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etiolate · « **Reply #9660 on:** April 30, 2013, 04:54:41 AM »

In other news

Watching Hulu. This commercial comes on. CG asks me "is that the one that came out?"

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #9661 on:** April 30, 2013, 12:18:14 PM »

Two huge games tonight.

Also Classic onion from a few years ago.

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Charles Barkley: ‘There Were Only Ever 3 Straight NBA Players’
SPORTS NEWS IN BRIEF • Sports • NBA Basketball • Basketball • ISSUE 47•22 • May 31, 2011

CHICAGO — During Monday’s pregame broadcast, TNT basketball analyst and NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley confirmed that there have been only three straight players in the history of the league: himself and two of his former Phoenix Suns teammates. "So there was me, obviously, Kevin Johnson, and I'm pretty sure Dan Majerle was mostly straight," said Barkley, adding that Wilt Chamberlain had sex with at least twice as many men as women. "George Mikan, Michael Jordan, Jerry West, the entire Detroit Pistons roster under Chuck Daley, Chuck Daley, James Worthy, which is a no-brainer once you meet the guy, Derrick Coleman, and everyone else—all card-carrying friends of Dorothy. I’ll say this, if you want to see gay in all its glory, enter an NBA locker room. There is no more gay-friendly place on earth.” Barkley's controversial statement comes on the heels of another incident just two days earlier, when Kevin McHale, upon being asked about Joakim Noah's use of an antigay slur, responded by passionately kissing TNT commentator Kenny Smith until the channel broke to commercial.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/charles-barkley-there-were-only-ever-3-straight-nb,20615/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=standard-post:headline:default

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9662 on:** April 30, 2013, 08:16:04 PM »

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/blog/eye-on-basketball/22170789/nuggets-warriors-is-stephen-curry-on-fire-or-just-aware

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #9663 on:** April 30, 2013, 08:17:09 PM »

Quote from: Cormacaroni on April 30, 2013, 08:16:04 PM

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/blog/eye-on-basketball/22170789/nuggets-warriors-is-stephen-curry-on-fire-or-just-aware

Did someone aware Steph Curry?

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #9664 on:** April 30, 2013, 10:13:38 PM »

What turned Jason Collins gay,

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #9665 on:** April 30, 2013, 10:39:56 PM »

What..?

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9666 on:** April 30, 2013, 10:44:25 PM »

everything just feels different now we have photographic evidence that gay men are capable of standing next to women, the moorings have shifted

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #9667 on:** April 30, 2013, 11:38:23 PM »

I thought he was suggesting something else about her. Now I'm disappointed

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #9668 on:** April 30, 2013, 11:50:27 PM »

He wasn't just standing next to her

That's his fiance

I wonder if Collins just woke up one day and thought man, that ass is way too smooth for me

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9669 on:** April 30, 2013, 11:50:52 PM »

more convincing than Dirk's former fiancee if so

Clips - Grizz feels like a game 7, ridiculously close so far. Every basket feels important. One very good team is gonna get kicked out.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #9670 on:** April 30, 2013, 11:53:37 PM »

Now that Lakers are gone, Grizzles are my #1 hated team

Ugly ass style of play

Grizz also get away with lots of BS because they have a rep of being tough

OTOH, Clips get whistled almost every time for trying to be just as physical

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9671 on:** April 30, 2013, 11:55:30 PM »

well, uh, at the risk of getting too SERIOS for the Bore: their engagement and its breakdown kinda between them and it is somewhat harsh to point to this woman and imply some sort of failure on her part to be sufficiently awesome to keep a gay man acting straight, or some failure on his part to deny who he is. He did the right thing but it was obviously a painful thing all around and not something I feel like mocking

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #9672 on:** May 01, 2013, 12:00:35 AM »

Should be an interesting 2nd half. I generally always root for the Grizzlies. I like a scrappy defensive post oriented team since its kinda rare.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #9673 on:** May 01, 2013, 12:02:36 AM »

My bad

She's a good looking, smart woman

It's obviously not her fault nor Collins' that it didn't work out

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9674 on:** May 01, 2013, 12:03:22 AM »

There are few things more entertaining than a grit-and-grind come-from-behind win, when everything is a crazy scramble for loose balls and fast breaks, huge offensive rebounds, killer 3s from random sources etc

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #9675 on:** May 01, 2013, 12:07:24 AM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on May 01, 2013, 12:00:35 AM

Should be an interesting 2nd half. I generally always root for the Grizzlies. I like a scrappy defensive post oriented team since its kinda rare.

I've no problem with that but the Grizz get away with stuff most other teams can't

The league has been open about not wanting 90 Knicks ball yet Grizz can still play that style and dish out cheap shots on most nights

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9676 on:** May 01, 2013, 12:11:27 AM »

i agree whole-heartedly with JVG that the double fouls on Blake and Zach are bullshit. Make a call either way. What is really frustrating is when there is obvious contact from one of them but the refs just ignore it until the other one retaliates. That just ramps up the aggro all around, and frustrates both when the double foul is called.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9677 on:** May 01, 2013, 12:14:25 AM »

MWP is tweeting up a storm tonight btw - i guess he is certain to be amnestied now so he may as well cut loose. Interesting that he called Duncan and Marc Gasol the best two big men in the league

https://twitter.com/MettaWorldPeace

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #9678 on:** May 01, 2013, 12:31:11 AM »

"Tony Allen might not be an all star , but he does things GM's cant see and does things All stars don't do. same with the starting 5."

