The Basketball Jones Ep. 026
Get your game face on. The Finals are coming …
The Basketball Jones — Episode 026.
In this week’s episode, J.E. Skeets and Tas discuss the Conference Finals, weigh in on the latest trade rumors (see: Marion to Chicago?), try to give Raja a nickname, answer some mail, and much, much more…
Oh, all that, and Arenas gets scolded for hanging out with Awvee Storey. (Who?)
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Raaaah-ja! Raaaah-ja!
“You know, Rahja. And the Rahja comes home and ‘I am the Rahja. What is going on here?’, and then the D’Antoni has been eating bon bons and then the Rahja he comes in he says ‘I have a lot of money because I am a bacon bringer homer’ and the D’Antoni goes ‘I don’t care. I have coached well below my station in life’, and the Rahja says ‘you should not say that. That is an inside thought not an outside thought’, and the D’Antoni says ‘I don’t care because I was at a wine and cheese party and I say bad things’.
You know like a D’Antoni. D’Antoni’s got a squeezebox, Rahja doesn’t sleep at night. In and out and in and out and in and out. The Rahja. Raaaah-ja! Raaaah-ja! You know, Rahja Bell. Phoenix Suns guard, okay.”
After Battle With Kobe, Bell Toils in Obscurity No More [ESPN]
It Ends Here [freedarko]
Our Show, Your Say: Ep. 026
“Is Josh choking on a Rocket Popiscle?”
Ah, killer brain freeze– good question. Got anymore?
Quick reminder to get your questions and comments in for tonight’s Basketball Jones Podcast.
As always, three ways to become an instant internet hero:
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And yes, Ep. 026 will be posted very early on Thursday morning. Jeesh. Just relax man…
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Thank God For Wade…
Watching this Heat-Pistons series is excruciating. No joke. I don’t think I can take it anymore. I mean, I know I picked the Pistons to take this series and all – and whoa, crazy-talk warning here: I’m sticking to it – but apart of me (see: retinas) just wants this pathetic thing they’re calling basketball to hurry the hell up and end.
Yeah, think about it. You take away Wade’s nightly heroics and the odd Shaq strut, and what are we left with? Two boring ass teams, trading boring ass free throws, that’s what. Which, I should add, they can’t even fucking hit!
So, thank God for Dwyane Wade and his new Outkast track. Yeah, dude’s like Wesley “Two Scoops” Berry out there, givin’ nothin’ less than 10,000 percent. (Fuck you, Hawk.)
And as for THAT play last night in the 4th? Wow. Butterflies. I can’t really describe it, but Dime Mag comes pretty damn close:
Basically, try to imagine Reggie Bush doing his patented dive across the goal line, but making a reverse layup while doing it. We can’t even say the shot was Jordan-esque, because we’ve never seen anyone do anything like that.
Hear, hear!
Mr. Highlight [Dime Magazine]
Comments (6)“3 … 2 … 1 … Marco!”
Ron Artest – sans water wings – takes a dip at Nelly’s Memorial Day Pool Party in Miami Beach.
Holiday Fab [Young, Black, and Fabulous]
Comments (8)The Basketball Jones Ep. 025
You know Hoff, we’re pretty big in Europe too…
The Basketball Jones — Episode 025.
In this week’s episode, J.E. Skeets and Tas sulk a little with Rasheed, call out Nash and his Game 2 no-show, play GM for the lottery teams, answer some mail, and much, much more…
Oh, all that, and why won’t Tas wear sandals?
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Quickies: Around the Interweb
Some quick hits here as I try on my new bathing suit. “It is nice. You like?”
- We’ll Always Love Big Nani?
- Fuck Shaq. (Hey, I thought Free Darko used big words?)
- Phantom of the Diopera — 4 Stars!
- Big Z hates playing basketball. It’s so ridiculously obvious…
- Oh, Clipper Naçion… What to do, what to do?
- Listen to this Walton clip and the fate of Western civilization shall be decided.
Got Milk? Hells Yeah We Do!
Ok, so our writing skills are that of a sixth-grader. Whateva! *makes ‘W’ with two fingers* At least we’re considered a pretty fuckin’ cool sixth-grader! (Starter cap, Hypercolor t-shirt, jeans!)
Yeah, Chris at End of the Bench handed out some All-NBA Blog Awards the other day and well — lookie-lookie now — guess who just took home the coveted “Rookie of the Year” hardwa– US! Check it:
Rookie of the Year: The Basketball Jones
These guys have stepped it up of late. Podcasting twice a week in the playoffs is not easy, especially when you have a life. They do great work, and they help out bloggers gain exposure by having them on the show. They also have a solid blog, in case you just subscribe through iTunes. Why are they Rookie of the Year? Because they’re new to the scene (well, Skeets isn’t, but his blog is) and they have done great work. I’m sure they’ll keep it up.
So there you have it folks:
The Basketball Jones… Like A Retarded Chris Paul!
All-NBA Blog Awards [End of the Bench]
You’re With Us, Sixth-Graders! [The Basketball Jones]
You’re With Us, Sixth-Graders!
According to SacTown Royalty, this odd little tool, and something called the “Gunning-Fog Index”, The Basketball Jones is written so simple, even sixth-graders can follow along. At least, I think that’s what it says. I can’t understand this shit for the life of me:
The [Readability of a Website] program checks content on a given website and uses number of words per sentence, syllables per word, and number of high-syllable words to quantify the readability of said website. Using the “Gunning-Fog Index,” the data can be put on a scale to describe at what reading level, expressed in school grades, a reader would have to be at to understand the content.
Wow. Anybody? Kids? Yeah, I’m not gonna lie, I threw in the towel at like, “readability”. Fortunately though, SacTown Royalty breaks it down:
Using lowpost.net’s list of 30 top basketball blogs, I also gauged the readability of basketblogdom. Anyone could’ve guessed that Free Darko would have the highest threshold, and they do – FD’s Gunning-Fog score is 10.28. (Hell, I’m a college graduate and I don’t understand some of what Shoals and the Recluse write.)
The lowest Gunning-Fog score was surprising, though. (And note that low Gunning-Fog scores aren’t a bad thing – the tool’s programmer makes sure to note that conciseness and clearness is valued. Though, as can be attested by the wholesale scorn of cavepeople and monkeys in our society, simpletondom is not highly looked upon.) Anyways, our Canadian friends at The Basketball Jones earned the lowest score at a remarkable 5.39. Yes, sixth-graders are allowed at TBJ.
5.39, eh? Un-fuckin-beleevible… STAY IN SCHOOL, KIDS!
No Sixth-Graders Allowed [SacTown Royalty]
Comments (8)SlamBall, In The Beginning…
Rumor has it the Diablos want this kid…
Hoop and the Harm [Insomniac’s Lounge via Deadspin]
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