30 Teams / 30 Hours: Frolic And Fossick
You know, one can never have too many NBA season previews. (That’s a lie.) Which is why we present a new series to add to the list: The Basketball Jones’ 30 Teams in 30 Hours NBA Season Preview. Yup. It is what it is.
11:00p / Denver Nuggets: Sit your ass down, Rockets. The Nuggies are the real tier-2 championship threat. I have a feeling this team will be best viewed in black and white. Please adjust your televisions accordingly.
Skeets says: 1st in the Northwest, 4th seed
Tas says: 1st in the Northwest, 4th seed
(Don’t forget to check out today’s earlier NBA season predictions podcast. It’s good for you.)
Comments (1)Iverson Is A Nugget!
My initial thoughts about the Iverson trade are up at the ‘House, but you can guaran-damn-tee Tas and I will be analyzing this big news in detail on tomorrow morning’s podcast.
Anyway, if you’re game, why not send in your own thoughts and concerns about the trade for the show? (It’d sure make our 5am morning a little more tolerable.)
E-mails are good; voice-mail messages are better. (#:214-5-JONES-1) Thanks in advance…
And oh, we’ll try and air/read as many as we can, so please keep ‘em crisp, clean and short…
Note: Andre Miller, Joe Smith, Eric Williams, Aaron Williams, some draft picks and no ‘Zo for those two guys on the right. Amazing…
Comments (6)The Chris Paul Cock Block
What do you think hurt Julius Hodge more — a real bullet or a punch to the golden nuggets?
Thanks Ben Rossiter!
Chris Paul Punches Julius Hodge Below the Belt [YouTube]
Comments (1)Attention K-Mart Fantasy Owners
Shut up. I don’t care if he’s averaging like, 9 points, and no one has him on their fantasy team … I really wanted to use a witty “Attention K-Mart shoppers” line, okay?
Bad news out of Denver this morning: Kenyon Martin’s knees are at it again. And by “at it again”, I mean fucked. Marc J. Spears — mad respect for the ‘J.’ by the way — reports:
A taped and ready-to-play Martin learned about an hour before tipoff that Dr. Steve Traina wanted to evaluate his right knee. MRI results revealed that Martin would need arthroscopic surgery to remove loose bodies in that knee. A date for the 6-foot-9, 240-pounder’s surgery has not been set and no one is sure how long he will be out.
Ah, a case of the ol’ floozy knee, eh? That sucks. Even more so, when you realize he’s talking about his right knee; not the left one he had microfracture surgery on a few years back. Bad luck.
As you can imagine, K-Mart’s pretty fed up with whole situation:
“Got to get it done. Got to get it cleaned out,” a solemn Martin said after the game. “It’s frustrating. I don’t know what to say. I worked my (butt) off so I wouldn’t have to go through nothing like this.”
[…]
“I need something,” Martin said. “Rabbit’s foot, something. I have no idea at this point what Kenyon needs to do.”
Oh, oh, oh … Skeets has an idea: Yeah, Kenyon, maybe you could start by asking third-person Kenyon how his knee’s are. You know, try and borrow his for a few months or something? Just a thought…
MRI Finds “Loose Bodies” In K-Mart’s Knee [DenverPost.com]
(Note: Might I also suggest they rip that shit open, hand Earl Boykins a vacuum, and let him get at it.)
Comments (1)Sticky Note Man Reminds You …
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Enjoy tonight’s games, everyone.
Here’s hoping DerMarr rocks the half-fro/half-rows again…
Comments (1)Quickies: Andre Miller’s Pregnant
- Andre Miller is pregnant. Pass it on. [DenverPost.com]
- Joe Johnson on the new ball: “It’s definitely going to take some getting used to, like anything else. The good thing is I’ve already got a built in excuse if my [jump shot] isn’t falling.” [AJC.com]
- 10 pounds lighter, the Grizzlies starting center spot is Jake Tsakalidis’ to lose. That shouldn’t be hard. [CommercialAppeal.com]
- With Stephen Jackson off in court — packing heat, no doubt — who is the Pacers starting two-guard? Marquis Daniels? James White? Cabbage? [Pacers Insider | IndyStar.com]
- I may have read this wrong, but I think Marbury’s new wife is Isiah Thomas. [New York Times]
- Finally, The Uwe Blab Confab (fantasy) team has been set. Unfortunately, we had the 11th pick out of 12 teams. Fortunately, Tas and I are awesome. Anyway, peep our roster, and let us know what we did right/wrong. Here she be:
(11) Y. Ming
(14) S. Nash
(35) G. Wallace
(38) P. Stojakovic
(59) C. Butler
(62) C. Webber
(83) R. Bell
(86) A. Harrington
(107) E. Jones
(110) Mo. Williams
(131) P. Brown
(134) C. Mobley
(155) Anthony Parker
What’s Next, The Ryan Bowen Mix Tape?
Greg Buckner has a mix tape. The world is right.