Really, Artest?

Allen has pedestrian averages of 8PPG and 1.3 APG

I doubt he'd be getting that much money or minutes if GMs didn't notice what he was doing

On the subject of Artest, someone at the gym actually became buddies with Artest through beach volleyball

He said that Artest fessed up that most of the stuff he says or does is just for media drama

Dude's not anywhere close to being as crazy as he portrays

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9679 on:** May 01, 2013, 12:44:54 AM »

If Tony Allen could shoot straight, he'd be getting real paid for sure. He's so bad offensively they can only use him in spots, for like 20 mins a game.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #9680 on:** May 01, 2013, 01:00:54 AM »

lol at the allen putback that got stuck on the rim. Would only happen to him.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9681 on:** May 01, 2013, 01:02:34 AM »

wow, never seen the ball just sit on the hoop like that before

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9682 on:** May 01, 2013, 01:03:46 AM »

The Grizzlies know who they are and who should be playing at this point; I still don't think the Clippers have any idea. Too much choice is clearly confusing for VDN

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #9683 on:** May 01, 2013, 01:07:43 AM »

Z-bo going off

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #9684 on:** May 01, 2013, 01:08:36 AM »

Odom seemed like the best matchup for Randolph even though he wasn't producing on offense

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #9685 on:** May 01, 2013, 01:16:36 AM »

Grizzlies too much down low for the Clippers. That Gasol bucket may have been it.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #9686 on:** May 01, 2013, 01:20:51 AM »

Whatever, I guess playoffs are more fun with at least one team that you hate

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #9687 on:** May 01, 2013, 01:23:24 AM »

Grizzlies versus Thunder would be a really fun contrasting style series.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9688 on:** May 01, 2013, 01:31:41 AM »

in theory, Prince is the perfect defender for Durant (well, the younger version anyway).

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #9689 on:** May 01, 2013, 01:37:36 AM »

Maybe Prince just need some of Duncan's "supplements"

He did this two years ago,

Mandark · « **Reply #9690 on:** May 01, 2013, 01:38:39 AM »

Young Prince vs. Durant would have been the awesomest, gangliest matchup ever. Would have been like a daddy longlegs riding a bicycle.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #9691 on:** May 01, 2013, 01:42:21 AM »

Especially cuz of Kobe's horrible FG% against Prince in the finals

It would have been real interesting to see how Kobe stans spin KD dominating that matchup

etiolate · « **Reply #9692 on:** May 01, 2013, 01:45:21 AM »

Quote from: Cormacaroni on May 01, 2013, 12:14:25 AM

MWP is tweeting up a storm tonight btw - i guess he is certain to be amnestied now so he may as well cut loose. Interesting that he called Duncan and Marc Gasol the best two big men in the league

https://twitter.com/MettaWorldPeace

Metta World Peace ‏@MettaWorldPeace 1h
Memphis Grizzles is like the Good Year blimp.They still here

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9693 on:** May 01, 2013, 02:23:12 AM »

Quote from: Mandark on May 01, 2013, 01:38:39 AM

Young Prince vs. Durant would have been the awesomest, gangliest matchup ever. Would have been like a daddy longlegs riding a bicycle.

that sounds really difficult to draw. Apparently, the gold standard among cartoonists is a skeletal horse riding a bicycle down a spiral staircase

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #9694 on:** May 01, 2013, 11:37:19 AM »

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcnorth/post/_/id/56006/on-leroy-butlers-support-for-jason-collins
wow.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #9695 on:** May 01, 2013, 12:51:29 PM »

The Griz are my West team this year. I'd love a Grizzlies Heat finals

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #9696 on:** May 01, 2013, 03:32:35 PM »

Hey look at that, the Maloofs don't want to sell to the Sacramento group. Shocking.

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“There is no acceptable deal possible” with the Sacramento group, a Maloof family spokesperson told Reuters, “and no serious desire by the Sacramento group to arrive at one. It has become too onerous for us to continue spending time and resources on a process that cannot succeed.”

http://blog.seattlepi.com/sonics/2013/05/01/kings-fight-aint-over-maloofs-say-no-acceptable-deal-possible-with-sacramento/

I really hope this doesn't turn into the Seattle-OKC situation (ie. Hansen owns the Sacramento Kings, makes a lame ass attempt at building an arena down there and then moves them to Seattle in a year or two when it fails).

etiolate · « **Reply #9697 on:** May 01, 2013, 05:22:16 PM »

Seattle Press lol

I'm pretty sure that statement from the Maloofs is from April 19th and reuters/Seattle is just reprinting it as if its new.

edit: yarp https://twitter.com/TonyBizjak/status/325308478719655936

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #9698 on:** May 01, 2013, 09:56:15 PM »

celtics

Beezy · « **Reply #9699 on:** May 01, 2013, 10:37:18 PM »

Felton and Shump play their best games so far and Melo and JR completely shit the bed on both offense and defense. I lost so much faith tonight.

