June 2008
18 posts
Cards of Ages
‘Los got mad cred and I didn’t even notice. Nobody reblogs my NBA conspiracy rants. I’m jealous.
askjerves:
theaudible:
Junior’s card got me thinking about the all-time sweetest cards. With apologies to Fuck Face I’m gonna have to go with Big Cecil chillin’ w/ the Famous Chicken.
ok—so this could get interesting. favorite baseball cards of all time?
clearly Fuck Face, as...
Los Angeles Stadium - Please give us Football in... →
“And consider this less of a commentary on coaching cruelties than it is on the...”
– Harvey Araton writes an interesting piece about the seemingly interchangeable fates of Willie Randolph and Doc Rivers.
So now we have to listen to Donnie Fucking...
What He Said →
To Clarify:
I just want to make sure the Audible’s stance is clear: The Celtics COMPLETELY deserved this title. The only game that was manipulated in this series was game 2 (and the 1st bit of game 3 where Kobe was the beneficiary). The NBA needs to stop its policy of trying manipulate its product and let the chips fall where they may. It’s one thing to implement a “star” system...
“You work hard, play hard and it’s all bull. But, it’s what you see and the...”
– Former NBA player Doug Christie talking about how the NBA is indeed manipulated
“Los Angeles is Burning” by Bad...
Justin Wolfers on the Quality of an NBA Denial →
For the Record: A Dispatch of Despair
That was the biggest stomach punch game for the Lakers since the Tim Thomas three. In fact between those two losses I can’t figure which is worse. When Thomas hit the three it pretty much sealed the Lakers as being the hopeless, 1st-round-exiting team that almost made Kobe Bryant wear another jersey. In this game the stakes were higher, but since the Lakers future is so bright the Tim...
Ralph Nader told you so, now give him money!
From Votenader.org:
From food safety (bad tomatoes), to cracking down on corporate crime (sub-prime meltdown), to the oil industry ($4 a gallon), to health insurance (42 percent of adult Americans now underinsured or uninsured), to the corporate control of the two major political parties (corporate contributions to the Democratic Party convention in Denver), to the war in Iraq, to the NBA...
“I’m not saying the Lakers didn’t outplay the Celtics fairly in Game...”
– Jemele Hill in what is a very good article
Tim Donaghy and a Drug Bust
There’s a lot being written about Tim Donaghy being “desperate” and that he’ll “say anything to shorten his sentence” as though we’re supposed to believe that it somehow discredits what he’s saying. This assumes something very, very wrong: that you can give Federal Law Enforcement officials anything less than good information and it will keep you...
The NBA, Donaghy and Ralph Nader
* A disgraced ref drops a bombshell
Man, everyone is saying people who think the NBA is manipulated are “conspiracy theorists” and should “go away”. It’s sheep-like thought such as that that gets us into trouble collectively. Like, oh I dunno, a war.
* Here’s Ralph Nader taking David Stern to task for just what Donaghy is saying
This is from back in 2002....
Nader vs. Stern 02 RETURNS!!!!! →
Bill Simmons, the NBA "Product" and You
EDIT: You know, I got a little carried away with a portion of this post. And I want to put this edit here and apologize to Kelly Dwyer. After the abortion that was Game 2 of this series I immediately went to the Ball Don’t Lie Live blog, fully expecting to see the creme-de-la-creme of the NBA blog world calling it what it was. Especially KD. He didn’t see it like I did (which I...
Kobe, they're coming around... →