My fellow gamers should be happy to hear this new rumor: Michael Jordan might be on the cover of NBA 2K11, and possibly even may be featured as a playable character. Or maybe this just means new features in a team ownership mode where you can draft scrubs like Kwame Brown and sign Larry Hughes while gambling and smoking cigars on a golf course.
Speaking of Jordan, Rajon Rondo hasn't really ever seen him play. According to this superb interview (h/t Jonah Keri for the link), he never was a fan of the NBA when he was younger. In fact, he grew up in Louisville only an hour and a half from Indianapolis (like me) and never once went to see them play a single game in person (also like me) However, he found he enjoyed basketball more than other sports and was really good at it (unlike me), so he made the NBA his goal because he knew that was the highest level of basketball. Wouldn't you rather be in the NBA rather than playing in the D-League or overseas, even if it means being Adam Morrison? (Okay, bad example, not even Adam Morrison wants to be Adam Morrison.)
Worst of the Night in Pictures:
All The Games:
Suns at Lakers - TNT, 9:00pm
Series tied 2-2
The Lakers have won seven straight Game 5 home games. However, the Suns have Barkley's-colossal-ass-running-downhill momentum, and their zone defense is melting the Spanish Marshmallow Pau Gasol. (Mmm... melted marshmallows...) Lakers home-court means they get some mojo back and a little friendlier refereeing, but this should be a high-intensity game.
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...if the Pacers hadn't been chosen over the Colonels in 1976. :P
AND what happened to Boston's "so called" toughness? All that talk about how they are an old school, rough and tumble, Playoff D kinda team. Bah!
There's toughness and then there's felony assault.
Dragic, Amundson, Frye, Dudley, Barbosa. This Knicks type of roster has won two against the mighty lakers in the WCF. 4 straight is their best chance of going to the finals. Is this how you become a fan of a team for life?
By the way, if we go back about 4 days, would anyone have though that there would be a chance of an Orlando-Phoenix finals matchup at this point? Talk about fail by the Celtics and Lakers.
Yes, I am trying to stat curse the Lakers.
not that I didn't find Pierce's flopping about amusing, mind you.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5225821
Seriously, isn't this the same franchise that gave us the Rambis Clothesline? I'm surprised you guys would pull for Boston since they have such a long history of poor sportsmanship. Since you guys are so into sportsmanship right?
http://twitpic.com/1rmvxb/full
I honestly don't know whether to laugh or cry.
What did you talk to them about, Alvin? Ankle-grabbing?
(Verification, sightl. I did not need that sightl on TV)
Kill them on Saturday, Suns. Kill them dead.
Still, LA blew an 18 point lead, which is just pathetic. Made for one hell of a game though. One of the best of the playoffs and easily one of the wierdest.
Lakers apparently found that if they played defense they can destroy the suns with a double digit win. But that's just too easy for the lakers, they stopped playing D and allowed the suns to come back from an 18 point deficit. As if that wasn't enough they gave the suns 3 shots to tie the game. Then they decided enough is enough and defeated the suns with a lucky Artest. God I hate being a laker fan.
LOL at Artest's interview though. Crazy Pills never fails to excite.
Does anyone think the Lakers will ever get an and-1? Anyone??
Haha always with the recap, but i disagree with you this time. I dont know how you call shenanigans. The Suns played horrible nearly the whole game and were lucky to be in it. They missed 9 ft's and had 15 to's. J-rich made a lucky 3 after 2 off rebs after Gasol got hacked on the dunk attempt the play before. Just to show how poorly the suns played, they gave up an offensive reb for the game winner, the lakers 19th!! So really i dont know how you feel the suns should have won.
With that being said, Nash was so exciting to watch tonight. Those shots he hit on gasol were so pretty.
Hi. I agree that LA could (and probably should) have lost this one. The defensive collapse and unwillingness to rebound/hustle for loose balls, 7-0 Gasol embarrassed (simultaneous head-and-facepalm) by 6-2 Nash on consecutive trips, shades of Game 6 in '06 with LA not getting the D-board and letting PHX shoot the game-tying 3 (thanks Lamar), only this time the Lakers escape with the W in ironic and hilarious fashion (Artest!!)
That said, I call shenanigans on your shenanigans...Lakers win Game 6. Kill that.
Hopefully, there will be extensive video replay of that last play. It was the silliest bank shot I've seen in a while. Artest had stunk all night. There was no reason to think that the ball could have gone in, except it did. Kobe's shot is normally a brick in that situation, not an airball, so Artest getting the rebound is a miracle in itself. Then, Artest threw it high off the glass while going out of bounds. Should have landed halfway in the paint at that point. It was a lucky shot that bailed him out of an incredibly stupid play when he took the three with a full shot clock and the lead. That's shenanigans.
The Suns held the Lakers to 103 points this time. So now that's 128, 124, 109, 106, 103. Keep chipping Suns, you got this.
To everyone who thinks Phoenix deserved to win this one, ask yourselves what was the last lead that the Suns held in the game. To everyone saying the last play by LA was either a lucky rebound, a lucky shot or both, I ask you what you would call the Suns' last possesion. One team led for basically the last 40 minutes and one lucky shot deserves another. Quit crying.
I have very limited Internet access out here on the road with just my iPod to surf on, so could someone be kind enough to answer a few questions for me? Have the Lakers held a free throw advantage in any game in this series? Which are the total free throw attempts for each team in this series? Which team has more points in the paint in this series, and does anyone know what the total points in the paint is for each team in this series? I keep reading on Laker sites that there's some enormous FTA advantage for Phoenix in this series despite LA doing more scoring inside. Is there any validity to this? Thanks in advance :)
Karc - At least Artest meant to bank his shot in. If you want to say his shot was lucky but Richardson's wasn't, I dunno what to tell you. Both were lucky, IMO. Also, you say the Suns were the league's best three-point shooting team, well I should point out they were also the league's second worst defensive rebounding team this year. Funny how after tying it up with a three they lose it by not securing a defensive board. Isn't it interesting how regular season strengths and weaknesses manifest themselves like that?