Mandark · « **Reply #9700 on:** May 01, 2013, 11:19:07 PM »

Indiana/Atlanta bidding to become the least dramatic 7-game series ever. Home team's won by double digits every game.

etiolate · « **Reply #9701 on:** May 01, 2013, 11:42:15 PM »

It feels like Atlanta has the least interesting playoff series every year.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9702 on:** May 02, 2013, 02:43:25 AM »

Haven't wasted a second on Hawks-Pacers (or on Lakers-Spurs)

This is why we watch the regular season, so we can avoid the obvious stinkers.

Caught some feels for Asik on the line tonight - he looks miserable at the best of times, and like the most miserable man on earth whenever he misses a catch when alone under the basket. But he manned up and got it done

:skip

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #9703 on:** May 02, 2013, 02:50:29 AM »

wasn't he like 12/16 or 12/17? dude stepped up.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9704 on:** May 02, 2013, 03:29:52 AM »

i lost the tweet already but when Asik was shooting, the Rox averaged something like 1.3 points per possession, vs 0.5-something when the rest of the team was playing normally. So yeah, not a great adjustment there Brooks.

Brooks has been taken to school here - he had NOTHING in his back pocket for this eventuality. KD's usage rate must be nudging 90% at this point. They could still be doing Martin and Collison pick and rolls at least, but nooooooo. Hero Ball all day, even with Durant exhausted and out of ideas and the Rockets knowing exactly how to guard every possession. They're in real trouble here.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #9705 on:** May 02, 2013, 05:19:38 AM »

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #9706 on:** May 02, 2013, 08:06:00 AM »

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #9707 on:** May 02, 2013, 08:09:05 AM »

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #9708 on:** May 02, 2013, 10:33:02 AM »

https://vine.co/v/bQq7zdjqpBw

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9709 on:** May 02, 2013, 10:54:33 AM »

I bet Doc ate those guys alive back in the locker room

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #9710 on:** May 02, 2013, 11:08:25 AM »

Read a bit of that Durant article in SI at work today. I'm going to laugh so hard if OKC loses this series.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #9711 on:** May 02, 2013, 03:35:19 PM »

Two possible close out games for the lower seeds tonight both at home.

I must admit I like how personal the Nuggets Warriors series has gotten.

http://www.csnbayarea.com/video_content_type/george-karl-calls-festus-ezeli-hole
http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2013/story/_/id/9235252/2013-nba-playoffs-denver-nuggets-broadcaster-scott-hastings-calls-mark-jackson-classless

etiolate · « **Reply #9712 on:** May 02, 2013, 05:22:13 PM »

Bogut has been playing the tough guy out there. Not that I'm pro-fighting or anything, but I'd love to see Bogut and Javale McGee to go at it. I am hoping McGee mistakes a random white guy in the stands for Bogut.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #9713 on:** May 02, 2013, 10:42:05 PM »

Are you kidding me. David Lee has been cleared to play tonight. That's some movie shit.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9714 on:** May 02, 2013, 10:45:57 PM »

whuh??? Small-ball worked great for them in the wins with Barnes at the 4 but they got killed by McGee et all in the last one. If Lee is really good to go, he could be the difference. But seems wildly unlikely?

Nets - Bulls is a nail-biter (if you actually care about the outcome, which i don't)

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9715 on:** May 02, 2013, 10:54:02 PM »

Meanwhile, Derrick Rose is gonna sit on the sidelines for a game 7 while apparently 'dominating' in practice? Really, Derrick? Something is rotten in Denmark, surely? This has to be a beef with the organization, right?

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #9716 on:** May 02, 2013, 11:27:51 PM »

Would you actually put him in, cormac? I think he should focus on a full "mental" recovery, as much bullshit as that is. Dude is the Bulls franchise for the next decade, this year shouldn't and DOESN'T matter for them. They're gonna get beat by the Heat in 6 if they even get out of this series.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9717 on:** May 02, 2013, 11:44:05 PM »

idk about 'next decade' - he signed a 5 yr extension and he probably has an opt-out somewhere in there too. The days of being able to rely on franchise guys for that long are gone.

The Westbrook and other injuries are a great example of why you should always put yourself in a position to win if you can. If Lebron goes down even for a few games, everyone else has a shot. They have nothing to gain by tanking at this point - they're in the playoffs. If they want to think about getting healthy - get Noah and Deng off the court immediately! They're obviously in worse shape than Rose is.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #9718 on:** May 02, 2013, 11:45:36 PM »

Either he's ready to play or not. I haven't understand any of this to be honest. If he's not going to play then they should have shut him down for the playoffs. What magical moment are they waiting for him where it suddenly makes sense to play or not.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #9719 on:** May 02, 2013, 11:46:54 PM »

of course, Rose has earned a ton of goodwill with everyone so I am inclined to believe him if he says he is not ready. But it is getting WEIRD.

Curry needs a few shots in this game, damn. Everytime i see him open I am screaming for the Warriors to pass to him

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