11 posts tagged “nba”
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.
Iverson Named NBA Western Conference Player of the Week
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DENVER, Apr. 14 -- Denver Nuggets guard Allen Iverson was named NBA Western Conference Player of the Week for games played from Monday, April 7 through Sunday, April 13 the NBA announced today.
Iverson led the Nuggets to a 3-1 record, including two key victories at Golden State and vs. Houston to aid the Nuggets 2008 playoff hopes. Iverson averaged 28.8 ppg on .533 (40-75) shooting from the field, while he also tallied 6.8 apg and 4.8 rpg in 42.0 mpg, which included a 48-minute outing at Golden State on 4/10.
This marks the 23rd time in Iverson's career that he has garnered this honor, while it is his third in the Western Conference and third as a Denver Nugget. He was also named Western Conference Player of the Week earlier this season on Nov. 19 (for games played from Nov. 12 through Nov. 18) and on Jan. 7 (for games played from Dec. 31 through Jan. 6).
Iverson joins Carmelo Anthony and Alex English as the only players in Nuggets history to have won the award multiple times during the same season. Anthony has done so three separate years, including 2007-08 (two POW honors), while English did so on two separate occasions (two POW honors in both 1982-83 and ’85-86). Iverson’s three POW awards this year tie Anthony’s team record for POW honors in a single season (2006-07). The five combined POW honors between Iverson and Anthony this season mark a team-record for the most during a single season.
According to an unofficial all-time awards list from the NBA, Iverson is now tied with Karl Malone for the second most POW honors all-time in NBA history, trailing only Michael Jordan’s 25.
Games Played 4/7 – 4/13:
FUCK YEAH. I'M ALWAYS IN A FANTASTIC MOOD WHEN THE NUGGETS WIN. [114-105 OVER GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS]
I FOUND MYSELF JUMPING UP AND DOWN ON MY COUCH, MILLER HIGH LIFE IN HAND, SCREAMING AND CAT-CALLING AT MY TV. MY NEIGHBORS MUST THINK I'M SLIGHTLY PSYCHOTIC, BUT THEN AGAIN, THEY'RE SENIOR CITIZENS THAT AREN'T SO GOOD IN THE HEARING DEPARTMENT.
WHY AM I SO OBSESSED WITH THIS TEAM?
I THINK I FIGURED IT OUT TONIGHT.
WHEN WE'RE YOUNGER, WE'RE ASKED WHO OUR ROLE MODELS ARE. A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY THEIR PARENTS OR FAMOUS ACTORS OR SOME DUDE FRONTIN' A ROCK BAND. I ALWAYS THOUGHT I HAD ROLE MODELS IN MY LIFE, BUT I NEVER FELT QUITE RIGHT ABOUT IT. I'VE ALWAYS HAD MANY PEOPLE I LOOK UP TO, FOR THEIR SUCCESSES AND THEIR FAME. BUT SOMETHING WAS ALWAYS MISSING...
ENTER ALLEN IVERSON. A.I. THE ANSWER. BUBBA CHUCK.
THIS GUY HAS FACED HUGE CHALLENGES. ALL SORTS OF CHALLENGES. NOT ONLY DID HE PERSEVERE, HE REIGNED MOTHA FUCKIN' SUPREME. HE BEAT THE ODDS. HE DIDN'T LET THE MAN GET HIM DOWN. INSTEAD, HE LOOKED THAT GUY SQUARE IN THE EYES AND DIDN'T FLINCH. AND THEN HE WENT IN FOR A GLORIOUS FAKE AND MADE A BEAUTIFUL SHOT. NOTHIN' BUT NET.
THROUGH ALL THE STRUGGLE, THROUGH ALL THE PERSEVERANCE, THROUGH ALL THE GAME AND ALL THE HYPE, HE DID IT HIS WAY. HE STAYED TRUE TO HIMSELF. HE DIDN'T FORGET HIS ROOTS AND NEVER LOOKED BACK. HE MADE GOALS. HE KEPT HIS PROMISES. HE DIDN'T LET HIS FAMILY DOWN. HE MADE IT. AND HE BROUGHT EVERYONE UP WITH HIM.
NO. I'M NOT AN ATHLETE. I TELL YOU THIS THOUGH, I LEARN A LOT ABOUT LIFE BY THINKING LIKE AN ATHLETE. BY SEEING THEM IN MOTION AND TRYING TO PLACE MYSELF IN THAT SITUATION. IVERSON IS AN AMAZING PLAYER. HE'S NOT THE KINDA GUY THAT SITS AROUND AND SHOOTS FOR HOURS ON END. HE'S A CEREBRAL PLAYER. HE MENTALLY PLACES HIMSELF IN SITUATIONS AND FIGURES OUT HIS STRATEGY BEFORE THE BALL HAS A CHANCE TO HIT THE COURT.
BACK IN THE DAY IT WAS ALL ABOUT - BE LIKE MIKE.
TODAY, I'VE FOUND 'THE ANSWER'.
IN THE WORDS OF AHMAD -
I WISH I WAS A BALLER..........
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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