10 posts tagged “basketball”
KOBE, THANKS FOR TAKING ON THE CAVALIERS TONIGHT AND SCHOOLIN' THEM.
BECAUSE OF YOU AND YOUR TEAM, SOMEBODY OWES ME CASH MONEY.
HOW ON EARTH ARE THE REST OF YOU FOOLS EVER GOING TO CATCH UP WITH ME??
It's tough being this productive.
THE DENVER NUGGETS HAVE JUST TRADED MY FAVORITE PLAYER OF ALL TIME - ALLEN IVERSON - TO THE DETROIT PISTONS.
WE NOW HAVE CHAUNCEY BILLUPS, A DENVER NATIVE, AND ANTONIO MCDYESS.
BIG WHOOP-DEE-DO.
FUCK YOU, DENVER OWNERS.
YOU'RE DEAD TO ME.
DON'T BE SURPRISED WHEN YOU RECEIVE A PAPER BAG FULL OF DOG SHIT ON YOUR FRONT PORCH.
I'M GLAD I DIDN'T BUY YOUR SEASON TIX.
AT LEAST FOOTBALL SHOWS A LITTLE MORE LOYALTY.
NBA halts plans for developing reworked composite ball
The NBA will use leather basketballs in its developmental league next season, temporarily ending its attempts to re-introduce a composite ball at the NBA level, a league official has confirmed.
"We are committed to leather for the foreseeable future," said league spokesman Tim Frank. "We just realized leather is what our guys wanted."That means Spalding will remain one of two companies manufacturing a leather basketball. Molten also produces a ball for FIBA that is made of a different type of leather than the NBA ball. Most college and high school conferences, as well as some foreign and international leagues, use balls made of synthetic material because they're less expensive to produce and provide more consistency from ball to ball.
The NBA introduced a composite ball at the start of the 2006-07 season, but after complaints from players that the balls became slick from perspiration and left tiny cuts on their fingertips the league returned to leather in January 2007.
The league hoped to develop a composite ball that met its players' approval, and to that end, according to sources, experimented with three different types of composite balls in the D League last season.
It also formed a committee of top NBA players to test the new versions and offer their input, something that was not done the first time.
The production cost for Spalding, the company that makes the league's official ball, was one reason the league looked to switch to a composite material.
The plan now is to develop a two-paneled ball, rather than the current eight-panel model. The two-panel design was used on the composite ball and did not raise any complaints. Spalding is supposedly hoping that the feature can be used as a marketing tool.
The D League will begin next season using an eight-paneled leather ball and then switch to a two-paneled version sometime around midseason, Frank said.
old skool rivalry. let's play ball with some nu skool tricks, shall we? prepare, boston...
I WAS IN LA. GETTING SCORNED BY THE BIGGEST KOBE BRYANT FAN I'VE EVER MET.
GAME 2 IS ON WEDNESDAY. AND I KNOW IT'S GONNA BE ON.
THE QUESTION REMAINS, AND WE'VE GOT THE ANSWER.
ROCKITDONTSTOPIT, DENVER NUGGETS.
...AND THAT'S ANOTHER WIN FROM MY FAVE BASKETBALL TEAM - THE DENVER NUGGETS.
THANK YOU FOR AN AMAZING MATCH UP AGAINST THE PHOENIX SUNS. SEEING THIS GAME LIVE REALLY MADE MY WEEK.
HELL YES.
SEEING ALLEN IVERSON PLAY LIVE FOR A CROWD OF B-BALL FANATICS MAKES ME STOKED. NO, HE WASN'T THE ONLY STAR OF THE GAME. I GOTTA GIVE MAD PROPS TO MELO, JR SMITH, KMART, KLEIZA, NAJERA [MY PERSONAL FAVE] AND BIG UPS TO NENE FOR COMING BACK AFTER WINNING HIS BATTLE OVER CANCER.
I WANT TO SEE THE DENVER NUGGETS IN THE PLAYOFFS. THIS IS TRULY A SEASON TO REMEMBER. AND I AM SO HONORED TO BE A PART OF IT.
ROCK IT DON'T STOP IT, NUGGETS.
YOU'VE GOT THE ANSWER.
**IF YOU FIND YOURSELF CURRENTLY OBSESSED WITH THE ODYSSEY THAT IS ALLEN IVERSON**
READ THIS. YOU WON'T BE SORRY.
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UMMMMM - ALLEN IVERSON AND DWYANE WADE ARE WAY HOTTER THAN LEBRON. HOW ABOUT J.R. SMITH??? MELO?? COME ON, VOGUE!!!
MAYBE W OR V MAGAZINE WILL GET THE BALLS TO SHOOT A MUCH SEXIER NBA PLAYER.
-[THOUGHTS FROM UNIKFREK]
By TOM WITHERSAP Sports Writer, AP
CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James is striking a pose.
The Cleveland Cavaliers' superstar will appear on the April cover of Vogue, joining actors Richard Gere and George Clooney as the only men to do so in the influential fashion magazine's 116-year history.
Wearing a tank top, shorts and sneakers from his own Nike clothing line, James appears on the cover dribbling a basketball and screaming as if in game mode while throwing one arm around supermodel Gisele Bundchen with Tom Brady nowhere to be found.
The pairing of the All-Star forward and the runway icon was shot in January by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz in James' hometown of Akron, Ohio.
Vogue is featuring athletes and models in an annual issue devoted to size and shape. The 6-foot-9 James and 5-foot-11 Bundchen, who dates Patriots star quarterback Brady, were a natural pairing.
``Nobody says more about fashion size and shape than Gisele and LeBron,'' Vogue spokesman Patrick O'Connell said. ``LeBron is an amazing star and athlete that has crossed over into a cultural phenomena.''
Being on the cover of a sports magazine is nothing new to James, who first appeared on Sports Illustrated's front as a 17-year-old high school junior in 2002 next to the presumptuous title of ``The Chosen One.'' He is currently one of 11 athletes appearing on the cover of ESPN The Magazine's 10th anniversary issue.
However, as his popularity and visibility broaden, James has recently been featured on the covers of Fortune, Men's Health and Black Enterprise.
