBDL game
Rod Benson -1 for horrible blow dunk
All-Star Practice Life:
Craig Sager with the black-and-white suite -- -3
LeBron +3 for trying (and tying) Guinness Book Of World Records most halfcourt in a minute... Kidd +5 for one-handed under-handed
Chris Paul +3 for caring so much about the community, +1 for re-setting halfcourt Guinness record, with 4
Greatest Dunk Show Life:
Magic -- +3 "He's not gonna do it...", describing Dr. J
Magic -- +5 talking about Nique and MJ
LeBron -- +1 for Nique trying to "tear the air down"
MJ beating 'Nique -- +5
Kenny -- saying "you're fired", +1
Shaq talking about Finley's "art wheel" -- +1
Vince! -- +10 for the memories bringing tears to my eyes
Shaq's reaction to Vince -- +5
Dik's reaction -- +1
Shooting Stars Life:
Marc Broussard -- +3 -- "Must be New Orleans" got me dancing.
Fratello and Reggie +1 each for taking shooting stars so serious
Timmy Duncan -- +1, +3 win
David Robinson -- +3 for appearing, +1 for NAILING halfcourt, +3 win
Becky Hammon -- +1, +3 for win
Skills Challenge Life:
T.J. Kidd -- get the hell outta here. -2, D-Wade skirting rules with the quick shot -- +1. Another -1 for T.J. -- get the hell out.
LeBron -1 for the ridiculous coat
Amare +1 for the dookie gold necklace
3-Point Life:
Rip -- -2 -- for the fire sleeve
Jason Kapono -- +3 for the show and the win
Slam Dunk Life:
Jamario 1st attempt -- +3 -- oop to himself with looooong reach
Rudy Gay 1st attempt -- +1 -- just ok
Dwight Howard 1st attempt -- +6 -- head behind the board!!!
Gerald Green -- +10
Rashad McCants -- +1 for helping out
Rudy Gay 2nd -- +2
Kyle Lowry -- +1 for the pass
GG -- 2nd -- +5
Rashad funny on ladder -- +3
Dwight Howard -- +8
GG -- 3rd -- +4
Rashad -- +1 for the pass
Dwight -- +7 throwing off board to himself
Gerald Green -- +3 takes shoes off autographs and dunks w/o shoes on
Dwight -- +5
Dwight -- +2 for the win
Terrell Owens in the crowd +1
Dr. J with the classiness -- +5
Magic as a judge -- +5
Kenny with usual great announcing of dunks -- +5
Charles -- +1 during dunk
Dkiembe +1, Jerome Williams +1
Inside the NBA Life:
Cake -- All 4 +1
Halfcourt shot exchange -- Magic and EJ: +1, Kenny and Charles: +3
Devean George exchange: Ernie and Charles +2
Elevator Ernie exchange: +1 each
Kenny and Charles joking about playing to complete trade: +2
David Aldridge: +3 for dropping the trade knowledge
Kenny and Charles playing with crawl fish/cooking: +3
Kenny -- J-Bay joke +1
Delphine Thomas -- +3 -- Jamario Moon's grand ma
Ernie under pressure pictures -- +1
C & K appear prior to 3 point -- +1 each
C -- +4, K -- +2, first round of 3-point
C&K +2 2nd round
Random Coverage Life:
Rip and 'Sheed painting letters at a school: +1
Jordan +3 for the Pool tourney appearance
Jamario Moon telling life story -- +3
Biz Markie -- +1 for DJing Kenny's party
Amare's baby +3 for cuteness
+5 to the cgi-ed new orleans TNT women things
This is a great quote from Gilbert Arenas. I think it's a little old, but +2:
It was Arenas who mused that an Olympic gold medal was more valuable than an N.B.A. title because he could always sign 10 one-year deals “and hop on every team that I think can win a championship that year.”
“And in 10 years, I might pull out three of them,” he said.
All-Star weekend... just another excuse to remember this:
Mariah +5.
Random Other Stuff Life:
Two Jacks In The Hole came up with the following game, due to that fact that when you hear Barack Obama and The Rock talk without seeing them, you can't tell them apart: Can You Smell What Barack Is Coolling? Barack Obama or The Rock? +3 to each Jack.
Paris Hilton +5 for an awesome birthday party. I too like to perform, and +5 more for last year, when she dumped her drink on me!
A.I. +2 and 'Sheed's +4 clips in the following video:
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