Resentful Playoff Fashions, Pt. 1
It’s funny because it’s true . . .
Atlantic Rivals Meet in Round 1 [NBA.com]
(Update: We’re bustin’ ass trying to get a couple of these made in time for Saturday’s game. I’ll keep you posted.)
Comments (6)You Know He Thought About It
I’ve been laughing about this for the last 10 minutes. From Dave D’Alessando’s Nets blog:
Sometimes in the postgame clamor, we have to go directly from the court to the locker room, without stopping off at the press room to drop off our stuff (laptop, bag, mascot costume, recyclable beer cans, etc.).
So when you arrive in the locker room, you look for a place to store your stuff. That was the case at Verizon last night, when one of our guys chose Marcus Williams’ locker stall to dump it.
“This your locker?” the scribe asks the rook.
“Yep,” rook responds.
“I’m putting my stuff here,” he tells the rook, matter-of-factly. “Don’t steal my laptop.”
Brilliant!
One To Savor, No Time To Do It [Nets Blast via The Big Lead]
Comments (2)Veteran Point Guard For Hire
Former All-star (!) and half-the-damn-league point guard Kenny Anderson wants another crack at NBA glory. Anderson, who last year played in Lithuania for bulvës, can’t figure out why no one wants him:
“I just need that opportunity. I’m in shape. I haven’t had any major injuries. I’m young, only 35. I didn’t want to retire at 34 or 35. I’ve still got that hunger. I want to be 100 percent sure that I can’t help a team when I finish, and I’m not there yet.
I don’t know why I’m not getting a harder look. I think everybody knows I know how to run a team. I’m not going to be a cancer on a team. I’ve always been a good leader. Why doesn’t somebody say, ‘Hey, why not bring Kenny into camp?’”
And you know what, Kenny’s right: Why not bring him into camp? I mean, if he’s in as good as shape as he claims to be, then isn’t there always a little room on the end of a bench for some veteran point guard leadership?
Just look at the back-up point guards from last year’s “real” Conference finalists: Lindsey Hunter, Gary Payton, Nick Van Exel, and Darrell Armstrong. What was the average age of those guys: 35, 36?
You telling me Kenny can’t contribute on some upper-echelon team? Come on Popovich, give “Mr. Chibbs” a call — the guy’s got baby mommas to pay!
[Side note: To this day I still regret passing on a #7, old-school Nets jersey I once saw in Kensington Market. Yeah, it was the perfect Nicole Richie-like fit and everything…]
Kenny Anderson Wants A Return To NBA [RealGM / The Boston Globe]
Report Calls Kenny Anderson Deadbeat Dad [Political Gateway]
The Lord Of The Balls
Bennett Salvatore: What about this ball of yours, is that staying too?
Coach Frank: Yes, yes, it’s over by the scorer’s table. No, wait… it’s here in my hands… Isn’t that, isn’t that odd… After all, why not, why shouldn’t I keep it?
Bennett Salvatore: I think you should leave the ball behind, Lawrence. Is that so hard?
Coach Frank: Well, no… and yes. Now it comes to it, I don’t feel like parting with it. It’s mine. I found it. It came to me!
Bennett Salvatore: There’s no need to get angry…
Coach Frank: Well, if I’m angry, it’s your fault! It’s mine, my own, my precious!
Bennett Salvatore: Precious? It’s been called that before, but not by you…
Coach Frank: Argh! What business is it of yours what I do with my own things?
Bennett Salvatore: I think you have had that ball quite long enough.
Coach Frank: You want it for yourself!
Bennett Salvatore: Lawrence Frank!!! Do not take me for some conjurer of cheap tricks!!!
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