(Update: I really should have checked first: Flyin’ Ryan Bowen)
Comments (3)NBA Prep Work: Nuggets
As part of The Basketball Jones extensive ‘06-07 season preview, I’ve been awarded the honor of going “one-on-one” with a representative from all 30 NBA teams. (No, not really.)
Today I get into it with new Denver Nuggets guard J.R. Smith. Our conversation follows:
ONE-ON-ONE WITH … J.R. SMITH
J.E. Skeets: Earl, thanks for sitting down and talking with me today. Can I call you Earl?
J.R. Smith: No.
Skeets: Can I call you Owen?
Smith: No.
Skeets: Really? How ’bout Travis then? You look like a Travis.
Smith: No.
Skeets: Mr. Liquid Paper?
Smith: What? No.
Skeets: Fine, I’ll call you J.R.. But let the record show I’m none too happy about it.
Smith: That’s fair.
Skeets: OK, let’s get into it. Do you know what I mean when I say, “Let’s get into it”?
Smith: Um, let’s get into the questions?
Skeets: Yes, good. Didn’t know if you were paying attention there. Your eyes are sort of droopy.
Smith: I’m here.
Skeets: OK good. First question: You excited to be playing alongside Carmelo this season?
Smith: Oh yeah. Carmelo’s a great player and a team player.
Skeets: Tell me how you really feel.
Smith: He needs a haircut.
Skeets: Yeah, what’s up with that? Looks like his scalp threw-up, no?
Smith: True. I don’t know.
Skeets: So how does it feel to get traded twice in the same summer?
Smith: To be perfectly honest, it doesn’t feel any different for it to be done twice. I mean I’m still only going to one new place, right? If it happened during the season though … well, that’d be a different story.
Skeets: Tell me a different story, J.R..
Smith: Excuse me?
Skeets: Please tell me a story. A tale, a fable…
Smith: About?
Skeets: Anything. Go nuts.
Smith: Um…
Skeets: Let your imagination soar, young child…
Smith: OK, um … um … I guess once upon a time–
Skeets: Hold on. You guess?
Smith: Um, yeah…
Skeets: If you’re going to tell a story, tell it like you mean it!
Smith: Sorry.
Skeets: No wonder you got traded for air. You’ve got no gusto man.
Smith: Hey, Howard Eisley is solid baller.
Skeets: Yeah, so is Frankie Muniz. Come on man…
Smith: Whatever.
Skeets: Moving on … Um, hey J.R., just wanted to let you know I’m a huge fan of your young career and I wish you the best in Denver. What kind of workout have you been doing over the summer and what area are you focusing on?
Smith: Hold up. Are these even your questions?
Skeets: Yes. Of course.
Smith: Then why did you just read that? Let me see that.
Skeets: No, no … it’s just my notes–
Smith: Give me that.
Skeets: Hey, easy, you’re going to rip it–
Smith: What the … this is just a computer print out of the chat I just did for NBA.com. You’re reading me the same damn questions!
Skeets: I am not.
Smith: You are too. Look: “Hey J.R., just wanted to let you know I’m a huge fan of your young career and I wish you the best in Denver.” You just said that. Word for word.
Skeets: Ah, I think you hurt my wrist.
Smith: Oh give me a break.
Skeets: Oh man … ahhh … yeah, this is bad. Ouch, ouch, ouch. I think my wrist is broken. Thanks.
Smith: You’re a piece of shit. I’m out of here.
Skeets: Oh, oh, oh, where you going Earl? You just get traded again? You get traded for some O-Pee-Chee cards this time?
Smith: You’re a joke.
Skeets: “And in other NBA news, J.R. Smith was traded earlier today to Milwaukee for a Luc Robitaille rookie card and a mint Andy Moog!” Ha!
Comments (5)Talking Trash With Linas Kleiza
As per Henry’s request …
TRASH-TALKING LINES LITHUANIAN FORWARD LINAS KLEIZA MIGHT CONSIDER USING.
“Look at that! My team is seven hours AND points ahead of you!”
“Here is 27 Litas. I suggest you perform currency conversion and buy yourself new game in US dollars.”
“On behalf of my country, I ask to borrow bricks you shoot to help build nice village back home with.”
“You have schoolgirl crush on me, yes? Please call me Sweet Babboo.”
“I am Gabija, the goddess of fire, and because of this I am hot shooter right now.”
“Sorry to inform you, but your game comes up short like Lithuanian vegetation period which is something like only 185 days long.”
Comments (6)Apparently, Melo Is Into Betsy
I ask you to recall those incredibly not-safe-for-work, cocaine-laced Pat O’Brien voicemail messages that were makin’ their way around the Interweb a while ago.
OK, ya good?
Um, yeah … I just wanted to inform you that the woman sitting on Melo’s lap there — flashin’ a little Cougar nip for the camera — is none other than O’Brien’s famous, jealous woman herself: “Betsy”.
Yeah, Betsy has a blog.
*Shakes head in disbelief*
Why am I telling you this? I have no idea.
I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I don’t do this.
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